Screwing Up

I feel like all I've been doing lately is screwing up. I go to work and seem to get nothing done. I hang out with my friends in my Improv group and I don't like the person I am with them. I hardly see my wife and when I do, I feel guilty because I have been looking at questionable stuff on the Internet behind her back.

I do the things I don't want to do. I am out of control. I don't like myself when I am this way.

MacIntel?

I'm still reeling from the news that Apple will be moving onto the Intel x86 platform over the next 2 years. I follow Apple's logic - it's hard to compete with a processor that has such low production levels in comparison with x86. The Mac Mini was the first step toward competing directly for the low-end desktop computer market, moving to a more competitively priced platform is the next step. One of my wonderings is whether or not this will lead to Apple pitching OSX as a replacement for Windows. If it runs on an Intel platform, it's not much of a stretch for it to become standardized on any x86 hardware - regardless of whether it has an Apple logo or not.

Currently Mac OSX is getting rave reviews. Hey, it is pretty, and it is quite functional. I wouldn't mind doing the dual boot thing.

Opening Day

I'm sitting in a room at the back of Phil Yosowitz's (sp?) house. Phil's daughter, Lauren, was in Stuart Ostrow's theatre class at the University of Houston with my wife, Shondra. Phil has written a musical loosely based on the 1972 Olympic Games in which a number of members of the Israeli team were kidnapped and then brutally murdered by terrorists. My wife and a number of former classmates and other local Houston actors are recording the music from the musical as a demo album to start shopping the musical around.

So why am I here? My wife and I live in the burbs and it didn't make sense for us to take two cars to see a show in town when I could just drag my laptop along and get some work done at Yosowitz's house.

The show I saw was Glengarry Glenross by David Mamet. I haven't seen anything by Mamet before. The show was pretty depressing - no characters with much in the way of redeeming value - but it did a good job capturing the dark underside of the dog-eat-dog world of sales.

So why am I starting a blog? Well, I just started listening to some podcasts and one of the ones I have been listening to as I've been working on my laptop tonight has been on blogs and I just thought, hey why not.

Todd