Sentimental About Computers
I'm in love with my new computer. I'm not kidding. I'm in love with my computer in such a way that I'm sitting here writing a blog post -- the first one in three months -- instead of making my dinner, just because I want to hear the clicky clack of the keys and watch the font tap skip tap skip tap skip across the screen. Omg. I want to hug it to me and rub my cheek against the keyboard. I'm not insane. Swears. See, it's crazy how attached you can get to a computer. They really become something personal -- full of your screenshots and downloads, every URL you visit, the random images you photoshop together to entertain yourself... Have you ever been on someone else's computer and felt slightly dirty? Like you were invading something private? It's like wearing someone else's underwear. When I got my last computer over three years ago, it was in preparation for going to my first real marketing conference, in big old scary Boston. I typed my notes...