The Mac continues to knock my socks off with its intuitive ease and quiet efficiency. I found a citation management program for Mac called Bookends and it is, in two words, the shit: basic database, fast as lightning, logical organization. You can try it for free and store up to 50 citations before you decide (that you can’t possibly live without it).
I’m going to have to spring for Time Capsule; I’m investing a huge amount of time and PDF storage into this computer and while I trust it completely, well, you know.
For the first time since I have owned a computer – and I started with XTs and DOS thankyou – I have my entire life on a computer and I’m not micromanaging file storage and setup. I actually use all the applications and bells and whistles. I didn’t take it out of the box and immediately start trying to delete useless applications and circumnavigate shortcuts and paths I didn’t want. This computer is smarter than I am, and we both know it.
I’m going to stop going on and on about it now, but I have a little tear in my eye.
Grad school is going okay. Did I tell you I have a new computer?
ps – I’m reading the biography of Stephen Hawking (A Life in Science) and it’s quite good. Of course I do most of my voracious reading when I’m supposed to be doing something else (likewise knitting). The biographical bit is good as is the primer on cosmology and quantum physics. This is a very pleasant way to learn about something I can’t possibly understand.
Welcome to the family. Once you go Mac, you never go back.