I think that was the name of the owl in TH White's The Once and Future King, but I'm pretty certain it'll be the name of my new powerbook.

It's been pointed out that I'm insane for getting a mac, but my reasoning begins like so:

• I work all day in front of a PC, so it feels good to spend my time away from work in a different environment.
• UNIX
  • I've run many, many distributions of Linux in the past. I'm comfortable with UNIX, and there are many UNIX tools that are disturbingly useful. I'll save many many minutes at work analysing logs and such, because it's just so easy to do things with a few simple commands that it's near impossible to do in Windows.
  • UNIX is fun :)
  • etc.
• I write all my creative writing by hand. Partly this is because I love the feel of pen on paper, but mostly it stems from where I choose to write. I write where I can sit and watch people. It'll be great to be able to pull out Archimedes at the Cow's End or a bench on the 3rd Street Promenade...
• Change. Change is good. Doing things that I love to do--web developing, writing, and tinkering with random programs--in different environment will provide a different set of inspirations.

Now to go use this thing for something other than updating my journal.