saturn return to sender

DROOL.

I am disappointed that there’s no iChat video conferencing, as I have been expecting for almost two years. But what it does have is very very sleek.

I am impressed that it’s running OS X. It doesn’t even appear to be particularly stripped-down: Safari probably depends on most of the frameworks that make OS X be OS X, so presumably they’re all there.

Assuming there’s XCode support and some way to get your apps onto the phone (and I will be surprised if there aren’t those things), iPhone is a development platform that anyone can write for. That is really cool.

Also widgets now make sense to me. I’ve never gotten them before: why would I use a widget when I can just use a browser/calculator/whatever “real” application? But as a focused little internet application that fits on your iPhone screen, they make more sense. And I’m assuming that any widget running on OS X will work on iPhone.

Still, even 8GB is pretty small for a full-fledged OS X install, so there must be some missing pieces. I’m sure the details will be forthcoming soon enough.

No, really: I seriously cannot figure this whole time thing out.

There was a little sandwich shop a block down the street from work in Daly City. I’d go there a lot. Get a breakfast bagel in the morning, sometimes a sandwich at lunch. That was 4-5 years ago. I might go back there someday if it still exists, but that 4-5 years ago time? It’s gone. I will never again be that same person in that same sandwich shop, with the same other people, watching the same news while waiting for my breakfast. It’s gone. Forever.

I just suddenly find this very startling. I have no particular attachment to the sandwich shop. The breakfast bagels were pretty greasy, to be honest. It … it just seems so weird that those random moments and the me that experienced them are irretrievable. I think, “Wait, that can’t be right … can it?”

Well. Happy new year, everyone.