Met an older woman (mid/late-60's) this morning on the bus and talked to her for a bit. She was reading a sci-fi magazine (Analog), and rockin' out on an iPod (Hendrix). Discussed Macs, music, and sci-fi. It was pretty cool. Finally, someone interesting to talk to on the bus.

I've been thinking of taking a cue from Wil Wheaton and cross-copying my blogs across formats. Right now, I have Slashdot, and LiveJournal, and was thinking about getting Moveable Type installed on my UnemployedJournal.com domain...

I'm in the recruiting process at a locally-headquartered consulting firm. If it happens, it'll be a huge improvement from the consulting group I'm currently with. I'll be salaried, have training opportunities, solid benefits, and, joy of joys, the opportunity to have a laptop purchased for me that I get to keep.

I currently own an iBook (dual USB "icebook") that's been pretty badly beat-on...it was going to be my last Mac if OS X had sucked badly. (It had enough potential where I decided to continue with it.) And I've lusted after a titanium Powerbook for so long, that I've decided that that's what I'll campaign for, should I get it.

As usual, I'll need to make arguments as to why I should have a Mac. The place is big on (but not even remotely limited to) .NET. So here's my two arguments I know I have working in my favor:

1. Testing on a Mac is often required by the client. This will enable me to do so.
2. I will be able to run .NET frameworks under Virtual PC with WinXP Pro installed.
3. I will be able to develop with PHP, MySQL, Ruby, etc., etc., etc. thanks to the BSD kernel on the Mac.

Any other ideas?