When I feel most alive … go ahead, take your shoes off!

Well, this is going to be my first blog entry exposing my true nature, my hidden self, my real identity: the nerd.

My new roomates (John Boggs and Damien Brooks) recently got pretty excited about the new release of the Star Wars (A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi) DVD set. Never before released on DVD, this was an exciting day for big geeks like Boggsy and Damien! They celebrated all day by playing the new Star Wars video game that was released today along with the DVDs, and I celebrated with them by watching some of A New Hope (Part 4 of the 6 movie series) during dinner. It was great.

You might not think I am such a nerd at this point. But if you are still willing to read on, I will explain why I am such a nerd. I love my Macintosh computer! And every day, I get teased, ribbed, made fun of, whatever you want to call it, by all the PC weenies at work who don’t realize what they are missing out on, when I bring my beautiful Powerbook G4 into work and sit it at my desk next to that ugly Dell.

But tonight I found something to brag about, so I figured I would at least put it in my blog so that maybe if my coworkers are browsing around and come across my blog, they will be a bit more educated about Macs and how great they are.

Apparently, the company that refurbished the old Star Wars movies used 600!!! PowerMac G5 computers to do all the editing and mastering and cleaning up of the old film copies of the original film versions!

So if you enjoy the new Star Wars DVDs at home, spare me the next morning of jokes about how my Mac is worthless, and we’ll just be friends and just get along.

http://www.starwars.com/episode-iv/feature/20040916/index.html

And to top it off, I saw another article about how they used Macs to bring several new films to life as well!

http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/09/20/dvd/index.php