Sam Purtill

one more note before i pack for tahoe (leaving tomorrow)

tumblr has a much funner/lighter feeling than wordpress and (i think) twitter. is it because the myriad of awesome people that use it? (note that keith gessen is my favorite out of all those). there are a lot of cool people on twitter, but i find that the amount of information that i have to sift through to find the posts i like a very time consuming process. with tumblr i just log in to my dashboard and (literally) everything i see is just awesome.

i think it’s because of the awesomeness of the people on tumblr.

i just realized why i was so let down by my macbook pro even though it was much better than my old windows thinkpad.

i had set such high expectations on apple and their products to be the best product in the world. any minute glitch or mistake would drive me crazy - this wasn’t what i was expecting. with my thinkpad, i come to it thinking it’s a piece of crap. if it opens firefox, i’m happy. if it crashes firefox cause it’s been on for more than an hour, ok that’s cool - i expected it.

but i didn’t expect something with so much hype to have so many problems, and i gave up on it quickly because the reality was so much lower than the bar i had set for it.

i also find this true with my clothes - i always end up wearing cheap sweatshirts and shirts because my expectations for how comfortable they’re going to be are set to nothing. i guess this is why i’m usually wearing a busted tees t-shirt instead of a hugo boss shirt in most of the pictures you see me in.