OK, does anyone else find it vaguely creepy casting that Jeff Daniels, who was cast as the father of Anna Paquin in Fly Away Home, is sleeping with her in The Squid and the Whale? I can see the trailer mash-up coming… especially the quick cut from Anna Paquin as a child with Daniels, to her uttering her line in “Squid”: “I always wondered what it would be like to f*** you.”
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Steve Jobs wants to bankrupt me
How do you know when you have a problem?
When you just got a nice, shiny, black Video iPod for Christmas, and have a house with no less than five functional computers in it (plus an ailing Titanium PowerBook), and find yourself trying to figure out how to squeeze a preorder for a MacBook Pro into your budget.
Sure, three of the computers in my house were bought by my employer. Sure, P.’s iBook isn’t nearly as fast as the new Intel Duo-based systems will be. (And, btw, I remember the last time Apple did something with the name, “Duo” — it wasn’t pretty. I had to pry mine out of its dock once when the engaging motor failed in the locked position.) Still, as someone with more computing resources on each floor of his house than it took to support all of the Apollo missions combined, I find it disconcerting that I am drooling over computerporn again.
Maybe that’s why Apple’s stock price is doing so well.
Sean M. Gallagher 