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August Randoms

While I’m still hungover, I find peace in listening to music in my room as the mild summer breeze graces my shoulders.  There is honestly not enough Gatorade right now to save my life.  One side note really quickly - what is the true differences between Gatorade straight up, and Gatorade Rain?  It’s supposed to keep you cool and refreshed, but doesn’t any electrolyte filled - thurt quenching elixir accomplish that?  The commercials don’t even portray that.  Instead, athletes are being born from their repsective sporting device.  I’m so confused.  I guess I don’t get it since I was born out of a computer. Don’t add water please.

Just recently us UW interns headed over to Alki to do some Kayaking.  It was boatloads of fun! (haha).  The place just opened last summer and the guy who runs the shop is gnarly.  It’s located right after Salty’s on Seacret Park. You can check out his website here.  We went on the sunset tour.  It was fun watching birds fly down to catch fish and really enjoy Seattle Summer weather out in the water.  High recommended fun for lovers, outdoor adventurers and anyone who wants to enjoy the different ways of how our fair city blessed us with natural awesomeness.

If you’ve read the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, then you might get this.  If not, it’s not that big of a deal.  From my personal perspective, I am continuing to see more adoption of Apple computing products.  A lot of previous arguments against buying a Mac have slowly been dimishing and consumers these days are looking for two things: what’s popular/trendy and something that signifies exceptional quality.  Apple’s marketing has really started to take hits at the PC market by twisting the old argument that Macs were only for artists or “creative” types.  I think it’s fair to say we are all pretty creative people in our own respects.  I believe that from a consumer point of view, a full package that takes care of my needs without having to push buttons I fear my make my computer explode is the peave of mind I am looking for so that I can focus more on the work, than the computer itself.  That in a design sense is the “user experience.”  It should not be an argument as to what technologies are being used, but more on how they are executed.  Success factors are reliant on customer adoption and utility.  If I’m not using a feature that is supposed to change my life, then it isn’t a life changing feature. And I digress.  That said, now that those who have adopted Macs into their every day lives without being a recording artist are sharing and proliferating the idea that Macs are cool.  It’s like well if Charley is using a Mac, maybe that is something I should look into.  My life seems to be similar to Charley’s and he is really happy with it.  Sold.  A lot of people have already predicted a “big bang” in Mac market share, but I only see that happening in consumer markets.  The PC (personal comupter mind you) market is much to vague to make any sense.  It is mostly dominated by businesses with tons of workstations.  I mean, Microsoft gave me a tablet (which sucks ass to no end) as my working PC.  That’s another computer in the market share. However, when I am home, I use my PowerBook.  See the difference?  I think if there was a statistical analysis of consumer growth, then there should be interesting results. This subject came up out of notice that a lot of people I am around these days are buying Macbooks or plan on buying them as their next personal machine.

This weekend has been pretty interesting, but mostly fun.  Friday was the uber nerdy alcoholic sausage fest Microsoft Intern Pubcrawl.  In all honesty, it was a hilarious time.  Watching a swarm of young men in matching black t-shirts engaged in a battle of wits between their beverages and themselves merit a good time. There were no more than 10 girls in a 100+ person event.  Lucky them as a group of 10-15 circled around each one at every stop.  But that’s okay, I was never really too into competative “game” spittin’.  Plus, my new crush at George and Dragon bartends there.  I will find you, even if I do nothing next time I see you.  Anyways, I met some pretty cool people and had the typical drunken shinanigans (sp?).

Saturday was a night out to Element.  Thanks to Brian Yaminaka, he welcomed his honey home from Japan to a VIP special. Seeing a bunch of old friends and even older (not aging) faces was exciting.  Some people I didn’t even think I would see and some I feel bad that I don’t even remember.  I definately discovered crush number two. Damnit.

Last bit of news: I will be in a video on a new game-centric product.  Apparently my MySpace pictures express the right chracteristics they were looking for, or I just have a friend in advertising who thought it would be funny to have me in it.  Maybe even both!  Anyways, it’s all going down Tuesday.  They will feature it on their website.  I’ll be sure to post it once it’s available.  My internet fame is increasing!  First Safeco’s recruiting website, and now Microsoft! w00t!

That is all… for now..