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My Ipod arrived, along with Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Hagakure that I'd also decided to make my birthday presents to myself (half-life 2 being interminably delayed, along with vampire bloodlines and any other computer games I was debating getting).
It's shiny...and ohh so stylishly set up. After breaking the seal, sliding it out of the slipcase and cracking open the box to cause it to open in two, you're confronted with all white packaging, with the words 'enjoy' and 'Designed by Apple in California'
And this is why Apple win design awards.
Am now in the club of not wanting to take it out of its packaging in case it gets a smear or scratch. Must buy titanium case soon.
In other news, have been told to 'break out worst case scenario plans' for an encyclopedia i'm working on, at the same time as a deadline for final proofs has been brought forward a day so the whole team is wading through geology manuscripts. This means I'm not going to get out of work early tonight and makes baby jesus cry.
On the 'worst case' thing, I'm now thinking I need a large table and some women in uniform to push around models of tanks and airplanes to the combined tunes of Guns of Navarone, Longest Day, Bridge too Far and Eagle has Landed. "Push back on chapter seven, get those editors in there, it's a reflow error. Pull up, all copyright issues pull up."
This of course being a convenient disguise to my arch-nemesis, Mr Raff, of the fact the 'worst case' actually applies to a device to harness the power of leylines to create a mind-control/death-ray/distintegration "laser".
It's shiny...and ohh so stylishly set up. After breaking the seal, sliding it out of the slipcase and cracking open the box to cause it to open in two, you're confronted with all white packaging, with the words 'enjoy' and 'Designed by Apple in California'
And this is why Apple win design awards.
Am now in the club of not wanting to take it out of its packaging in case it gets a smear or scratch. Must buy titanium case soon.
In other news, have been told to 'break out worst case scenario plans' for an encyclopedia i'm working on, at the same time as a deadline for final proofs has been brought forward a day so the whole team is wading through geology manuscripts. This means I'm not going to get out of work early tonight and makes baby jesus cry.
On the 'worst case' thing, I'm now thinking I need a large table and some women in uniform to push around models of tanks and airplanes to the combined tunes of Guns of Navarone, Longest Day, Bridge too Far and Eagle has Landed. "Push back on chapter seven, get those editors in there, it's a reflow error. Pull up, all copyright issues pull up."
This of course being a convenient disguise to my arch-nemesis, Mr Raff, of the fact the 'worst case' actually applies to a device to harness the power of leylines to create a mind-control/death-ray/distintegration "laser".