My new Mac OSX operating system is working beautifully. At first it felt really new, almost foreign, but now I’m sure it’s every bit as Mac as the old Classic system. Maybe more so.
One of the new gizmos is a clock that can be made nearly transparent and floated anywhere you like on the screen. AND… it can be digital or analog. I love the 1950’s-simple analog version, complete with red sweep second hand. After years of almost exclusively digital time-keeping, I can once again see that time and space are the same thing. Somehow 11:25 and 11:35 just don’t look different enough to me, so I just keep working until I’m late for my lunch date. But when that minute hand hits bottom and starts up, I know it’s time to go!
I recently heard of some kids asking their teacher why we said “half-past” or “top of the hour.” I suppose that goes in the same category as “dialing” on radios and telephones — and modems, of all things. I’ve been changing the desktop display on the computer on the solstice and equinox dates, just to keep in touch with the seasons. Posted the moon phases on my homepage. Guess the clock was a natural next step. Hmmm… I wonder, what now?