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technologic.

For those of you that don't know me, I have a small obsession with technology. From the culture, to the nerdy men, to the sheer genius behind new inventions... I love it all.

While in New York this weekend, I made a point to stop by the Mac store on 5th avenue. All Mac stores are like candy shops for me, but this one takes the cake because of the location and architecture. It was like visiting my mothership. It was almost too difficult to keep from drooling.


While outside the store, I overheard a man say, "it is like the Louvre but for Macs." I chuckled, then thought - yes, the glass structures are comparable, but what about the rest?


Mac products are individual pieces of brilliant design, but comparing the Mona Lisa to a MacBook Pro is well, blasphemous and kind of insulting on both ends. But if Leonardo da Vinci had a Mac... we would all have personal flying machines, awesome!!!

(I share a birthday and the fascination of flight with old Leo. Yes, that is me flying a plane!)


Visiting the giant Mac cube was incredible, but the best source to satisfy my tech-cravings is Wired. Maybe it's the layout design, or the quirky writing, or the tech-based content, but either way -

I LOVE

The current issue (17.02) is particularly striking with a bold vibrant cover design. I recently decided that I would love to work for Wired as an art/creative director. The job would nicely combine my interests in design and technology.


This issue is also great because of it's content. What other magazine would dedicate an entire spread to comparing the BMI trends of average US women to playmates? Here is my favorite quote from the infoporn article - "Oh, Playboy, why do you want your "readers" to lust after androids?" The article is well researched, insightful, and witty, but written by a woman. I would like a guys perspective on this. However, this could explain the new Svedka vodka advertisements - they are so creepy! If men are now more attracted to bald robotic women then goodbye human race... actually no, because we still have women that can give birth to octuplets. Ouch! I only like AI if it looks like Jude Law. Too bad that movie was terrible.


Wired also incorporates very accurate charts...


The loop in Battlestar Galactica's trend was very difficult to calculate.

I could continue to ramble on about Wired's recent issue - from the social commentary ("While I love HD, I do prefer friendship and human interaction.") to the interesting articles (ie: one about the new movie Coraline and another about a father's personal quest to solve his daughter's mysterious genetic disease), but instead, Wire yourself up. I have homework.