The New Sneaker Theory

I’ve probably explained my New Sneaker Theory before, but if not it’s simple and goes like this: Upon buying a new pair of sneakers, you can immediately run faster.

This is a theory I put a lot of thought and fieldwork into as I was growing up. Admittedly there wasn’t much in the way of actual quantitative scientific measurement, but the results were obvious nonetheless. Upon running down the street in a new pair of sneakers the house blurred by a little more quickly, the friction burns on my face seared a bit more deeply. Maybe I wasn’t exactly faster than a speeding bullet in new sneakers, but it was a closer race.

I bring up the New Sneaker Theory because I wonder if it will convert into the New Computer Theory. Because I have one. That’s right, I’m typing to you on my brand new entirely excellent (if somewhat overpriced) MacBook Pro. And I’m super excited because I love new stuff. And who knows, maybe now I’ll be able to…compute? faster.

Does not compute? Hell yes it does!

Initial results speak for themselves. My fingers are leaving smoke trails as they fly over the keyboard. I’m spell checking via telepathy. I am the internet!

You can do a lot with new computers.

However, the one problem with new computers is setting them up. I got my new MacBook on Monday and it took me until Thursday to get it (mostly) set up. By which I mean: installing software, configuring software, and moving data over from my other two computers. You really don’t realize how much virtual stuff you amass over the years until you have to move it all. Who knew that all those 1s and 0s required so much mental heavy lifting. To be fair, some of this was additional clean up work that I didn’t exactly need to do, but decided to since it seemed like a good time. This included neatening up (tagging, adding album artwork) my iTunes and reformatting my external hard drive to be a true backup drive for the new machine.

But now I’m good to go. Mostly. There are still a few more softwares I want to install, but I need to get my hands on them first. Then I’m hoping the real benefit of the New Computer theory might manifest. While moving stuff around, it gave me an opportunity to look at some of the stuff I had laying around in my virtual closets and junk drawers. I found a plethora of old story ideas I started and never finished, some of which, while not great, I thought at least showed promise. I might try and revisit them and see if I can do anything with them. Also, once I decide upon a new recording software, I plan to start recording some rough demo ideas for a new band. I’m hoping the act of doing so is as easy as writing the sentence was. Unfortunately the recording software I used on my Dell is not Mac compatible, so I need to get a new one, and I’m hoping the learning curve will be a lot less steep this time around as I have some experience in the general type of software. I have a few options that I’m looking into and hope to decide soon.

Until then, I’ll just be enjoying my new computer.

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