Hey, today is leap day! And though I could be blogging about one of my two recent and very destructive car accidents, my ski trip to Utah, my break-up with Fuz, or how I’m now a producer on Life from the Inside, I’m going to instead waste my currently-precious time to write this:

Hey, today is leap day!

What, Robb already beat me to it? Son of a Beyoncé! I should have known! And I didn’t start blogging until May of 2004, so I don’t have a cool old leap-day post to send you to.

So never mind. Go read Robb’s post. His is more informative and useful anyway. Mine just says:

Hey, today is leap day!

I loved “Garfield” when it first came out. My friends and I would laugh and laugh reading those first three books. (It was also the beginning of me wishing for comprehensive comic strip collections; it wasn’t until a few years ago that “Peanuts” finally got the treatment it deserves.)

“Garfield” rapidly became useless and unfunny. But along comes Garfield Minus Garfield. Take Garfield out of “Garfield” and what do you get? Pure existential hilarity. I hope it’s okay for me to reprint the sample below. If not, I’m sure I’ll be hearing from someone.

Here is a fantastic ad. You should watch it, because it’s fantastic. It will add some fantasticicity to your day. (Thanks to Monoscope.)

Boy, is this an amazing illusion! It ended up being much cooler than I expected. Too bad it’s not a picture of Britney or Paris, though.

Any dumbass who supports the marriage of church and state should be given gentle daily reminders of why that is a horrible idea.

Here’s today’s: “Afghan Student Sentenced to Death After Downloading Report.” And we “liberated” this place? Good job, us! We rock!

You may be interested to see my friend John Singh in this silly Conan O’Brian ILM sketch:

I love this. This is fantastic! Some guy bought an Apple IIc on eBay. The thing is that is had never, ever been opened. So he’s got some unboxing pictures up on Flickr.

Apple IIc Unboxing by dansays

While there are any number of unboxing pr0n pages out there, it was Apple’s gorgeous products and packaging that made the practice popular. I can safely say that the unboxing of a re-designed Zune is nothing nearly as exhilarating as the unboxing of something as ground-breaking and beautiful as the iPhone or the MacBook Air. (To aside: The new Zunes look pretty cool, but the instant you pick one up in your hand, you know it’s a piece of garbage.)

Robb, of sitcom fame, has an original 128K Macintosh computer, complete with carrying case. He brought this out at some party or other, and it got me thinking I should find myself one of those. There is nothing as iconic as that machine, what it meant for personal computing and the road it has led us all down. I have cursorily browsed eBay for a 128K Mac, but nothing serious has come of it.

Nothing serious will come of it. At least not for a while, thanks to money. I am, you see, currently awaiting the shipment of my brand new 2.8GHz 8-core Mac Pro. My awesome little 12″ PowerBook is nearly useless now for anything more than the simple things. My God, I bought it 5 years ago. So it was time to upgrade. I was waiting for the next round of laptop upgrades, but when the Air was announced, I decided I should go the other way and buy a machine that could kick some serious boo-tay. My new Mac Pro, when it arrives, will do just that.

I will keep my 12″ PB. Granted, I could get some decent money for it because the 12″ PB is still considered a treasure, it being so small in footprint. But I think I’ll keep it. It still works perfectly enough to take on trips if I need it, and I’m going to want to pull it out 20 years hence and go, “Gosh, this is still a strikingly nice machine!” I have told my mom to keep my blue-and-white G3 in decent shape, because that will be a perfect example of Apple’s translucent color period. I wish I still had my Apple IIe, but that is long, long, long gone. As dansays demonstrates, these old hunks of now-useless computer instill enough nostalgia in those of us who grew up with them that we now are willing to re-buy them just to have them sitting around!

Anyone got an unopened 128K somewhere?