Friday night we went on the traditional Buy The New Apple OS run complete with dinner. My son loves the Apple store and my dad loves being a nerd. Me? I’m innocently stuck in the middle. We hit the store and my dad immediately went to grab the Snow Leopard and I went to “look” at Logic 9 to see if it was worthy of an upgrade (as if the package could tell me things that the demos couldn’t). My wife looked at me sideways and said “you know they keep it behind the counter.” She makes things like this sound so dirty. The Orange Shirted Nerd (OSN) knew what was going on merely by the look on her face and he swooped in to save me. After hearing those wonderful words “oh just buy it and get it over with!” (she’s too good to me) he dispatched a Blue Shirted Nerd (BSN) to fetch the appropriate upgrade box and I was set. Very pleased was I.
After putting our son to bed, we retired to the couch for some serious upgrade lovin’. Snow Leopard installed on my MacBook Pro in no time. It took a little longer on her MacBook but in the end it was all good. No issues with the install and everything worked just as well as, if not better than, it did when we started. It seems a little faster as it moves around, but the true test will come in the studio tonight.
Then there was the Logic 9 upgrade. If I could do one thing it would be to make the install faster. It was an overnight deal and when I awoke to the sound of my son in the living room asking aloud “computer doin’?” I realized the biggest flaw in the installer is the fact that the only button on the screen reads “CANCEL.” Of course a complete overhaul of the installer wouldn’t have saved me from the evil “are you sure you want to restart” prompt on the screen when I arrived in the living room. Ah the power button. So shiny! So attractive to little fingers! Thank goodness it takes more than one missle key to make that happen. The point of all of this is that the install takes forever so take a book. Also, I shouldn’t leave my laptop on the coffee table.
More on Logic this week as I revel in the orgy of new guitar setups and effects. In the few minutes I gave it this weekend there was just too much tasty goodness. I am optimistic that the new stuff will inspire some sort of creative weirdness.
I read Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod this weekend. He’s the guy that does all of those really cool business card cartoons. I followed his blog for a while years ago, but sort of lost it in the shuffle of my move to Texas. He has a lot of ineresting stuff to say in this book that comes out of his blog. It’s another book that says a lot of things that you already know but his experience lends it a lot of credibility. There’s this confirmatory feel to the book that gave me the sense that I might be less nuts than I think. I need to burn through it again, but it’s a good read and is worth picking up.
That will likely be the last book on the subject of creativity that I read for a while. I’ve read two really good ones and I think I’ll stop there before I hit a bad one (again).
We picked up a closet door for my studio last night so that I can finally cover up all of the stuff I keep in there. It might also keep little hands out of trouble. There is something about a dedicated creative space that is very special and when everything about it is just right, it’s hard to justify not spending more time in it. I think about this a lot, so there will be more about it later. Maybe after I get the closet door hung.
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