Big [B]Other: I'm no longer halfway the foodchain

January 31, 2003

I'm no longer halfway the foodchain

I’m no longer halfway the food chain: bought myself a brand new iBook yesterday (the 12” 2003 model). Normally it would have cost me at least 2 years to get a machine like this. I would have waited and waited and then I would have bought it from someone nearer to the top, someone who could afford to buy a new machine every one or two years.

Tomorrow - and maybe even today - some extended entries about who I am, what I do and what I see. I'm a shy man, but I like to do monologs.

Migrating from one machine to another is like moving from one house to another: my old machine is half empty, only the things that are really important (documents mostly) are still there, in case of emergency they can be easily recovered. My new system is filled with un-extracted archives, the desktop still has an awful color, I have to rebuild some stuff and none of my old shortcuts work. I look around at all the space I got (went from 6 gigs to 30) and I promise myself that I will do it better this time: make a better computer, I learned from my mistakes.

Most of the times it takes at least a week before my computers are adapted to the way I use them. |I’m gonna feel at home in this machine. I know it, I can feel it and it feels good. I reserved 10 gigs for music alone. The big box with CD’s is going to stay home from now on (but didn’t I say something similar when I went from a machine with 5,25 inch floppies to one a 3.5 inch drive and a 12 meg HD – traded the HD for a welding machine… Hmm... My next machine will probably not only be able to read DVD’s but it can burn them as well …. )

Posted by Jeroen Goulooze at January 31, 2003 03:21 AM

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Hi Jerome
thanks for visiting at my space...

i enjoyed your comments about moving from an older computer to a new one. Right now we are beginning to work on this architectural-conceptual project for housing -habitares- for nomads of the antagonic flows... It does sound better in the original.

We try to mean, people who participate in anatagonic flows: so called antiglobalization movements, free software, squatters, desobedients, migrants, social net warriors... the so called multitudes... The surname to nomads wants to make a certain distance / difference with the academic-netart nomads, business-financial nomads, us-nato-military-diplomatic nomads etc - Of course, the 90s made it clear that the Big Nomad is capital.- Their habitat is of course quite well known.. fancy hotels, and universities, trendy institutions and museums, technopolis and global financial districts... But there are still nomads of another kind... with other kinds of war machines, like war machines against war !!

i liked your idea of comparing the beginning of a new life and the initiation of a new machine.... although i wish i could begin a new life in just a week!

Posted by: osfa on February 1, 2003 04:53 PM

It took me fifteen years to get a somewhat different live after being a squatter/dope user/school driop out, and I still do not fit in. But hey, this is still holland I live in, live is not that hard overhere.

But anyway: people live inside their machines: one of my sons only meats his freinds on msn, kids on grade school have their sms and soon to be mms cellphones. A machine is a live, unfortunately as of yet there is no machine one can buy for live, all is owned by big buck companies who want to squeeze more money out of us by promissing us more and more. Why do I need this machine anyway?

I'm gonna visit wewearebuildings.cc, to see what the project is about. And of course because I 'm curious to find out about a website with that great name (encore, encore): wewearebuildings.cc.

Posted by: Jeroen Goulooze on February 2, 2003 11:13 AM