Son of a Pig Farmer

While coming into work today, I approached the 880-237 choke point, and traffic slowed to a crawl, as it usually does.

I was listening to Morning Edition when I heard a car toot it’s horn. I looked to the left, and I saw Bill Maxwell, who I used to work with at Netscape and is now working at Apple. If you recall, Bill was the person I was going to go to lunch with when I found out about Shari.

While he was in the “fast lane” I rolled down my window, which cued him to roll down his. Traffic was moving at a blistering 2 mph, so we proceeded to chat.

After some initial small talk, I launched into…

“Instead of getting the dual G5 tower, I think I’m gonna get a dual-core Intel box. I’d really like to run both Windows and Mac at the same time. How does that work?” I shouted.

“You have to run this program called Paralells that lets you do that,” Bill screamed back at me.

I had already known about Paralells, but it’s hard to be clear when you’re trying to not bump the guy in front of you while making sure you’re not lagging too far behind. I really wanted to know how well it performed, but you can only be so precise given the environment.

“Have you bought your quota yet this month?” I asked.

“Nope!” He yelled.

“Let’s do lunch!,” I said. “Great!,” he agreed.

Just as I said that, our cars veered out-of-sync as the fast lane became fast once again, and Bill jetted off into the distance.

And you people are concerned with me taking pictures while driving…