Hi Fruity!

I got an email this morning from my boss at the Local Omnipresent Charitable Organization that went something like this:

A local school is donating sixty three iMacs to us. I talked to their tech guy and told him that we wanted them all. Did you set this up?

No, I didn’t, but I welcomed the chance to work on them. In the end, we sent a dumptruck (OUR very own dumptruck! who knew we had a dumptruck?) to pick them up. We ended up with forty five or so. The driver said that the school was giving machines away to their staff while he was loading them up to explain the discrepancy. The tech guy at the school is upgrading to eMacs (G4 processors, you know), he explained, so they didn’t need the revision A and B machines any more. Now, what will we do with them?

Give them to the children, I guess. We have children’s programs and if we load them up with learning games and such, we can deploy them to the kids. I wonder what the four year olds will make of UNIX. They’ll likely find those still using Windows to be charming anachronists. I just hope that they’ll be polite and cover their mouths when the chuckle, like a grocery clerk who has to listen to an elderly customer’s protestations over the supermarket’s lack of Oleo.

The kids who we serve, who can hardly get a break in life, may end up lording their new computer skills over us all.

And that makes me immensely proud.

Your pal,

bob