Apple just previewed the next version of their operating system, which will be called “Leopard“. This is going along with the “big cat” theme of previous Mac OS X installments: “Cheetah”, “Tiger” and “Central Asian Snow Leopard”.
This time around Apple is including a coolio function called “Time Machine“, which allows you to view any particular folder as it looked a month or a year ago, just in case you deleted something and you want it back.
This is an amazing idea, and looks to be well-executed. I am constantly deleted stuff and then thinking better of it. The way I am wired is that I save things like a “Packrat”, and then every six months I become horribly disgusted by my packrattiness, and throw everything in my life out. This includes old mail, magazines, friendships and, of course, computer files.
Well, at least now with the computer stuff, I’ll be able to go back and recover things. My Apple will now act like my mother, going through my trash and saving things.
I am currently at home with my two sisters going through our garage and throwing things out. Cardboard boxes. Old pieces of wood. Paint cans from the 19- (and possibly 18-) 70′s. These are the things the Mason Family has held on to for years.
The goal: to actually fit a car into our garage. This has never happened since I have been a Mason, which has been about 28 years now.
Well, we sorted through things, and we threw out a lot, and the truck came and took it all away this morning, and we’ll have no “Time Machine” to get back the old bodyboard, old ping pong table and old shovel handle. They are trash now.
And soon, my mother’s ’67 Pontiac “Firebird” will stop rotting out in our humid marsh-like yard, and will instead rot inside our humid sauna-like garage, just as God intended.
Soon, but not today.
The Pontiac has three flat tires and we already threw out the air compressor.
