Love Note to Apple
March 6, 2009 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
My computer has been down. My husband has a PC Laptop and I hate it so much I find it very difficult to work. It doesn’t work properly – not like my Mac.
Having my Mac down is simultaneously like being lost and cut-off from part of myself and liberating – like being let off my leash.
I imagine it will be the same with my iPhone – which I don’t have yet, but. . .
I find my cell phone so stupidly lame that I don’t use most of its features. I know my experience with my future iPhone will be much more attached. I know I will …read more
Technology and Emotional Maturity
September 10, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
I look like a pretty nice, normal person don’t I? With that Mac I look competent. Some people have even confused me as someone who is technologically savvy because I have a website, a Mac and a camera.
When learning new technological skills – a new computer program or application or trying to navigate a new website or plug-in, then why do I get so irrationally frustrated?
My head starts to feel pressure, my neck gets stiff and tense, my arms and hands feel pulled like rubber-bands, my blood pressure goes up, I stop breathing and begin holding my breath.
For …read more
Apple Commercials
August 22, 2008 by Tracee Sioux
Filed under Parenting
Am I the only one who pretends I’m Bill Gates watching those Apple commercials? How does Bill Gates feel watching those commercials?
It makes me giggle because it’s true. It’s sooo true.
And it’s about freaking time they included some women.
OK – I just love that they called her genius instead of geek. Not that I don’t love the name, Geek Squad. I so do. I just love that they were presumptuous enough to use the word Genius.




