Cogs can think.

I just could not take it anymore today. I just had to buy music at my record store. And so I did. I bought two albums by Sufjan Stevens, “Greetings From Michigan, The Great Lake State” and “Seven Swans”. I just listened to the former, it is great, as is everything Stevens does. I am now listening to the latter, and it is just as good. Sufjan Stevens is an astonoshing musician; a surprising tossed salad of sounds and vocals, lyrically extremely poetic and mysterious, even. Productive, too; almost an album per year. I advise all of you to listen to his music when you get the chance. It might be too complicated for most of you, but true music lovers will see the genius.

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I also saw something very weird while in Big City Alkmaar. I was at the Media Markt, a chain of big-ass electronic stores (and with big I mean two footbal-pitches-big) that sell everything from DVDs to hairdryers, from CD players to in-car enterntainment.

The weird thing: they sell Macs now. They had a Mac Mini, including cinema display, on a prominent spot on the shop floor. This is great news; the more diversity, the better. This is the first time EVER that I have seen Macs being sold outside of Apple-approved retail stores– usualy shops that sell only Apple gear.