When I have the
chance, I like to walk to my meetings instead of using the shuttle service
available on campus. When it is not raining, the walk is very refreshing: I get
to clear out my thoughts on the walk, and get in some number of steps for my
daily activity. After one of my meetings
ended, I started to head back to my building, only to see that it started to
down pour. To my luck, there was a shuttle parked upfront. I asked the driver
if she could take me back to my building, and she said she was on her lunch
break. As I said no worries, I’ll just walk back, she insisted that she can
drive me. I hopped in the shuttle, thanking her profusely for taking the time
from her lunch break to drive me back, she insisted it was not a big deal. Such
an act of kindness made my day, and it is a great reminder to continue doing
good things to others, simply for the joy it brings them.
I am not an Apple fan, but I do like their computers, and recommend them to colleagues and friends for a variety of reasons. They are well designed, and in addition to an excellent user interface, they run a flavor of Unix--which makes the life of computer programmers a lot easier. But most importantly, Apple's customer support is impeccable, that despite all the hardware issues I experienced in the past, I still recommend Apple computers. Let me explain why. A year and a half ago, I bought a Mac Book Pro for work. At the time it was the first generation unibody laptop, that had an i7 processor, lots of memory, and lots of disk space. Alas, like first generation models everywhere, it also had a lot of hardware problems. The most annoying of which was the screen randomly turning dark, with the hard drive spinning out of control. The only way to get out of this state was by forcing a reboot by holding down the power button, and losing everything I have been working on. At first
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