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You know, the online community is roiling with comments and suppositions over this Intel and Apple thing. Now I read Bob Cringely and others writing that Intel is going to buy Apple.

Now that’s just silly. Everyone knows that just isn’t so. How can Intel buy Apple when the truth is that Apple is going to buy Intel? 🙂

That’s right, you heard it here first. Although I should more properly say that NeXT is buying Intel, since NeXT were the ones who bought Apple for all practical purposes in 1997.

Denise and I have watched several movies this past week, which is somewhat unusual. Pretty much all of them have been stinkers, which is also unusual.

But tonight, we watched Jersey Girl.

What a really, really good movie. A story that’s actually well written, that doesn’t stoop to cheap tricks or Hollywood glitz. And for a Kevin Smith movie, very light on dialogue and strong on visuals. I can see why Smith’s traditional audience missed this gem–it’s not at all his usual comedy. Highly recommended.

Apple is really using Intel Pentium chips in its Macs beginning next year. The Mac faithful are reeling. Some of them really think the sky is falling.

Seriously, folks. If you’re simply offended that Apple is moving to the “Dark Side,” you really need to rethink what makes Apple innovative. They use IDE drives. They use PCI cards from ATI. They use USB. The list goes on and on, industry standard components that are used in PCs everywhere.

The fact is that yes, Apple is a hardware company, but it’s always been the things it does with the hardware that make it great. It’s both the form and the function, and if Apple decides that Pentium chips make OS X function better, it’s a good bet that they know what they’re doing.

And an even better bet that they have some tricks and surprises up their sleeves to make this move look like magic in the making.

An acre, wooded. We’re really excited.

We chose a house to build on it too. A real nice plan.

Pretty cool. The next 10 months will be interesting between the rental by I-283 and the house in the middle of the woods being built.

The poor cat is 15 years old now. This week was a crisis for him. He has a mass on the left side of his neck that has grown into his throat. He was having trouble breathing. The vet did a spectrum of tests and xrays, and got a sample of the mass for a biopsy. He thinks it’s cancerous.

Dart isn’t eating. He’s pretty quiet, a bit lethargic. The real shame is that cat or not, 15 years old or not, Dart is the coolest cat I ever knew (and we’ve had 3). He really seems like a human trapped in a cat body.

The biopsy comes back within 7 to 10 days, so we’ll know then. He’s reacting well to antibiotics, but in a week I may be taking him in to the vet for a final visit if he goes more downhill. Poor guy.