My eyes are still swimming in pixels.

I uploaded a crazy number of products to the company web site earlier today (or yesterday)—copy-pasting part numbers and text from one place to another, naming and resizing product images, and marking off cells on a spreadsheet as I went. I actually felt a little dizzy afterwards (vertigo, not blonde), with the room moving from side to side like I was on a boat or something.

One thing is sure: I need a faster computer at work.

I use a blue and white PowerMac G3, and I don’t use a lot of system-straining programs. I do, however, multitask like nobody else I know, and I type like I drive—like a cavalier speed demon wondering why everyone else is on slow motion instant replay.

But there I’d be on the Mac, going from IE to our database, back to IE, database, another IE window, BBEdit, then the first IE window, back to BBEdit, and IE again, then the database, to Finder, then Photoshop, where I save to the web not once, but three times, with some resizing in between those times, then back to the first IE window before I take my highlighting pen and mark off a line on a printed spreadsheet, switch over to the PC and copy the files over from the server, to the test site, then to the live site. Then it’s on to the next product—whew!

All of this within a minute or two, with a lot of waiting for the computer to catch up to my mouse movements and keystrokes—because I’m too frickin’ fast.

Which is why I believe that the human mind is still the fastest computer in the world. I don’t care what anyone tells me; no matter how fast your computer is, your mind still works a lot faster.

I recently bought and installed an additional 256 MB of memory for my PC at home, thinking that finally I’ll be able to paint much larger images in Photoshop (with no more drag!). But nooo… such was not the case. There’s an increase in speed, sure, but I’m still not happy with the slight delay.

This is why I’ve gone back to doing some of my writing on Notepad or Simple Text, rather than on WordPerfect or Word. I can’t stand waiting for the letters to pop up 15 milliseconds after I’ve typed them. It bugs me and slows my thinking down.

Hmm. Which is probably a good thing considering how my mind works. In other words, I’d be less likely to jump tracks if I let my trains of thought move about at reasonable speeds.

Ah, but where’s the fun in that?

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