macs
The very first computer I ever fell in love with was an Apple II+ in 1981. I have been hooked on Macs ever since. Due to budget constraints, I remained stuck in Windows-land until 2000. The Apple products I have owned are:
- Tentacles (rhymes roughly with “Hercules”): Power Mac G4/450 MP, 2000-2007
- Legolas: 5 GB iPod, 2001-2002
- Equinox: 20 GB iPod, 2002-2005
- Gillian: Blueberry iBook, 2002-2003
- Xavia: 12″ PowerBook G4, 2003
- Magritte: 6 GB iPod Mini, 2005-2007
- Spike: 4 GB iPod Nano, 2007
- Serendipity: 8 GB iPhone, 2007
- Petrichor: 24″ iMac Core2 Extreme, 2008
Although I use the command-line interface of Darwin for many daily tasks, I do have some favorite Mac OS X applications: 
- Terminal emulation: iTerm
- Web browsing: Safari with Saft (and occasionally Mozilla Firefox)
- Bookmarking: Cocoalicious (with del.icio.us)
- Email: Mac OS X Mail (with Gmail)
- Calendar and to-do list: iCal
- Word processing: Nisus Writer Express
- Text wrangling: TextWrangler
- Music and podcasts: iTunes
- Blogging: ecto (with 1001 for Flickr integration)
- Cataloging: Delicious Library (with LibraryThing)
- Secure file transfers: Fugu
- Instant messaging: Adium X
- IRC: Colloquy
- Webcam: EvoCam
- Skinning: CandyBar and ShapeShifter
- Everything else: Quicksilver
And since I am often asked which podcasts I put on my iPod, here are my favorites:
- 3 Fast, 3 Furious: Jen, Jen, Shannon, Mo and Wendy are funny, funny women
- Audio Dharma: wonderful dharma talks
- The Bitterest Pill: the funniest stay-at-home dad I know
- Coverville: wonderful and bizarre cover songs
- Democracy Now!: Amy Goodman’s news hour, which should be required listening for every American
- Electronic Periodic: delicious electronica
- Harry Shearer’s Le Show: a humorous take on American politics
- podictionary: a word root every day
- TMBG Podcast: need I say more?
- This American Life: stories of our culture (or lack thereof)
- Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me: hilarious weekly news quiz show on NPR
