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Lynette 'Galfromdownunder' Chiang

United States

(Bike Friday Chief Customer Evangelist)

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• Mentally stimulating

  Sesame Street

  08 May 2004

  While every other children's show encouraged kids in their most easily-influenced years to talk like they were mentally incapacitated, Sesame Street's little muppet 'Roosevelt Franklin' was belting out "What Goes Up, Must Come Down" in the name of post-toddler physics. It was just so cool.

• Something was missing

  Apple

  09 May 2004

  I needed a laptop for work. They said, "If you get a Windows machine, we'll help pay for it. If not, you're on your own." I went and bought the latest Windows laptop. I brought it home and opened it up. After five minutes, I got this uneasy feeling. Hard to explain. Everything worked great, Windows looked pretty, but something was missing. I just didn't feel… creative. I was suddenly sitting in a grey carpeted cubicle, in a prefab office surrounded by a sea of concrete, with those awful posters of limpid lake scenes and the words INSPIRATION in big letters underneath, and I wasn't even at the office. I took it back, and bought an ibook. I opened it up. I sat in front of it, I hadn't even put finger to keypad, and I felt immediately, deeply and joyously… creative.

• 'Promite Time'

  Promite

  31 May 2004

  Not Vegemite, not Marmite - Promite is simply the lesser known, less-hyped half-sister of the two 'mites'. Its smooth, slightly sweeter flavor is a savory tooth's delight. I had my office hanging out for 10am 'Promite Time' when toast would be lightly buttered, then scraped with a thin layer of Promite, then eaten upside down because 'the taste buds are on the top of your tongue'. Once tasted, you'll never look at V or M again.