I would like everyone to know that I am exercising considerable restaint. Every erg of my would-be super powers are, at this very second, while I type this, being expending against holding back the constant onslaught of thoughts of this sitting in one of these running that.

It's getting very hard to resist. It's like I can feel my fingers typing a credit card number into an ecommerce web site. I can almost see the FedEx tracking page and smell the new electronics coming out of the packaging. I imagine myself pouring over the details of the boot-up screen and then adding -m64 targets to gcc.

But I'm above all that. The 1.33GHz chip in my main machine is plenty fast for what I use it for. I just need to keep repeating that, and try to concentrate on my work. And not go to pricewatch. No, I mustn't do that. That would be regressive.