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When my dad bought our first Windows PC, the damn machine saved my life by allowing me to write at a speed my little diaries and notebooks could never catch up to. I hadn't handed in any coursework for my English class for a year and a half. In two months I submitted dozens of essays, poems, scripts and short stories, all thanks to the computer. This laptop lasted me through my A level college and university. It's strange how, in this photo, there's so many visual clues as to the person I was back then, and the person I am now. I used to use that laptop for watching VCD's, as a jukebox, and of course, recording music. The very first Khaimano demo was done on that laptop, right after my finals, when all I had to do for the summer was chill out, write music and attempt to skate. Surrounding the laptop you can notice a couple of things: 1. Two Aiwa monitor speakers - used to playback my recorded music. 2. A Marshall overdrive pedal - I'd occasionally use this as a semi-pre-amp, of sorts, when I'm not churning out the 'Sleep Now Under Fire' riff (which the pedal does very well). 3. A Jay doll - I shared a birthday with another guy in our group, Neil. In the first year the guys bought us Jay & Silent Bob dolls. Without argument, I quickly grabbed the Jay doll and he quickly grabbed the Silent Bob doll. When my brother was two he'd play with the doll, which had a button at the back which would make him say Jay-isms. I feared my bro would walk up to his teacher on his first day of school and announce to her that he was 'all about the brown, noonch'. He then pulled the head off by accident and freaked out. 4. Selotape - This wonderful sticky material has been a part of my life for quite a while. When I was a kid I'd use it to make all manner of things with cardboard and paper. By this point I was mainly using it to stick up posters of Louis Nurding and Gil Elvgren pin-ups. 5. Palm Pilot - Yup. Used to have one. Lost it. Then a hotel in Segamat called and said they found out, must've left it during one of those 'retreats' that companies often have. Never picked it up. Too many bad memories in that hotel. I'd use that Palm Pilot a lot. Wish I still had one. 6. Hoegarden pint glass/ashtray - The inside of that thing used to look fucking disgusting. 7. Crap camera - I think, by this point, my Russian Zenith XLR which I bought for ten pounds had finally decided to die. 8. Toilet tissue - There was free internet in the dorms. What do you think I used it for? 9. Cassettes - A whole bunch of mix tapes were in those cassettes. Now it's the realm of CD-R's. 10. Pennies - For poker. We'd always have these poker nights with whatever leftover pennies we had. Sometimes the pot would rise up to five pounds if things went well. Then you'd try and figure out how the fuck you're going to take five pounds of pennies down to the pub. And what do I work on now? Yet another laptop. I use my desktop more for recording music and heavy design, but laptops are still my babies. Windows run laptops, to be exact. This one right here is turning into a piece of shit but I know how to fix it. And till such time as Apple makes a machine that's affordable that I can understand, I'm Bill Gates for life.
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You see that picture on the right? That was my first laptop. I've always had a thing about computers, in general. When I was in prep school (junior high to some), I discovered programming and made my own beat-em-up using BASIC (it was pretty crap, but it worked).