문득 먹고 싶은 것

소주가 가끔 생각난다.
와인이 그다지 비싸지 않고 종류도 많다.
자주 먹게 된다. 레드와인을 먹고나면 머리가 아픈 거 같아서 주로 화이트와인으로 먹는다.
맥주맛도 괜찮다. 역시 저렴하고. 위스키도 뭐 그럭저럭.
그래도 가끔 소주가 먹고 싶다. 사케를 소주라 여기고 먹곤 하지만 비싸기도 하고 많이 먹으면 느끼하기도 하고... 그래서 소주 특유의 쓴맛이 그리울 때가 있다. 아주 드물지만 신김치에 두부랑 파랑 송송 썰어넣고 돼지고기랑 푹 끓인 김치찌개 맛이라도 보게 될 때 특히 간절하다. 한잔 캬~ 물론 회 한접시도 함께 하면 더욱 좋겠지만 휴~

동네 목욕탕에 가서 때빼고 광내고
시원하게 팔대 꽂아서 먹었던 바나나우유가 가끔 생각난다.
언젠가 보니 바나나맛우유로 바뀌었던 것 같다. 제조회사도 많아져서 원조니 짝퉁이니 하는 말이 붙게 될 정도이니 아마도 나 말고도 많은 사람들이 바나나우유에 대한 추억이 있나보다
근데 왜 하필 바나나우유였을까. 그것도 그 항아리같은 곳에 담겨진...

콩나물이 먹고 싶다
삼성본관 뒤에 그 콩나물국밥집의 점심시간 풍경이
가끔 꿈에 나온 적도 있다
반찬없을 때 콩나물밥해서 간장에만 비벼먹어도 몇끼 해결할 수 있는데
콩나물 구하기가 쉽지 않다
키우려고 궁리는 해봤지만
콩나물콩의 유효기간이 그리 길지 않고
자주 들여다보며 관리를 해야한다길래 포기해야할 듯...
갑자기 아버지 생각이 난다
어려서부터 할머님께서 각종 콩나물 반찬을 하도 많이 해주셔서
언제부턴가 상위에 올라온 콩나물은 쳐다보시지도 않으셨다는데...
나는 그런 사실을 서른이 넘어서야 알았다
하긴 대학생이 된 이후, 아니 사춘기때부터...
함께 식사자리를 했던 게 몇번 되질 않았으니 그럴만하다
암튼. 콩나물이 무지하게 먹고 싶다

자. 그러면...
시원한 회와 얼큰한 김치찌개를 소주와 함께 듬뿍 먹어주고
늘어지게 푹 잔 후
느지막히 일어나 동네목욕탕에 가서 땀 흘리고 얼굴 좀 뽀해지고 나서
츄리닝과 슬리퍼 신고 슈퍼앞 파라솔에 앉아 바나나우유 하나 먹으면 되겠네
하하~

정말 notebook같은 laptop

Apple Unveils Super-Thin Laptop, Movie Rentals
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs took the wraps off a super-slim new laptop at Macworld Tuesday, unveiling a personal computer less than an inch thick that turns on the moment it's opened. Jobs also confirmed the tech giant's foray into online movie rentals, revealing an alliance with all six major movie studios to offer films over high-speed Internet connections within 30 days after they're released on DVD.
Always a showman, Jobs unwound the string on a standard-sized manila office envelope and slid out the ultra-thin MacBook Air notebook computer to coos and peals of laughter from fans at the conference.

At its beefiest, the new computer is 0.76 inches thick; at its thinnest, it's 0.16 inches, he said. It comes standard with an 80-gigabyte hard drive, with the option of a 64GB flash-based solid state drive as an upgrade.

The machine doesn't come with a built-in optical drive for reading CDs and DVDs, a feature Jobs says consumers won't miss because they can download movies and music over the Internet and access the optical drives on other PCs and Macs to install new software.
They can buy an external drive, however, that will retail for $99.

Trading in Apple stock was heavy Tuesday, the first day of the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco. Shares fell $11.85, or 6.6 percent, to $166.93 in late afternoon trading.
Caris & Co. analyst Shebly Seyrafi said the MacBook Air's price tag "may have been higher than people would have hoped for."

Investors also may be "incrementally" concerned that Apple's iPhone was not updated so that it can connect to faster cellular networks, he said.

The new laptop, which has a 13.3-inch screen and full-sized laptop keyboard, will cost $1,799 when it goes on sale in two weeks, though Apple is taking orders now. The company's Web site is already touting the machine. The price is competitive with other laptops in its market segment.
The machine helps fortify Apple's already-sizzling Macintosh product lineup and burnish its polished image as a purveyor of cool.

Apple's Macintosh business hit record sales of 7 million units in the company's fiscal 2007, up more than 30 percent from the previous year.

After hovering for years with a 2 percent to 3 percent share of the personal computer market in the United States, Apple's slice has grown to almost 8 percent, making it the nation's third-largest PC vendor, according to the latest figures from market researcher Gartner Inc.
Other revelations during Jobs' keynote address reflected the Cupertino-based company's intensifying efforts to push deeper into consumers' living rooms with technologies that blend Internet technology into home entertainment devices.

The movie-rental announcement capped months of speculation that an Apple movie-rental service was in the offing. The service launched Tuesday in the United States and will roll out internationally later this year.

Apple will have more than 1,000 movies for online rental through iTunes by the end of February, with prices of $2.99 for older movies and $3.99 for new releases.
High-definition versions of movies will cost $3.99 and $4.99 respectively.

Users can watch instantly over a broadband Internet connection, or download and keep the movie for 30 days while having 24 hours to finish the movie once it's started.
Titles will be available within 30 days of their DVD release.
Apple is partnering with 20th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, Walt Disney, Paramount, Universal and Sony on the service, which will work on Macs, Windows-based machines, iPhones, iPods or Apple TV set-top boxes.

Jobs also unveiled a string of new features for the iPhone, showing how users of the combination iPod-cell phone-Internet surfing device can now pinpoint their location on Web maps, text-message multiple people at once and customize their home screens.
Jobs also said Apple has sold 4 million iPhones during their first 200 days on sale.
The crowd applauded when Jobs demonstrated mapping upgrades to the iPhone. Other features rolling out Tuesday included the ability to switch around icons on the iPhones home screen. Users also can create up to nine home screens.

Jobs also unveiled new software for the iPod Touch music player. New models will have be able to process e-mail and perform new mapping functions.
Apple's languishing Apple TV set-top box also got a software update, giving it the ability to download content directly from iTunes without an accompanying PC or Mac, and a price cut from $299 to $229.

Jobs began his keynote address with the introduction of Time Capsule, a stand-alone networked hard drive that also functions as a wireless router.
Macs and PCs can use Time Capsule to store and share files, and multiple Macs with the Time Machine backup utility can automatically back up to it.
aldedicated backup hard drive that can connect to several Macs via wired or wireless networks. It works with Apple's existing backup utility, Time Machine, but can also back up Windows-based PCs.

It also functions as a wireless router, eliminating the need for one more box in the house. The Apple Store was selling it for $299 for a 500GB model, $499 for a 1-terabyte (1,000-gigabyte) model.

Happy New Year

생활비가 여유가 없으니...
하고 싶은 걸 못할 때에는 많이 답답했다
그때마다 한국에서 살면 좀 괜찮으려나? 생각하곤 하지만..
그래서 독일에서 지낼 때에도 이곳 영국에서도 ...
복권이나 그냥 확 되버려라... 허망한 바람만 들어간다..
그래도 그럭저럭 버티면서 정해진 시간을 채우고 있다.
지금껏 그랬던 것처럼
하기로 했고 해야할 일이라면 죽어라 해내자
새로운 일에 욕심을 낼 만큼 강하지 않음을 잊지말자 올해는.
괜한 일에 마음 고생 안하고 시간 낭비도 안하고.
그렇게 집중에서 목표한 바 이뤄야한다!
시간이 많지 않다...