John Coffer, in an excellent video produced by Lost & Found Films:
“I was living in Florida and I had a nice two-bedroom condominium, a garage, a swimming pool, some tangerine trees outside, a sports car and a Ford van. It wasn’t really very fulfilling, in the end.”
On the topic of writers I have only just recently discovered, The Typist wrote a great article about his conversion to a Mac: the motivations that preluded it and the software that facilitated his switch. I learned a few new tricks and found some cool new software here, so while I may disagree with his statements that one could purchase a PC approximately 150% faster than a MacBook Pro for slightly less, I enjoyed his article and look forward to seeing more from him in the future.
“I think of it much in the same way I do exercise — you just have to make yourself miserable for a finite period of time, to reap the benefits later.”
Another Soylent story, this one, interestingly, less lauding than the others.