My wife came in the office this afternoon and asked me if I wanted to go buy Guitar Hero III and Leopard. Didn’t have to ask me twice, where are the keys?

She went out with a girlfriend tonight so maybe it was some sort of quid pro quo. I’ve been staring at the Leopard box for awhile and am becoming increasingly impressed. Haven’t removed the shrink wrap yet, just looking at it and the faint holographic glow behind the black X.

I started to think about some of the other operating system box art I’ve seen and bought over the years. I remembered the red from Red Hat and the green from SuSE and of course the boring Microsoft Windows boxes through the years. Must admit the box style for Vista is attractive. It isn’t really a box, it’s sort of a cross between a clamshell and container with rounded edges. I like the shape of the Vista box better than the square OS X Leopard box, but that’s where the designers left at Microsoft and the Apple ones got busy.

That purple space looming behind the X — I’m transfixed. Maybe I’ll just leave it up there for the whole work week and keep staring at it. Or is it staring at me? I can’t be the only person who bought Leopard who is so fascinated by the box that they don’t … open … it. This box is the kind you don’t throw away, it’s kind of like the Apple store bags. Apple designers are brilliant. Haven’t even gotten into the OS and I’m visually impressed.

And with that, the pillowgate to dreams beckons. Night.

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