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Good Taste, & Good Taste (5/10/99)
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Wouldn't you know it? We spend another day touring the city of Boston and its surrounding environs, and the iMac sightings just increase. This time, we saw them in a very cool place-- literally. It is perhaps not universally well-known that some of the very best ice cream in the world comes from Toscanini's on Main Street in Cambridge, just about in Central Square. That stuff is both heavenly and exotic; when you pick a flavor, sure, you can stick with a heaping helping of a good old-fashioned stand-by like Strawberry (and at Tosci's you can be sure it's done right), but a quick glance at the day's flavor board will typically reveal some more unusual varieties, such as Green Tea, Burnt Caramel, Cocoa Pudding, or even-- and we are not making this up-- Guinness.
Anyway, we stopped in at Tosci's to partake of some excellent frozen dessert, when what do we spy on a center table but five iMacs, one of each flavor, arranged in a happy little rainbow circle. "Gourmet ice cream and iMacs? But that's too much bliss for the average mind to handle!" you exclaim. Perhaps so, faithful viewers, but we speak the truth. Being in a bit of a rush, we were unable to grasp completely why the iMacs were present, but we gathered it had something to do with promoting a new cybercafé run by the same management or something. We're unsure.
But the reason the iMacs are there is almost irrelevant when you hear the really cool part; Tosci's is introducing five new sorbets to match the iMac's flavor palette-- Blueberry, Lime, Tangerine, Strawberry, and Grape. And since these are sorbets, they're even suitable for those of us who share Steve Jobs' aversion to dairy. We sampled the Grape, and while it didn't come close to matching the iMac's hue, the sheer perfection of its red grape flavor (yes, it actually tasted like grapes, and not like "grape," the flavor otherwise known as "purple") is highly reminiscent of the triumph of design and style one experiences when using an iMac. Kudos to Toscanini's for their latest efforts.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 5/10/99 episode: May 10, 1999: Another WWDC keynote has come and gone, leaving a trail of newly-released software in its wake. Meanwhile, Apple plays the name game once again in an attempt to keep us all interested, and a local ice cream proprietor catches iMac fever...
Other scenes from that episode: 1520: Asleep At The Wheel (5/10/99) So we decided to spend the whole day offline to deal with personal issues and get caught up with a dear old friend, because we just assumed not much would be going on-- did we miss anything? That is, other than the introduction of the new lighter, faster PowerBooks; the official release of Mac OS 8.6; the surprise announcement that Dragon Systems plans to release a Mac version of their continuous speech dictation software by the end of the year; the introduction of the 1.0 release of Apple's OpenGL implementation; official confirmation that Sears will start selling iMacs by the end of the month; and the distribution of the Developer Preview 1.0 release of Mac OS X... 1521: An API By Any Other Name (5/10/99) One of the things we always look forward to at WWDC is an influx of new names. For instance, until WWDC last year, the Mac world was still anxiously awaiting Rhapsody Premiere and Rhapsody Unified; after the keynote, suddenly it was Mac OS X we all wanted and craved...
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