The Editor's Notebook
A Stranger With a Sobering Story
I met Mark at Alterra Monday morning and while the conversation started about MacBook computers, it blossomed into a heartfelt view into a stranger's love for his late wife, Elizabeth.
Furiously typing like a mad-woman at Alterra, earbuds squelching the sound of the coffee grinder, I feel like someone's watching me. From the corner of my eye I realize there's a man standing to my left, looking at me. Popping out the ear bud, I take a good look at this touristy-looking man. His get-up is complete with a fanny pack, baseball cap and a very Charlie Sheen-style shirt beneath is winter coat. He begins talking to me about my MacBook that I'm typing on for work and tells me to hit Command F5. This struck me as odd, but I obliged. What I didn't know was the depth of the story behind his affinity for Macintosh and this particular key sequence. Mark told me his wife, Elizabeth, used to use this command regularly which allows a …
Sarah Worthman
5:37 pm on Monday, November 12, 2012
Thanks, Mark ... It's one of those things, kind of like the bell ringers around the holidays - some of the neatest personal stories that you come across aren't the ones you work your tail off to track down, but the stories that find you :) more ›