16 September 2001

Miserable dream about Apple attempting to design greater religious tolerance and understanding into the motherboards of our computers. It was really important that we suceed, you see-- if we failed, there would be more jihads and genocides and religious strife, and more people would die.

Every time my alarm clock beeped and I snoozed it, we got another prototype board design, and we found bugs in the design, and every bug symbolically represented some incident of religious violence in history, from the very small to the very big. And I got more and more distressed because we had to make final tape-out soon and it was becoming more and more apparent to me that there was just no way for all these belief systems and modes of thought to happily co-exist on a single piece of board real-estate...