The San Francisco Chronicle had an article today on
the retirement of KCBS political reporter Doug Sovern. I'm an all-news-radio junkie and I happen to enjoy his pieces when I'm in the Bay Area, but that wouldn't merit a mention here except for this photo:
This is a KCBS photo of Sovern filing a report, or something, at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. (No politics in the comment section, please.) Although the camera's white balance was displeasingly set somewhere between lemon and urine sample, or there was an inopportune incandescent bulb in the way, he's quite clearly typing on a late-model 15" PowerBook G4 — besides the dead-on match for the ports and power supply, the MacBooks of the era have a different keyboard and an iSight in the screen bezel which this one doesn't. The screen is difficult to see clearly but looks like Safari viewing Sovern's own site ("Sovern Nation") on KCBS, and the menu bar seems consistent with Tiger. While it would have been only a couple years into the Intel transition at this point, it's nice to see it still being used.
Other points of interest include all the good old analogue equipment (probably for pool audio), an ugly PC laptop with what looks like a Designed for Windows XP sticker being used by somebody with a bandanna, and in the foreground a touch-tone landline phone, which might as well be an alien artifact to anyone younger than a certain age. Enjoy your retirement, Doug.
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