I Love One Pot Meal

Steve Himmer reads our minds as usual and writes wonderfully well.

You package up your ailing iBook and send it away for a new logic board, knowing that thousands of others have done the same thing, suffered the same problem, sent away and re-received. But you can’t shake some egotistical assurance that your archived email, your novel in progress and half-written stories and tentative wedding guest lists are the ones the whole Apple staff will pore over, read through intercom speakers and pin to cafeteria bulletin boards, because paranoia is the boldest conceit of them all.