The Lion and the Lamb (PC and Mac)

. Just installed a program called VMware Fusion. It makes possible running two operating systems at once and seamlessly: Mac OS 10.4 and Windows XP.  Even though there were instructions, and the reviews had said it was the easiest to install of the emulation software packages, I found myself on unfamiliar ground: new concepts, new terminology.  All complicated by things like: when I put in the Windows installation disk which operating system sees it and runs it?
.  After a couple of calls, many experiments and failures suddenly the familiar blue screen appeared and I was OK after that. 

.   My chief motivation was to be able to use ArcView GIS software at home. There is no Mac version, and after a lifetime of Apple's computers I refuse to buy a PC.  Ever since Apple switched to an Intel chip, the world changed. PCs no longer have the monopoly on "Intel Inside."  The picture on the upper right depicts two windows, showing simultaneous operation, both on the same screen.
. I actually heard somebody say that Windows XP runs better on a Mac than on a PC! At work I have done many installations of ArcView. I'd swear that the installation went twice as fast as all those PC installations, so that could be true.
. Side note... I had always thought that the lion's and lamb's refraining from traditional activity was a quote from the Old Testament. Evidently that is a "rural legend" -- urban would not apply here, ergo "rural" ( : ) The passage that likely inspired it was Isaiah 65:25:

 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. 

.  So much for one of our treasured cute stories.  But I still believe in the Easter Bunny.