In honor of the new Clone Wars cartoon (which I think my son has already watched about 8 times, thanks Tivo), Entertainment Weekly has a listing of the 25 Best (and worst) Star Wars moments.  They’ve got the worst down for sure, but I think my list of the best would be in a different order.  Vader revealing he’s Luke’s father has to be higher up the list.

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The biggest surprise for me was my 6 year old daughter wanted to come along.

Sidenote: I setup my old iMac (the original LCD one, it’s one of my favorite computers of all time) for her earlier this year, and she loves playing on. And the best part is that it’s easy for her, but that’s a discussion for another time.

Back to our story…So we piled into the mini-van and headed off to the mall. I’ve never been to an OS release event so I didn’t really know what to expect. When we got there we got into the line, I was a little surprised that at 6:30 there was still a line. It was great having my six year old excited about a new OS and asking what would be different. It’s just fun to know I’m raising a little computer geek. I don’t think there are too many features that will really impact what she does, but it was fun explaining time machine and spaces to her anyway. When we made it into the store we got our t-shirts (they even gave one to my little one, which was awfully nice of them, then we were herded into line to make our purchase. That was it. Sure there was cheering when we came in, but other than that it was business as usually at the Apple store. (Complete with the windows mobile handheld POS system locking up and not being able to email my receipt.) So we spent some time playing games on the iMac setup for the kids in the center of the store and we were off to home.

I don’t know what I expected, but it was really nothing special. Even if the event was anti-climatic I did come home with a few great things:

• a free t-shirt – who wouldn’t want that?
• a great new OS packed with new features to enhance my computing experience
• a father who has decided his next computer is going to be a Mac, another convert — that’s never a bad thing
• a daughter who is more excited about her computer — and that just warms my heart.

So all in all it was a successful night, now on to installing. I will let you know what I think after a few days of playing.

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