Bouncing around Wired.com I saw the headline “Iconic Designer Susan Kare Explains How ⌘ Came to Be.” I’d never heard of Kare before. (Shame on me.) But curiosity nudged me to read the story.

The writer, Robbie Gonzalez, Design Editor @Wired, pointed out that Kare had designed the Trash Can, the Happy Mac “and most of the other icons on the original Apple Macintosh.”

Wow.

The article was nice. Informational. But the gem on the page wasn’t what Gonzalez wrote. It was a video featuring Kare. I don’t want to oversell her presentation (there are no car chases, exploding buildings, etc.) but it oozes geek-charm — like a highlight reel of “Big Bang.” Nerd-vana.

Kare is wonderfully genuine and (effortlessly) offers insight into her early work at Apple. After speaking for about a half-hour or so, there’s a question and answer session between Kare and John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame. (The Q&A is OK but not nearly as charming as Kare by herself.)

Learned some things. You might, too—especially if you like design tech-talk at the granular, pixelated level.

Here’s the link. Grab some java. Sit back. Enjoy …

Jim Lamb is a retired journalist and author of “Orange Socks & Other Colorful Tales,” the story of how he survived Vietnam and kept his sense of humor. He likes symbols, cyphers, signs and cryptograms. For more about Jim and his writing, visitwww.jslstories.com.