Stewart Sinclair, senior English writing major, has published an essay online at The Millions about the naming of Apple's new operating system after a surfer's beach in California. "The very nature of Mavericks — open, wild, unpredictable — is ostensibly in direct opposition with the technological environment Apple cultivates in its operating systems. Techies call it the walled garden; to stick with surf metaphors, we might rather term it Apple’s private beach." Stewart  is from Ventura, California. He is currently working on a thesis on surf culture and environmental thought; dispatches from this project can be found at thedeepwaterbreaks.wordpress.com.