Last year I decided that I wanted a personal computer mostly for editing photos. (Mostly I’d been doing my editing and other personal work on my work computer.) I decided to get a small computer with a good graphics card – this would allow me to have a nice, portable machine and if I wanted to hook it up to a bigger monitor I could.
I dreamed at least two dreams last night. The first (or rather, the last – I usually recall dreams in reverse) was a heist movie. It ended with the bad guy looking for where he could plant the big explosive charge. It was in a building where some function was going on. Before that he dropped off me and Libby and Dottie on the street as a diversion. It was hard to tell if we were hostages or if we were under cover or if he was betraying us. I think we were all FBI agents and he turned out “dirty.”
The ThinkPad is close to 10 years old. It has a few advantages over the Alienware. One of them is soft-touch material. I think the material on the inside of the ThinkPad is a nice touch. I like the slightly sparkley finish on the outside – but I think I like the feel of the material on the outside of the Alienware better. However, that might be due to the age of the ThinkPad.
The last few days I’ve come home from work just exhausted, even though I’ve hardly accomplished anything. I’m spending much too much time surfing the web. And yet I’m working on my dream project. What’s the problem? I’ll tell you what the problem is: dealing with other people’s designs and code.
Yesterday was Sunday. It was my second time teaching Sunday school (Job). Libby and I both spoke in Sacrament meeting. My mom came to hear us speak and to help wrangle Dottie.
Well, Hi, Y’all – It’s August, 2010 and earlier today I took delivery of this Alienware m11x laptop computer.
I have never been a big journal keeper. (Is that the same thing as a Journalist?) However, during my Mission I kept a journal at least a little more than I do now. I also wrote many, many letters. I’ve really enjoyed reading them; lots of things that I have totally forgotten. And not just mundane things – well, okay, they’re quite mundane, but they’re also interesting (at least to me).
I love shopping for gadgets. Sometimes I do it just for fun. I used to look at ads in the back of Macworld magazine and pick out components and peripherals for an imaginary computer system. Well – recently I purchased an Alienware m11x “gaming ultraportable” computer. It has an eleven-point-six-inch screen and a gigabyte of what we used to call video RAM.
One night I came upstairs to the kitchen. On the counter was a box that said it contained a toner cartridge – a toner cartridge for a laser printer. We didn’t have a laser printer; we had an Apple Image Writer II which is a dot-matrix printer that takes ribbons. It was very late at night so I didn’t want to wake up my dad just to bug him about a new computer for the millionth time. Reconnaissance was the only option.
My first business foray was trying to sell pagers (you know, “beepers”?). My first job was selling pagers to mall shoppers from a kiosk styled to look like some kind of contemporary covered wagon.
So – the iPad has been announced. It will be available soon. The apps that come with it plus the iWork apps are almost enough to justify the purchase. Two or three years from now there will be thousands of apps available – apps that do just about everything. So my question is, why would anyone still want a full-blown PC?
I don’t know how old I was – but I was no more than six – probably closer to four. My parents came home and told me that they had rented a movie. They had a big, blue, padded case with them. I imagine that I said something like, “Coool!”
ArsTechnica posts confirmation of an Apple event on Wednesday, 27 January, 2010.
In fifth grade students helped serve lunch in the cafeteria. I was excited to get out of class – even if it meant dishing up 600 sloppy joes.