Thoughts on the new laptop

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

I’ve had my new Lenovo Thinkpad X300 for about 5 days, so I thought I’d plunk down some impressions. This is mostly for the benefit of my future self, so I can look back at a contemporaneous view of the experience. I will take no offense if regular readers wish to skip this one and [...]

The hidden delights of anachronisms

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

My office is holding its annual Christmas open house next week, which is essentially a big party where we ply our clients with booze and food and prizes until they can’t help but send contracts our way (or so we hope). In preparation, we did a little bit of spring cleaning, and judging by some [...]

First post on the new laptop

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Don’t expect the quality of posting to improve, though. Unrelated video:

The new laptop hath arrived

Monday, November 24th, 2008

It’s in the office, where I conveniently am not. Grumble. Still, I should have it by this evening. No doubt I will be posting shortly with both praise and criticism. In song form. UPDATE: Might not get it until Tuesday or even Wednesday. Son of a!

George Takei is a meanie

Monday, November 24th, 2008

According to William Shatner: It’s kind of dull, but starting around the 2:30 mark Shatner accuses Takei of being psychotic. Niiiiice.