so earlier this week, it was sunny, with temperatures in the 60s F. i was driving around with my sunroof open.
now they are forecasting 1-3 inches of snow tonight.
i know, i know, it's still winter. that doesn't make me any happier about it. what the hell is going on, getting a taste of spring in the middle of february?
damn you, weather!
i suppose on the plus side, we've been cleaning out our house in order to get it ready to sell. i found all my warm, thick winter sweaters yesterday.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
i have been remiss.
so, it's already wednesday. and apparently, i forgot to tell people that i got a new laptop last saturday. whoops.
my sister lost her job in the fall, but just started a new one at the beginning of the year. her new job gave her a mac. and the only computer she has at home is an ancient dell that dad bought her when she was in college (i don't know why i got laptops and she got a clunky desktop. i assume it's what she asked for). so we agreed that she would buy my old macbook and we would set it up for her and teach her how to use it.
so i now have a brand new, shiny macbook pro. the smallest, cheapest one, admittedly, made cheaper by apple's edumacation pricing. there are some weirdnesses to it, like why did apple change the functions of the F-keys? and the tap-to-click functionality of the giant mouse pad/button comes turned off by default, another wtf? and oh, there's a difference between mini-dvi and mini-display-port? well, shit. that's two more adapters i had to buy and i couldn't use my nice 19" lcd monitor until yesterday.
but in general, it's a nice upgrade over a macbook. the backlit keyboard alone is almost enough to justify the price. and the 4gb of ram ought to make running windows on it a lot easier, so maybe i'll finally get rid of my giant gaming box that i keep for playing the odd windows game and writing papers in wordperfect (i hate word. hate, hate, hate).
if a cheap white macbook lasted me 3 1/2 years with only a ram upgrade, i'm hoping this one will last me at least as long. so, through the end of this degree (2 1/2 years left, including the semester that starts saturday), and then some. i guess my next computer will be bought just before i start my ph.d.?
my sister lost her job in the fall, but just started a new one at the beginning of the year. her new job gave her a mac. and the only computer she has at home is an ancient dell that dad bought her when she was in college (i don't know why i got laptops and she got a clunky desktop. i assume it's what she asked for). so we agreed that she would buy my old macbook and we would set it up for her and teach her how to use it.
so i now have a brand new, shiny macbook pro. the smallest, cheapest one, admittedly, made cheaper by apple's edumacation pricing. there are some weirdnesses to it, like why did apple change the functions of the F-keys? and the tap-to-click functionality of the giant mouse pad/button comes turned off by default, another wtf? and oh, there's a difference between mini-dvi and mini-display-port? well, shit. that's two more adapters i had to buy and i couldn't use my nice 19" lcd monitor until yesterday.
but in general, it's a nice upgrade over a macbook. the backlit keyboard alone is almost enough to justify the price. and the 4gb of ram ought to make running windows on it a lot easier, so maybe i'll finally get rid of my giant gaming box that i keep for playing the odd windows game and writing papers in wordperfect (i hate word. hate, hate, hate).
if a cheap white macbook lasted me 3 1/2 years with only a ram upgrade, i'm hoping this one will last me at least as long. so, through the end of this degree (2 1/2 years left, including the semester that starts saturday), and then some. i guess my next computer will be bought just before i start my ph.d.?
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