Thursday, April 01, 2004
Mydreamcom!
Okay. Re-minisce is now the proud owner of a brand-new Compaq laptop (yes, yes, I can hear you all groaning).
Turns out the competitive price, from my best friend In the Know, whose job it is is to reduce perfectly innocent bricks into tiny pieces of molten slag (ie you really don't disagree with a guy like that) sez that after their merger with HP, HP/Compaq have been gunning for their number one competitor, Dell. ie reducing prices to become more competitive.
I have no love lost for Dell's, having bought one for my previous consultant, and I'm in fact working off a Dell PC since my bro was silly enough to buy one. That and areya uses a Dell desktop.
I have this to say for the Dell desktops - fancy cooling solutions. They have a mini jet-turbine in there just to keep the processor cool.
To make up for that, in terms of cost-effectiveness, they provide you with a graphics card slightly feebler than a geriatric computer engineer. After a stroke. All that cleverly disguised in a sleek black casing with aesthetically pleasing wavy lines on it.
And Dell laptops, well they're shiny enough. They just... crawl. Slow and steady might win the race, but re-minisce isn't really into endurance sports. (hmm. That probably explains the longsword thingies. Fast, furious and fatal. All adrenaline high, minimal sustained effort.)
So Compaq shall be my first love. My one and only laptop. As a bunch of brit gamers I know would put it,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeee!"
******
A few brief comments about the blog-meetup yesterday between Re-minisce, Vaya, Jen-jen and xena :
My feet are still sore...
Predictably, jen-jen is no longer the silent statue of yesterweek; the small-group setting was probably a lot cosier than the large-group meetup last week of larger-than-life individuals.
It was actually quite good fun, although poor vaya was probably left floundering in medicated waters half the time, since as she alleges we "talked shop". I thought we'd stayed quite admirably clear of the shop, and talked around it, sorta like the type of glass it had in the windows, and the quality of the flooring, but oh well.
Jen is now slightly larger in my memory for some reason, I guess my mind works like that. The quieter you are, the more diminutive. Oh yeah and it also works in terms of dogs. Don't ask.
Xena wasn't what I expected either. For some reason I'd expected a diminutive chilli-padi person. I guess it only goes to show that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Unless it's a very empty book of course, like the contestants in mydre.... just kidding.
And for some reason her eyes were slightly reminiscent of someone else's I once knew.
It was vaya's turn to keep silent last night. I guess we coulda done a bit of IT speak but that would probably have been worse. And my feet were worn out enough already :D
This has been a great holiday. I've never done so much - yet felt so free and easy, ever.
******
This morning was spent playing duets with my mom, her on her violin and me fumbling on the piano. I actually had a pretty good run today hitting all the right notes by sheer accident (the way I sight read is a bit like predictive text; often vaguely correct, but sometimes very, very wrong).
It occurred tome that these moments we share - the moments I take for granted, and only spare her because it makes her happy - are unusual. And rare. Few other people can lay claim to making their moms happy by playing the piano with them, whether it be in a piano duet, a piano/violin combination, or (of late) a piano/cello combo.
Someday I'll look back fondly on these memories, and see them for the sweet moments that everyone else does.
Funnily enough, while I live them I feel slightly disgruntled. Slightly grouchy and irritable. Slightly put out that I have to do something rather stressful to me to make my mom happy, but nevermind, at least she's getting happy from it.
Okay. Re-minisce is now the proud owner of a brand-new Compaq laptop (yes, yes, I can hear you all groaning).
Turns out the competitive price, from my best friend In the Know, whose job it is is to reduce perfectly innocent bricks into tiny pieces of molten slag (ie you really don't disagree with a guy like that) sez that after their merger with HP, HP/Compaq have been gunning for their number one competitor, Dell. ie reducing prices to become more competitive.
I have no love lost for Dell's, having bought one for my previous consultant, and I'm in fact working off a Dell PC since my bro was silly enough to buy one. That and areya uses a Dell desktop.
I have this to say for the Dell desktops - fancy cooling solutions. They have a mini jet-turbine in there just to keep the processor cool.
To make up for that, in terms of cost-effectiveness, they provide you with a graphics card slightly feebler than a geriatric computer engineer. After a stroke. All that cleverly disguised in a sleek black casing with aesthetically pleasing wavy lines on it.
And Dell laptops, well they're shiny enough. They just... crawl. Slow and steady might win the race, but re-minisce isn't really into endurance sports. (hmm. That probably explains the longsword thingies. Fast, furious and fatal. All adrenaline high, minimal sustained effort.)
So Compaq shall be my first love. My one and only laptop. As a bunch of brit gamers I know would put it,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeee!"
******
A few brief comments about the blog-meetup yesterday between Re-minisce, Vaya, Jen-jen and xena :
My feet are still sore...
Predictably, jen-jen is no longer the silent statue of yesterweek; the small-group setting was probably a lot cosier than the large-group meetup last week of larger-than-life individuals.
It was actually quite good fun, although poor vaya was probably left floundering in medicated waters half the time, since as she alleges we "talked shop". I thought we'd stayed quite admirably clear of the shop, and talked around it, sorta like the type of glass it had in the windows, and the quality of the flooring, but oh well.
Jen is now slightly larger in my memory for some reason, I guess my mind works like that. The quieter you are, the more diminutive. Oh yeah and it also works in terms of dogs. Don't ask.
Xena wasn't what I expected either. For some reason I'd expected a diminutive chilli-padi person. I guess it only goes to show that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Unless it's a very empty book of course, like the contestants in mydre.... just kidding.
And for some reason her eyes were slightly reminiscent of someone else's I once knew.
It was vaya's turn to keep silent last night. I guess we coulda done a bit of IT speak but that would probably have been worse. And my feet were worn out enough already :D
This has been a great holiday. I've never done so much - yet felt so free and easy, ever.
******
This morning was spent playing duets with my mom, her on her violin and me fumbling on the piano. I actually had a pretty good run today hitting all the right notes by sheer accident (the way I sight read is a bit like predictive text; often vaguely correct, but sometimes very, very wrong).
It occurred tome that these moments we share - the moments I take for granted, and only spare her because it makes her happy - are unusual. And rare. Few other people can lay claim to making their moms happy by playing the piano with them, whether it be in a piano duet, a piano/violin combination, or (of late) a piano/cello combo.
Someday I'll look back fondly on these memories, and see them for the sweet moments that everyone else does.
Funnily enough, while I live them I feel slightly disgruntled. Slightly grouchy and irritable. Slightly put out that I have to do something rather stressful to me to make my mom happy, but nevermind, at least she's getting happy from it.
