(Old stuff: December 12-13) George.
Feb. 26th, 2011 11:17 pmSunday, December 12
Mathsie dropped off the radar, but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
khasael has been keeping in regular touch via phone. Drop comments at her (in journal or on twitter, @khasael) to relay, until such time as Mathsie is back in range of the internet.
My aunt canceled plans to hang out on account of emergency knitting. I therefore headed out to get some damn shoes, since my previous walking shoes had started to make my feet really amazingly hurt. I looked at the high heels and thought I found a nice pair. I tried them from store to car. I realized that there was a problem, and complained about it. I hate shoes.
I became aware of Google's Cr-48 laptop, which lacks a caps lock key, in favor of a search key. (However, there's a way to make it turn into a caps lock key.) I seethed in deep envy of everyone who got a Cr-48, as most of them seemed to be prominent tech bloggers, though some of them not that much more awesome than me.
http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-cr48.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-os-laptop-cr-48-netbook,11786.html
December 13
I was having a bit of a bad day. I was supposed to go hang out with my aunt, but there was an HTML5 talk with the Silicon Valley Google Technology Users Group, and I figured I might as well go to that, since it was networky and I could maybe learn a little about HTML5, since Fu had been talking about it in channel.
So I collected myself and went, chatting with people around me. I'd been learning at the various meetups that actually some of my soft skills that are connected to tech -- like the ability to do Dreamwidth code tours, or the time I went through nearly a year of mailing list posts to distill a list of Dreamwidth Support & Development Principles from![[staff profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user_staff.png)
denise's commentary there. So I'd been working on my "elevator pitch" of myself as an awesome minion. So that was fun.
There was a fairly short HTML5 presentation. I was mildly disappointed, as HTML5 had been billed as the top attraction for the meeting. There was IndexedDB spec stuff, and I contemplated possible uses for it.
Then the guy with the ChromeOS notebook, the Cr-48, came out, and began telling us about it. I got chatty on Twitter. As I relayed to IRC later:
( IRC hears me explain. )
I called my friends on the way home. I wound up talking with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
amberfox. I was debating what to call it, and then I said "And I'm going to love it, and squeeze it, and -- Oh. I think it just named itself." I then determined that yes, this was actually going to be George as in Georgia. As in Mason. As in, the laptop had better not wind up like her namesake, or I'll be cranky.
Mathsie dropped off the radar, but
khasael has been keeping in regular touch via phone. Drop comments at her (in journal or on twitter, @khasael) to relay, until such time as Mathsie is back in range of the internet. My aunt canceled plans to hang out on account of emergency knitting. I therefore headed out to get some damn shoes, since my previous walking shoes had started to make my feet really amazingly hurt. I looked at the high heels and thought I found a nice pair. I tried them from store to car. I realized that there was a problem, and complained about it. I hate shoes.
I became aware of Google's Cr-48 laptop, which lacks a caps lock key, in favor of a search key. (However, there's a way to make it turn into a caps lock key.) I seethed in deep envy of everyone who got a Cr-48, as most of them seemed to be prominent tech bloggers, though some of them not that much more awesome than me.
http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-cr48.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-os-laptop-cr-48-netbook,11786.html
December 13
I was having a bit of a bad day. I was supposed to go hang out with my aunt, but there was an HTML5 talk with the Silicon Valley Google Technology Users Group, and I figured I might as well go to that, since it was networky and I could maybe learn a little about HTML5, since Fu had been talking about it in channel.
So I collected myself and went, chatting with people around me. I'd been learning at the various meetups that actually some of my soft skills that are connected to tech -- like the ability to do Dreamwidth code tours, or the time I went through nearly a year of mailing list posts to distill a list of Dreamwidth Support & Development Principles from
denise's commentary there. So I'd been working on my "elevator pitch" of myself as an awesome minion. So that was fun. There was a fairly short HTML5 presentation. I was mildly disappointed, as HTML5 had been billed as the top attraction for the meeting. There was IndexedDB spec stuff, and I contemplated possible uses for it.
Then the guy with the ChromeOS notebook, the Cr-48, came out, and began telling us about it. I got chatty on Twitter. As I relayed to IRC later:
( IRC hears me explain. )
I called my friends on the way home. I wound up talking with
amberfox. I was debating what to call it, and then I said "And I'm going to love it, and squeeze it, and -- Oh. I think it just named itself." I then determined that yes, this was actually going to be George as in Georgia. As in Mason. As in, the laptop had better not wind up like her namesake, or I'll be cranky.
