Sociability

[azurelunatic]

It was fun having V over here. Thalia was pulling double Muse duty, and we listened to random music. V got to see R.E.M. in concert on their most recent (current?) political group tour in Florida. She brought ice cream (Hagen Daas, yum -- chocolate chocolate chip and Rocky Road) and we shared and had a great time.

I really need to socialize more often.

V got a Gmail invitation from me, thus giving her half again as much storage space (yeah, her laptop's only got 2 gigs!) and delighting her no end. Whee!

She's coming by tomorrow to configure her palmtop to sych up to her laptop (and, possibly, to some online stuff as well). I'm a good geek to have as a friend, evidently. I told her what files not to mess with, the best way to uninstall stuff, and gave her a handy shortcut to the Control Panel where she can find it easily.

We'll see if everything stays where put. Her laptop is funky and very oldschool. It doesn't have blinkenlights -- it has an LCD status screen that tells when it's plugged in, when it's talking to the disk, and everything like that. I may actually look to see if I can't find that model sometime tomorrow.

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[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

mmm... Haaagen Daaaaas.

(it was declared many years ago that it must always be said thusly. i am now incapable of saying with without the extra drawn out emphasis. good thing i need never worry about saying it in a professional setting.)

[azurelunatic]

Mmmm. Hee.

Someday, I may have to say that in a professional setting -- on the phones, doing a survey. I already get to have to talk about beer.

I've also been told by my supervisor to "use [my] sexy voice on them", because evidently they are helpless to resist it. *giggle*

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Shiny. *covet* Dad offered to buy Ange a laptop, but she turned it down. Apparently he's willing to buy her either a laptop or a class ring, and she wants the ring. (Personally I think she's nuts, but I'm geekier than she is.)

[azurelunatic]

Keep in mind that this is an old laptop twice as thick as my new one, screen smaller than Tigereye's (and Tigereye's is tiny), 2 gig hard drive, 32 meg RAM, and Pentium (not 2 or 3, just plain-ass pentium) processor.

So, laptop, but bare-bones and oldschool.

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

*points at the empty space where her lack-of-laptop is* Ultra shininess would be nice, but I'd settle for wireless Net access and a word processor. (This is where Linux can really be your friend.) Dad mentioned the laptop because one of his friends called to tell him about a short-term Dell offer: buy a laptop priced at $1500+ and get $750 off. That's a lot of shiny.

[azurelunatic]

AIYEEEEEEEEE AND I MISSED IT THALIA IS A DELL AND LESS THAN 1500 BECAUSE I COULD NOT AFFORD ANYTHING SHINIER DAMMIT

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought of you when I heard it. =( Sadly, I heard about it Monday. If Ange had gone that way, I was going to call and ask your advice, since you've just done the whole Dell shiny evaluation thing.

[azurelunatic]

Their hold times suck. Their hold handling sucks. Their tech support for the end-user (personal) sucks because it was outsourced to India. eng1ne rocks, and their insource tech support is pretty awesome too. Their sales department sucks.

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Am I safe in assuming, however, that their laptops do not suck?

[azurelunatic]

Their laptops do not suck, but beware of the planned obsolescence factor. I think they've gotten more sturdy, but in 2000, bits were falling off Tigereye -- lock for CD/floppy drive bay, mouse button cover...

[amberfox.livejournal.com]

Grr/hmph. On the other hand, I've had that problem with every piece of small electronics I've ever had, be it CD players, games, or phones; they're all made like they're disposable.