Notes from the day
2008-06-04 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearOdd mood today: not exactly depressed, but not happy either. Kind of flat. As I said, odd.
Dragged my nice new data-transfer drive in to work; it took several hours to upload the big audio and video files. Would have taken a couple of weeks from home; work's connection is about 70 times faster. It even took most of an hour to copy them directly to the offsite backup drive. What this says about the potential bandwidth of my Honda Civic is disturbing.
Plane tickets for the Portland/Seattle trip are issued. I'll be in Portland for OSCon from the early afternoon of Tuesday, July 22 through noonish on Friday the 25th. Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday and Thursday evenings are mostly free. Colleen and I will both be getting in to SeaTac 2:30ish on Friday, staying in the Big Green Monster, and leaving 7:50pm on Sunday.
Had a good, brisk, hour-long walk, taking the extra hill both ways at full speed. Kind of fun to pass and easily outdistance a pair of young women half my age in running shoes. They caught up with me while I was stretching at the top of the hill, and we talked for a few minutes.
Spent almost the entire walk being attacked by a new song, loosely based on parts of my previous post. Still rather fragmentary. The one I was working on before and during Baycon may have to stand in line. The Cat says I've been listening to Amy. She may be right.
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Date: 2008-06-05 07:19 pm (UTC)Acer and Dell come to mind as having recently announced.
I also recommend looking at the Lenovo Thinkpad X61 series -- they're a little larger (full-sized keyboard) and beefy enough to serve as a real desktop replacement running either Linux or Windows. The Eee and related subnotes are good secondary machines, but they can't replace a real desktop.
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Date: 2008-06-05 11:13 pm (UTC)