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Maybe I don’t really need a new bowling ball. Last night, after dropping my first two shots in practice and cutting my thumb, I threw a 189-199-203-217 for an 808 series. All while my thumb was still bleeding (covered with skin protector, but coming through so I had to re-apply it every so often). I’m sure you wanted to know that. I’m going to get the new ball anyway, but I definitely felt more like I knew what I was doing, and the shots I missed were my fault, not because the ball didn’t do what I was expecting it to.
Also… it appears the inverter wasn’t the problem with my laptop screen. I got a new inverter, and it still doesn’t work. It’s out of warranty now, so I’m probably going to get a new laptop. In fact, I’ve already ordered one, but I’m reconsidering, so I may cancel that. I don’t know what I want to do anymore, but I know I want to bring a computer home with me when I go back to New York at the end of the month. Hopefully, the one I ordered from Dell will get to me in time, and I won’t have (too many) problems getting Linux going on it.
Stupid computers.
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Get a tablet! I’ve been using Compaq’s TC1000 for nearly a year now and I love it. And it looks like some bloke has gotten debian running on it pretty well. (http://linux-tablet-pc.dhs.org/)
Don’t bother with a tablet, they’re ludicrously expensive for what you get. If you were going to spend that kind of money, I’d say get a Powerbook instead. If you’re in the market for a laptop, call Dell a few times, get salesperson names and ask what kinds of deals they can make – talk to a lot of them, and you might be able to get some good deals from them. My last roommate got three year on-site service on his laptop for free. Not too shabby.
At least you can break 100 in bowling. Heh.
Noooo…. Get a Powerbook! Easiest, sleekest, sexiest Unix laptop in the world. Even iBooks have G4 processors now, you have no excuse!
Seriously, though – get a mac laptop, install fink and/or darwinports, install mplayer/videolan and the gimp, and you’re home free. iTunes, iMovie, iDvd, gcc, python, perl, and bash, apache, openssl, openssh… you name it, it’s got it.
don’t listen to him. you’re dell will do just fine. I had no trouble getting Linux mandrake installed on my dell.