random tangentially academic things

[dchenes]

There are three people, including me, in my group for this week's L10N project. One of them is a very obviously gay man. When he found out I had been doing almost exactly what we need to do for this project for the past two weeks, he said "Marry me?" I said that probably neither of us would enjoy it very much. It amused me anyway, though.

The Northeast Ohio Translators Association is holding a two-day Trados workshop in the grad lab over vacation. Last time they did that, they screwed up all of our computers. The lab re-images itself at 5 AM every day these days (which is a bit of a pain, but it does at least keep everything running). I hope the powers that be in the lab don't relax that rule for NOTA and let them screw everything up again (although it was sort of nice to be able to put up your own desktop pictures and have them stay there.)

Anybody want to buy a 4 (I think)-year-old iBook which is going to need its screen replaced sometime in the next couple of years, once I get my new computer? (Hopefully that'll be sometime early Februaryish.) Right now the iBook has a 1-pixel-wide bright blue line running up the left side of the screen, but there's nothing else wrong with it.

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[whuffle.livejournal.com]

So whatcha gettin for a new machine?

And BTW, are you coming easty for holidays at some point? I would love to see you! (See, you are missed!)

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

BTW, you might want to talk to Miss_Chance about the old machine. (I think that's how she writes it, her LJ name is Miss Chance and it is in my Friends list somewhere) She's looking for a wireless capable workhorse computer to use for email and net access. Nothing screamingly fast or showy. Just an inexpensive little machine to do the every day stuff. And Palmwiz (Whom you would know thru Arisia) is her husband and he could do the screen replacement if she does need it done in a few years because he's a hardware geek.

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

I'm getting the same PowerBook you and H have, I think. (It's definitely a 15" PowerBook, but I forget the exact specs).

The current plan, for which I haven't bought plane tickets yet, is to come to Boston on the 17th, go to CT from there, come back to Boston for New Year's and leave for Kent again on January 6th. I have to remember to do something about the plane tickets this week too.