gadgetry and shelves and stuff

[dchenes]

Gadget envy has triumphed over Luddite tendencies. I replaced my old cell phone with a Katana, which takes pictures and plays Tetris and sends text messages (except I still hate text messages) and does practically everything else except the laundry.

Speaking of gadget envy, I want to set up my apartment after I move so that the cable modem stays in the living room and the computer stays in the office. I think I need an AirPort. When I went buying tools the other night, I did stick my head in the Apple store, but I forgot about the networking idea. I was too busy drooling at MacBooks. Maybe in a couple of years or so...if it had been less busy in there, I would have uttered a dirty word and asked if any of the demo machines were set up to run Windows. I want to see how that works before I go off and start hoarding change to buy a MacBook with.

I came in this morning and found that the Shelf Fairies had finally visited my office early this morning, so now I have shelves on the wall and I can stop keeping everything on my desk or on the floor. I would almost rather the Shelf Fairies had visited my boss first, so she could take her 8 boxes of stuff out of my office. I don't need the collating space yet, but I will, and the boxes are sitting on it.

I don't recall asking for rain this morning, but it makes the green and growing things happy, so I'll cope.

Comments

[whuffle.livejournal.com]

You don't have to get an airport, you can use any wireless router if the other brands are cheaper (which they usually are).

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

Feel free to take a look at my Mac. I have Parallels set up so I can show you how it works, and I have a dual boot configured with Widows XP and bootcamp.

On a side note, are you still interested in swapping that laserjet printer for my old PC?

[dchenes.livejournal.com]

Yes! If I don't have to move it to Brighton, even better. Can I send it home with Liz on Thursday?

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

If she'll have her car then yes, feel free to do so.

It'll probably be more convenient for you if I hand over the computer itself after you move to Brighton. I still need to replace the CPU fan (Have the new fan, just haven't installed it yet) and reinstall the OS.