Avoiding work
Jul. 17th, 2001 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishadayThe Giles/QuiGon piece has made it into my WIP disk. Yeah, the one I forgot at home yesterday. Ah well, it's not as if I don't have things to do here.
In between wanting to kick a recalcitrant computer, I did a little educating earlier. I had cracked the case, and was trying to install a new network card (hex screws suck, btw) and the girls at the CT reception desk had never seen the inside of a computer before. 'Wow' I said to myself, but hey - let's go to. So I pointed out memory and mother board and hard drive and video card and here's the modem, it's built in as part of the motherboard... I think I may have been pointing at the network slot, but it was down there, hiding in a badly designed case.
They were kind of surprised at how much of the case was empty space. And yeah, I remember lots of empty space, back to my dad's XT. Laptops don't have that, but you pay for the miniaturization and the squishing that goes on.
And I mentioned my brother in connection with learning computers early on, so they of course asked me if he's doing the same thing as I am. <snort> Not hardly. It's a great conversation piece though: 'Oh, no, he's a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa.' I love talking about him - we're different in many ways, but I'm so proud of him, and it leaks every once in a while.
In between wanting to kick a recalcitrant computer, I did a little educating earlier. I had cracked the case, and was trying to install a new network card (hex screws suck, btw) and the girls at the CT reception desk had never seen the inside of a computer before. 'Wow' I said to myself, but hey - let's go to. So I pointed out memory and mother board and hard drive and video card and here's the modem, it's built in as part of the motherboard... I think I may have been pointing at the network slot, but it was down there, hiding in a badly designed case.
They were kind of surprised at how much of the case was empty space. And yeah, I remember lots of empty space, back to my dad's XT. Laptops don't have that, but you pay for the miniaturization and the squishing that goes on.
And I mentioned my brother in connection with learning computers early on, so they of course asked me if he's doing the same thing as I am. <snort> Not hardly. It's a great conversation piece though: 'Oh, no, he's a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa.' I love talking about him - we're different in many ways, but I'm so proud of him, and it leaks every once in a while.
