An oddity, or why modern society confuses me.

[delirieuse]

Went to dinner with my immediate family last night for my mum's birthday, and I got given some DKNY perfumes. This is not (just?) because I'm awesome, but rather because it's always been a tradition in our family that anyone going overseas is required to bring back tribute in return for not being thrown out of the cave for abandonment. Since I

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[chn_breathmint]

I don't watch television either... and the only branded fashion thing I have right now is a bottle of Comme des Garcons Original... and a Kenneth Cole coat from a warehouse store that I've patched up extensively over the past 4 years.

I can't communicate with some of my peers any more - they think my lack of engagement in pop culture is freaky and weird.

(I do own a Mac, but then I am a fine arts major.)

- Mel

[delirieuse]

I am lucky that I have found a bunch of people who are, well, My People. There are lots of geeks around, and then I found the morris...

I don't have a Mac, and I possibly never will. They're kind of cool, but I'm used to Windows, I'm afraid, and all the tweaking that I know how to do. My little EeePC is on a basic Linux build, though. :D

It probably doesn't help that every Mac I've ever used at work (in two different publishing houses) has been SO SLOW. They've been old Macs (c. 5 y/o) that I've then needed to run Photoshop and/or InDesign on. Burning one book file to CD took 2-3 hours in the case of the first workplace.

[chn_breathmint]

What works for you is what works best, I believe.

I'm not sure I've found my people yet, but the closest I've come to are the folks who hang around the sculpture studios in the art building if only because they get my horrible jokes about disposing of bodies in the gas kilns we have in the ceramics studio.

- Mel

[dorukai]

Also: iView!

[delirieuse]

iView is pretty cool. Never got the habit when I was in Yarraville and there was never a working internet connection for two days together, though. But it still has the related problem I have with general TV, which is that I have to remember to watch something within a week or two. I'm not always particularly good at that.

[dorukai]

Some things don't expire!
The most critical being Q&A (though you can't access the old eps through iView, they're here).
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/past-programs-by-date.htm

[delirieuse]

YAY. I love Q&A, and have mostly watched eps (and excerpts from) through YouTube.