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New Computer is going to eat my brain for a while
Installed Chromium, R/RStudio, and Zotero. Somehow, syncing Zotero made me feel like I got an important part of my brain back.
I'm not sure about spreadsheet software yet. I did install Wine, for starters (and gave them a donation; not sure I want to go the CrossOver route). I'll give LibreOffice a whirl for a little while, here.
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New Computer, Who Dis?
Okay, two things that Fruit Company did well:
-Magsafe power adapter. although I preferred the version that sent the power cord parallel to the machine instead of perpendicular.
-Silence. This machine has something running intermittently, at variable speeds, and it is distractingly loud. I don't know what I'm going to do about it, but I am going to ( Read more... ) -
Meal Prep Sunday [food, housekeepery]
No breakfast of the week yet. Maybe scones tomorrow morning. This morning I ate a bagel that I found stashed in the freezer instead. There are still two more where that one came from. Lots of interesting things lurking in the freezer.
Last weekend I bought three beautiful pears from the co-op, so today I made a chocolate pear upside-down cake, ( Read more... ) -
Ghosts; bikes
A post by a friend on the tweet-machine reminded me that this mornin I woke up thinking about ghosts.
Can one person or animal turn into multiple ghosts, at multiple locations? Or are we all limited to just one ghost option? If so, I am not sure where I would want to haunt at this stage. Are we confined to haunting a place associated with where we ( Read more... ) -
Great.
Today appears to be a day for playing the “allergies or virus?” game. I woke up with swollen lymph nodes and a slightly scratchy throat, so I skipped rowing. The weather thawed out a bit over the last 2 days, which could lead to allergy symptoms. I took an allergy pill and zinc tab* and at this point I think I just have to wait a bit and see ( Read more... ) -
From the Annals of Bike Maintenance [bicycling]
Picked up Frodo. In addition to the rear wheel replacement, they also had to replace the front brakes because after they cleaned the old ones, one of the return springs snapped from corrosion.
So I guess that's an answer to what the salt kills quickly. Springs. Not a huge surprise, given that springs are metal under tension. I've already had to ( Read more... ) -
OK Computer [computers]
I'm at home for the morning because I got word that Frodo is ready to be picked up, but the bike shop doesn't open until noon. Typing this on S's Mac Mini, which is running OS 10.6. I don't remember what OS my previous generation MacBook has, and its battery is currently dead with the charger at work, but of course now I'm curious.
It's amazing ( Read more... ) -
Well, I guess I did [computers]
Bought a new Linux laptop machine, which is probably going to take about a week to arrive. Neither cheap nor exorbitantly expensive; hopefully I can get a solid decade out of it. Yeah, right. Two years ago I sent the dead Fruit computer to a computer repair shop in NYC, which fixed some bad soldering on the logic board for ~$350; I'm tempted to ( Read more... ) -
Well, poop. [computers]
It looks like as of this morning, my 10-year-old MacBook may have just gone to sleep, never to wake up again.
(I mean, I'll keep trying, but so far I can't get to the boot screen, yikes).
It's probably time to just suck it up and shop for a new computer. Before the new semester starts. It could just be that this one is physically wearing out again ( Read more... )
