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*chuckles* I got irritated about something someone did. Who and what - eh. Still irritated, but not going to rant about it. But in the middle of ranting about it, I came up with the following remark, which amuses me: "He was so far out of line he was in non-Euclidean space."
January 12th, 2002
Finally got around to putting the memory in the "new" laptop, since now I can install all but one of the needed programs for work on it. Only I couldn't install the memory: no screwdrivers small enough. Considering how not-static-free this apartment is (and my hair doesn't exactly help me be a static-free zone either), I took that as a sign, and called the local computer store, which I have already grown quite fond of.
Theory: they'll have the right screwdriver, and an environment kept as clean and static free as possible, since they do hardware work. They'll probably charge me a hopefully-token fee for opening it up and swapping the memory in and out, especially given it's not only not one of their laptops but a line they don't even work with.
Practice: Everything but the token fee; it was free. I didn't expect them to be that nice, even though it only took the guy a few seconds, but it was very cool they were. Of course, it's also plain good business sense - every time they do something like that for me I like them a bit more, after all!
I went on out to the Japanese Gardens and had a nice peaceful walk, disrupted at the end by the Unruly Children. The UC's and their Inattentive Parents spoke Spanish, and the UCs were speaking it at great, shouting volumes whilst they ran around. I was about to leave anyway, so I did. (The parents put a stop to the running once they noticed it - or I would not have left, I'd have intervened. Running is not good for the gardens, and it's also just plain DANGEROUS, especially considering it was raining today. I was trying to marshal my Spanish into the right sentences when their parents got them back under control. But they made no effort to stop the shouting.)
That was after I'd been there a half hour, though. A peaceful half hour is good. I want to install the USB drivers for my camera on the laptop. Small problem: they don't have a WinXP driver yet. Argh. The 2000 driver can't handle my 64-meg card. And I can't find my bloody floppy to install the serial drivers. I'm downloading the updated 98 USB drivers in the hopes they might work. If not, oh well, I can just keep uploading to the desktop, but it does curtail some of my hopes for how to use the laptop, at least till the XP drivers make an appearance.
I am such a geek. And I have such fun at it.
Theory: they'll have the right screwdriver, and an environment kept as clean and static free as possible, since they do hardware work. They'll probably charge me a hopefully-token fee for opening it up and swapping the memory in and out, especially given it's not only not one of their laptops but a line they don't even work with.
Practice: Everything but the token fee; it was free. I didn't expect them to be that nice, even though it only took the guy a few seconds, but it was very cool they were. Of course, it's also plain good business sense - every time they do something like that for me I like them a bit more, after all!
I went on out to the Japanese Gardens and had a nice peaceful walk, disrupted at the end by the Unruly Children. The UC's and their Inattentive Parents spoke Spanish, and the UCs were speaking it at great, shouting volumes whilst they ran around. I was about to leave anyway, so I did. (The parents put a stop to the running once they noticed it - or I would not have left, I'd have intervened. Running is not good for the gardens, and it's also just plain DANGEROUS, especially considering it was raining today. I was trying to marshal my Spanish into the right sentences when their parents got them back under control. But they made no effort to stop the shouting.)
That was after I'd been there a half hour, though. A peaceful half hour is good. I want to install the USB drivers for my camera on the laptop. Small problem: they don't have a WinXP driver yet. Argh. The 2000 driver can't handle my 64-meg card. And I can't find my bloody floppy to install the serial drivers. I'm downloading the updated 98 USB drivers in the hopes they might work. If not, oh well, I can just keep uploading to the desktop, but it does curtail some of my hopes for how to use the laptop, at least till the XP drivers make an appearance.
I am such a geek. And I have such fun at it.
Y'know, I'm not a big cook, and the kitchen doesn't matter to me. But mine would be more useful, and have more storage space (usable) if you ripped out one section of counter, and moved the sink-and-cabinet from it to one of the adjacent sections.
Sounds wrong? Yeah, but, but...what good is a 2-3 foot deep cabinet with a six-inch door that can't open all the way? If that one section of counter were taken out, one would become the sink (losing all of its - currently barely-accessible anyway - storage space - which we don't use because it's not useful!), and the other could have full doors put on it and be useful.
And you'd be able to stand directly under the kitchen window, and the pipes to the sink wouldn't have to run as far. You'd have less counter surface, though. That would be the one bad thing. But the cabinet space is at a premium in there.
It's an apartment anyway, so...not like I can do anything. But it just amuses me. Why did they lay it out this way? Ugh. Just...not well-done, at all.
Sounds wrong? Yeah, but, but...what good is a 2-3 foot deep cabinet with a six-inch door that can't open all the way? If that one section of counter were taken out, one would become the sink (losing all of its - currently barely-accessible anyway - storage space - which we don't use because it's not useful!), and the other could have full doors put on it and be useful.
And you'd be able to stand directly under the kitchen window, and the pipes to the sink wouldn't have to run as far. You'd have less counter surface, though. That would be the one bad thing. But the cabinet space is at a premium in there.
It's an apartment anyway, so...not like I can do anything. But it just amuses me. Why did they lay it out this way? Ugh. Just...not well-done, at all.