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So, I was writing a long whingeing comment that basically boiled down to I got a new machine and cant even be properly appreciative because it's diffeent from my old machine inall these ways (the ways it's better blur into the background), and work is draining and my body is, if not sick, at least veering toward rabbit of negative euphoria land. And then Firefox crashed and the post was lost.

Which may be the universe's way of tapping its nose disapprovingly at me. Or something. I don't know. My head's a bit too achey for deep thought right now.

But: new computer procured, and a letter by just_ann_now to round it out. As well as a second tax-refund check, the smaller of the two but still. Soit's a god day objectively if not subjectively.

Btw, this latest PhD comic is too good not to share.



P.S. - My new mousepad has an autozoom thing that I would love to disable. You know, hovering fingers above the pad or dragging it a certain way = computer changes its zoom level. Any idea how to turn that feature off?   

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I'm not entirely sure in what sense bringing up Leonard Nimoy counts as being more lighthearted, but the sad news reminded me of one of my favorite bits of Trek culture, "Spcok vs Q." Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie debate whether humanity is worth saving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdowgUOaV2s&list=PL7CA617586FAE1F61

Not great audio quality, but still quite fun. 

a quick offer for New Yorkers

I don't suppose there's anyone out there who lives in the five boroughs and would have use for a defunct computer? My old machine is inoperable but reasonably new, maybe three years old. It's a 15" HP machine with at least 4 GB (I think 6 GB but can't be sure RAM) and a HD of at least 500 MB, probaby 750 MB. There's some reason it stoped working and as it was outof warranty, it made more sense to buy a new one than find out why.

But I have to imagine it's new enough that even the hardware might be useful to someone. I kind of hate to just chuck it, so if you like playing around with hardware or know someone that does, feel free to drop me a line. It's yours if you'd like to come pick it up.