As you might have noticed, gentle readers, I have not posted in a while. I spent a luxurious weekend in my favorite travel destination, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I celebrated my birthday by helping yet another friend move. It’s not that I have a lot of friends in Wisconsin, it’s that they move around frequently.<\/p>\n
It wasn’t all hard work; I got to spend a couple nights at the beautiful Hyatt Regency, enjoying the skyline from the 17th floor because I specifically requested a low<\/i> floor. I felt somewhat cosmopolitan in my hotel room, with my laptop, writing blog entries and whatnot. The Hyatt offers wireless Internet access in all of its rooms now, a plastic placard let me know. Swell. So how come you’re getting this dump now, instead of as it happened on Friday and Saturday?<\/p>\n
Because my laptop is an IBM ThinkPad. You know how new ThinkPads have numbers after them? My laptop does not; it’s an original ThinkPad. Its carbon-dating establishes its origin circa 1993. It runs Windows 3.11, but it has almost 20 Mb free on the hard drive of the original 40.<\/p>\n
I fail as a TruGeek(tm) because I don’t need the latest in equipment. After I reset the date and time (or not) to workaround a dead CMOS, I can type text into my laptop’s Wordpad using a microscopic keyboard. That’s why I bring the laptop around, in case I get inspired to start on yet another unfinished but promising novel concept. It’s a typewriter in which I can cut and paste, and from which I can import the result into a real word processor on my main PC through the world’s last 3.5″ floppy disk. Plus, it can play one or two really slick games I downloaded from BBSes while I was in college.<\/p>\n
I don’t need a tablet PC or a new AMD 2000+ laptop with 20″ screen. I paid an extra $40 in 1997 for a used notebook with a color monitor, for crying out loud. I don’t have a Personal Data Assistant, and I don’t even use the free magazine giveaway electronic addressbook to organize the dozen phone numbers of my friends or the two dozen names on my Christmas card list. iPods? I can whistle off-key for free<\/i>, you damn kids!<\/p>\n
So, did you miss me? Is that why you’re reloading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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