Susan and I stopped by ZaReason today. Turns out they are just down the street from us. I am looking forward to dumping my laptop, I have been for some time. I’d heard of ZaReason through BerkeleyLUG, so I called them up to see if I could come by and play with some of their laptops.
The folks who work there are really interesting, and we hung out for close to half an hour, I think. They are definitely folks that I want to be in the computer business. As for the laptops themselves, I totally dig the Hoverboard. It was slick looking, a very nice display, full size keyboard (sans keypad) and was really, really light. As in 3.1 pounds. I want it!
There was a couple of caveats, though. The current model, which comes with a Celeron processor, is sold out. The new one will have something else, so that is cool. I will wait to see what it is, so that may be taken care of. The other thing is that the touchpad isn’t multitouch. This sounds just as silly to me as it does to you, but that really is a deal breaker for me. I am just really accustomed to using it as an interface, and the thought of having to do anything besides swiping two fingers to scroll makes me cringe. However, I am going to do a little research, because I bet I could either find one to install myself, or get it to them to install as a custom job. Even if the laptop weren’t already really cheap, I think it would be worth it.
I never thought I would be able to “buy local” when it comes to laptops, but being this close to down-to-earth cool people, I don’t think I could do otherwise. ^_^
My laptop overheats within a minute of booting into Ubuntu. My internet connection goes out every 15 minutes, and has been for a few days. Rackspace, the new company for all of my personal and professional hosting, is having major issues with their panel, so I can’t add DNS info or resize servers to what I need.
It is a tough to be me right now.
But I am alright. ^_^
I am exhausted, which is why it should come as no surprise that I just wrote down the outline for the first 80 years of history for a fictional empire (sleep deprivation is my drug of choice). I guess a few episodes of Batman: Animated Series and a healthy dose of Wikipedia create the perfect state of mind to leak out all kinds of fictional details.
Even though it is three months in, I am going to spend this year building out the background details for Nexia, my fictional fantasy world. If tonight was any indication, I can have a substantial, encyclopedic timeline created, and then I can just drop my existing characters and stories in where I think they belong.
This really works out for me, since I end up obsessing over the details when I am writing. I am learning this, now that I am DMing a D&D game. It is all I can do to not go ballistic on that world, but I really don’t care about Wizards‘ scenarios. I want to make my own, from scratch.
As I flesh out particular years, I will post them here. My method is insanely cool, but I am going to keep it internal for now. I will say this, when I start writing I have no idea where or when the thing I am writing will be. But it fits perfectly, and what I need right now is something that is both creative and enjoyable (currently my work and hobbies engage me in one or the other way).
This is actually on my to-do list, so here is a short post about no longer contributing to Twitter.
First of all, participation in communities based on a social tool equates to creating culture, as well as the only real value they have. That is a difficult way of saying that “social networks” depend on people to use them. I believe those same people deserve open access to the culture they create.
Twitter is a closed platform, and I can’t in good conscience support it. Of all possible internets, I want the one that is most open.
So I am “leaving”. If I ever get around to it I will archive my posts. For the time being I am just going to let them remain there, and hopefully folks will find this post and understand my decision. Open micro-blogging is our destination. ^_^
As Luke proclaimed, “It gets better!”
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