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seldneiOkay, Equilibrium is on SciFi, and I'm sitting here having the same problem I always have with these sorts of movies--I don't believe that the future will ever look like a Mac ad. Even a dark Mac ad. Yeah, yeah, humanity has medically controlled its emotions, we're all cold and sleek and stuff ... see, I just can't hoist my disbelief that high. People are messy. Nobody is going to sit and watch some dude on the TV expounding on the wonders of feeling nothing in a perfectly sleek, angled, spotless apartment. Plus, I don't care what kind of drugs you have, humanity would have died out because they'd have summarily executed every kid as soon as said kid turned two.
Speaking of sleek futuristic stuff that's really messy ...
... the iMac has been giving us issues again. Shuts off for no reason at all.
The last time we put the thing in the shop, I swore to god I wouldn't pour anymore money into it. Granted, that time it wasn't a hardware or software issue (we had, in fact, been repairing disk permissions wrong), so it didn't cost much, but after the damn thing shut off on me for the second time last night, I was done with it.
I'd considered just being a laptop family for a while, but the Zweeble is getting interested in the fun pictures on the computer, and really, my laptop is getting on in years. I (touch wood) don't expect it to die on me anytime soon--I am currently having no problems with it--but it is old. And we had some tax return money left. We put some aside for house improvements, and made a list of stuff, and then kept finding out that the improvements either weren't needed or the fix was a lot cheaper than we thought.
So today we went and got a Mac Mini and a monitor at Best Buy, and Scott is putting it all together now. Less expensive than a new laptop, not a first-generation anything, small and cute, so we'll have a good place for centralizing photos and music (which is really the main function of our desktop), and if (god forbid) my laptop dies, I'll have a (god willing) stable desktop to use until I can get a new one.
And it's also supposed to be really green, which I hope won't bite me in the ass on the "not a first-generation" thing.
We also splurged on a Dr. Seuss video game thing for the Zweeble. He became enamored with the demo we played with while waiting for Scott to get the computer, and I am so incredibly sick of the games on the Fisher-Price website.
I spent the day texting periodically with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jkason, which I enjoyed, anyway.
Speaking of sleek futuristic stuff that's really messy ...
... the iMac has been giving us issues again. Shuts off for no reason at all.
The last time we put the thing in the shop, I swore to god I wouldn't pour anymore money into it. Granted, that time it wasn't a hardware or software issue (we had, in fact, been repairing disk permissions wrong), so it didn't cost much, but after the damn thing shut off on me for the second time last night, I was done with it.
I'd considered just being a laptop family for a while, but the Zweeble is getting interested in the fun pictures on the computer, and really, my laptop is getting on in years. I (touch wood) don't expect it to die on me anytime soon--I am currently having no problems with it--but it is old. And we had some tax return money left. We put some aside for house improvements, and made a list of stuff, and then kept finding out that the improvements either weren't needed or the fix was a lot cheaper than we thought.
So today we went and got a Mac Mini and a monitor at Best Buy, and Scott is putting it all together now. Less expensive than a new laptop, not a first-generation anything, small and cute, so we'll have a good place for centralizing photos and music (which is really the main function of our desktop), and if (god forbid) my laptop dies, I'll have a (god willing) stable desktop to use until I can get a new one.
And it's also supposed to be really green, which I hope won't bite me in the ass on the "not a first-generation" thing.
We also splurged on a Dr. Seuss video game thing for the Zweeble. He became enamored with the demo we played with while waiting for Scott to get the computer, and I am so incredibly sick of the games on the Fisher-Price website.
I spent the day texting periodically with
jkason, which I enjoyed, anyway.
