About the Sharp Notebook..
I am sorry but we can not sell our notebooks outside of the US.
How booooring these people are ;)
Monthly Archives: October 2005
morning…
aren’t they sweet when they are asleep?
note to self
Be careful when saying “yes”, people tend to take it for granted and demand afterwards.
maybe I should say “maybe” more often… :P
revenge
It seems that I am not that indestructible after all.
My body tolerated everything that I did to it the last weeks but now that I had a relaxed weekend, I finally got sick. With a vengeance. My head hurts, my throat is sore and I can’t focus a single idea for more than 5 minutes.
Well, apart from the throat and the headache this is quite normal for me I’d say ;)
Seems I will spend another day lying in bed and drinking tea. I have the best company possible with me, Siepke. He basically does not care how I feel but I seem to make him feel comfortable lying next to him and radiating warmth :)
Besides, I just finished reading 1984 and my mood is partly rebellish, partly depressed. Have to think about that one deeply.
Edit: just has a nice conversation, the following seemed worth noting down:
Was hilft es, über das Meer zu setzen und den Wohnort zu wechseln? Wenn du dem, was dich drückt, entgehen willst, so musst du nicht an einem anderen Ort sein, sondern selbst ein anderer sein. Deine Reisen werden dir keine Erleichterung schaffen; denn du reisest mit deinen Leidenschaften, und deine Übel folgen dir nach.
-Seneca-
Siepke and Servers
God, I am so happy this cat is back.. I don’t know what I would have done without him.
Anna is writing another summary of her thesis for the press and I am typing my thermodynamics-lecture into the laptop. I decided to do this from now on to memorize the lessons better.
My friday night I spent in the biology-department setting up a new webserver because I accidentially deleted the whole /dev directory by issuing rm -d -r /dev/ instead of ./dev (note the small but fatal dot!)
At 0:00 I arrived in Maastricht, Anna being very mad at me having spent the evening without me once more.
Lesson of the day:
“Never touch a running system!”
Or as the IT-department says:
“Never touch a running system on Friday after 14:00!”
through the night…
When I’m on the road, I’m indestructible. No one can stop me…
Whoa, riding on a motorbike through the night with headlights fully up is the closest thing possible to flying.. I think wherever I arrive I carry a cloud of pheromones and adrenaline around me ;)
I have no idea why I didn’t use the bike the last months, especially in summer. Well, actually I know, I was too busy with work, exams, Anna’s thesis and thousands of things that only happen when you are already involved with 2 others.
Anyway, life is good, I am busy, have a cool job, enough motivation for the term that has just started and the only thing that is disturbing me is that Anna is away monday till friday. But I’m getting used to that slowly, it makes weekends more enjoyable.
situation: all good! :)
autumn surprises
Autumn, the time of falling leaves and wonderful colours. Time to take long and exhaustive walks through the forest and enjoy the relaxing effects of the indian summer on the mind. (after all we had a lot of stress the last weeks)
While at it, pick up some of the wonderfully coloured leaves and flowers that grow now, they definitely make a nice decoration in your window at this time of the year.
Just never, ever collect any of these things:
Even if they look beautiful between autum-flowers, after 2 days at the window (especially if you are away for these days) they explode into a huge mass of seeds that you’d never expect to hide in these 20cm long things… and they cover your house, your PCs fans, your shoes, everythigng in the house is covered in a layer of this foam-like seeds. And your cat then drags them all over the appartment.
my vaccum can’t handle the amounts that these things have produced, I will have to buy extra bags now.
And also ignore tips from gardeners/relatives to spray them with hairspray to prevent from opening, it DOES NOT WORK! ;)
the show must go on…
okay, the new term has begun, I have a new job, business as usual.
It’s really interesting that I now sit at work and I percieve it as “relaxing” to be working… compared to the last weeks this little working and studying is a piece of cake. And at least, now my days have structure and order again ;)
back to work, there is a new laptop to work for :)
The current candidate is the VAIO TX1
well, it’s not as sexy as the “835g light, 1cm thick, completely fanless” x505
but almost 8 hours of battery life are also tempting.. . I have to choose between sexiness and functionality. For me, this is extremely difficult.
Talking about reason, IBM/Lenovo has very nice notebooks for students aswell with great battery runtimes. But they don’t really look nice.. in fact, they look incredibly ugly compared to a VAIO and 2 kg are not really “portable”.. and they are not even cheap ;)
Update: SONY is thrown off the throne, Sharp has released the Actius MM20 – running on a Transmeta Efficeon (Transmeta, you know, the company of Linus Torvalds that nobody precisely knows what they are doing…)
It looks quite nice, weighs less than 1kg and costs much less, aaaand:
It goes at 1500 Dollars, that’s 2500 less than the Sony x505 which costs almost 4000.
I guess that’s the end of my days with sony.
Links:
PDF Datasheet
US Homepage
I just hope they’ll also release it in europe… can’t wait to get my fingers on it! :)
And as the processor is made by Transmeta, there shouldn’t be a problem with running linux on it ;)
(not so) happy end…
well, as if to prevent us from ever being able to enjoy a weekend we just got a call that Anna’s dog, Miro, has been shot in Dogville (Bg)…
3.05.1999 – 8.10.2005
somehow, I think this is not normal anymore.
We urgently need vacation!
Happy end!
Siepke is back!!!
3 a.m., oh my god… Monday he gets a chip and a tattoo ;)