I’m sitting in my car waiting for a bakery to open so I can buy some goodies for Jenny & company.
As far as Chicago goes, god. l have so much to do. It’s really scary. On the short list, l have to find an apartment. Sometimes, I just don’t know where to start. One thing at a time, right?
handwriting
this is my first at writing a blog with handwriting alone. I’m starting to get the hang of how to write this by hand. I’m not sure if this is all that much faster than writing it by hand, still this is pretty cool.
nerdvana
The acer is here. It’s cool. I’ve already had to reinstall the entire friggin’ system once. But that was due to Microsoft, not necessarily the tablet.
I don’t have enough of an opinion on it yet to really say if I’m going to keep it. There are aspects of it that I really like. There are others I’m not so sure about.
Right now I just want to get the system stable and set up. Once that’s done I’ll be able to really see what it can do.
On thing that has changed already is the wallpaper on the computer desktop… It came equiped with a picture of some buff guy “diving” out of my screen. All and all pretty homoerotic. In fact Jenny’s first comment about the machine was “you’re not keeping the wallpaper are you? *snicker* *snicker*.”
coming today… i can feel it
I think it’s coming today. I even brought a carrying case in for it. I fully admit that I’ve lost it over this laptop/tablet, but I haven’t embraced the techno geek side of my personality in a while :-).
Yesterday I got the opportunity to work out with a Wu Shu team from Tianjin University, China. They are visting at RIT. I have mixed feelings about Wu Shu and martial arts in China right now. Basically, since the 60’s or so there has been a big movement by the Chinese government to take the Martial Arts, neuter the martial out of them and turn them into more performance arts. Since I study the Chinese Arts more for the martial this doesn’t sit well with me. The general feeling in the broad community is that the best Chinese masters left China years ago. Either way, watching the team in action was great. And I was taught a short Bagua form (that had little to no martial application… big surprise).
At the end of the work out (which was open to the public) the team’s coach came over and invited me to come to Tianjin University in order to study Wu Shu. I politely thanked him, “shei shei,” (through the translator) and declined. Before I get a swelled head I should note that he extended this offer to a number of participants. But if I was ten years younger and not going to Chicago I might have considered the offer.
It’s wierd when you find yourself saying “if I was ten years younger.”
Acer Update
Looks like I might have been wrong. So far nothing. I even visted shipping/recieving. Nothing. No love. Woe is me.
sooo close
The Acer still isn’t here, but my refurbished Tungsten T and Palm Keyboard came in. I ordered both the day before the laptop so I was hoping this was a sign that it would be in today. No luck so far :-(.
The Tungsten is great and I think this is going to help me a lot with publishing meeting notes. I’ve had a Palm of one sort or another for the last seven years or so and I don’t know how I lived without them.