Green Scissors

 For the love of…..

Why?  My only question is why?  Why spend 4-8 grand for a box that is not quite a laptop but definately noy a desktop?  If you want a gaming rig and have that kind of jack to spend, I would recommend a regular case with a handle and a flat screen that you slide back into its box.

Sheesh. 

Dell XPS M2010 gets official -

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Laptops

Well, we never really though they’d have the guts to do it, but those kooky cats over at Dell just outted the XPS M2010 first seen at CES. It’s not a laptop, it’s not a desktop, it’s, well, something in between which isn’t always the best place to be. The XPS M2010 is pretty much spot-on to those leaked specs, meaning this roughly $4000 (about $8,000 fully spec’d) Windows Media Center PC maxes-out with a 2.16GHz Core Duo T2600, up to 4GB of dual-channel DDR2 memory, a 20.1-inch 1680 x 1050 LCD driven by a 256MB RADEON X1800 graphics card, up to 240GB of RAID 0/1 capable disk, 802.11a/b/g WiFi and a host of other features including a detachable Bluetooth keyboard with mouse, 1.3 megapixel cam integrated into the display bezel, and 8 built-in speakers with subwoofer and integrated high-definition audio. Portable? Well, this hog folds and has a handle but at nearly 20-pounds, you won’t be likely to take it further than the nearest LAN party.

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Today’s installment of Full Frontal Nerdity is absolutely brilliant. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve had conversations with fellow geeks that just bordered on pathetic. And yes, I loved every one of those conversations.

 That is all.

Today, apparently, is towel day, so named as a tribute to the late Douglas Adams. Had I but educated myself about this brilliant idea, I would have proudly stowed a towel in my laptop bag for the day. For those of you who may not understand the importance of the towel, consider:

A towel, [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you - daft as a bush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

I find it difficult to believe that it’s already been 5 years since Adams’ death. It’s been a while since I perused any of the 5 volumes in the Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy, and even longer since I visited Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. But there’s a long weekend coming up, and a used bookstore in the neighborhood, so I should be able to rectify this failing soon enough.

 I remeber this book from when I was a kid. Wonderful stuff.  Another great example of wy the Internet is the most amazing repository of stuff ever.

A Romance in Lower Mathematics. - The Dot and the Line. (by Norman Juster) Read the book. Watch the movie.

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