A couple of weeks ago Katy and I got a new puppy. He was born on Katy's birthday, which is kinda neat. He is a German Shorthaired Pointer like Missy, and has a similar level of energy. They are nuts running all through the house, biting each other, growling, and causeing a rukus. But he's ofcourse cute, and it will be nice to have him from a puppy for training, unlike Missy who we got when she was about 2.
2006/02/26
New Toys
So I finally got a new laptop. In fact, this is the first new computer I have ever purchaced. Everything else I have bought second hand. It's nice. Turion ML-32, 512MB ram, 80gig HDD, and the ATI 200M turns out to be nothing bad for video. It was fairly cheap, and I really haven't touched my desktop for much of anything since. That was my hope, to basically just stick with the laptop, and it seems to be working out. I wanted to get something from Apple, but I don't want a PowerPC, because they are moving to Intel chips, and the only Intel laptop is about $2k. So it just wasn't time yet. Hopefully this will get me through school, then I can get something different.
On a seemingly different end of the spectrum, I also found out this week about Moleskine notebooks. As I look further into this, I realize there is a whole culture around it. If you do a search on flickr for moleskine, it is interesting what you will see. They are these overpriced notebooks that people seem to love. Most people use them for one of 3 things: journal, sketchbook, or organizer. They company claims that they are the same notebooks that great minds like Van Gogh, Hemingway, and Picaso used, but in reality they are just making a similar product, that was previously offered by a number of makers. But nevertheless, I'm hooked. They are nice, and very functional. After first learning about them I explained to someone that they are the Macintosh of notebooks, and sure enough a lot of the pictures I have seen on flickr have also featured either an iPod or some sort of Apple computer.
On a seemingly different end of the spectrum, I also found out this week about Moleskine notebooks. As I look further into this, I realize there is a whole culture around it. If you do a search on flickr for moleskine, it is interesting what you will see. They are these overpriced notebooks that people seem to love. Most people use them for one of 3 things: journal, sketchbook, or organizer. They company claims that they are the same notebooks that great minds like Van Gogh, Hemingway, and Picaso used, but in reality they are just making a similar product, that was previously offered by a number of makers. But nevertheless, I'm hooked. They are nice, and very functional. After first learning about them I explained to someone that they are the Macintosh of notebooks, and sure enough a lot of the pictures I have seen on flickr have also featured either an iPod or some sort of Apple computer.
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