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Less Gloomy Aspects of Research
So just what the heck is a solar printer, anyway? I can conjecture that it might be some kind of early photography, or perhaps a means of using light to etch printing plates, but I have no good idea. A solar printing press sounds like something that would be operating on a Jules-Vernsian space-faring vessel.
Time Warner cable charges a $5 monthly fee for having a router that creates a wi-fi network. I bought a wi-fi router from Woot for about $15 with shipping. It arrived a few days ago and I have it set up. It works fine except that, for some reason, it seems to drop my VPN to Syracuse University every couple of hours or so. Can I live with that rather than either send it for an RMA, or keep paying $5 a month in rental costs? Yes I can. Now I just need to get a DOCSIS 3 cable modem to stop paying the $10/month modem leasing cost.
There was only one long-haired guy amongst the geography grad students at SU. I had a longish conversation with him at the end of the department picnic just before the semester started that rambled through all sorts of territory. He seemed pretty amazed, though understatedly so, as I talked matter-of-factly about my partner and my sweetie and about being non-monogamous. He declared that I was the most interesting person he'd ever met, though he was also a little bit drunk at the time so that may have contributed to his assessment! But I haven't talked to him socially since then despite adding him on Facebbok. And now he has cut his hair and posted pictures and, while my opinion should have no bearing at all on how he manages his appearance, he now looks about ten years older and, in some way I can't put my finger on, kind of like someone I'd expect to be a jerk. Oh well.
I've tried out my headphones. The sound is mushy and unremarkable, but they are $10 headphones. They will do the job for listening to music at night. I wonder if, rather than hauling my big speakers out here, I should have left them at home and bought a really nice pair of headphones. But I don't think so. They'd get uncomfortable after a while, and I couldn't lie in bed or wash dishes or what-not with them on.
Oh, and remember when I wrote about doing the math behind my age? I was wrong. "Are you sure," Danae asked, "that you're going to be 37 this year? Because I thought you were only a year older than me." I did the math again: she was right; I'm turning 36. Shows how much the number sticks in my head.
Time Warner cable charges a $5 monthly fee for having a router that creates a wi-fi network. I bought a wi-fi router from Woot for about $15 with shipping. It arrived a few days ago and I have it set up. It works fine except that, for some reason, it seems to drop my VPN to Syracuse University every couple of hours or so. Can I live with that rather than either send it for an RMA, or keep paying $5 a month in rental costs? Yes I can. Now I just need to get a DOCSIS 3 cable modem to stop paying the $10/month modem leasing cost.
There was only one long-haired guy amongst the geography grad students at SU. I had a longish conversation with him at the end of the department picnic just before the semester started that rambled through all sorts of territory. He seemed pretty amazed, though understatedly so, as I talked matter-of-factly about my partner and my sweetie and about being non-monogamous. He declared that I was the most interesting person he'd ever met, though he was also a little bit drunk at the time so that may have contributed to his assessment! But I haven't talked to him socially since then despite adding him on Facebbok. And now he has cut his hair and posted pictures and, while my opinion should have no bearing at all on how he manages his appearance, he now looks about ten years older and, in some way I can't put my finger on, kind of like someone I'd expect to be a jerk. Oh well.
I've tried out my headphones. The sound is mushy and unremarkable, but they are $10 headphones. They will do the job for listening to music at night. I wonder if, rather than hauling my big speakers out here, I should have left them at home and bought a really nice pair of headphones. But I don't think so. They'd get uncomfortable after a while, and I couldn't lie in bed or wash dishes or what-not with them on.
Oh, and remember when I wrote about doing the math behind my age? I was wrong. "Are you sure," Danae asked, "that you're going to be 37 this year? Because I thought you were only a year older than me." I did the math again: she was right; I'm turning 36. Shows how much the number sticks in my head.