Double Flee A

more computer nonsense

It may seem like a foolish decision to cash in windows xp for something I've never heard of, ubuntu, a linux debian variation, but I like it so far. I'm doing a trial run and if it seems doable, it's ready to go. Granted, there will be several days spent ferreting out plugins and tweaking settings, and the list of firefox extensions I'm going to have to install is dizzying, but there's nothing objectionable about it as of now. It's very web-centric; bittorrent file management is built in, mail etc. is straightforward, and it comes with the usual linux multi-screen option that I think is more for programmers or efficient multi-taskers than people, who like me, enjoy having thirty windows open all the time, some of which I forget about for days at a time. When it's all said and done, I just want a computer that does what it's supposed to, which means doesn't do what it's not supposed to, tasks the likes of which windows tends to accumulate naturally, the way swamps accumulate rot. Starwind search bar? Internet optimizer? Quoth Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp: Nooooooooooooo!

Sunday morning and one more day of work separating me from school, which I want to get back to. The pharmacy is a fairly good place with (mainly) either competent or teachable staff, but watches are much more interesting and attractive than "He's got a headache so he needs tylenol" or any of a million other repetitive medical diagnoses and prescriptions that each day have to be grinded out by schleps like myself.

The hospital I work at is across from the freshman dorms at the U of M, which are packed with hotties. I am often awestruck by the number of people there are in the world in general, and in particular, it astonishes me how many smokin' twenty-year-old eye candies bounce around while I'm on the way to and from the parking lot. Yesterday there was a group of four of them who were just done going running, and a guy who was on his way out of the hospital was trying not to look at one of them and failing, failing, failing. He didn't want to be distracted by them but apparently had no choice.

posted by dale @ 7:47 AM