As some of you know, my laptop expired in dramatic fashion last Sunday afternoon. Actually, the expiration itself was unremarkable. I was the one supplying the dramatics.

I’ll tell you the whole sordid story sooner or later (probably once I actually get the laptop back from being repaired. So, let’s all hope for “sooner”, shall we?). I’ve been exiled from the internet for a week. Being in exile actually wasn’t all bad, once I got used to it. I think being media-deprived for a while really cleared my head. It turns out that the so-called “real world” is a nice place to visit, but I don’t think I want to live there. I’ve done a lot of reading, and listened to a fair bit of CBC. I also got a surprising amount of work done in various computer labs around the cs building.

Right now I’m typing to you from my old debian linux box, which I spent the last few hours coaxing back to life. It tells you something about my fondness for linux configuration battles that it took a week of no internet before I tried to get this box working again. But, thanks to some urging from Aaron, I sorted out dependency conflicts, installed window managers, downloaded applications. The old box is working pretty well, except for screaming bloody murder about the file system and refusing to boot half the time (maybe I just won’t shut it off). The problem with linux is that it has too many moving parts. Oh, and also, the left shift key on this keyboard only works intermittently.

Macs are nice. I want mine back.

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