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navrins' recent note about how living in New York City is exciting (except now I can't find that post, so I will merely claim it was him without real justification). Every day on the walk to the subway station, he'll see ten things that would be conversation topics in just about any smaller town, but since he's in NYC, they are par for the course.
Yes. I occasionally have sentimental jags of missing New York City (differently so than for Boston, which I miss more for the people than the city itself).
I also expect that if and when we ever move from here, I will miss this town at least as much, in still different ways.
This morning on my bike commute, I saw a blue heron, yet another Smart fortwo car (this one was grey), and a particularly polite pedestrian. Not one person tried to kill me, sell me anything, or curse my existance for being in their way. And none of these were particularly unusual.
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I've just had a few dramatic moments with my (work-loaner) second desktop computer, which runs Windows. This is my first experience running Windows since NT, so in roughly five years. So these new security negotiation popups are sort of funny for me, sort of the same way I found Clippy funny. Versus Linux firewalls, which just somehow seem to work without announcing the exciting things they allowed or denied every few minutes... But anyway. That's not my point.
I installed a printer driver so I can print things at the local Staples. This seems pretty cool to me, since it cuts out one of two previously necessary trips. Even better this is to be a test before sending a job of 5,000 pages to a convenient Toronto Staples across the the street from the conference I'm helping with this weekend. All for the same price of doing it in person.
So, the printer driver requres Internet Explorer and Acrobat, which required installing three different sub-programs. And I got all of the notifications that something or other was trying to adjust the whoozywazzit, and occasionally it would ask for my permission before it did so.
All well and good, but unfortunately along with Acrobat, Yahoo Toolbar came along for the ride, which Windows decided was a trusted action. Grr. And as soon as I got close to finishing my print job (one B&W copy please, no folding, cutting, binding, or laminating), Yahoo Toolbar crashed and took IE with it. Boom.
It's sort of exciting watching these programs battle it out on my desktop. I'll just sit back and wait for them to come to some agreement. Hopefully soon, because I want to go to bed.
navrins' recent note about how living in New York City is exciting (except now I can't find that post, so I will merely claim it was him without real justification). Every day on the walk to the subway station, he'll see ten things that would be conversation topics in just about any smaller town, but since he's in NYC, they are par for the course.Yes. I occasionally have sentimental jags of missing New York City (differently so than for Boston, which I miss more for the people than the city itself).
I also expect that if and when we ever move from here, I will miss this town at least as much, in still different ways.
This morning on my bike commute, I saw a blue heron, yet another Smart fortwo car (this one was grey), and a particularly polite pedestrian. Not one person tried to kill me, sell me anything, or curse my existance for being in their way. And none of these were particularly unusual.
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I've just had a few dramatic moments with my (work-loaner) second desktop computer, which runs Windows. This is my first experience running Windows since NT, so in roughly five years. So these new security negotiation popups are sort of funny for me, sort of the same way I found Clippy funny. Versus Linux firewalls, which just somehow seem to work without announcing the exciting things they allowed or denied every few minutes... But anyway. That's not my point.
I installed a printer driver so I can print things at the local Staples. This seems pretty cool to me, since it cuts out one of two previously necessary trips. Even better this is to be a test before sending a job of 5,000 pages to a convenient Toronto Staples across the the street from the conference I'm helping with this weekend. All for the same price of doing it in person.
So, the printer driver requres Internet Explorer and Acrobat, which required installing three different sub-programs. And I got all of the notifications that something or other was trying to adjust the whoozywazzit, and occasionally it would ask for my permission before it did so.
All well and good, but unfortunately along with Acrobat, Yahoo Toolbar came along for the ride, which Windows decided was a trusted action. Grr. And as soon as I got close to finishing my print job (one B&W copy please, no folding, cutting, binding, or laminating), Yahoo Toolbar crashed and took IE with it. Boom.
It's sort of exciting watching these programs battle it out on my desktop. I'll just sit back and wait for them to come to some agreement. Hopefully soon, because I want to go to bed.
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Date: Wednesday, 22 June 2005 10:32 am (UTC)I really don't miss Boston, at all, except for maybe 2 weeks in May, which I even got to see part of this week as a tourist [when I could actually see...]. As far as I'm concerned, it is strictly dominated as a place to live by Ithaca. But maybe if we lived outside Ball Square, it would have helped.