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By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:29:55 +0000

@BoomerCat: Thanks for stopping by. And yeah, why bother with a TV when you can watch programs and movies on the “small screen”?
Hope you’ll be back again.

By: BoomerCat

BoomerCat — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:20:58 +0000

Donna,
Pardon me for bumping up an old post. I’ve just discovered your blog and I love your sense of humor. I’m particularly impressed that you managed to get a degree in Interesting Stuff. Although my undergraduate degree was in “English,” it was back in the days when “liberal arts” and “humanities” were still considered respectable (and marketable) areas of study. Now it seems that one can actually graduate from college with no knowledge of geography, much less world history, and nada about other cultures. Ooops! Getting off topic here.
I bought a netbook about a year ago and I can’t recall how I did without it. I had purchased a new PC at about the same time (yay, Costco!); didn’t get around to setting it up until last month. ;-( I’m thinking I may never want a big-screen PC again. Maybe I can use the screen to watch movies and regular TV on Hula? LOL.

By: Melissa A.

Melissa A. — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:49:09 +0000

I bought a MacBook in October and I love it. I didn’t *need* it though. Too late now. I am trying to sell my old computer though. One cool thing these days is that you can get the netbooks for not much money. Plus they are a lot easier to carry around, being so small.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:13:18 +0000

@Red: I finished school in December and yeah, I often took books to classes. My professors tended to reference them and, more to the point, ask US to reference them. I would be able to open to page 112 and read from the notes I’d scribbled in the margins. (I never wrote on books before I went back to school.)
I majored in something called the Comparative History of Ideas. It’s a kind of humanities degree, and as close as I could get to majoring in Interesting Stuff.
Thanks for reading, and for leaving a comment.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Re: lugging your books to all your classes. Do people really do that? I’ve been in college for five years now, and with the exception of my freshmen year when I didn’t know any better, I leave my books at home. Teachers rarely reference them, and the few times they do, I’ve always shared with a friend. I assume you’re going for journalism, which I was also doing for the last four years. (I’ve now began a major in political science.) Just curious if you really need to bring books with you.

By: bashtree

bashtree — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:20:23 +0000

Agreed! It’s hard not to love a MacBook. I saved up for ‘a new laptop’ for a while, and it worked out nicely that my old laptop died about a week before the first MacBook came out, and with my student discounts and whatnot I was able to get it with some of the computer fund left over. So nice…so satisfying.

By: Bucksome Boomer

Bucksome Boomer — Mon, 31 May 2010 23:53:34 +0000

Donna, I think we’re very close together in age.

Congratulations on the new laptop. I got a netbook last year and it’s great for traveling.

Enjoy your time in Alaska. I think it’s one of the most beautiful places on earth.

By: Donna Freedman

Donna Freedman — Mon, 31 May 2010 21:55:50 +0000

@Funny About Money: The skins are not crisp, probably because the heat isn’t high enough. It might take a couple of hours on high…? Your mileage may vary. What I like about doing them this way is:
1. It doesn’t heat up the whole house.
2. It’s so cheap to run a slow cooker.
3. You can leave them in until they’re as soft as butter, instead of the not-quite-done-in-the-middle spuds that I tend to get when I bake them alongside a meat loaf. I always figure if the meat loaf is done, the oven’s going off — and sometimes the potatoes are a little crunchy as a result.
I spend probably too many hours at the computer, period. But I love having one with same-day service, if you know what I mean; my old computer was so slow to load. What I don’t do, however, is carry it with me wherever I go; I’m trying to reduce the amount of weight I tote, because my shoulders are older than the rest of me.
Thanks for reading, and for leaving a comment.

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:19:09 +0000

You can bake potatoes in a crock pot? Hmmm… That’s very interesting. How long do you cook them, and do they come out with crisp skins?

I’ve always liked having a laptop–started with a Toshiba, and now have a MacBook. I regard the MacB as a back-up for my desktop system, made possible by synching the two.

Will say, though, that I don’t use a laptop nearly as much as I used to, back in the days when I watched TV. The laptop resided in the TV room; I used to grade student papers and write blog posts in front of the idiot box. With the changeover to digital TV, I’ve almost stopped watching television, since I refuse to pay for cable and reception with a “box” and an antenna leaves much to be desired. Instead, I spend most of my waking hours in front of the desktop, and now hardly ever use the laptop.