Monday, May 14, 2007
it's all mine...
...and it's soooo pretty! Came all charged up, ready to run, which was good, since I needed it for meetings on Saturday (which is when I picked it up). At the Coordinating Committee meeting I stroked it lovingly, in full view of everyone, and made MusicianMan sputter a laugh as I mouthed, "My preciousss..." The chair of SoCal Grassroots even made mention of my new acquisition, since I opened it and worked on it while at a meeting at his place earlier in the day.
Later that night, while at HSTeacher's home, I loaded up some nice programs. The next day the two of us sat in his living room, quietly working on our respective laptops (his is a 15" Apple Titanium PowerBook) much as another couple would read the newspaper on a Sunday morning. The extent of our collective geekiness made me laugh.
Next step in entering the 21st Century: getting high-speed intenet. Then a cell phone with Bluetooth (which may end up being a hand-held).
*sigh*
Labels: gadgets, geeky, HSTeacher, tech-lust
gettin' my geek on...
So there I am, just minding my own business, checking out the JPL site, when a headline flashes across the screen: Mission Could Seek out Spock's Home Planet:
Even cooler? I actually know people who are working on SIM.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but working at JPL? Rocks beyond all imagining.
BTW, if y'all are in the L.A. area this weekend, check out JPL's Open House. I've been twice, before my days as a JPL contractor, and it is tons of geeky fun. I highly recommend it. I don't know if I'll be there - I've broached it to HSTeacher, but we haven't talked about it yet.
Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have recently concluded that the upcoming planet-finding mission, SIM PlanetQuest, would be able to detect an Earth-like planet around the star 40 Eridani, a planet familiar to "Star Trek" fans as "Vulcan." 40 Eridani, a triple-star system 16 light-years from Earth, includes a red-orange K dwarf star slightly smaller and cooler than our sun. Vulcan is thought to orbit that dwarf star, called 40 Eridani A.Yeah, the Trek geek and the science groupie in me both perked up their ears at that.
Even cooler? I actually know people who are working on SIM.
I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but working at JPL? Rocks beyond all imagining.
BTW, if y'all are in the L.A. area this weekend, check out JPL's Open House. I've been twice, before my days as a JPL contractor, and it is tons of geeky fun. I highly recommend it. I don't know if I'll be there - I've broached it to HSTeacher, but we haven't talked about it yet.
Labels: fangirl, geeky, good things
Monday, May 07, 2007
now-now-now-now-now...
That's when I want it.
I've been waiting for it forever, or so it seems. It would have been mine two weeks ago, were it not for accidental holds on bank accounts and PayPal moving slower than slow. Not in time for the California Democratic Convention the last weekend of April, when it would have proven incredibly useful. Not in time for the Communications Committee meeting this past Saturday, where I'm still serving as Secretary because no one else will, even though I'm vice-chair now, in addition to being Tech Committee Chair and Endorsements Committee Secretary, because I seem to be more than a little bit masochistic. Communications between the main parties have been ongoing, making sure that progress is being made, but still.
I want it NOW.
Tuesday, tomorrow, it should be mine. Possibly Wednesday, depending on how slow UPS decides to be. Maybe I should have had it sent to my work address, but these things are tricky, receiving packages at a high-security workplace. I should know better than to work on government property.
Still, I've waited this long. Surely another couple of days won't kill me.
Will they?
Before the weekend. I will have it before the weekend. In time for Saturday's Coordinating Committee meeting.
I will, won't I?
Soon I will have my lovely new (to me) 12.1 inch G4 iBook, with 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB drive, Airport Extreme and AppleCare.
Then, all will be right with the world.
Well, all except for wars and hunger and poverty and cruelty and...
Surely my iBook can solve those ills.
Only time will tell.
I've been waiting for it forever, or so it seems. It would have been mine two weeks ago, were it not for accidental holds on bank accounts and PayPal moving slower than slow. Not in time for the California Democratic Convention the last weekend of April, when it would have proven incredibly useful. Not in time for the Communications Committee meeting this past Saturday, where I'm still serving as Secretary because no one else will, even though I'm vice-chair now, in addition to being Tech Committee Chair and Endorsements Committee Secretary, because I seem to be more than a little bit masochistic. Communications between the main parties have been ongoing, making sure that progress is being made, but still.
I want it NOW.
Tuesday, tomorrow, it should be mine. Possibly Wednesday, depending on how slow UPS decides to be. Maybe I should have had it sent to my work address, but these things are tricky, receiving packages at a high-security workplace. I should know better than to work on government property.
Still, I've waited this long. Surely another couple of days won't kill me.
Will they?
Before the weekend. I will have it before the weekend. In time for Saturday's Coordinating Committee meeting.
I will, won't I?
Soon I will have my lovely new (to me) 12.1 inch G4 iBook, with 1.2 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 30 GB drive, Airport Extreme and AppleCare.
Then, all will be right with the world.
Well, all except for wars and hunger and poverty and cruelty and...
Surely my iBook can solve those ills.
Only time will tell.
Labels: gadgets, geeky, pouty face, tantrums, tech-lust
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
whoops!
Methinks someone on JPL's web team needs to do a little proofreading (click on picture to read the fine print):
Everyone knows cheese isn't vegan!
Everyone knows cheese isn't vegan!
Friday, January 05, 2007
even my dreams are geeky...
Last night I dreamed I was at JPL, chasing after one of the scientists I knew to get information, and he was dressed up like a Klingon, with forehead ridges and everything. And he wasn't the only costumed Klingon - several were around me. In my dream JPL, this, apparently, was not an unusual occurance.
I love the geeky side of me, but this? There has got to be an antidote for this much nerdiness...
I love the geeky side of me, but this? There has got to be an antidote for this much nerdiness...
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