Seen on a poster at work:
I have to say this strikes me as a really,
really bad idea. I have a vision of a four-year-old, bottom lip quivering as she
watches someone pull a fish out of the lake. Quivering lip turns to tears as she
sobs, "Daddy, they killed Nemo!!!" Traumatized for life, she refuses ever to eat
fish again, and a few years later when she's unexpectedly stranded on a desert
island, along with a full kitof fishing gear, she starves to death before the
rescuers arrive. And all because of an unfortunately named company
event.
Yes, I'm a little bored. But I am looking forward to the
weekend; tomorrow we're supposed to receive our profit sharing and so I have
designated Saturday as replace the PC (Piece o'Crap) with a nice iMac that will
hopefully take more than a year to get really annoying. (The PC managed that in
about 6 months; our previous Mac started being really slow when online after three
years or so and is still fine for standalone programs.) I have a feeling this will
be more expensive than expected, as these things usually are. The decisions are
whether to fork out for the MS Office update or just use MacWorks and whether it's
worth it to buy Mac.com. If anyone reading this has experience with either (recent
editions only), opinions are welcome. The other decision is whether I'd be better
off with a laptop than an iMac; I never moved around much with the old laptop, but
this time I'm buying an Airport so I'd have wireless Internet access. I'm just
suspecting that laptops are less reliable.
Hooking it up will
probably also be a bit annoying. What I'd like to do is to hook the old Mac, both
printers, and the digital modem to the Airport, which will live in the current
office, while the new computer moves out to the library, formerly known as the
living room. However, the laser printer is old enough that it doesn't have a USB
port. The Airport has no SCSI connections. ANd the old Mac is running an old
version of MacOS, old enough that it probably can't function as a printer sharer.
I suspect I'll have to use the PC to share the printers, but I can'thelp thinking
this all should be simpler than it is.