life and technology

What is the life span of a laptop? My laptop is now 2 years old, it had its birthday this earlier this month and it is showing its age. They talk about dog-years and human-years but what about computer years? If I were a computer I’d be dead now! Or sitting in some antique shop or Smithsonian. I think that as far as laptops go two years is getting up there in age; desktops seem to have a little longer life expectance but maybe because they are more easily adaptable. Perhaps it is similar to the difference in life expectance between guys and gals. Anyway, the life of a computer is not so much based on how long it will last but the technology it contains (with the exception perhaps of PC’s blue screen of death). That computer from 1989 that my dad has sitting in the corner gathering dust will still turn on and play that DOS based, 5 ¼ floppy of Super Solvers but that is all it will do. Remember the days before there were mice (mouse’s)? The days of Oregon Trail in the school computer lap on brand new Apples. Weren’t those the days! There are flash drives now with more memory than the memory of that entire computer. My laptop is what is know as a “convertible,” it’s screen can fold over and I can use it as either a regular laptop or as a tablet. I am surprised that I do not see more of them than what I do around today. I think MAC has successfully taken much of their market. So, my computer is old but is still very much alive and kicking. I have had to replace the hard drive and I have dinged it up a little but it gets the job done.

plain ink

Every time I go to Wal-Mart I find something to blog about. You remember my last blog about Wal-Mart. And consequently they have sidewalk chalk now and I bought some. Anyway today we discuss index cards. I went to buy 3x5 cards today because I ran out. I bought my first pack at the UVSC book store but found that they were not the cheapest. So looking at 3x5 cards at Wal-Mart I discovered to my dismay that the lined cards cost about 80% more than lineless, blank cards. What is up with that! I like the blank cards because I can print on them, and you would think that they would be cheaper because they do not use require the ink for the lines. But No, that is not the case and once again I am dissatisfied with another trip to Wal-Mart. The cards were cheaper than the ones at the bookstore but still! That’s not right!

point of view

Every story has two sides. That is the trouble with life. That is the one thing that causes the most problems. I think I said once that it was humanities forgetful nature but I think that the inability/ unwillingness to understand is greater. If each person could simply understand where the other person is ‘coming from’ and respect that then life would be much more passive. Today there was an event at my work that I was not a witness to but was given the details of by my coworkers who played a role in it and then, later this evening I was given the opposing sides story as related by the sister-in-law of the costumer involved. Both sides I am sure have truth to them but I also understand that I was told the one side by a direct contributor and the other by a third party, merely a relay of one sided information. Both sides are naturally bias so where is the truth and how is it uncovered? It is just a curious thing that the same thing, whatever it may be, can be seen so differently by different people just standing at different angles to the object. Point of view is what people are made of. We all come from different circumstances and thus perceive things differently. And it is amazing to me how different the views are sometimes.

eco me!

My previous post makes me wonder, Do I have more epidermis than some short fat guy of equal displacement? If me and some short guy displace the same amount we are of equal volume but if I am tall and skinny it will require more surface area to cover me. ?? That's not weird!