![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistAfter the baked potato debacle we called lunch, Seth started talking about how, now that he's gotten stuff from his computer to show up on the TV (so we can watch DVDs--woohoo!), he wanted a USB game controller so he could play the NES and SNES emulator games he has on his computer, on the television. Yes, it really is that convoluted.
So we went to Alexandria, and checked out Wal-Mart, Office Max, and even Target, but to no real avail. The necessary USB extension cord was ridiculously expensive, and no such game controllers could be found anywhere.
"Well, I guess it's off to St. Cloud, then," Seth said in a resigned voice. He was joking, of course. We'd already driven 45 minutes, and it'd be almost another hour to St. Cloud from Alex. But Matthew and I liked the idea--we could not only go to Best Buy, we could go to the Olive Garden!--and so we actually did just that.
In Best Buy, Seth found that USB extension cords were still painfully expensive, and realized that he'd be spending fifty bucks to get the cord and the controller. Then we found a cordless controller that cost forty-five dollars or something, and after Matthew's logical arguments on the subject, both he and I said, "You should get this!" at practically the same time, and how could Seth argue that?
He and Matthew are actually playing with it now, thus giving me a time in which to recount these events of the day.
At the Olive Garden--mmm, I love the Olive Garden, even though I'm really never rich enough to afford it--Matthew kept telling Seth that he, Seth, should buy me a new printer. Seth's actually in the market for a different printer, as his is ten years old and of late will only work if you press the paper down into it, he says. And he, apparently, could have the one I'm using (which actually belongs to Matthew) if I got a new one. The reason Matthew thinks I should get a new printer, though, is because he's been telling me for months that I should switch to Linux, because it's better. But he's also told me that my printer has no Linux drivers (and in general says Lexmark is an Evil Company, the only part of the explanation I remember is "cooperates with the DMCA," but that's enough), so I've always had that excuse, and I've been mostly happy with my Windows 2000. But Seth told me that Matthew should be the one buying me a new printer, since (a) it's his idea and (b) he's the one with the money. "I would callously refuse," Matthew said, " ... except I want to put Linux on that computer!"
So we actually went to Office Max in St. Cloud, and he bought me a nice little HP printer, with the promsie that I will pay him back some time when I have more money, and with the threat that, by tomorrow, my computing life as I know it will end.
Well, that's enough for now.
So we went to Alexandria, and checked out Wal-Mart, Office Max, and even Target, but to no real avail. The necessary USB extension cord was ridiculously expensive, and no such game controllers could be found anywhere.
"Well, I guess it's off to St. Cloud, then," Seth said in a resigned voice. He was joking, of course. We'd already driven 45 minutes, and it'd be almost another hour to St. Cloud from Alex. But Matthew and I liked the idea--we could not only go to Best Buy, we could go to the Olive Garden!--and so we actually did just that.
In Best Buy, Seth found that USB extension cords were still painfully expensive, and realized that he'd be spending fifty bucks to get the cord and the controller. Then we found a cordless controller that cost forty-five dollars or something, and after Matthew's logical arguments on the subject, both he and I said, "You should get this!" at practically the same time, and how could Seth argue that?
He and Matthew are actually playing with it now, thus giving me a time in which to recount these events of the day.
At the Olive Garden--mmm, I love the Olive Garden, even though I'm really never rich enough to afford it--Matthew kept telling Seth that he, Seth, should buy me a new printer. Seth's actually in the market for a different printer, as his is ten years old and of late will only work if you press the paper down into it, he says. And he, apparently, could have the one I'm using (which actually belongs to Matthew) if I got a new one. The reason Matthew thinks I should get a new printer, though, is because he's been telling me for months that I should switch to Linux, because it's better. But he's also told me that my printer has no Linux drivers (and in general says Lexmark is an Evil Company, the only part of the explanation I remember is "cooperates with the DMCA," but that's enough), so I've always had that excuse, and I've been mostly happy with my Windows 2000. But Seth told me that Matthew should be the one buying me a new printer, since (a) it's his idea and (b) he's the one with the money. "I would callously refuse," Matthew said, " ... except I want to put Linux on that computer!"
So we actually went to Office Max in St. Cloud, and he bought me a nice little HP printer, with the promsie that I will pay him back some time when I have more money, and with the threat that, by tomorrow, my computing life as I know it will end.
Well, that's enough for now.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-25 08:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-25 08:40 pm (UTC)- that just popped into my head, and as I've got no restraint whatsoever in these matters I'm now singing along with the song it's from. Stupid brain :P
Maybe you're not ending computer life as you know it, more like moving on to (hopefully) bigger and better things. I have no idea what Linux is like *curious*...hope it's easier than windows though :)
Star Trekkin'!
Date: 2003-07-27 11:26 am (UTC)(P.S. I really like Captain Kirk's line: "We come in peace, shoot to kill!")
Re: Star Trekkin'!
Date: 2003-07-29 11:13 pm (UTC)Teehee...I loved that line too. I just found an old 45' record of Star Trekkin' and have been traumatising myself by playing it repeatedly while surfing the net :D
(no subject)
Date: 2003-07-26 01:26 am (UTC)