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[phinnia]

First of all: if I had a computer that was requiring a monitor (as opposed to a laptop, that is) - I would definitely want this one.
I want to go to Japan with someone else's Amex card and go crazy on the consumer electronics. And little weird things. Dave Barry was right: "If you ever go to Japan, I can not overemphasize the importance of having Random House pay for everything." (which is probably not an exact quote, but you get the idea.)

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Second: Woot! tallin recieved nice shiny favorable news from Guy He's Working For, which someday he'll even update his journal (:whistles angelically:) and hopefully explain. All I know is that it's good and it means relatively steady money. *squee* This is good because it may (along with contracts) put the proposed trip to California (Amtrak sleeper overnight on the perpetually late Coast Starlight) into the frame of 'forseeable future reality' rather than 'at some random point'. Plus some trips to Seattle to see friends an' such, too.

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Third: We have a meeting with the bubbysitter (parenthetical note: we like to change the words to songs, and now I can't hear Fountains of Wayne's 'Fire Island' without singing 'we don't need no bubbysitter') today at one-thirty, after which I may even get off my semi-lazy behind and schlep down to the library downtown. I know we have other libraries, but I'm geeky enough to want to go to the downtown one, because it's the biggest, and I get to ride the Portland Streetcar. Cross your fingers. This may mean that I may no longer look like a shaggy overgrown dog. There may even be pictures.
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possibly.
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I'll think about it. I am not photographically inclined.
Which reminds me, I should get some better haircutting scissors at some point.

Comments

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

I keep passing by Fountains of Wayne. It's on Rte. 46. Someday I'll ask Rick to stop just so we can look around and say we've been there. Rick's always driving when we go down Rte. 46 because I can't think of a single reason to go there by myself; there's nothing in that area that's not more fun with him around. But it looks pretty fabulous, although don't ask me who can afford all those huge towering fountains covered in angels and dolphins. That's an interesting combination, angels and dolphins. They have lots of little fountains for middle-class people, too, and lawn shrines. I love lawn shrines.

You mentioned odd associations to things, so there's mine. I can't read the name 'Fountains of Wayne' without thinking of Fountains of Wayne. And angels. And dolphins. And plaster Madonnas. :)

[phinnia.livejournal.com]

I think they're from the NYC/northern NJ area ... I have to wonder if that's not where the name came from?

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

Yup, it is. Go look on the band's website. It says so right there. :)

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Cute monitors, but I hate monitors with built-in speakers. I have perfectly decent speakers already.

I've actually been really spoiled with my flat panel. It's a Samsung SyncMaster 173T. I bought it on the recommendation of many people who I trust and some web reviews, but didn't look at the details beyond picture quality (my main interest) very much. What I've discovered since when looking at other flat panels that most of them would annoy me after having this one. It not only tilts, which pretty much all of them do, but you can adjust the height up and down, which surprisingly few do, and you can spin it into portrait mode also, which almost none do. While I haven't used the portrait mode myself, I do find the ability to tilt it, adjust the height and spin it (by small amounts) very useful for properly matching the other screen in a multimonitor setup.