The laptop I purchased a week or so ago arrived today. It’s in good condition, with the exception of the completely unusable battery (I knew that) and a damaged-but-workable door that covers the docking port (I didn’t expect that).

It’s a PIII 200, with the 1024×768 screen, and the DVD drive works. W00t

It has Windows 98 on it, complete with somebody else’s screwy settings (funky cursor, QWERTY keyboard layout). This is fine, because it can be used right now to do stuff, but in short order I’ll be putting Linux on it.

Now… which flavor. Bear in mind that I need to obtain a wireless network card for the machine, and whatever Linux flavor I run needs to support the card in the machine. But since I get to pick the flavor AND the card, finding a match should be pretty easy, right?

–Howard

EDIT: I should make it clear — this is my convention-going machine. 99% of what I need to do with it is BLOG. If I can offload my camera into it via USB, that’s a plus, but it’s not a showstopper if I can’t.

Now… I WANT to also be able to web-surf, get email, and FTP places if necessary.

Link!

Upshot (pardon the pun): Author Hunter S. Thompson’s ashes will be fired from a cannon, per his last wishes.

My take: These two sentences appeared back-to-back…

“”It’s expensive, but worth every penny,” Anita Thompson said. “I’d like to have several explosions. He loved explosions.”

“Thompson, 67, shot himself in the head on February 20…”

Loved explosions indeed.

I told you it was tasteless. Blame CNN.

–Howard

Wheee! I managed to bang out four scripts! This means that I can sit down and draw tomorrow, thanks to the magic of INSOMNIA!

–Howard

I hate insomnia. This is the “my brain is on overdrive” variety… not my least favorite by any stretch, but certainly less fun than, say, SLEEPING.

Maybe I’ll write something useful… like Schlock scripts.

Maybe that’ll tire me, and I’ll fall asleep.