The Occasional Solipsist

Being an occasional solipsist means only having to be a team player when you feel like it.


So I have had my two new favourite toys for just over a week now, and now that I am almost finished working a week of nights, I am finally going to get to play with them. By toys, I mean my HP laptop sent to replace the one that died a horrible death from motherboard failure (twice) and the Asus Eee I bought as a backup for when (not if!) my new HP experiences a similar fate.

But the Eee’s Linux distro just plain sucks balls. I don’t care what anyone says, geeks who feel that because Linux is open source, you are compelled to both like it and hate Windows are just being elitist. I get a lot of shit for that attitude at work, but the world gets by for the most part on Windows platforms. Sorry, but there it is. I’m not a Linux hater, but this particular distro totally sucks, so I dumped it and installed Windows XP on my Eee and now I love it.

The new HP does run a lot better than the old one though, and it has an unnecessarily large screen, all the better to watch movies on (read:porn). The thing is 17 inches, and something in the neighbourhood of 10 lbs or so. Its more of a gigantic paperweight than a portable, but I guess that's what the Eee is for. I am planning on finally getting in on an MMO on it this weekend (City of Heroes!), even though I have always said that the only way I would ever have had time to play one would be after Superwife divorces me. (Which hopefully won't be happening anytime soon). We’ll see how that goes.

Ah, that’s what I’ve missed most about not having a pc at home: The ability to satisfy my compulsion to post inane horseshit that no one really cares about, any time I want.

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4 Responses to “back in business”

  1. # Blogger Lola

    Well I'm reading your inane bullshit Raistlin.

    And for the record I get shit for my anti-Linux views too. I took my little buddy to work after setting her up at home (also with XP)and my friend Yoshi looked at me like I said Janeway was better than Kirk.  

  2. # Blogger raistlinsghost

    Hey at least that means someone is paying attention. Course as the title of my blog suggests, at least some of the time I believe that no one else is real.

    And you have no idea how much I appreciated the Janeway/Kirk comment. I am a hardcore Trek fan, so I admit to laughing my balls off harder than might be expected. And for the record, Janeway sucked.  

  3. # Blogger Killer Queen

    Good to see your blog is back up, for awhile every time we tried to access it, the page would never load.

    And I'm glad you can indulge in your nerdiness with shiny, new objects of affection. Who knew such lifeless items could bring us such joy?  

  4. # Blogger raistlinsghost

    That's news to me that my blog was down. My host was moving to new servers but I didn't know there was any downtime. Those bastards.

    And it is the joy that we get out of our lifeless items that defines us as modern humans I think. Most people nowadays get more out of their interaction with electronic devices than they do with other people. Sad but true, except if you're an anti-social jerk like me, and then its just true, and not so sad.  

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(Latin: solus, alone + ipse, self) One who believes that he himself is the only thing that really exists, that other people and the universe in general exist only in his imagination, and that if he quit imagining them, they would cease to exist.

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