J. Shufini (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} shufini) wrote,@ 2003-11-19 11:44:00 |
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It's that time of the month again
for my laptop to be broken. Shouldn't a Thinkpad be able to survive a drop from the height of an average dorm-room desktop? In fifth grade, we made a little styrofoam box that protected an -egg- for a drop of thirty feet, so shouldn't this tough plastic and titanium thing be able to fall three? I tripped over the cable last night and pulled it onto the floor, which apparently killed the LCD. The rest of the machine still works (praise Jesus-Buddha-Vishnu-Lao Tzu-St. Mungo) so I can do work connected to a monitor, but IBM and the housing department are back on my grudge list.
Yesterday's crit was particularly scathing all around. Mine went rather well, but I'm not sure how to take that. I don't know if I'm actually coming up with good, simple stuff that works (my intention) or if they're patting the American on the head until he goes home in a month. One particulary funny example from the rest of the group:
Crittee: ...so I'm providing public meeting places in the urban fabric.
Critter: Yeah, we've got those already. Anywhere I sit down with my friends is a place to have a meeting. It doesn't have to be your little box here [indicates model, rather like a balsa-wood telephone box]
Crittee: But this is a private place, operated with a coin. You have to pay to use it, then you can have your private meeting--
Critter: "Penthouse for let, fifty pounds an hour." What's the difference?
[long pause]
Crittee: Well. I was also thinking about how you can have an HIV test now and get the results in fifteen minutes.
Critter: So this is... a testing center?
Crittee: Yes, it's about public health.
Critter: Ohhhh!
But most weren't turned around so easily. Some people may have been talked out of good ideas, just because they hadn't boiled them down to a bumper-sticker slogan or two.
I've got ambitions of finishing all my work for Tuesday by Friday afternoon so that we might travel again this weekend. Was going to put it off til next week, but I found out yesterday I might have to go to Liverpool then for more silly studio business.
for my laptop to be broken. Shouldn't a Thinkpad be able to survive a drop from the height of an average dorm-room desktop? In fifth grade, we made a little styrofoam box that protected an -egg- for a drop of thirty feet, so shouldn't this tough plastic and titanium thing be able to fall three? I tripped over the cable last night and pulled it onto the floor, which apparently killed the LCD. The rest of the machine still works (praise Jesus-Buddha-Vishnu-Lao Tzu-St. Mungo) so I can do work connected to a monitor, but IBM and the housing department are back on my grudge list.
Yesterday's crit was particularly scathing all around. Mine went rather well, but I'm not sure how to take that. I don't know if I'm actually coming up with good, simple stuff that works (my intention) or if they're patting the American on the head until he goes home in a month. One particulary funny example from the rest of the group:
Crittee: ...so I'm providing public meeting places in the urban fabric.
Critter: Yeah, we've got those already. Anywhere I sit down with my friends is a place to have a meeting. It doesn't have to be your little box here [indicates model, rather like a balsa-wood telephone box]
Crittee: But this is a private place, operated with a coin. You have to pay to use it, then you can have your private meeting--
Critter: "Penthouse for let, fifty pounds an hour." What's the difference?
[long pause]
Crittee: Well. I was also thinking about how you can have an HIV test now and get the results in fifteen minutes.
Critter: So this is... a testing center?
Crittee: Yes, it's about public health.
Critter: Ohhhh!
But most weren't turned around so easily. Some people may have been talked out of good ideas, just because they hadn't boiled them down to a bumper-sticker slogan or two.
I've got ambitions of finishing all my work for Tuesday by Friday afternoon so that we might travel again this weekend. Was going to put it off til next week, but I found out yesterday I might have to go to Liverpool then for more silly studio business.
