Posted by TFG on July 16th, 2007
Who the fook is Kathy Griffin?
I got my new Sasquatch woods today…the more I think about it, the more thrilled I am to have a golf club named Sasquatch. They could have made them out of window caulk and road-base, and painted them pink, and I’d be happy to put them in the bag. This means driving range manana. Maybe even 9 holes at a muni.
Work is kicking my hiney, and I love it.
That was one dull race yesterday, but I’m glad to see Tony Stewart get a win under his belt coming up on the chase. I rooted for John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors, too. But I hate a whiny brat at the poker table. Explain that. I can’t.
It’s still raining pretty much every damn day in San Antonio. Combine it with 95° heat, and my yard is a mo-fo all the time…scraggly, over-grown, weedy, clover-y. Even the day after I cut it. Bah…piss on it.
I’m about ready to start driving to Austin for poker. All I have here in Ess-Aye is stripclub freerolling, which, while easy on the eyes and a good lesson in donkey management, sucks horribly as the money is exceedingly slim. As in, it doesn’t cover one-fifth of my damn beer. And I need a lot of beer to get over the annoyance of shitty death metal, whitey-hating rap, and random Mexican music. I don’t know if the strippers are just stupid with zero musical taste, or if the management thinks that’s the thing to do. Maybe I should give them $100 just to play, like, three hours of decent Texas music — ZZ, SRV, BJS, etc.
I got a new laptop as the Vaio was dying slowly — no, it’s not a dumb macintosh.
July 16th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Kathy Griffin was on News Radio with Phil Hartman before he was killed. She’s a comedian and mid-level celebrity that I find amusing because she doesn’t take herself very serious.
July 17th, 2007 at 7:54 am
The missus and me love Kathy Griffin and her show on Bravo. She makes us laugh. We’re going to see her in concert in Houston next week.
We paid $50 per ticket. She’s that funny.
She also went to Iraq to entertain the troops, which I admire.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
I’m thinking about a new laptop and leaning towards Vaio. Any reason not to?
July 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
Well, I went with a Vaio thin-n-light SZ model last August. The CD burner died, and the fan is dying. The HDD runs hotter than blue blazes. I can’t figure out why any of that is so, but I use my laptop for every thing. IOW, I don’t have a desktop. So, I really use it hard, carrying it back and forth to the office, home and of course, on the road. Lots of apps, lots of data, and lots of crap. I think I just beat up the consumer model harder than most would.
This time, I went with the Thinkpad T61 14″ model. Less flashy, sturdier, not as many bells and whistles, and a little heavier. The Thinkpad T60 was what I wanted when I bought the Vaio, but they didn’t have the Core2Duos in them yet. Now they do, and with a 160GB HDD to boot.
So, if you’re hard on a laptop, and I think I am harder than most, then the consumer models probably aren’t what you want. I don’t know how long you keep your laptops, either. I generally keep mine about a year and then upgrade. Sometimes I hit the wave perfect and get a machine that is the shiznit and can be re-purposed somewhere in the biz, and sometimes I don’t.
The Vaio is a very nice machine, and is superb if you don’t beat the crap out of it like I do. I’ve wavered on having a laptop+desktop setup so that I’m not so hard on them, but I’ve gotten really used to having everything I need to hand at all times. So you can get philosophical about them, too…for me it comes down to being worth it to spend a couple grand every 12-18 months to have what I need.
Don’t fret about Vista either…it’s got some flaws, but overall, it’s pretty nice.
July 18th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Thanks. I use a desktop at work and usually keep my laptop running next to it, as well as having a coupole desktops at home. I’m only on the road four or five days a month so I doubt I’m as hard on my laptop as you. I have intentionally driven the office to make everything server based, so nominally my data needs aren’t as great as my bandwidth needs when I’m out of the office and I use hard and soft VPNs for security. App-wise, it’s Office Project, Visio and a few extra tools to do about 98% of what I want to get done.
Sounds like the Vaio will meet my needs and get the weight and form factor down a bit from my current long in the tooth Dell.