DIsgusting. It's like a milkshake made out of deer bodyparts.

For a while now I’ve been looking for a laptop. Obviously, I’m trying to get a bitchin deal, and still have a decent performing machine. The standardization of Vista on PC’s was pushing me towards Mac. Now, in Switzerland, decent Macs like the Pro or high end MacBooks are really expensive. I was looking for something 15” with a good processor and sufficient memory. The Macbook Pro with a 15” monitor, 2 GB cache, and 200 GB memory with an intel C2D 2.4 GHz processor starts 1,799 €. I don’t really feel like converting this to dollars, but it’s like $2,400 (equal in CHF, more importantly). So Mac was out of my broke vagabond price range. I spent a good amount of time looking for something with XP, but nothing that really fit my criteria. After seeing deal after deal on PC’s (with Vista- ugh), I finally found an Acer Aspire 5920. And it is loaded. Intel C2D 9300 2.5 GHz processor, 4 GB cache, 250 GB memory, 15” 1450 x 900 screen, and an intense GeForce 9500M graphic card. And it has Vista. Lame. But hopefully it won’t give me too much of a hard time. Why do they all hafta have Vista? Anyway, semi-comparable Macbook Pro (without such a rad graphic card) starts at 2,199 €. I did the math this time- thats 3474 USD. Yeah… can’t offord that. I mean, if I bought a computer in the US, it would be cheaper for me as I’m earning Swiss Francs, but I need the German keyboard (no point in having a laptop that doesn’t have a keyboard for the country I live in).

Oh I forgot the price. 1,499 CHF. With the exchange rate equal to the USD, it’s 1,500 dollars. Good deal. It was actually like 2,000 CHF, but it was marked down alot. Surprising as it is so well geared up. Either was, I’m just a little stoked right now. Next, I’m gonna hook up some Photoshop CS3,  eventually (hopefully soon) a new Canon 28-135 IS USM lens for my camera, and maybe I can start to focus on really making some good photos. It’s just been too hard to try to improve my photos with a garbage 28-80 kit lens with condensation inside and terrible focus, and no computer with a decent editing system.

So it’s on then.

Taste the sad, Michael

I’m over it.

I am about to go hella ballistic and rupture a jugular if it rains another day here. And I’m from the Northwest. I don’t think theres a place in the world with more rain than Portland Oregon. But at least it’s sunny in the middle of July there. I shouldn’t have to put on a rain jacket to ride my bike to work at 7:30 AM and change my clothes when I get to work. I’m a simple guy, all that my happiness requires is a few beers, some music, and dry pavement for my velo. But tonight I have to ride the train to class. In the words of Gob- “C’MON!”

That being said, I had a glass of wine from a 10 year old bottle with my pizza at lunch today. Things are lookin’ up.

and plus, we got them big guns you only see in science fiction

The ways that learning a new language will make you into an adolecent again…

Tonight in Deutsch class, we were going over homework. one sentance was “Ich bin [blank] Drogen.” They were looking for gegen- against. Instead what do I say? Auf. On. I am on drugs. And I’m so funny.

Later, we all as a class helped Miguel, von Cuba, distinguish the difference between schiessen and scheissen. It’s a big difference. Of course, we were all laughing like we were in the third grade.

Wie alt bin ich?