Looks great! I'm not going to get involved in that at midnight, though. Adding to my freetime list.

Are you going to First Friday, btw?

I think I will drop by First Friday. Supposed to take a buddy of mine to Tanuki for izakaya chow that night...

...but don't see why I can't see why I can't come by FF first...

I'm on the fence right now, but maybe I'll feel inspired on Friday.

sheesh... must be tired, can't keep track of what I've written while in the middle of a sentence.

Think I likely will drop by...

I don't suppose you'd have that computer I haven't seen with you!

Plurk's April 1st gag is pretty funny.

I didn't see it...

Ah, I would have it.

[computer I haven't seen] [with you], not [computer [I haven't seen with you]], of course

I managed to parse it...

both are true, at least

Other than having a 160 GB HDD, it's pretty similar to your machine.

...hmm, has an express card slot, though

one less USB

I like that it's matte black and looks like a little business laptop -- Lenovo-style.

Your keyboard might be slightly larger. My trackpad is considerably better...

A little bit bigger keyboard can make a lot of difference -- you would be fine with either with your precission little robot fingers.

ha, yes, Andrew calls them elf fingers, and tiny keyboards are quite sufficient. And yeah, the eee trackpad sucks.

Fortunately for me, I don't have big iron worker hands...

For full-size, I really like the keyboard on my Dell XPS M1330. Just the right amount of springiness and snap for me.

Like it much better than the MacBook keyboard.

I might buy myself a burly 15 inch Dell laptop at some point in the not too distant future. I think Lenovo probably inherited the best...

...keyboards. IBM ThinkPads were very nice keyboard-wise...

Dell makes some laptops with very good build quality of late...

My Dell is a year old now and I'm not tired of it yet. Unheard of!

...for sure.

Wish I could have GarageBand on it, and I wouldn't need the Mac. That's all I use it for.

I think I need a laptop with a discrete processor... doesn't need to be able to run Crysis or anything...

Are there insurmountable problems with installing OSX on it?

discrete GPU, that is...

Haven't checked in a while, but last I read, audio is the toughest part...and the thing I need most.

Macs used to be so exciting...now I have little use for them.

There was an app workaround for my S10... got audio functioning

I might should look into it again. That'd make me pretty happy. (How do you like my double modal?)

Might be a .kext out there to solve the problem now.

I dig double modals

I <3 them. My mom used TRIPLE modals, only when mad: "You MIGHT should oughtta think about it!!!"

I get some semantic something out of them ... they don't violate any native-speaking sensibilities of mine.

wow!

Yes! It's different than...single modals or other ways of saying a similar thing.

I think so, but I couldn't explain it...

there's some kind of swirling lava lamp of uncertainty that undulates between the two of them, making me feel pleasantly woozy

and no, I'm not on drugs right now

I'm a weird cat with a similar education and thus know just what you mean...

It's like you are sliding an analog qualification meter when you stack them up ... of course, I could just be high on weed, which I am.

It's a heavy liquid! And feels lovely when it shifts the balance between the two modals.

On a slightly different topic -- I once was told by a toddler, upon asking her to do something, that "I can't want to.."

Oh, I love that.

Maybe she _wants_ to want to...

cut right to the illusory, epiphenomenal nature of the delusion of free will...

I just saw a FB thread imploring people to get into a discussion on free will vs. determinism, but I'm wayy too tired for that.

That's a bit much at this hour...

I feel like staying up all night, which means I ought to go to bed immediately.

You should audit "Philosophy of Mind" in the Philosophy dept. at PSU... prof. is the department head.

I'll try to make it to FF. Think you'll be there around 4 if you're going out later with your friend?

!!!!! Yes!

This term? Has it already started?

Hmmm.. don't think it is offered this term.

Twice a year, I think

or perhaps once a year

I'll look for it.

The professor is a Finn, and a real character

Oh, you mean whatsisface? Tom? Blond ponytail

www.philosophy.pdx.edu/f...

Tom...

Yep, Sepp.

yeah

That's him

I've taken two classes with him.

Yes?

Very entertaining.

ah...

UNST class...science & pseudoscience

Not very PC...sometimes offends female students

and Philosophy of Science

Ha ha ha...that's actually one of the things I find very entertaining.

Yep, that's his stuff

But it's quite unfair -- if that were coming from someone who were 80 and hideous, I'd probably be offended.

I think the Philosophy of Mind class is his big class

hehe

He's a bit charming

You say that as though it's a bad thing.

I guess I just like people who let it all hang out, propriety be damned.

I would go out on class breaks and smoke cigs with him and argue...

Side note: I think it's funny how plurking has become IM. Had a "chat" like this with someone else yesterday.

Yeah... don't see why you shouldn't have IM built into this sort of stuff...

Well, this works in an ad hoc kind of way. Except that it's public, but -- whatever.

All these sessions are public?

Ah well

Unless you start it as a private message. Then maybe the rest is private too, I would think.

Fosters focused conversations on particular topics, perhaps... yeah, I'll be by FF early, either with or before meeting my Anarcho-Socialist

...Vassar drop-out friend.

ha ha

Just tried to test sending a private message, but couldn't -- I think it's because we're not officially "friends"

Ah... confused on that distinction on Plurk

yeah, me too. I think "fans" are followers, and "friends" are mutual fans

Added you as a "friend"

already sent you a test private plurk

There's lots of potential with this Plurk... if they could do a much fancier interface...

Super-slick heavier graphical transition pop-out IM and such... all shiny -- people would dig it.

I kind of like the simplicity and cartoonishness of it, but the kids, they like the shiny. Of course, that could just be theming.