Big Long Now
21st April 2010 with 58 comments
I’ve had my laptop for about a year now. It wasn’t long after I got him that I named him Fin, after the Anberlin song. It’s a lovely song as well, I might add.
Then I named my iPhone Ben, after Ben Jorgensen. 
I know people talk about naming their belongings, but those are the only two belongings I have ever named. Don’t start on my toy plushies though, that’s a different story…
I don’t know how many of you have laptops, but when I first got mine, I was excited to be able to use it on the go and without any cords. I was amazed, but it also took me some time getting used to. A few times I sat on the train typing, thinking, “This is amazing that I can use a computer without needing power!” 
I love my laptop, but stemming from my previous post about my phobia of staples, I was also disappointed by a lot of the scratches that ended up on my laptop after only a few months of use. 
One of the scratches was from a staple from my worksheet. It left a really deep mark in my laptop lid. I was upset and even asked James if he could fill it up and fix it. In the end I decided that the repair wouldn’t really be worth it for a small (albeit deep) scratch, so I stuck a frog sticker on it. (Yes, frogs, random.)
I used to decorate my old phones and pencil cases with stickers. I don’t think that’s a good idea… eventually I got over the stickers, and I wanted to peel them off, but they left a gross residue. I hate that about stickers. 
I’m tempted to stick stickers on my laptop (okay, maybe I’m just trying to be like Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory… stupid wannabe-ness) but I’d better not.
Today I hooked up my laptop to my old 21-inch desktop monitor. James had been egging me to do it for ages. I just couldn’t be bothered sifting through the tangle of wires and plugging it in. But today I decided to find the cable into the old desktop CPU and connect it to my laptop.
It’s strange, because it’s all so big. The screen resolution is a bit different so some of my windows get cut off, but I think it’s a lot more comfortable as I can sit up properly and relax a bit more.
Today I was going to try and do my assignment, but I looked at the assignment sheet and immediately lost interest. 
I’ll have to pull everything together though… this sucks!
Oh and remember our new microwave…? I put in a container of beef stew and followed the instructions on the container – high for 2 minutes. At about 9 seconds left I was waiting near the microwave and suddenly there was a huge pop!
The lid had popped off and beef stew had splattered on the insides of the microwave. 
Obviously, it was stupid of me to seal the lid on the container so tightly. 
the name “Fin”. LOVE! Beyond LOVE. 
I totally learnt something from your blog. 
I should have just painted it all silver like James’s. 
Then I have to a million other things. I don’t know how you do it haha. I’m used to being lazy.
If you are feeling creative, hook it up with something, like George-John, Micheal-John. Or even Jon, Jhon, Jonn.
I’ve scratched my iPod several times and I’ve dropped my phone down the stairs.
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james
21st April 2010 at 10:39 pm
Finally, you wire up the screen. 8D
. It’s sort of like having two computers, really. The illusion is hard to shake 
Try a program like DisplayFusion; you can have different wallpapers on each screen. For maximum 
It’s Awesomeness; I used to do it all the time and I was all
Hahahahha that’s so cute
Exploding Soup!
It reminds me of a Simpsons episode where Moe puts an unopened can of baked beans on a barbecue, claiming it was to “seal in the flavour”
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Georgie
22nd April 2010 at 12:42 am
Yes I did.
But I didn’t use the two screens at once; it was kind of annoying and weird. I used just the big one.
Now I’m on my laptop and it’s so odd.
I don’t remember that episode… but after that happened, it only occurred to me how dumb it was to seal the lid so tightly.
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