Google Laptop!

Last night (well, tuesday night) I came home and there was a package waiting for me.  I figured it was something from Amazon that I had a recurring subscription for, but alas, it was not.  Instead, it was a Google ChromiumOS Laptop!  OMG WOOHOO!!

And though I was going to play with it in stock form for a while, I ended up not being able to wait 24 hours before putting it into dev mode and installing ubuntu.  Mainly because I wanted to use this thing as a megasquirt tune box running Megatunix.  And so far, Megatunix runs and everything - I haven't hooked it up to the keyspan I've got nor to the actual megasquirt box, but that will come soon enough.

All in all, I'm really enjoying this little laptop. It's a bit smaller than I'd honestly prefer, but it has most of the features I'd want in a laptop (plus a SSD!).  It's reasonably fast, though it could probably use a bit more ram even under linux.  No cdrom, but honestly that isn't as big of an issue as you might think.  Most everything can be dropped onto a usb stick or sd card, and this has both a usb (just one!) and a sd card slot.  It wakes up instantly, and even when shut down completely it takes maybe 5 seconds to boot to a login screen.

I think the biggest thing it has going for it is that now I won't have to turn on the behemoth of a desktop (quad-core, 8gb ram, 2+tb storage, dual monitors, beefy video card) every time I want to simply browse the web.  My phone does a reasonably decent job of that, but even a 4" screen is sometimes too small.

JourneyQuest

I'm sure there aren't many people (if any) who read this, but I'll post this anyway.  JourneyQuest ROCKS.

  I really enjoy this little web show, and they need donations to make a season 2.  Donate a couple of bucks and help a cool show stay alive.

Not Even Buzzed Yet...

But hey, gotta start somewhere, right?  Starting this shit over because I can, and you know, why the hell not?  I won't bore you with car trivia here like I would over there, so at least you're safe in that respect.  But other than that, all bets are off.

Not much to report right now though.  I won't be rehashing stuff that went on in the past (unless of course it makes for good backstory) so you'll have to wait until something interesting happens to me IN REAL TIME.  Yes, I realize that this is completely against the way the intardnetz works, but deal with it.