Megs of RAM!*

Yay, new computer for James!

It's a sleek new laptop, too. Primarily so that I can be cool and take it to coffee shops and use their wireless networking. (I'm so happy wireless networking has taken off. That's one of the few things I adopted early that actually panned out.)

Amusingly, the tiny laptop I'm getting kicks the ass of my current desktop. It's got three times the processing power, four times the megs of RAM, and five times the disk space. This is because my desktop was built in 1999, right as I started at Georgia Tech. And right now that seems like a hella, hella long time ago. (It's got a Pentium III, for pity's sake. Had the Internet even been invented yet?)

Anyway, I finally decided it's time to ditch it. When I turn it on, it makes this awful rattling noise, like an old car trying to start up. It can barely run the new Firefox browser. How did I let it get this bad? I'm a computer scientist, goddammit. I should be ashamed. Look for me at Starbucks.

(*-"Megs of RAM" is our trademark computer nerd phrase. If you want to make me feel ashamed of my dorkiness, simply yell this at me. Preferably using Andrew's voice.)