"Where's the printer port!!"

I know I've been saying this for at least six months now: obviously Kerry doesn't really "want" to win gthe election. He keeps flip-flopping, or chaning his mind or whatever you people call it and then saying he's been consistent the entire time. This will win an election? And I knew the libs would start acting wakier and wakier. I think I said that almost a year ago. And what do ya know? CBS fakes some stupiod story. What a shock! I suppose in good old days CBS never would have been caugt. But alas times have changed.

As I'm writing this I'm a watching a Japanese movie called Red Shadow. It's a non-animated Japanese language-only action movie. Only it's a little cheesy. Something close to the cheesyness of The Mummy but not quite as bad as say Power Rangers (which I never watched). Wierd music, wierd lines, a lot of night-time lense filters that aren't very convincing, still entertaining I suppose.

Also, I am writing this on a notebook I borrowed from work. So here I am, using a mac and not even complaining. An interesting thing about this notebook, I couldn't get it onto my secured LinkSys router wireless network. With the new USB thumb wifi card and my wifi-enabled PocketPC both were on the network rather quickly and easily. Perhaps the firmware of the rotuer needs to be updated. All I know is it's really, really annoying. So I'm borrowing the connection of a next door neighbor, with his permission of course.

And another thing: there's a reason laptops are now "notebooks" -- the manufactures don't want to encourage users to place the notebooks on their laps as too much heat is now generated. I say this of course as I'm improperly using the notebook on my lap.

I had the most interesting call this week. Seems this guy who sounded like he was from somewhere in the south wanted to hook up a damned printer and needed to know how. He then quickly added "and don't say the damn USB or I'm going to get really mad!!" or something to that effect. So I had to tell him the "parallel port" type printer connector does not come on Macintosh any more however there is suppoed be an adapter so you can still use parallel port-only printers. Somehow I really can't imagine a printer newer than five years that doesn't at least have both the old and USB type interfaces. That guy was fun.

  ¶ 1:00 PM