Met with [Martion(http://www.martinlormes.de) for some Geek Food and Futurama. The Food consisted of Coke and Subway sandwiches. Now that is a way to spend a good evening! He borrowed me an Airport card for my trusty old iBook, but we – very quickly – moved back to wired LAN. 11 Mbit is, quite frankly, way too slow for anything except very small applications. Like fetching email or browsing the web. Transferring large files to the file server? You got to be kidding! Maybe Airport Extreme (54 Mbit) will work at an acceptable speed.
The installation of the airport card in my 12″ iBook was, quick and painless. though. Hey, I’ve also finally installed all the current updates of Mac OS X 10.2 – which took forever. I really, really need to get one of those drool inducing G4 iBooks ASAP. Screw Bush, I need a faster notebook to save my sanity.
Futurama: We watched “Obsoletely Famous”, “Bend Her”, “Three Hundred Big Boys” and, uh, the episode with the Space Bees. I love them, all of them. We wondered, however, what kind of drugs were used in the writing of the scripts.
Trivia of the day: The term “dingbat” is a typography term of obscure origin but has been used to describe decorative “characters” or symbols for a long time. It can also mean an “empty headed person” as an insult, and was seemingly used with gusto as the later by a character in the 70s TV show “All in the Family”.
