Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• I've had a difficult week here; new dental problems have arisen, culminating in an unplanned root canal this past Thursday, followed almost immediately by a much-delayed flight from Denver to Chicago for an Easter visit, where they happened to be having a blizzard. (The

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[chris_gerrib]

Sorry to hear about your teeth problems. Traveling must have been extra difficult. (I was going to say "a pain" but that's probably not a pun to you.)

ouch

[happy_hacker]

Sorry your teeth are giving you trouble again/still. Hope that gets better soon. RE: crapware on laptops, if you'll forgive the inevitable plug, Apple does not do this. They have software on their system when you buy, sure, but if you don't want it, you drag it to the wastebasket and it goes away, and except for .mac, which nags you exactly twice when you first create an account on your mac, none of it is turned on by default.

I think you've hit the nail on the head about companies respecting their customers. I wish Apple was better about *that*, too, but at least, thus far, they've restrained themselves from pooing in new macs.

And you know, a macbook air would run Windows for you... ;)

-Jim

[alanajoli]

Heh, you can get a Dell sans Vista *now.* Ah well. We've gotten used to it, and the only thing that doesn't work with it at this point is Finale--although I did have to call up the DocuPen people and ask for the patch to make their scanning software work. :(

The lesson with Vista if you already have it is that you just have to expect any program you're installing to take twice as long to install, since you have to get error messages, patches, and what not to figure out what's wrong.

re: "worship with a light heart"

[apostle_of_eris]

It goes a lot further back than that.
The Name of the Rose is one of those rare books which makes me wish I knew more about what it's about so I'd get more of the jokes. But it's wonderful that at the earliest light of modernism, the pivotal controversy turns out to be whether Jesus ever laughed.