I’d truly intended to write up that post directly, but I got distracted.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, I’d started to notice that my laptop (purchased in August ’02, just before I started at Tufts), would occasionally have this weird issue where the screen refresh would go wonky and everything on the screen would start shifting oddly to one side as I scrolled or moved a window around. Once this happened, it was only a matter of time before the computer crashed, and when it came back on, it kept saying that the problem was a result of the Graphics card device driver not being able to complete a drawing operation.<\/p>\n
My diagnosis was that the thing was overheated (or I had a really strange spyware on my machine, but I never have been able to find out what it was, if it existed) and taking the laptop out of my lap usually prevented the issue from recurring again for some time. Until this summer, when it began to happen with a frequency that was enough to be annoying.<\/p>\n
Rather than wait until the screen gave out entirely, and since the computer was already 4, I ordered a new Toshiba from their online store. And that was what distracted me — they were having a big sale at the time, so along with the computer, for an additional $20, I also got a USB drive, a nylon carrying case, a photo printer, and a wireless-G router. (And the computer itself costed $500 less than the old laptop had.) Naturally, all of these items shipped separately, so I spent a week and a half refreshing on UPS’s tracking site, watching my items travel across the country.<\/p>\n
The final shipment (the computer), was finally dispatched on the 14th, from Shanghai, which tracking journey proved to be the most entertaining, as it somehow traveled from Shanghai to Beijing and back again in the space of one hour, then arrived in Alaska at 2:49 PM when it was only 10 AM in Alaska at the time. But then, we all know that funny things happen when you engage a warp drive in the atmosphere of a planet…<\/p>\n
In any case, it arrived last Wednesday and I’ve spent the last week or so getting the settings just how I like and using the iPod to transfer files over from the old computer and playing several games which would not run on the crappy graphics card in the old computer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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