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Computer tally: 11
Aug. 28th, 2005 04:43 pmMy brother Jamie's 19th was today. After pretending that I'd given him the gigantic pile of pants that we'd got for cheap in LiDL the other week, my present to him was a copy of the original Myst, which I had noticed for about £3 at the newsagents in the airport when I was there at the beginning of June, and had gone back a couple of weeks ago on the chance that it was still there. It seems cheap of me, but I couldn't really think of anything more appropriate.
His main gift, though, was a new computer from my dad. It was bought from Grampian Electronics, the best electronics place in Aberdeen, and I expected it to be a normal beige box like my own. Instead, it's a black and silver titan with a ghostly blinking blue light at the front. It has been christened "Dalek" in its network properties, and is set up next to my own, making it feel very threatened indeed. The first thing it did when we connected it up was make my computer change its network name because it wasn't happy with it, no matter how many times I told it that I had had the name "NEWTON" first. I also find it strange how a network was easily set up with Windows 98, but with XP I had to enter the IP addresses to use manually.
I'm also fascinated by the monitor. Mine looks like the biggest television in the world next to its TFT flat-panel sleekness. And even its keyboard tries to be better than mine, with a row of programmable keys across the top. The only thing that's wrong with Grampian Electronics is that they sell people early GeForce graphics cards under the mistaken belief that they're any good.
So the rest of today's been spent playing UT and Quake 3, with winning at the latter being a completely new experience for me because of only really having played against![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dunqn before. In fact, I'm not sure where the last six hours went. I tried starting another UT map, but I was quickly reminded by UnrealEd how soul-destroyingly useless I was at it and gave up.
His main gift, though, was a new computer from my dad. It was bought from Grampian Electronics, the best electronics place in Aberdeen, and I expected it to be a normal beige box like my own. Instead, it's a black and silver titan with a ghostly blinking blue light at the front. It has been christened "Dalek" in its network properties, and is set up next to my own, making it feel very threatened indeed. The first thing it did when we connected it up was make my computer change its network name because it wasn't happy with it, no matter how many times I told it that I had had the name "NEWTON" first. I also find it strange how a network was easily set up with Windows 98, but with XP I had to enter the IP addresses to use manually.
I'm also fascinated by the monitor. Mine looks like the biggest television in the world next to its TFT flat-panel sleekness. And even its keyboard tries to be better than mine, with a row of programmable keys across the top. The only thing that's wrong with Grampian Electronics is that they sell people early GeForce graphics cards under the mistaken belief that they're any good.
So the rest of today's been spent playing UT and Quake 3, with winning at the latter being a completely new experience for me because of only really having played against
dunqn before. In fact, I'm not sure where the last six hours went. I tried starting another UT map, but I was quickly reminded by UnrealEd how soul-destroyingly useless I was at it and gave up.
