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May. 22nd, 2008 11:14 amThe flat is beginning to look more like a computer science lab every day. In addition to the the desks that we had before in the corner of the space, the dining table (not that we ever actually used it as such - it was more a holding space for bits of paper that nobody had looked at yet) has been converted into my work desk, complete with laptop dock and monitor. In total, from where I'm sitting there are now six screens of various sizes pointed at me.
Placed prominently on Whitney's desk is a new graphics tablet - her parents came up with the idea as a graduation gift, and through a combination of looking at online reviews and asking some artistic people I knew from mumblemumble, we found one that was suited to her needs as a future wildly successful book designer. She's already far better than me at using it - the action of hovering your stylus above the desk and then stabbing it down to click on things is something that I found very strange indeed (and I keep trying to drag it over in stages like you would a mouse instead of just pointing to the place on the pad that corresponds to the location on screen).
Incidentally, "mumblemumble" would be a fantastic name for a real website - it sounds like some sort of pointless social networking clone. But somebody has beaten me to it with a placeholder.
There has also been a mass moving-in of phones. When we arrived in Boston, we decided not to get a phone service because we didn't really need it - we had a mobile phone each, which was more than enough because of America's more permissive idea of phone service compared to Britain, and I don't even use mine a whole lot.
Now, as of yesterday, we have five of them. The two mobiles, a Voice Over IP phone provided by work that sits on my desk and has more buttons, screens and flashing lights than I know what to do with, a phone number accessible through Skype that we got for emergencies because of the lack of a land line and then never really used more than twice, and now, a landline put in by Comcast because thanks to their insane pricing structure it's actually about $40 a month cheaper for us to have a phone service compared to only having television and Internet from them. We've had it for just less than 18 hours, and a moment ago I received the first telemarketing call we ever got on it.
So if you ever want to talk to me voice to voice, dial America, 617 and then any combination of digits you like. Chances are it'll be me.
Placed prominently on Whitney's desk is a new graphics tablet - her parents came up with the idea as a graduation gift, and through a combination of looking at online reviews and asking some artistic people I knew from mumblemumble, we found one that was suited to her needs as a future wildly successful book designer. She's already far better than me at using it - the action of hovering your stylus above the desk and then stabbing it down to click on things is something that I found very strange indeed (and I keep trying to drag it over in stages like you would a mouse instead of just pointing to the place on the pad that corresponds to the location on screen).
Incidentally, "mumblemumble" would be a fantastic name for a real website - it sounds like some sort of pointless social networking clone. But somebody has beaten me to it with a placeholder.
There has also been a mass moving-in of phones. When we arrived in Boston, we decided not to get a phone service because we didn't really need it - we had a mobile phone each, which was more than enough because of America's more permissive idea of phone service compared to Britain, and I don't even use mine a whole lot.
Now, as of yesterday, we have five of them. The two mobiles, a Voice Over IP phone provided by work that sits on my desk and has more buttons, screens and flashing lights than I know what to do with, a phone number accessible through Skype that we got for emergencies because of the lack of a land line and then never really used more than twice, and now, a landline put in by Comcast because thanks to their insane pricing structure it's actually about $40 a month cheaper for us to have a phone service compared to only having television and Internet from them. We've had it for just less than 18 hours, and a moment ago I received the first telemarketing call we ever got on it.
So if you ever want to talk to me voice to voice, dial America, 617 and then any combination of digits you like. Chances are it'll be me.
