My name's Jai....
Aug. 6th, 2003 10:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tyggerjai... and I've got a problem.
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bunnikins was letting me take hardware home, I was able to hide the extent of it. I could kid myself that it was under control - I could keep it in the computer room, and keep my "real" life seperate. I wasn't addicted - I didn't *need* new hardware, it was just fun to play with. Right?
The first danger sign, of course, is when those you love suggest that you might have a problem. At that point, you either seek help, or you start to hide things. So the powermac 7200 (heck, UniMelb were *giving* them away) became the third computer on my desk at work. It's for testing browser compatibility across a broad range of platforms. Honest. And it's a bit old and slow, so the beige G3 arriving today is so I can run Mac OSX (albeit slowly) for an even broader range. Honest. And I *probably* won't buy the Mac laptop my workmate is selling, but it's cheap(ish), I have a tax return coming in, and, well, I always wanted to be a Mac weenie. It's not addiction, I'm just broadening my horizons beyond the narrow world of Intel.
Honest.
I can stop anytime I want. But we really need a decent printer....
sol.
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bunnikins was letting me take hardware home, I was able to hide the extent of it. I could kid myself that it was under control - I could keep it in the computer room, and keep my "real" life seperate. I wasn't addicted - I didn't *need* new hardware, it was just fun to play with. Right?The first danger sign, of course, is when those you love suggest that you might have a problem. At that point, you either seek help, or you start to hide things. So the powermac 7200 (heck, UniMelb were *giving* them away) became the third computer on my desk at work. It's for testing browser compatibility across a broad range of platforms. Honest. And it's a bit old and slow, so the beige G3 arriving today is so I can run Mac OSX (albeit slowly) for an even broader range. Honest. And I *probably* won't buy the Mac laptop my workmate is selling, but it's cheap(ish), I have a tax return coming in, and, well, I always wanted to be a Mac weenie. It's not addiction, I'm just broadening my horizons beyond the narrow world of Intel.
Honest.
I can stop anytime I want. But we really need a decent printer....
sol.
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Date: 2003-08-05 07:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-06 02:35 am (UTC)Quick print that out, you may need to use it later.
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Date: 2003-08-06 07:18 pm (UTC)I've been telling myself that for years.
But we really need a decent printer....
Might be able to sort that out tomorrow.
Either an old HP LaserJet, or an Apple Laserwriter of some sort.
Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 07:40 pm (UTC)We have a gamecube!
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Re: Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 09:31 pm (UTC)Do we have any games for it? Or are you just going to set it up and sit in front of it worshipfully? :)
Re: Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 09:53 pm (UTC)He might lend us Tetris world.
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Re: Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 09:57 pm (UTC)Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 10:07 pm (UTC)You could go over and burgle him this afternoon. Then we'd never have to give them back!
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Re: Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-06 11:32 pm (UTC)Better buy your own copy of the game, then.
Re: Mmm.
Date: 2003-08-07 05:47 pm (UTC)Did you know you can play the games for these things on a PC? The discs are readable in a standard DVDrom drive.