The beast is back! In renovating my bedroom, I brought back the 17" CRT monitor I had when I was a freshman and sophomore (it was the monitor that accompanied Desktop Luna). I've been using a Viewsonic LCD monitor from Junior year. This thing is huge! I've been using it for the past 15 minutes, and I think it might go back in the closet. After using LCDs as my primary display for the past 3 years, it's really hard to come back to a conventional monitor. Even though I have the monitor set at 85 Hz, I can still sense the flickering (try turning your head so that your peripheral vision views the monitor and then blink...you can tell). However, the colors on the monitor are so much better than the LCD screens. It seems much more saturated, and doesn't change when you look at it from the side.
I got my DSL connection today! The activation date wasn't until the 15th, but the PacBell guy came today to check out the connection. I just hooked the thing up and I was all set with my Internet connection. It's pretty neat how I can use my laptop around the house now with the wireless connection. Bad thing is though, that the wireless connection is very very limited. It can *barely* reach the furthest end of my house. At first, I was worried that a neighbor or someone might want to freeload, but I don't think it's a problem now. Now that I have my DSL, I should start responding to all the long emails that I've gotten. Can't hide behind the excuse that I only have a modem connection.
Did you see the women's curling event? Incredible. I still have to figure out the scoring system. But it was neat how I could understand a bit of what the Japanese team was saying too.
Posted by jupiterstar at February 13, 2002 02:31 AM