how do i love degrassi

okay, so i am now watching the third ep including the new trans guy, and nothing has been made of the fact he is trans. He's just one of the new kids, it's not a very special plotline, just one of the guys in the group sav goes to the concert with, and even when the bully's attention gets to him, it's as a guy, not about the trans thing.

eta- okay the trans thing has kinda come up, when Adam tries to overcompensate, and sympathize when eli gets kicked in the balls, and Adam is all "oh, god, I hate when that happens, it hurts sooo bad" and eli just gives his little whatever eyebrow. So it's not even that Adam is "passing" as maab, just that he is accepted as such.

things what are going poorly

I can't find my cell phone. It is my only phone, so I can't call it to look for it. I'm just going to wait til someone calls me and see if I can find it then, I guess.

Something I ate yesterday is trying to kill me. I just ignored the IBS because "hey, a wedding!" and ate some of everything, and now i am paying for it hard. My stomach woke me up this morning even.

re the new shiny

omg, I love it soooo much. I hadn't realized how busted my old machine was even when it was "working." watching vids on a screen that isn't dimmed and miscolored is amazing! having ALL the keys work, omg! having more memory on my main drive than it takes to run my os! ASTOUNDING!


Also, zareason has an "open hardware warranty" policy. this means it comes with a screwdriver and a notice that I can open it up and put in whatever bells and whistles I like, and not only does it not void the warranty, they encourage it.



adding from my enthusiastic follow up comments :

And they're linux specific! and basically a family company that started because their kids were into computer geekery and they really support the open source movement as a philosophy. and just all community oriented. kids work there! I heard about them through sumanah. they rock. also, when I first heard of them I dropped them a line asking whether they were going to develop a netbook, and they responded within 24 hours.

they just seem to be in it for the right reasons, y'know?

and this is like, the tiniest thing, but I was just on their linux merch page, and the shirts are labeled ""Friends Help Friends Use Linux" T-shirt" and "Friends help friends use Linux, men's" defaulting to women's. little things, but fuck yeah.

and my home button? has an ubuntu logo on it.

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y'know, i am supposed to be unpacking all the things again today. but I am busy imprinting this chair with my ass all day.

chattage

I think I finally have empathy configured right, and I have enabled the lj chat jabber thing and gchat on it. so if you wanted to chat with me, I am maevele there too

Bear's assing up again

http://fiction-theory.livejournal.com/188353.html

eeerg

something has gone wrong with the new computer. it can not get to the os, basically. I can boot it on a usb, and the install menu is all "already got ubuntu 10.4, sure you wanna install the one on the drive" so it's still THERE, but if i start it without the drive, blackscreen. what did i do? I can't even work out how to google this, so help me.


and fixed itself. idefk