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Spend Thrift in the Geeklands
Jul. 19th, 2002 09:58 pmI'd typed a version of this a few minutes ago, but I accidentally deleted it. I typed this version as a text file and kept saving it locally. This may seem blatantly obvious, but I forget to do this every so often.
Now that I'm making money again, I let myself turn months of window-shopping into purchases today. I try to refrain from such splurges most of the time, but I'd been so good (and so broke) for so long that an eruption was my destiny.
The focus of my shopping was Maggie... well, her computer. Her machine is at my place for a while, so I'm upgrading it. I bought a stick of RAM so that her machine now has 256 meg instead of 128. I also bought her an optical trackball. Those pups used to be $70 but now sell for thirty. I'd say that's a fine bargain.
I also got myself some crap. I'd been wanting the Unix System Administration Handbook for several months, but I felt put off by the very cheesy front cover. (I judged a book by its cover, okay? I'm not prefect. I'm not even poifick, nor am I Pruferock.) Then![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
hakamadare mentioned it was how he went from newbie git to wunderkind, so i was intrigued again. During my wait, the 1994 version was replaced with the 2002 version, now called Linux Administration Handbook and now centred on the flavor of Unix recommended by doctors and those that play them on teevee.
( But wait, you also get... )
Now that I'm making money again, I let myself turn months of window-shopping into purchases today. I try to refrain from such splurges most of the time, but I'd been so good (and so broke) for so long that an eruption was my destiny.
The focus of my shopping was Maggie... well, her computer. Her machine is at my place for a while, so I'm upgrading it. I bought a stick of RAM so that her machine now has 256 meg instead of 128. I also bought her an optical trackball. Those pups used to be $70 but now sell for thirty. I'd say that's a fine bargain.
I also got myself some crap. I'd been wanting the Unix System Administration Handbook for several months, but I felt put off by the very cheesy front cover. (I judged a book by its cover, okay? I'm not prefect. I'm not even poifick, nor am I Pruferock.) Then
hakamadare mentioned it was how he went from newbie git to wunderkind, so i was intrigued again. During my wait, the 1994 version was replaced with the 2002 version, now called Linux Administration Handbook and now centred on the flavor of Unix recommended by doctors and those that play them on teevee.( But wait, you also get... )
