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Sep. 6th, 2004 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cleolindaTWENTY-FIVE FIFTY BOOYAH!
Let me spell it out: $2550.17 after ten percent off, no shipping charges: Dimension 8400 Series desktop, with an Intel Pentium 4 Processor 530 (3.0GHz. Not the fastest, but he said it would serve me just fine); 1GB DDR2 SDRAM at 400MHz (I don't know. 400Mhz good! FIRE BAAAD!); 17 in Digital Flat Panel Display with attachable speaker bar (awwwww YE-AH); 160GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM. UNH! HURTS SO GOOD!); Microsoft Windows XP Professional; 48x CD-RW and 16X DVD+RW dual drives; Sonic RecordNow Plus and MyDVDDeluxe Software (whatever that is) for aforementioned Dual LayerDVD+RW Drives; Intel Pro 1000 Integrated PCI NIC Card (read: "Stuff I probably need"); portable USB Memory Key, 64MB, and a floppy drive anyway just in case; Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit ADVANCED HD Audio,100dB/Dolby Digital/96KHz/7.1 (I have no idea but it has an exclamation point! AND CAPITALS! so it must be GOOD!); 4 Year Limited Warranty; Express Tech Support (read: I get pushed to the front of the tech support line, bitches!), 4 Years. And I paid for it all myself, and only went $50 over budget. And that's only after I upgraded the printer/scanner/copier/missile launcher. (Did I tell you I got one? Because I DID.) And I got ten percent off on the whole schmoo. It ought to come in some time next week.
Translation: My ePenis is SO BIG right now. And you know what's most impressive about that? I'm a GIRL.
(I still love the Something Awful "ePenis" concept, by the way. The article's dated more than a year ago and I still love it: "Besides, there are a plethora of exciting and innovative topics you can base your own personal website on, including [but not limited to]: A daily journal detailing your favorite foods and math teachers [NOTE: webpage must be updated every 19 seconds or else you might lose readers who absolutely need to know what song you're currently playing in WinAmp].")
Also: Have converted Sister Girl to the Holy Church of Harry Potter. She despised the books and movies on principle, just because everyone loved them and made such a huge fuss about them. (She has dropped Orlando Bloom for the same reason, by the way--she was an early-adopter fan, coming in like six months before FOTR because I always had advance pictures and things, but now he's JUST TOO POPULAR OMG.) But she decided that if she was going to hate the series, she might as well see it first, and since I was watching the first one for the book anyway... And I felt her resistance crumbling and swooped in with a one-two Sorcerer's Stone-Chamber of Secrets punch. I believe the Oliver Wood kid is what sealed the deal for her, although she also likes Hermione, "because she's the girl." Also, she played with my wand. No, that is not a euphemism--I won a wand in a CHUD contest a few years back. It's a long story and involves poetry, but suffice it to say that it was a Warner Bros. promotional item and, except for "HARRY POTTER" machine-carved into the handle, is a perfect movie replica. And Sister Girl enjoyed it muchly, although she failed at casting spells on the dog. I'm sure she'll be writing smutty Oliver Wood/Moaning Myrtle fanfic by the end of the week. I believe my work here today is done.
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Date: 2004-09-06 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:11 pm (UTC)and HOT DAYUM THAT IS A NICE COMP
*jealous*
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:11 pm (UTC)If I weren't in a habit of ripping my CDs and taking lots of digital photos, I'm sure that I wouldn't come close to filling 10G.
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Date: 2004-09-07 09:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-07 07:34 am (UTC)that said, YAY for new computers!! and you never fail to entertain me.
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:04 pm (UTC)Nifty, shiny toys. So not only do you get the fame and glory of being in print, you get KEWL STUFF because of it.
It's your world, and we're just payin' rent.
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 10:21 pm (UTC)$2500 is a QUARTER OF YOUR ADVANCE?? Holy SHIT.
::rethinks aim of publishing small-press lesbian books::
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Date: 2004-09-06 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-06 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 11:20 pm (UTC)I've been on about how I should write Harlequin novels in addition to real stuff (pen name Sasha Montgomery [like it?] on the Harlequin crap, and my real name on the "real" stuff) for months now, but my mother's mouth twists up so and she seems so genuinely upset at the prospect that I'm having a hard time with it. Maybe I'll just do it without telling her. Though then she'd wonder where all the money was coming from (I owe my parents college money and they would definitely notice if the payments started coming promptly and without explanation, heh heh.)
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Date: 2004-09-07 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:15 pm (UTC)I believe his name is Sean Biggerstaff. Which is one of the only last names worse than "Wood" or "Woody".
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Date: 2004-09-07 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-06 09:33 pm (UTC)If your sister starts writing fanfics then your work has just begun.
Congrats on your shiny spanking new ePenis.
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Date: 2004-09-06 09:48 pm (UTC)Am I an early-adopter to your blog? What about to driving a Saturn? Drinking Gatorade? Conundrums.
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Date: 2004-09-06 10:24 pm (UTC)Buy me a milkshake?
Translation: My ePenis is SO BIG right now. And you know what's most impressive about that? I'm a GIRL.
Bwahahaha! My ePenis was HUGE after I bought my Dell three years ago. People at work--guys at work, big butch security guards at work--were asking about it.
I'm a lot quieter now.
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Date: 2004-09-06 10:32 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-09-06 10:37 pm (UTC)Show me the man who doesn't live for those words.
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Date: 2004-09-06 11:59 pm (UTC)My computer is running like a dog with two legs. Poor thing will have to be put down shortly. At the moment its as though I'm suffering from congenital micro-ePenis!
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Date: 2004-09-07 12:05 am (UTC)And all I have now is hardcore hardware envy. *is green*
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Date: 2004-09-07 01:10 am (UTC)She has dropped Orlando Bloom
Now to convince the rest!
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Date: 2004-09-07 05:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-07 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-07 02:03 am (UTC)hah, someday I'll have enough money to get something better than this, once 5 year old, now ten year old computer.
eat 500MHz bitches!
"I am inflamed beyond the power of modesty!"
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Date: 2004-09-07 04:25 am (UTC)My baby? a 5 yr old, 433 AMD K6-2 laptop, maxed out at 192 mb RAM and all of a whopping 6 gig of storage. And a tiny screen. But it does have a dvd drive. So it's an overpriced word processor and dvd player at this point. :)
Congrats on the advance and the new ePenis. :)
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Date: 2004-09-07 07:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-09-07 06:50 pm (UTC)Yeah yeah him. C3PO, 3po for short. Yes, after _that_ C3PO. And he is kinda cute for being relatively dumb. Star Wars stickers and a great big Hack Mozilla sticker. :)
Still- I've got major envy. Everyone I know is getting new machines! And awesome machines at that! Here's to you getting yours very very soon. :)
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Date: 2004-09-07 04:38 am (UTC)I am also very very VERY jealous of your new computer. The jealously seethes and burns.
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Date: 2004-09-07 05:01 am (UTC)(Man I love that article...)
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Date: 2004-09-07 05:42 am (UTC)Since I figure you've got approximately 3 zillion more readers than I have, I'm gonna pimp my Gmail invites here or I'll never get rid of the damn things. Anyone wants 1 gig of webmail space, send email to despotliz @ livejournal.com You can mount them as a Linux filesystem (http://richard.jones.name/google-hacks/gmail-filesystem/gmail-filesystem.html), you know.
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Date: 2004-09-07 05:42 am (UTC)Sister Girl
Date: 2004-09-07 10:08 am (UTC)ENVY CLEO'S RAM, BITCHES!!