i am an unrequited astronomer, pretend patient, gentle adventurer, pedal enthusiast, recovering calligrapher, occasional thespian and unfinished poet living in portland, oregon. contacting me via email is usually a good idea.
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came back to fyrezone because i wanted to try the laptop experience, which is really, really.... uh.... awful. they end up having to unplug a computer & shove it not-entirely-out-of-the-way to connect the ethernet cable to the back of my laptop. and the only place to do this is in the uncomfortable bar area with tall tall chairs.
but first, they wanted to see my computer to make sure it would "handle being connected to a t1" but they balked when they saw my mac & insisted it wouldn't be possible. they don't use dhcp, which would make life much easier, so they had to track the tech guy down to give me the tcp/ip info (who also gave me the "i don't know anything about macs" speech).
otoh, they're having some big meeting behind me of the bigwigs which is remotely interesting to listen to, in part because they're -so- clueless. and it is, of course, all men in suits. i can't decide if i'm going to be happy if they make it or appalled. ;)