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ellarienToday I went to the Pyramids in Egypt, the Coliseum in Rome, and the Forbidden City, not to mention the coast of Antarctica, the Cape of Good Hope, the Dead Sea, Washington, Manhattan, and a few remote observatories.
Yes, I installed Google Earth, and I'm impressed. The computer has mostly been behaving itself today, once we got past the chicken-dance necessary to boot it up, but it looks as though putting it in the under-desk hutch won't work for the wireless. The previous desktop had an external USB wireless adapter that sat somewhere around the desk, and that worked fine, mostly, but this one has the wireless built in with the antenna low down on the back of the case.
Tomorrow I'm off again for real, for a conference in Boulder. What to pack is a bit of a puzzle; it looks as though it should be considerably cooler than it has been here, almost out the other side of pretty tops and skirts and into long-pants territory. Unfortunately, my long pants mostly don't inhabit quite the same color space as my temperate-summer/Arizona fall wardrobe; my winter colors run mostly to black, purple, and dark red, while spring and fall are for brown and beige and sage green, and in high Arizona summer I don't care as long as it fits and is washable. Also, my current winter jacket is too heavy for most purposes; I've taken it on two trips this year where I've never worn it at all, and it's a bit bulky to carry around for the fun of it.
Yes, I installed Google Earth, and I'm impressed. The computer has mostly been behaving itself today, once we got past the chicken-dance necessary to boot it up, but it looks as though putting it in the under-desk hutch won't work for the wireless. The previous desktop had an external USB wireless adapter that sat somewhere around the desk, and that worked fine, mostly, but this one has the wireless built in with the antenna low down on the back of the case.
Tomorrow I'm off again for real, for a conference in Boulder. What to pack is a bit of a puzzle; it looks as though it should be considerably cooler than it has been here, almost out the other side of pretty tops and skirts and into long-pants territory. Unfortunately, my long pants mostly don't inhabit quite the same color space as my temperate-summer/Arizona fall wardrobe; my winter colors run mostly to black, purple, and dark red, while spring and fall are for brown and beige and sage green, and in high Arizona summer I don't care as long as it fits and is washable. Also, my current winter jacket is too heavy for most purposes; I've taken it on two trips this year where I've never worn it at all, and it's a bit bulky to carry around for the fun of it.
