Broadband, baby!

[resonant]

We've got DSL now, and I've been celebrating by, you know, looking at YouTube videos and downloading music and doing all the stuff that normal people have been doing for the last seven years. (Anybody got any Caetano Veloso they think I'd like? Or any Dan Bern for someone who adores "Jane" but has never heard any of the other songs?)

Also, I have a new e-mail address, which is in my LJ profile, in case you wanted to e-mail me anything.

The spouse bought a new Windows laptop, which is making him swear a lot. The spouse is the classic absent-minded professor sort, and he really just wants the computer to read his mind and provide him with content so he won't have to remember that, for instance:

- "that little colorful round thing" at the bottom left of his screen is the Start icon, or that
- tech support can't help you if you use the words "thing," "icon," "button," "checkbox," "document," and "program" interchangeably, or that
- laptops have batteries that need to be charged occasionally.

Which makes me the in-house tech help. Huh.

When I get an alert on my Mac, I pretty much always know what it means. But Windows computers are always popping up alert boxes that say incomprehensible things ("Warning! You have begun to arglefrast the whoopthruster without first unhembling the manifrost! Continue or Cancel?"), and from what I've seen, Windows people just seem to be in the habit of clicking the little X and going blithely on.

These mixed marriages are always complicated.

Comments

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Res! Res res res! There are so many cool things to show you, res! OMG! Vids!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Jerusalem (http://www.sendspace.com/file/hqfeo7) by Dan Bern. It makes me happy. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Wow, he really sounds a lot like Bob Dylan. You don't hear that in "Jane," which is just, you know, poppy and happy.

Thanks for this!

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Whooooooo hoooooooo for broadband! The fact that my sweetie & I work online has justified broadband for us for many years. I can't imagine living without it. I'd sooner give up my phone. ...infact I'd easily give up my phone :D

The spouse is a fool to leave Macs behind. Windows is not only not user friendly, a PITA to learn and use, counterintuitive and unstable but it's vulnerable not only to attacks from the web but to your own user stupidity and ignorance. I remember switching to Windows for the first time going - omg! I can screw up the operating system without warning? What idiot designed this thing?????

I have to use Windows for my work & I can't WAIT to be able to afford an intel Mac & run the operating systems side by side. Gimme back my Maaaaaaaaac!

But hey - welcome to the world of BLINDING SPEEEEEEEEED :D It's addictive!

[lilac-way.livejournal.com]

"Mixed marriages" -- hee.

[cardalia.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the broadband! Here's Dan Bern.zip (http://www.sendspace.com/file/6j73y5) (21 MB) for you. It has Wasteland, Oklahoma, Live Another Day, Cure for AIDS and Talkin' Alien Abduction Blues. I hope you enjoy!

Good luck with the mixed marriage. ;-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Listening to them now. "Live Another Day" has some weird issue with the file -- it plays the first thirty seconds over and over -- but the rest of them are fine.

[cardalia.livejournal.com]

No problem, I found them on LJ too so it's just good karma to pass them on! But yeah, my "Live Another Day" has that glitch too, I'd just forgotten about it. It's a shame, but I don't seem to have another version of it. Let's hope you get some more offerings. :)

[giglet.livejournal.com]

I'm going to assume that you've been pointed at the wonderful vids on Imeem.

But just in case you missed this (non-fannish music vid): The "Okay Go" treadmill video is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5OODfMo_0Y

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Oh, also... that damned whoopthruster always complains, but even if you don't
unhemble the manifrost first, it usually does what you beat it into doing. Just not what you want it to do...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I do hate Windows with a pleasant passion.

Spouse = hilarious.

[reginagiraffe]

LOL! We just got highspeed at home (I've had it at work forever) and MrGiraffe has DISCOVERED YOUTUBE. Every day it's, "Hey honey, you know what's really cool? YOUTUBE!" Um, yes, dear. *patpat*

I have to admit, though, that being able to download gay porn? Is WICKED COOL! *g*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I've got lots of Caetano. Here are two from that CD of Brazilian music produced by David Byrne:

Ile Ale (http://www.box.net/shared/lrdjv7o3hl)

Queixa (http://www.box.net/shared/97pjx5y1px)

Now you need to join something like audiography or lunatunes. :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Thanks. As I said above, I'm not actually familiar with his music, but they wrote it up in the New Yorker and it sounded interesting.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

If there's a particular song they mentioned, let me know, becuase I have the "Best of Caetano Veloso" -- always a likely source. In fact I have a lot of Brazilian er, world, uh, all kinds of music to share.

[dunv-i.livejournal.com]

Huh, it's weird, but I seem to be the only person in this universe who's only had their PC blow up on them once during a 10+ relationship, and I didn't even lose anything. I just had to dig out my Windows 2000 disk and pop it in and moan about the lack of internet for a day or two.

But yeah, Windows people just go straight for the cancel...