So, yesterday I received two emails stating that the XO is in the warehouse and will soon be shipped. Like, hello, it’s been there for days if the email before is anything to go by. Still no tracking etc. news. And definitely not delivery!
Jan 29 2008
Under serious consideration
I have to pay my credit card bill by Monday. No problem except my XO laptop charge is on it. So I called my credit card company. What happens if something I bought never showed up? I won’t even be charged interest as long as I make the claim by Monday.
I am seriously considering making that claim.
I mean, what if they *never* send it to me?
Jan 27 2008
Meat = Bad Eats
NYT | Rethinking the Meat Guzzler
For me there is nothing to rethink, but for the rest of you… quite possibily there is:
Continue reading “Meat = Bad Eats”
Jan 26 2008
I have joined the G1G0 group.
You will remember that the moniker was G1G1 — Give One Get One — for the OLPC campaign. Well, I have joined the G1G0 — Give One Get Zero — thread in the forum. (You can find my response on page 8. )
Why? Because I received the “we will ship to you next week” email and a whole week of business days has come and gone and no OLPC.
Jan 18 2008
Dr. Clevergirl, PhD.
Yes, it is true. I am now a PhD.
I wonder if this means I’ll need to find a new raison d’etre for the blog?
The defense went well. I was a bit nervous because although I was confident that I would pass, I did not want to screw it up. Maybe that doesn’t make any sense, but the point is, they can still flunk you if they want to. I knew it would be fairly done, however, when the chairman appointed by SGS arrived. He had been one of my undergraduate mentors and seeing my name on the list of upcoming defenses, had signed up. The Registrar’s office had given him the wrong first name on the list; however, so I’d been wondering for some days just who he would be as google had not revealed a real person! I was seriously relieved and really happy, so I blurted out, “Is this a happy accident or did you do this on purpose?” To which he said, “I avoid doing these things like the plague, but when I saw your name on the list I signed right up.”
We had a party at school… and then a visit to the local martini bar. There are more celebrations today and tomorrow and then it is back to reality on Sunday and back to Work on Monday.
Now I have to plan out the rest of my life. I guess.
Jan 16 2008
Finally!
Tomorrow is The big day. I was dying to put up Little Orphan Annie singing Tomorrow, but I thought that the Sisters of the Simpson Desert were more in keeping with the style of songs I’ve dedicated to Diss in the past couple of years.
My biggest fear is that I get to the end of the show and the only people screaming and cheering will be my family and close friends. Yikes. What if I can’t do it?!
Finally it has happened to me
Right in front of my face
My feelin’s can’t describe it
Finally it has happened to me
Right in front of my face
And I just cannot hide it
x-posted to Jumpinjulia
Jan 12 2008
On the way?!
Looking for your OLPC in Canada? Or given up like me??
Jasonji sent me this….
“As of last night (Jan. 9) we have successfully imported all of the Canadian orders into our system (except for the PO boxes.)We will be shipping out the orders tomorrow and they should pass the border over the weekend, for in country distribution starting Monday.”
Jan 06 2008
And then there is the Jhai PC
Before the OLPC, there was the Jhai PC, which gets regular billing on this blog because it was designed with and for a specific community (with input from the community) and then redesigned for others… I have never used one, but I am a fan of the model. Today I received an email from Jhai founder and visionary, Lee Thorn, which starts like this:
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Hi All,
This the first email from Hmong village – Phonsavad – off grid areas, wetest IPStar installation, and it seems to be OK as you receive this email.We have IP Star running from car battery with speed of 256/128KB
Cheers,
Vorasone
Vorasone, Jhai Laos Representative and long time friend, sent this from a JhaiPC2.0 (1.5Mhtz, 1Gig RAM, 8 Gig flash, low power, low cost PC/server running Linux (pendrive)) in a village that has no electricity that you reach by a three hour boat ride upriver.
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It is nice to know that they are still going strong amidst the OLPC haze.
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