Political Spam

While casually looking at my Spam folder, I noticed this e-mail.

For the lazy, the crux of the humour is the subject line:
Bush is re-elected. Pro-zac anyone?

It's not the funniest thing I ever read, but unusual as far as the contents of my Spam folder is concerned, so I thought it was worth blogging.

And I'm levelling out the balance with that, by following with this...

There are many machines I simply must own. The main one on my list right now being the RipDrive. But as I've wanted a laptop/notebook for ages now, I've decided that I should actually go and buy one myself*. So, when I save enough money, I will own one of these fantastic IBM Thinkpad A31 Series machines...



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* Fact is, I'm not the only one residing in the house in which I do, to desperately long for a laptop. So, after all the arguments were fought of who should use a laptop if and when one is bought, it will be a day of immense pleasure on my part when I take my WiFi enabled, Linux powered ThinkPad A31 Series Notebook out of reach, into another room. Leaving everyone else to deal with an Intel Celeron 366MHz, 64MB RAM dialup-connected Windows ME machine stuck in the corner.

I may open up my WiFi to the Celeron machine. Then again I may not. I need each and every one of my 750 kilobits per second. I wouldn't want to have to share them all.


And to anyone thinking "...wtf. Why doesn't he just get a Sony Vaio?", I direct the following phrasing:

Are you INSANE?

Vaios suck. One short Googling-for-Notebooks session taught me that. It was short, because I decided on the better option: Going for a Thinkpad. They rock more.

Besides; I just cannot deal with a touchpad. Many a time have I nudged the cursor on a laptop by brushing the touchpad while I type. Thinkpads have a Trackpoint in place of the touchpad; a small stick-type thing that sits somewhere in the middle of the keyboard, which is very intriguing, but I hear they're very sensitive, (ergo: usable, despite how they're portrayed in product images [see above]) and sound cool anyway.

That, and I like their TV ads.