As for the laptop itself, it's an old ThinkPad T43. It's not really mine, either. Rather, it's a work laptop, that this company gives to most of their employees. Not to me. I'm too low on the totem pole. I can halt their revenue for hours, and I'm the one who's low on the totem pole. Not that I would of course. It'd cost me my job, I'd think. This laptop was given to my coworker bart. Who already had a laptop and gave it off to another admin. That admin passed it to another who passed it to another who became a teamlead and got a laptop from the company himself and passed it to me. But effectively I'm borrowing it. Indefinitely.
Time for Some
Announcements.
If I have time later, ruminations.
I'm considering another tattoo. It's picked out and has some special meanings already. Lets start with who said it. The author of it wrote it in his autobiography, and it seems to me to be true of him. This is why he's one of my heroes. That and his aptitude at writing (Nobel prize winner for literature) his achievements in Mathematics (for example moving set theory forward further than anyone besides Cantor) and philosophy (answered long-standing questions in logic and had a sensible, comprehensive political theory) and as an activist (imprisoned in britain, his pacifism was later commended by the government). The only person I'll call a persnal hero, of himself, he said an approximation of the text I'll be getting:
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unvearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
I put that on my profiles and all the regular modern age crap. Talked to my sister about my admiration for the quote. In spring she gets the thing as a tattoo. Seriously, she freakin stole it! Well, in any case, I'm probably getting it on my arm. I'm reclaiming it. Oh, and there's the added significance that we'll both have it. You know, shared ideals and sibling significance and such.
Also, I'm at least auditing classes right now. In a week I may have the capital to get myself enrolled. If this happens I'll have almost no money for as much as two weeks. Also, it'll be up in the air whether I'll be able to pay for what I would enroll in. Fun stuff, huh?
I thought I had already posted this, but while I apparently had not, let me include an image of how I think this tattoo might look.
