December 02, 2005
Laptops
David had posted a blog about wanting to use wireless in the airport but it was so expensive that he just typed his blog in word then posted it.. so this reminded me of a story last year...
boy just had to go shut my window the wind is loud at almost 3 am! and there's so much snow.. okay im done with the sidebar..
anyway last year one time i met my mom in pittsburgh for a little weekend get together/break.. i took the greyhound since i didnt have a car on campus last year, and met her at a hotel.. we shopped and had fun,, but i didnt book my returning greyhound ticket because i didnt know what day i would be leaving yet.. so i brought my computer since it said there was free high speed internet access in the hotel..
so being me having a good time with my mom i didnt try to book the ticket until the night before.. turns out all systems were down.. the front desk couldnt access any of there information either.. luckily (here is comes!) there was a starbucks at the hotel too! sooo they had wireless as well! so i went in there some guy tried to help me and then i bought like 30 minutes for 6 bucks (something like that) i was like i dont care how much it costs i have to get back to school..so i got it all worked out but it was quite the evening..
i guess to keep telling the story so im complete.. the next day the hotel called a taxi for me to take me to the greyhound but the taxi ended up not showing.. so one of the shuttle boys who takes you two your car i guess? and to shopping i think? went beyong the boundaries and went downtown to the station.. me however only have one dollar lol for a tip everything else was too big and i felt horrible.. a girls gotta have money to eat doesnt she? :o)
November 09, 2005
My Cell Phone
So this might sound a little strange but i'm going to tell this story anyway. Today before class I went into the ladies room. Like usual, i had my phone hooked onto my pants so i unhooked it and set it down on the toilet paper roll dispenser. Needless today i didn't pick it back up. I go up to class, class is finished, and i walk back with my friend. Not until my friend leaves for his building and i continued to my building walking alone did i try and find the cell phone to call or text my boyfriend.
So i was like crap i left it in class, then i thought that that couldn't be it, so i made my mind rewind a bit more. I finally thought of the restroom so i hurried up and called my advisor (with my friends phone) who's office is right beside where we just had class and 2 floors above where i left it. So she went and looked for me. She called back and said it wasnt there.
I was very sad and she said that this had happened to her daughter and encouraged me to call places to see if there's a lost and found and to call security, but in the meantime to call the phone company and get a temporary hold on my phone. (The person who took her daughters phone was calling internationally raising the bill significantly!).. so i started to look up the appropriate phone numbers when my suitemates phone rang again! she quickly handed my the phone and it was her. She was leaving to go home and she saw a cleaning lady. she thought she'd ask her about the phone. So the cleaning lady had not, but the cleaning lady's friend another cleaning lady had found it!!!! So now it is securely in my advisors desk in her locked office and i will get it at work tomorrow :o) Happy Girl i am.
It been kinda nice though not having the phone ring and enjoying the use of one less technology.
My Computer Sucks
--a random guy came downstairs, i was napping, he left a note on my down
--i go to his room see what he wants
--he said his network was running slow so he ran a program
--the program said that my computer was spitting out crap
--asked if i could scan my computer
--i did (it tooook foreverrrrrrrr)
--i have a stpid virus
--it says its in the archive and cannot be healed
--my computer is very sick
--its only medicine is reformatting it
--my suitemate has to reformat his too
--we're gonna use a simple program apparently from our other friend
--ta da my computer sucks
Update:
I heard that perceptIS is free the first time, maybe this would be a good time to use it.. i stopped in the walk-in center and i suppose i might do that..any suggestions?
anyone wanna do it for me?
Also how do i keep my computer healthy so it doesnt happen again?
Elevators
So awhile back our elevator was broken for 3 days straight without someone fixing it--our elevator breaks a lot. So i was in the elevator chatting with a girl and she said that this year her boyfriend was in the elevator and it fell from the 5th floor to the basement.. i have also heard that it has done this years before.
The very same day i went to Health Services and their elevator was broken too, what is my luck.
I came back that day and ours was fixed.
Also, we just had a fire alarm the other night, and being how im on the 9th floor when the firemen said we could come back in we got on the elevator. Well the red light was still on because of the firecall and the elevator wouldnt work. We waited for awhile but then my friend emily and i just walked up the steps instead..i dont know how long it took to get the signal back to the elevator telling it was safe to ride on again.
Oh elevators we cant live with them, and we cant live without them.
November 08, 2005
Flightplan
I saw Flightplan (i think it was the first weekend it came out too). It had a double decker plane (2 stories) and it was very luxurious and it had a bar and everything. I asked my boyfriend if these are real planes and he said of course! He rode on one from Philly to Amsterdam. I didnt relize they actually made double deckers. The engines in the plane could fit a school bus it was seriously amazing. I thought this movie was very interesting and great.
I wonder what the bigger airplane is ever?
This also brings up the technology of movies. Everything on the movie seemed so real. Recently i have also seen Flightplan, Saw II, Red Dragon, and Silence of the Lambs (all scary i know)--but the technology in the movies adds to how those movies scare us--everything from the sets, effects, makeup, and acting make movies come to real life.
Multimedia and the Internet.. From Internet Galaxy
I meant to post this awhile ago (like when we were reading about this)...
"Young Americans are watching less television: between 1985-2000 the average number of hours of TV watched by people under 18 decreased by 20%" (pg 191)
Surfing the net has increased, so what are they doing on the internet?
here is my list, based off of Internet Galaxy:
Sending Email:
-friends (close and far)
-family
-professors
Using search engines:
-school projects
-personal information
Online game:
-my roommates do this all the time
-playing verse other friends as well
AIM:
-in my opinion this is the most popular
-while doing other things still on AIM or have an away message up
Downloading software:
-case software page
-want to make computer best it can be
Downloading music and movies:
-with out network you can watch TV and movies on computer (DC++)
Purchase:
-a lot of college students dont have time to go to the store, so store comes to you
-buying books--ordering
-selling books
Blackboard:
-reading articles for class over computer
Time killers:
-Facebook
story: i randomly got poked on faacebook by a guy from Bucknell. i have a few friends from bucknell so first i checked to see if they were friends with this guy. they werent so i wrote him a little message saying do i know you? he replied and say no but i was bored so i did random poking to see who respond.
Just a few things i thought id mention.
October 30, 2005
Fall Back
Just a quick entry..
I very much enjoyed that my computer did "fall back" by itself and changed its time. I thought to myself ohh i bet my phone did too. So i look and it wasnt! I really though it would be smarter than that! So now i must figure that out :o) Just thought id mention it real fast.