Today I became a proud owner of an Asus eee PC. It’s tiny and makes me feel like my hands are huge and clumsy. It will be perfect, though, for running around town with — unlike my Mac, which is very precious and heavy. I do ALL of my work on it and feel weird carting it around. I’m tempted by the options of installing Ubuntu or OSX on it (though — no sound? That’s a dealbreaker…) Maybe Ubuntu, since it feels more Mac-like than this Xandros install.

Asus

In the second geeky thing today, I FINALLY realized the best use for the weird kiosk PC I inherited from the museum: to watch Netflix movies on demand. As a Mac/Linux user — this is amazing! And I can mount the whole beast on the wall and watch whatever I want. Maybe we DON’T need cable after all….