My kid is having his Math exam tomorrow

And I am having a headache. He's smart, but stubborn. In the meantime, I am keeping myself sane taking pictures or my old laptop. Built around 1997, this is a Fujitsu Lifebook 735Dx, with 16 megs of onboard RAM (I added 64 more). It has a 133mhz MMX processor, a 1,5G hard disk, one USB port and connections for keyboard, mouse, etc., etc.

I got it a couple years ago, with Windows 95 installed, and it was supposed to be next to useless. Now, it runs Windows 2000 Professional, uses K-meleon as a browser, Office 97 as word processor, Irfanwiew as a graphic viewer and editor, Final Draft 7 for movie scripts, PDF creator for (of course) PDF creating from almost any type of document, Foxit as PDF reader, Winamp 2.95 for media files and CDs, Infix PDF editor, Native Wind's docx2rtf to convert those docx files into something readable, win-rar as a file compressor and a USB portable utility as antivirus. I also used a program called 2000 Lite to remove some of the junk Microsoft loves to add to their SO's, like the games, internet utilities, the Explorer browser (not bad, but I'd rather have K-meleon or FireFox), Windows Media Player and a bunch of other programs.



I also installed all the programs I use for work in an old 1G mp3 player that doubles as an external hard drive.



So, after shaving the OS and leaving all the programs in an external disk, I have a very fast and responsive system, with plenty of room for documents in the hard disk and the external drive.




I also have an almost black desktop and almost all the icons into the taskbar, instead of the desktop, in order to save start up time.



I am aware of the limitations of this system, but let me tell you that it works faster than my Vista desktop, that keeps asking for permission to do anything, takes too long to start and is prone to update itself at the worst possible moment. In short, I love this old piece of junk, and it has proven itself extremely resistant, to the point of taking a fall and still be usable. The lid was broken and I fixed it with some epoxy. Try to do that on a new laptop.



Yep, I love this machine.

Bad tummy

Acid reflux can be a very bad thing. And well deserved too. I am paying for my bad habits at the age of 40. I have to admit that the last few years have been trying and sometimes I don't eat too well. Frito lays and Coke are tasty, albeit not a very good substitute for real food. Well, according to my good doctor, coffee is out of my diet, Coke is very limited and all the crunchy and greasy stuff will have to go. I just had a chicken salad and feel just good. I'll be back into tacos and other abuses soon, but I have to let the old furnace fix itself.

Anyway, this is a good time to consider some other adjustments in my life. I am facing the subsecuent loss of personal mass and have to do something to keep me in shape. I'll probable get weigths and bodybuild again. Just the basic muscles to keep my chest more prominent than my belly.

In the meantime, I am preparing a consideration on the possibilities of humanoid life in the Universe and its rammifications on a religious and social level. Stay tuned.

And while you wait, something totally unrelated. This videos crack me up.

Onix is back!!!

... And pissed off.