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Yup. I bought a new monitor for my computer Friday. I couldn't stand looking at the scratched one any more and decided to bite the bullet and just buy a new one--my neighbor's last email message said she was still talking to the claims person at the installation company.
I decided that I might as well buy a 23 inch one and Matt Kressel came with me to Best Buy to help pick one out. Bought a Dell, he lugged it home, set it up, turned it on and nothing. So...we hauled it back crosstown to Best Buy, told them it was defective and went to find a replacement. I swore I'd make them check this one out first to make sure it turned on before having him take it home again. No more of that model but the salesman this time was way more knowledgeable than the last one and persuade us that I should buy the LG instead. Which I did. And Matt set it up and behold, there was a huge screen that is so large that Matt had to reconfigure most of the type for me. It think it's going to take awhile to get used to.
Tonight I watched The MacKintosh Man,, a pretty terribly plotted movie by John Huston written by Walter Hill, based on a novel by Desmond Bagley. It's a cold war drama (which I hadn't realized till I began watching) with Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda (who I didn't recognize till I read the credits again at the end--I'm used to her with a chignon, I guess). I hope the novel made more sense than the movie because from the get-go the thing yelled "idiot plot" idiot plot" to me. A waste of time except for watching blue-eyed Paul.
Then I watched Sherlock: Series 1--the BBC updated Sherlock Holmes everyone's been talking about. Yes yes yes. I want more. I watched all three episodes and they ended wayyy to soon. I very much look forward to the second season.
It's updated to contemporary times and works remarkably well. Good show.
I decided that I might as well buy a 23 inch one and Matt Kressel came with me to Best Buy to help pick one out. Bought a Dell, he lugged it home, set it up, turned it on and nothing. So...we hauled it back crosstown to Best Buy, told them it was defective and went to find a replacement. I swore I'd make them check this one out first to make sure it turned on before having him take it home again. No more of that model but the salesman this time was way more knowledgeable than the last one and persuade us that I should buy the LG instead. Which I did. And Matt set it up and behold, there was a huge screen that is so large that Matt had to reconfigure most of the type for me. It think it's going to take awhile to get used to.
Tonight I watched The MacKintosh Man,, a pretty terribly plotted movie by John Huston written by Walter Hill, based on a novel by Desmond Bagley. It's a cold war drama (which I hadn't realized till I began watching) with Paul Newman and Dominique Sanda (who I didn't recognize till I read the credits again at the end--I'm used to her with a chignon, I guess). I hope the novel made more sense than the movie because from the get-go the thing yelled "idiot plot" idiot plot" to me. A waste of time except for watching blue-eyed Paul.
Then I watched Sherlock: Series 1--the BBC updated Sherlock Holmes everyone's been talking about. Yes yes yes. I want more. I watched all three episodes and they ended wayyy to soon. I very much look forward to the second season.
It's updated to contemporary times and works remarkably well. Good show.
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