Compaq, man, do they ever suck!

I knew Compaq was bad about upgrades--namely, you basically can't upgrade much of your hardware without buying direct from Compaq--but it seems you can't even get a BIOS update for free, after you get a limited one in the first place! And the update is limited, too! (In particular, hard drive sizes--some Presario BIOSes don't allow drives larger than 8GB, and the update allows up to 20GB or 40GB--there were conflicting replies.)

How's the cup?

From Sinfest's Tatsuya Ishida this week:

notes from The Resistance:
The pessimist says the cup is half empty. The optimist says it's half full. The pragmatist says its liquid contents are at 50% capacity. The ironist says it's half full of air. The plumber says the cup must be leaking. George Carlin says the cup is too big. The Starbucks employee says it's so you have room for cream. The conspiracy theorist says aliens took the other half. The baseball player says his cup is definitely full. MacGuyver says he can build a powerful explosive with it. The psychoanalyst says the cup is your mother. The punk sitting next to you also says the cup is your mother. The romance novelist says the cup is a willing receptacle to the wild gushing torrents of pure passion from the hard chiseled urn. The zen master says, "There is no cup." Pamela Anderson says her cups are definitely full. And me, I say, "Waitress! Refill!"
-T.

Bad HP!

Cornell sues HP over patent infringement (08-Jan-02)

Cornell University is suing Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) for patent infringement, charging HP with longtime violations of a patented technique for increasing a computer's processing speed.

Your thought for the morning

Courtesy of a co-worker:
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Now, ordinarily I'd say this is crazy talk..

..but I've done my research at AddAll.com and BigWords.com, and the Cornell Store has basically* the best prices on my textbooks this semester. Unreal!

* There are some exceptions, but they're fairly negligible.