MonitorBane
Aug. 15th, 2005 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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mousebane, I do not use my mighty powers on rodents. Apparently, I use them to prevent electrical devices from functioning...
New monitor arrived. New monitor failed after less than five minutes. New monitor is on its way back to Dell again...
The LCD backlight failed, so while I could make out some of what was on the screen, I had to have my nose pressed up against it to read anything. I'm now recording lab data in super-high-tech Logbooks, made of wafer-thin sheets of 'paper.' Each sheet of this 'paper' is lightweight, flexible, and can display a wide range of media, including (but not limited to) crayons, greylead pencil, and permanent marker. Colour and monotone outputs are available, once I find the rest of my coloured pencils. Not only that, but the 'paper' requires no external power supply, may utilise a larger information storage capacity if I write really, really small, and can be readily expanded by stapling in additional sheets.
I've rescued the old CRT monitor from the lab again, and can now type on a slightly blurry screen that hasn't managed to spontaneously die at any time in the last seven years.
In other news, I didn't get to do anything I'd planned to on the weekend, but the two days I ended up with went well. I'd have done even more if I hadn't been sucked into watchingaeliel playing Pirates on the xbox... however, the Ninja + Pirate Cohabitation Trial is going well thus far.
mousebane, I do not use my mighty powers on rodents. Apparently, I use them to prevent electrical devices from functioning...New monitor arrived. New monitor failed after less than five minutes. New monitor is on its way back to Dell again...
The LCD backlight failed, so while I could make out some of what was on the screen, I had to have my nose pressed up against it to read anything. I'm now recording lab data in super-high-tech Logbooks, made of wafer-thin sheets of 'paper.' Each sheet of this 'paper' is lightweight, flexible, and can display a wide range of media, including (but not limited to) crayons, greylead pencil, and permanent marker. Colour and monotone outputs are available, once I find the rest of my coloured pencils. Not only that, but the 'paper' requires no external power supply, may utilise a larger information storage capacity if I write really, really small, and can be readily expanded by stapling in additional sheets.
I've rescued the old CRT monitor from the lab again, and can now type on a slightly blurry screen that hasn't managed to spontaneously die at any time in the last seven years.
In other news, I didn't get to do anything I'd planned to on the weekend, but the two days I ended up with went well. I'd have done even more if I hadn't been sucked into watching
aeliel playing Pirates on the xbox... however, the Ninja + Pirate Cohabitation Trial is going well thus far.
