I love buying “For Dummies” books. It’s like going up to the cash register and declaring I’m a total moron. “Hello, I’m an idiot. Please sell me this book. Books are for eating, right?”
In other news:
- typing this on the brand new Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard
- It is the “special edition” keyboard, which means that, as Dave put it, “Pablo at Flextronics in Guadalajara fed a black dye block into the machine as opposed to a blue one.” Worth the extra $10? Well, since they didn’t have normal (“unnatural” — that is, not split in half) ones that were $10 cheaper, yes. Plus, as an unemployed man, I need all the self-confidence I can get and nothing gives you self-confidence like a jet-black keyboard.
- I tried to register the product and the link and whatnot from the software package took me to completely dead pages. Booyah, Microsoft!
- It’s got more buttons on it than I do. Let’s see if I use them….
- That Dummies book is a ColdFusion for Dummies book. Let’s get learning!
- I just looked at a list of some of the Dummies books — they include Arizona for Dummies and Baseball for Dummies. Amazing.
- More great Microsoft deals from Dave. I’m not going to tell you how much Office XP Pro and Kung Fu Chaos cost me, but I’ll tell you this much: it’s el cheapo. Of course, now that I read the review of the game, I wonder if I should have followed my instincts and told him to hold onto it…. Nah, what the hell does IGN know anyway?
- Noisy neighbor front: they’re not so bad, it seems. Though their schedules are sketchy and hard to pin down, and they let the kid run around a little bit too much (it’d drive me nuts if I was up there with em and not directly below her feet too…) it’s… Well, it’s had its ups and downs. Not like they’re bringing anything to the table though. So, I tightened all my windows in their frames (the latch, or failing that, stuffing Kleenex in the cracks) so that the windows won’t rattle when they romp about (added bonus: windows not rattling when someone does the super-bass thing in the alley…) [How did I ever deal with living in a dorm in college? Living under someone before? Has my noise sensitivity increased as time has passed? Let’s hope I can learn to live…..Or give the guys at Acoustical Solutions a call….]
That’s it for now. Yeah. It’s snowing like a mofo out there. Be careful.
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As a former book store employee, I can tell you that the person at the register is making a mental note that the book you bought exists, but is probably not passing judgement on you.
But, you probably already knew that.
“For Dummies” and “The Complete Idiot’s Guide To” books are actually pretty good. They’re a good starting point for much deeper study. But, they do provide you with enough information to seem at least a little knowledgeable about a subject.
Yeah, I dig the “For Dummies” books. Usually the first book I buy about a new programming language.
I really should read more of them. There are so many subjects I want to know more about. I have actually read HTML for dummies. How much of it do I remember? 0!
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