I got a new laptop for "Birthmas" this year. My old one was purchased at the end of my senior year of college. It was a Dell (as was my first laptop), and it served me well during two years of medical school and 3.5 years of graduate school. However, in this new world of live streaming media, it just didn't have the juice to do everything I needed anymore. A single download on iTUNES would bring it to a crashing halt, and forget about running Endnote, Word, Excel, Acrobat Reader, and Photoshop at the same time (writing is bitch man). My new laptop is, as the Dell service guy put it "top of the line". So, now that I have the speedy new toy, I decided to try out Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature. Boy was it slick! I clicked three buttons, and was instantly able to watch Wives and Daughters a BBC miniseries for Masterpiece Theater (yes I am a dork). I was impressed by how my high-def screen made it the picture look crystal clear, and how I didn't not have an interruptions in the media. Unfortunately, the movie was a tad long....so now I am sleep deprived. I suffer from a common disorder in my family call procrastination, and the discovery that endless amounts of movies and tv shows are now at the tip of my fingers whenever I want them is going to be a dangerous temptation in the months to come as I try to complete my PhD.
Technology really is a beast sometimes....
Posts
