September 23, 2007

Restraint

I want applause. I stopped by Borders to pick up two books (The House That George Built & The Secret Way to War) for Mom and did not buy anything for myself. No CDs, no books, not even a cup of coffee at the in-store Starbucks.

I admit it was hard.

Posted by Linkmeister at September 23, 2007 02:22 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Nothing at all for yourself?

Posted by: Serge at September 23, 2007 02:34 PM

Zero, zip, nada.

There was an end-cap display of Robert Jordan books with an In Memoriam sign and dates of birth/death for him, I noticed.

Posted by: Linkmeister at September 23, 2007 02:44 PM

Wow. Impressive. But..how long did you meander, linger or otherwise "browse"....

Posted by: Cookie Jill at September 23, 2007 04:27 PM

20 minutes. I had to ask for help finding the books (Danner's book has a plain olive-green cover, which hid it very well; Sheed's book was in the "Popular Music Reference" section, which I couldn't find).

I also had a half-gallon of cold milk in the car. ;)

Posted by: Linkmeister at September 23, 2007 07:48 PM

I'm posting this here because I can't post under "Dinosaurs". What do you have, a limit on the number of posts? On the number of posted characters?

1978, an Apple IIe that belonged to another department. I stood in line with my 5 1/4" floppy to use their copy of VisiCalc to manage my department's budget. In 1981 I bought that same XT for my department. The 1200 baud modem was a major advance of the 300 baud TI silentwriter I'd been using to check foreign exchange rates - my first online searches.

In I think 1982 I refinanced my house to buy a Compaq luggable computer ("portable" was an overstatement") with 640K of RAM and 10 MB of hard drive. And a 2400 baud modem. Six grand. I still have it but I don't think it boots anymore.

At the gym the other day, I remarked that when I went to work for Bank of America in 1988 they all did their email on a mainframe, and the Charming Young Thing at the next locker said, "What's a mainframe?"

Posted by: hedera at September 28, 2007 07:17 PM