Perhaps we can keep the streak going. I think we can. I have another blog I want to post on the
Green Lantern Paradox, but that one needs researched and proof-read. So I’ll skip that one and write this one
completely off the cuff. In the
background, I’m transferring a good 3 GB of syslogs over to a place to archive
them temporarily. Which really is about
as interesting as watching paint dry.
This week is an on call week, so I expect it to be
absolutely horrible. The last time I was
on call I worked almost 70 hours. As far
as paychecks go, that one was awesome.
We’ll see how this one stacks up.
For my five year anniversary with the company, they are
giving me a gift card. I decided to go
with one from Best Buy, and I’m thinking of either getting a Kindle Fire HDX or
a Kindle Paperwhite. I haven’t decided
which. I have to admit, both look pretty
nice and seem very interesting. I love
the idea of the HDX as a tablet that is capable of media as well as books,
though I’m primarily interested in the device as a way to carry around lots and
lots of books. I read a lot of technical
PDFs and the ability to read them without dragging out my laptop would be
awesome.
Electronic delivery seems to be the path of the future, and
I do try to sell my books on Kindle Direct Publishing, so it’s just a matter of
whether I want a color screen or a paper looking screen. On the plus side, not much that I read has
color diagrams. I guess those are more
expensive in the publishing world than black and white.
As for any other device, an iPad would be the only other
thing I would be interested in, but those are way too expensive. I intend to pay for the entire thing with the
gift card and contribute nothing of my own money. Otherwise, it’s just a reduction in price of
an existing item.
Anyways, that’s what I‘m thinking. I haven’t decided what I’m going to do. I haven’t even received the gift card
yet. So I get more time to think about
it all.
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