Recently, I learned that it’s really dumb to buy a computer right before you go on vacation. My big Dell boxes arrived a couple of days before we left for a trip to Canada. Most of the time when we go on vacation, to meet my deadlines, I have to do all the work I would have done the week we’re gone before we hit the road. In other words, I have to do two week’s worth of work in one week’s time. The odds of having time to set up a new computer as well are exactly zero.
As a result, my spanky new computer has languished on the floor of my office until today when I unpacked the monster. It’s particularly exciting for me because this computer marks the first time in quite a while I’ve gotten to be the first user of a computer. Most of the computers I’ve had have been “hand-me-downs.”
To do ultra-power-nerdy stuff, programmers need the biggest, baddest computers money can buy. So, historically speaking, over the last 12 years, Logical Expressions has invested the biggest hardware bucks on computers for our programmer. After James has used his computer for a couple of years, he gets the new latest and greatest box. After he moves his stuff off, I erase his old machine, load all my software and data on and make it mine.
However, hardware prices have fallen to the point that we now were able to buy two high-end machines for the price we used to pay for just one. So now the Logical and the Expressive halves of Logical Expressions BOTH got a big, bad computer.
Here’s hoping it turns on 😉