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Why I didn’t buy a Samsung Chromebook…yet. {Updated}

Why I need it

When The Worst Neighbors in the World (TM) live next door to you, and you spend a lot of time online, you need to leave home from time to time. Desktops are too clumsy outside.

For many people, it’s their laptop or tablet or smartphone they take along with them. Tablets look great, but their keyboards are wonky. I don’t want to hold 2 different things at once. I can’t possibly eat that way.

I do enjoy my HTC One V phone (I used to say I loved it), and it’s a great camera and screen. But internet is a little slow and there’s just no way I can work on it, since I’m a multi-tab fiend.

That leaves a laptop. So, soon after TWNIW moved in, I started looking at laptops. SIGH. They all have Windows 8, so no, thanks. (And I don’t discuss fruit like Apple on this site, sorry, no matter how many people claim they’re good for you.)

Then I heard Leo LaPorte, the Tech guy on KFI mention the Samsung Chromebook for only $249. Gadzooks!

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Is Glee too gay?

 

If you haven’t seen Fox’s Glee yet, you must, especially if you like musicals. (Think Broadway, not like music in American Idol.) One of the ingredients that makes Glee different is how many minorities there are. I mean, almost everyone! Of course, most of the main characters are straight and white – so far as we know – but this is a very diverse cast. They’re all good actors, so it’s not a minority ghetto, and? LOST had a politically correct cast, too, and that worked out well.

HOWEVER. I come from a society that hates show-offs, in any color or form.? Kurt and Sandy are so over the top flamboyant. And yet…they are so charming and spot on, with great dialogue, that I love them (at times)! Kurt in particular is a strong actor (except with weak dialogue, which we’ll get to in a minute), and a great singer. Sandy rocks. And Sue sure acts butch, even though she gave the eye to Puck. She’s brilliant.

HOWEVER…What is with all the coming out? Kurt came out to his good friend last week, and this week to his father. Bo-ring. Stop with the politically correct lessons.

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This outfit is spectacular. I froze the tape several times, trying to remember it. She’s backlit, so we can’t see the real color of her skirt, which was more green. I’m going to use these colors in my next cartoon!

Kurt grudgingly admitting his neuroticism and sexual preference (ie, that he’s gay) TWO EPISODES IN A ROW!! So I wondered exactly how many of the writers are gay. Turns out the main producer, Ryan Murphy, is, and also turns out that he admits in articles that this is exactly how he came out to his own father. How very self-indulgent of him to take up 2 episodes with this character doing the EXACT SAME THING!

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Two things you may not want to eat.

Severe no for Trader Joe‘s Chocolate Chunk Cookies. The cookies are dry and the chocolate is not satisfying and tastes cheap. I’m Yankee thrifty, but I’m tempted to throw the rest out! Ingredients look fine (ie, no corn syrup, which I won’t eat anymore), and there’s a bit of honey, which will usually raise the rating, but not this time.

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Perhaps not the most appetizing photo. From here.

Part of my bitterness is because they used to make a chocolate chunk cookie that was totally great, maybe 8 years ago. It was dense, hard, but not too hard, somewhat grainy, with good quality chocolate. (may have been Guittard’s.) All you needed was a couple to make the starving (or sad) feeling in your gut go away. ( I met a guy standing in line behind me once, buying only these cookies, and he told me he would eat the whole bag in one sitting. Ah, men, and their lucky, lucky metabolism.) A bag in the cupboard always made me feel happy. Grrr at TJ for always always dropping good food. I wrote a lyrical poem about Trader Joe’s in my other blog, here. It’s not very nice.

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