I have jumped on the weensy net­book band­wagon and pur­chased an ASUS Eee PC 901. It is teensy and black and is run­ning a spare XP license I had left over from when I upgraded my now mas­sive by com­par­i­son lap­top to Vista. It is won­der­ful! It is quick, small, and lasts upwards of 8 hours on a charge. With the wire­less on, even! I’m using it pri­mar­ily for class — tak­ing notes and pulling up mate­ri­als on West­law and Lexis. I’m also using it for email and my cal­en­dar, cour­tesy of (get this!) Office 2007, which runs sur­pris­ingly smoothly on the tiny SSD hard [ . . . ]

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I went to visit Tai­lor today. Excite­ment! I decided to get a suit made. And some shirts. I had fun. I spent a *lot* of money. I sat there thumb­ing through hun­dreds of dif­fer­ent cloths for suits and shirts. I chose a light­weight medium gray with a deli­cious tex­ture for the suit, and four solid col­ors for the shirts. I’m not ready to grad­u­ate to stripy-​​​​ness yet. Tai­lor is going to make the suit just how I want it. For one thing, it won’t have a breast pocket. Stu­pid, silly, point­less thing. So I got rid of it. Hooray! And I’ll finally get trousers that make me look as if I actu­ally have [ . . . ]

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Super Happy Cap­i­tal­ist Win­ter Extrav­a­ganza is near at hand! Most of you know this hol­i­day by its much less cum­ber­some and more famil­iar name, Christ­mas. But let’s face it: Christ­mas is about buy­ing stuff for peo­ple you like and get­ting stuff from them, in a fan­tas­tic orgy of sales and dec­o­ra­tions, smoth­ered in a gooey out­pour­ing of happy deli­cious good will. Hooray, Cap­i­tal­ism! In the spirit of the lively exchange of gifts, I have pub­lished The List. See the hat on the “W” in the header? You can click that, too. Not only do I like get­ting things for Christ­mas, but I like buy­ing them for other [ . . . ]

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