All progress depends on the unreasonable man
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
–George Bernard Shaw
A few interesting things since we last spoke. I broke down and bought a Dodo case for my iPad and a bag to go with it. I haven’t carried a bag for anything besides school books or the laptop. Since carrying a bag for just a iPad seems a little stupid, I got one a little bigger so it can hold more stuff. As a first bag, it is pretty good. It is still small, but large enough for the iPad and some extra stuff that I’ve decided would be good to always have with me. I’ve only had the bag for two days so we’ll see what gets added and removed.
I’m sort of excited for the Dodo case. It has a 4-6 week lead time so I won’t see it until next month, but it looks pretty cool. I’m a little worried that some of my bare iPad habits won’t transfer well to a cased iPad, but we’ll see. I’m all about making things work better so it could be exciting.
In less exciting news, my monitor stand destroyed itself last night. I was just sitting there and the screen comes crashing down. None too thrilled about that. I spent the next hour or so looking at it to determine what the hell happened. Turns out that there was some bad assembly and design work on Samsung’s part. First off, the piece that broke is a cast aluminum piece so there is no fixing it, can only be replaced. That piece is apparently not readily available online so the whole damn stand is hosed. As for the assembly issues, ITS MISSING SCREWS. There we’re just enough screws to make it look like it was fine, but this failure was a long time coming. I was just going to build a new stand, but I found a pretty decent replacement on eBay for about the same price as the parts I would need to build one. Hopefully it gets here this week so I can have dual monitors back here at home. It just feels wrong with one monitor.