recovered!
Dear all who posted comments hoping for my recovery, thanks very much! I’m pretty much recovered now. My brain is working at full speed again, which is a good thing because classes have started in earnest.
We started doing Plato’s Meno in Philosophy, leaving Euthyphro behind. This means that a paper due on Euthyphro can’t be far behind. However, a change from the current topic of holiness and unholiness is welcomed.. now we’re discussing virtue! Philosophists are funny creatures. They only want to debate and research those topics which are vague, difficult to define and controversial. A love of wisdom, true. But also of neverending arguments, both the logical and verbal kind.
I never knew printers were so very VERY cheap to produce. The newest Canon printer model is now available on campus, I saw it yesterday. It already costs only 79 Singaporean dollars, which makes it the cheapest printer among my current choices. The thing that really amazes me is that it comes with ink cartridges (duh) which are worth, on retail, a total of 33 dollars. Now even if we assume that Canon are making truckloads of money selling overpriced ink, and hence lower the cost of the cartridges to, say, 15 dollars, that means that the printer, its cables and installation software only cost 64 dollars. No wonder my senior said you could make your own printer if you wanted to. It’s so darn cheap! I’m going to the pc fair today, I hope to get even better bargains there.
The only thing that rankles me about buying a printer is this: I fail to see the logic behind not supplying a USB cable with the printer. So, the printer company sells me a peripheral to attach to my pc, which actually needs my pc in order to have any sort of useful function, but! they don’t give you the cable to connect the pc to the peripheral. The logic fails me here. I just plain don’t know what is going on in the collective mind of the company. It never used to be this way. Back when all computers had parallel and serial ports, the cable that came with your printer was good enough. Everybody was happy. Then along came USB, and then USB printers, and now practicallly all new printers connect to PC via USB. (We are not discussing network or portable printers here.) So I have a USB port and a USB printer, but no USB cable. It just doesn’t compute. I know you can buy it outside, from any computer shop. I know it’s cheap. But since it’s so cheap and easily available, why don’t the manufacturers just PUT ONE IN WITH THE PRINTER?
It’s a conspiracy, I tell you.
Shouldn’t discuss this any more, my blood pressure is shooting up. Let’s talk about Harry Potter. I want to canvass all you HP fans who read fanfiction. (If you don’t know what that is, then you don’t read it.) Is Neville-Ginny a good ship? Is it acceptable? I mean, it’s not improbable. Although I might get bashed from Neville-Luna and Neville-other ppl shippers. I just need some feedback.
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