boom, boomboom boom.

They revamped the airport, completely. Now it looks just like a night club... everyone's excited, and confused.

Baby, check this out... I've got something to say- Man it's so loud in here! When they start love machine and I can love again, I'll remember what it was.

&mdash TMBG

XO update

(yeah, the cleaning goes slowly. so sue me.)

I brought my OLPC into the UMIACS lab at school today- it was amusing to see the boys play with it. (lets face it, they're all boys. I'm older than the director. There *was* one other female student, last year, but she vanished.)

But first, I had to show them how to open it.

When I took it back to my desk, though, I turned the screen around, almost in book mode, and set it up like an easel on the table top and plugged in a mouse and keyboard.

It was amazing how it morphed into being much more functional versus being an interactive learning tool. I could move the screen around and sit a reasonable distance from it, and type easily. Fortunately, all those function keys map to normal function keys- I was able to pop back and forth in the different modes, and change the brightness of the screen, without fiddling the XO directly.

Combined with those free USB keys Microcenter was handing out, I've decided that it will be my school laptop next semester. I'm just waiting to find someone else with one so I can play with the mesh networking!