My Precious Children

What? That was creepy? Oh. Sorry. Moving on...

My online existence is sustained by a variety of technological darlings. They are as follows:

The Laptop: Ocelot, MEGA Feles Mortis

My precious. She came home with me in December of 2004, and we've been fast friends ever since. (I blame my tendency to anthropomorphize her on Steve, whose Anastasia convinced me that a laptop would be a good idea.) She's a Toshiba Satellite P30, with a P4 HT 3.2 ghz processor, 512 megs of RAM, an ATI Radeon 9700 128-meg dedicated video card, a delicious DVD+RW multi-drive, and a bunch of other goodies. Though technically a laptop, she's named the MEGA Feles Mortis (BIG Cat of Death) for a reason: she's got a 17" widescreen display, and since it's a P4 in there rather than a Centrino, she weighs a good ten pounds. Despite this, I drag her with me on special occasions, and she does make it possible to write code from bed, for which I am eternally grateful...

The Desktop: Kiranda
Bought in my second year of university, this little Athlon's getting long in the tooth, but is a useful repository of old stuff. It's a 1.4 ghz with 256 megs of RAM (sad, yes) and a 128-meg nVidia video card, and tends to get ignored when I'm not actively harvesting hilarious photos from ages past or printing off essays.

The Camera: "Mr. Nameless Camera"
Who the hell names their camera? ;) It's an Olympus Camedia C-5050, 5 megapixel, and it goes wherever I go. Since it can hold an xD card, a CompactFlash, and a Smartmedia, I run around packing an obscene amount of storage space (about a gig, which is pretty sick when you're not a photographer in any sort of professional capacity :P). 5 megapixels may not be competitive anymore, but its manual settings, autofocus, and excellent zoom lens make it a pretty sweet little thing. When I have it hanging off of one shoulder and Ocelot on the other, iPod clutched in my hand, I feel like the biggest nerd imaginable... and I like it.

The iPod: Margay
A margay is a small wildcat which looks rather like a stubbier, bigger-eyed ocelot. Since it's a cute little iPod mini in silver and matches Ocelot's silvery innards perfectly, it only made sense. We're inseperable.

The Video Camera: Largely Ignored
It's a JVC miniDV digital camcorder, with 520 lines of resolution and 700x digital zoom, which isn't too bad for a 1.5-year-old camera. It's also the most-ignored chunk of technology in my arsenal; I really thought I'd be the cheesy, egotistical student film type, but it just hasn't worked out that way. If you need a ridiculous event taped, ring me up. :P