Crappy timing.
April 6, 2009
OH MAN.
My 24 inch screen just DIED. And 5 days before the grant deadline. MUST.HAVE.BIG.SCREEN.
Maybe if I put on my glasses I’ll be able to read this tiny one…
Now I’m backing up my hard drive because I’m suitably paranoid.
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24 inches is nothing! You need 30 inches (2560 x 1600 pixels)!!
C PP- AAAAARgh. Do not even bring this up right now. I’m so pissed that this happened right before grant deadline!
Get an LG flat! I have a super sweet setup connecting 2 pcs and a mac, that is when I can find it THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN OF FREAKING PAPERS! Treat yourself, just do it. Best Buy. Now. GO. And get a dohickey so you can hook up a laptop to it. Shopping Spree – YAYYYYY!
I have this one: LG – 24″ Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor Model: W2452T-TF
jc- sniff. I’m going to see if the old one can be fixed first… then I’m going shopping. sniff.
As for the mountain of papers, I got on a wild organizing binge and have been putting all my papers here…that hasn’t yet diminished the pile on my desk, but at least my computer desk top is starting to be a little tidier!
DrDrA,
What do you think of papers? I’ve been eyeing it trying to figure out if it’s worth the effort of loading all those pdfs.
I’ve been wondering about “papers” too. Sadly, the papers coming out my ass and landing on my desk/floor/wall/printer are figures and tables I’m tweaking for a paper, several submissions I need to make decisions for reviews on, and instruction manuals for programs from HELL!
My computer desktop is a hell of its own at the moment. I have a long flight coming up and I was going to attack it then. with a knife.
I hope your screen is still covered by warranty.
Not totally unlike the one color printer jamming up and dying the night before a paper-submission grant (with collated copies) is due. Computer monitors dying must be just a way of Murphy’s Law catching up with technology.
Odyssey-
I’ve just started using it- so the jury is still out. I’m finding it tedious to match pdfs one at a time, and wonder if someone more savvy with this knows how to do this in batch… I think I will like having the pdfs all in one searchable place though. People tell me that endnote has lots of functions that I was unaware of and that good reference librarians can help one figure it out…
Unless you are on a dialup connection, I really fail to see any reason to file/organize/categorize/store PDFs of papers at all. When I need to consult a paper, I go to fucking Pubmed and download the motherfucker.
C PP- There are times and places where I rely on a dial up connection (stone age, I know), and sometimes I don’t have one at all. I don’t want to be tied to my office all the time. And just FYI- the screen is OK!! Just need a new power adapter… in 2 days I’ll be up and running …
Huh! My university makes us pay if we spend more than about US$12 per month. So I store pdfs rather than download all the time- need to keep that for my music and blog reading.
drdrA,
I store PDFs on my computer as well. I sort them by project and use a naming convention (year_journal_firstauthor_keywordsfromtitle). I then link to them via Endnote. It’s a bit tedious at first, but after that initial setup … golden.
Oh, and why bother even trying to get a monitor fixed … it’ll cost as much as a new, and most likely better, one.
TomJoe- 71$ for a new power supply = fixed monitor. The new monitor I covet is >10x the cost.
anon- That was the goal- I’m pleased it is working! and- we have an awesome library- no charging for downloading…
Ewan- Maybe I should get back to my series on writing…?