Word: setups
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...downs. The rooms are more likely to be private and quiet, a boon if you're into a sedentary lifestyle. On the other hand, casual drop-in visits to anyone above the third floor are bound to seem a little contrived. Some find the entryway setup picturesque and charming. Others are less gracious, grumbling that a social life determined by stairwell is both tiring and stifling...
...mail like the bluebird of low self-esteem. A hit-count list of the previous day's articles, it would range from tens of thousands (say, a cover story on a sex scandal) to a few thousand or less (say, mine). The writers' room in hell has a similar setup. There's nothing to make you question your career goals like discovering that your take on the post-Tina Brown New Yorker was empirically proved to be 10 times less interesting than Jennifer Lopez's butt. I'd jokingly ask friends to read me twice, at home and at work...
...when the team absolutely needed a goal, no one consistently stepped up. Primm seemed a bit shaky, and the upperclassmen just could not find a shot, or camped out behind the net looking for a setup, not a strike...
...thing that did bother me, however, was that Real.com which installed its popular streaming video software as part of the setup, had the temerity to crawl into my browser and change the settings. The program replaced my home page (which I had designated as google.com the search engine) with the address of its own site. Bad, Real.com bad! I fired off an e-mail to someone at LogiTech, who said other people had complained about this too. LogiTech says Real is going to quit...
...last time I tried to set up a wireless network at home, both my PC and, worse, my wife's crashed. The technology, happily, is much improved. Dell's system comes with a CD-ROM that has a video-based setup tutorial that, among other things, explains--as well as shows--how to put a PCI card into your desktop machine. Once installed, the network performed smoothly and without glitches. I can't wait to start using it at the coffee shop...