Open thread for Sunday, February 22nd: Pudding Time

 Here is the open thread for Sunday, February 22nd. Please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.

 Last week was a very slow week by my standards with only 6 posts but did you miss any of them? If so there is an easy way to make sure it does not happen again. I understand that all of you are busy and cannot always find the time to check the blog for updates so why not subscribe to America’s Watchtower and receive email updates whenever I write a new post? That is the easiest way to follow the blog to ensure you never miss another post.

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  In addition to a lack of motivation and what I consider to be a lack of interesting topics to write about I was also distracted for the last few days with my new laptop. I only use the computer for the internet and for simple word processing so I have little need for all of the bells and whistles others are interested in. Because of this I prefer a netbook to a full-blown laptop; I love the small size and the fact it is dedicated to my needs.

  For the last several years I have been blogging using an Acer Aspire One D260 Netbook but it was getting old and the performance of late has been severely lacking. Normal internet browsing and blogging had become painfully slow despite my  best efforts to clean up the computer and make it manageable.

  I decided it was time to buy a new Acer netbook and I thought it would be very inexpensive due to the popularity of new technology such as tablets. However I soon learned that the price to be paid by this new technology was the discontinuation of the netbook. It was simply obsolete technology and nobody was interested in it any more.

  However, I found a compromise between purchasing a full sized laptop and the netbook and that came in the form of the Dell Inspiron 11.6″ notebook 2-1 computer. This computer functions as a combination of a small laptop and a tablet. It is a laptop but the display can rotate completely around for use as a tablet. I am in love! Blogging and browsing is going to be much less frustrating going forward. (Save the frustration of following politics in general.)

  This computer is slightly larger than my previous netbook yet smaller than a laptop and it is much faster than what I have been dealing with for awhile now. To make a long story short (if that is possible at this point) I have spent the last few days trying to personalize my new computer to my liking by deleting all the crap which came with it that I will never use as well as making it look and function the way I want it to. I have also been trying to get used to Windows 8.1, and now that I am figuring out how it works I have to say the new Windows is pretty cool once you get passed the differences from Windows 7.

  With my long-winded excuse for not posting as much as I would have liked to last week out of the way it is time to move on to the musical selection of the week. This week I give you the band Primus performing “Pudding Time” live on the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

  Slap that bass!