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[ewt]

Today I will be mostly waiting for a sofa to be delivered. hairyears finally got rid of the one the previous occupants left in his flat and has purchased a shiny new one from IKEA, but they only deliver during business hours, i.e. when he is doing work.

I must say, this would be a great job - parcel-sitter. I could get paid money to sit around and read and wait for a parcel to come. I doubt there's enough market to make it viable, though.

I seem to have bruised the outside edge of my right hand, it's all tender and sore. No idea how I managed this.

This made me laugh. Snagged from moonwrangler. I'm so glad my job isn't like that!

I still want this dress and I still can't afford it. Also this one, although it's probably too small.

Jinglehorse have designed a a computer that runs at 75 watts under full load. I'm wondering how that compares to most laptops. Link from Treehugger.

Comments

[juliet]

ISTR there are some people somewhere who offer a 'virtual butler' or 'part-time butler' or similar service: among other things, they will wait in for deliveries for you.

[nicolaw.livejournal.com]

That first dress is beautiful

[403.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it actually uses while running, but my laptop power adapter outputs 65W, and its battery outputs 75W. (Though the battery probably doesn't any more, being old. It's only lost 30min off its initial 5h, though.)

[mooism.livejournal.com]

I wait in tomorrow for a sofa to be delivered!

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

If you're interested, I'm sure there's agencies which do "dog-sitting" and other sorts of animal-sitting.

[pplfichi.livejournal.com]

That first dress is very nice!

[fwuffydragon.livejournal.com]

I agree

[martling.livejournal.com]

A typical modern laptop draws about 10-30W depending on load (http://www.crhc.uiuc.edu/~mahesri/classes/project_report_cs497yyz.pdf), from its DC supply. Additionally if the battery is charging, about double this will be drawn (for a battery that can be charged as fast as it discharges in use). Additionally there'll be some inefficiency in the mains adapter. So in total a laptop may well draw 75W from the mains, but that drops to perhaps 15-35W with a charged battery.

That system is still significantly better than your typical desktop system, though, where the CPU alone can draw 50-70W (http://www.pcsilent.de/en/tips/cpu.asp).

[jaime88.livejournal.com]

I dunno if this eco-puter is such a good idea. Right now my vintage powermac quicksilver 733MHz serves multiple functions. It keeps the computer room warm (in summer!), and serves as a great white noise generator (gradually honing down the high pitch hair cells in my inner ear). I wonder how operable the wintel mac platform is at this point. maybe in a year or so I'll get one of those shiny eco-puters.

Laptops do seem pretty low power drain, if a bit 'un-ergonomic'. Plug in a monitor?

[jaime88.livejournal.com]

Hmm, why does it always work this way. I did the build your own thing, and it totals $2399 - maybe the year after next, ack! I did select the Zalman case, but that was the only fancy thing!