Not yours.

My wife bought a new monitor because mine had broken a few months ago. I've been using our 5-year-old backup monitor in the meanwhile, which was her old one: it has an irritating power supply hardware fault but is otherwise functional, although its resolution is only 1680 wide. Of course that means that our third computer doesn't have a screen, so.

We got the new monitor home today and I said "So I suppose this one is for me, since yours is still new?"

Her response was something like "Fuck that", which I should have expected.

Considering that in the past I've watched movies without noticing that the aspect ratio was distorted, and that Wax habitually spends several hours per day minutely examining photographs of Adam Lambert with high enough resolution to make out his pores and the anatomical details of his penis through his pants, I think there can be no doubt that she's better equipped to appreciate the new monitor.

I'm far from objecting to her old one, which is, I think, only ≈2. It's more that I watch a lot more television and a lot more DVDs than she does, and I don't want to use her computer to do it even though it's just at the other end of the couch; the new monitor is significantly bigger.

Also, I'm not actually immune to magpie-ism, it's just that my resistance to buying shiny devices is much higher than hers; I still want to get to play with them when they're in front of me without having to use KDE. Yes, we've finally stewed long enough in Linux culture for the strange hostility between different desktops to penetrate.

Here's hoping my frankly ancient motherboard and its built-in graphics card are up to handling the second-newest monitor in the flat...

Fidji "e433" in black/gray and BC Footwear "Before Nightfall"