LEIA DE-CARBONIZED; computer joy; graphics card anger; interior design imagery

[cimorene]

I took the graphics card out of Leia. It's the newest and most gratuitously expensive piece of hardware we owned, with its own mini-fan and everything, so that is extremely annoying that it broke (or possibly it was the motherboard slot, we didn't check - Darth is actually fine and still functioning at high-res without the card, just nowhere near as beautifully crisp).

On the minus side, I need to salvage a few weeks' worth of incidental saves from Six, the WinBorg machine I've been camped out on... and she's not showing up on the LAN. Gonna need to borrow Wax's monitor to hook her back up and send all that shit back over.

Meanwhile, Wax has installed the new Kubuntu Karmic Koala on her computer and this makes the third OS where she hasn't had functioning LAN. We can't, at this point, fileshare between her computer and the other two at all, so all the shows she's been downloading for me while I was on Windows (thus not safe to download anything, at least, not without going to a lot of trouble) are stuck on her harddrive. She also may or may not have a functioning CD drive. (LinuxMint works out of box! LinuxMint works out of box!)


Have a picture. This is Satumetsä by Iittala (http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/), Finnish glass and tableware design giant, and I waaaant it (just the two plates for fun, not to, like, make a whole table setting with):

Comments

[emmuzka]

I *love* Klaus Haapaniemi's works. I have his designs as wall stickers and I'm drooling after both Taikametsä and Taika dinnerware... Maybe I will boy a few coffee mugs for christmas. Fortunately they are affordable, only about 15€ a piece or something :)

[satu]

I've been admiring those plates at an exhibition I've been working on. I love Klaus Haapaniemi's style. Have you seen his wall stickers?

[cimorene]

:D NO!!! Thank youuuu!

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

Let me get this straight - you want a plate with a teal deer on it?

[cimorene]

That is indeed true!

[kaneko]

oh man, I've been lusting after those plates too! My favourite is the navy with the owl.

[cimorene]

Hmmmm, it's tough to decide, but I think my favorite Taika colorway is the new black and white. I gave my USan friend a pair of the blue espresso cups for her wedding a few years ago, though. (The cups have two owls and a fox printed around the outside; the plates have one or the other depending on size.)

[harpers_child]

why hello there new art obsession. those plates are very pretty, but i agree they'd be a bit much for setting more than two places.