My Toshiba Chromebook 2 (4GB) was delivered two days ago, and it’s far surpassed my expectations. I got a $200 refurb directly from Toshiba (free shipping!), and especially for that price (though regular retail still isn’t bad at all), it’s pretty amazing. The next time my family members ask for a laptop…

You know that comment was 2.5 years old, right?

They both verbs and nouns.

Counting in Mandarin was perhaps similarly bizarre, if not somewhat more logical. For example:

Christina Stürmer is fun. I actually give my intro students a list of bands and stuff that I like (and sometimes we listen to a song now and then at the end of class) and encourage them to find music, movies, books, websites, etc. that they enjoy and practice like that. I personally learned a TON from music, and it’s…

As someone who has taught German in a variety of contexts, I agree. Once you get used to it, German is actually very intuitive; many of my students start adding in more complex grammar before it’s ever taught explicitly, just because they hear me say it or read it in the textbook, and they manage to divine (some of)…

Norwegian might be even easier. Regardless, they’re extremely similar (might as well throw Danish into the mix too, since it’s super similar as well).

Thanks! To be fair, my previous job was “grad student,” so it’s kind of hard not to out-earn that... I anticipate making more than double, though; possibly as high as 2.5x.

I’ve had mine since I got 5.0 on my Nexus 4, and still have it on 5.1.1

That’s going to be me in a week or two (assuming I actually get the job, though I think that’s pretty likely).

It doesn’t have Cherry MX Clears, so regardless of how mechanical it may or may not be, it’s not the right one for me.

I’d rather plug in my 60% form factor mechanical keyboard than use the keyboard cover. Not that I have any of the Surface iterations, but I have been lusting after a Surface Pro 3...

I turned 23 yesterday. Happy birthday, birthday buddy!

Speaking of Hangouts, why are there like a million different ways to use it? And why do they behave differently? The Chrome extension and the Chrome app are COMPLETELY different when it comes to how Hangouts works, and while the app is prettier, it’s certainly not always better.

% of your total monthly budget spent on food: 13-16% (~$350-375)

I'm in Germanic Studies and have tuition remission, health insurance, and a livable stipend (take-home is around $15k or so, but the cost of living here isn't that high). But it wouldn't hurt my feelings to be getting more money and a marketable degree to boot.

There are grad students who make $25k/year? Maybe I should have gone into a different field...

My friend's dad had one of those when I was in high school; he let me play with it for a little bit, and I thought it was the neatest thing ever. I'd totally forgotten it ever existed.

That depends on the skins (and how many of them) you're using. I have a few very lightweight skins that I customized myself (tracks used space on my various HDDs/SSDs, and a now playing thing), and task manager lists it as less than 4MB with virtually no processor resources used (occasionally jumps to like 3% or…

That's excellent news. I had my eye on a particular 760 with 2 mini-DisplayPort connectors, but that went out of stock at Newegg (and is only available at unreasonable prices on Amazon), so I wasn't sure where to go after that. A new contender is exactly what I needed.