A Day in the Life

Eagan got a new computer monitor at work today. It's a 24 inch monitor. And, to say the least, he is in love with it. Today at lunch we were chatting online, and this is the conversation that transpired:

Eagan: you would seriously love this monitor. it makes colors seem brighter, it makes food taste better, it makes the air seem cleaner.

Heather: HAHA! You are totally going to leave me for that thing

Eagan: i think i already have. i don't want it to have to sleep alone

Heather: haha!

It's like in the book we just read, where when the wife says she's leaving him he says, "well, I can't sleep without the dog." 

That screen is going to be your dog

Eagan: haha. totally

ZOMG! Newsmap on this monitor is AMAZING!!! it goes across the whole thing! it is enormous! lol

Heather: I really have lost you...you belong to the monitor now

Eagan: it is like 2 feet of news and colors!

Heather: what about this: http://dd.dynamicdiagrams.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/orrery_2006.swf

Eagan: no, it just kind of stays in the middle

Heather: oh, well EXCUSE ME! I guess your monitor isn't so perfect then, afterall!

Eagan: it looks pretty, but it doesn't spread out and use all of the beautiful room.

No, YOUR WEBSITE is the problem here!

Heather: haha! i knew that was coming!

Eagan: DON'T YOU QUESTION MONITOR!

Heather: It's going to turn on you in the end, like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Eagan: I know what we can do, the fate of Watson on Jeopardy will decide the fate of our marriage

Heather: NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Eagan: if watson wins, i go with the monitor, if a meatbag wins, ill stay with you

Heather: A meatbag?! Is that how you see me?! A monitor is wonderful and beautiful, and I'm a meatbag?! haha

Eagan: haha

Shelfari also looks amazing on it. The colors are so crisp!

Heather: Haha.

Well if our marriage is determined by Watson's performance, I hope there's more puns he doesn't get!

Eagan: haha, totally. i love the one were Watson answered some totally random word and he was like 97% sure it was right

Heather: yeah, totally. Not as smart as ya think, DO YA?! [This a legendary quote uttered by a not-entirely-sober Davis]

Eagan: haha

Heather: It just goes to show that, at least now, computers can have all this great knowledge stored up, but they might not know how to access and retrieve it in a human way 

Eagan: Yeah

But it is really weird about my phone [his phone started malfunctioning today]. totally annoying, i don't understand why it happened.

Heather: Maybe it was jealous of your monitor and committed suicide.

Eagan: haha. indeed. i am about to do that. i feel like the monitor is doing most of my work now

Heather: haha! Wow, that thing has quite the power over you

Is it going to start stroking your arm and say, "I think you should get the basil salad"?

Eagan: haha

Heather: "Alrighty then," you seply

*reply

the seply typo makes me think of SHANGHAI SUPPLIES!

Hey, we should open a Chinese import shop and call it that!

Does your monitor think of awesome ideas like that?!? I don't think so!

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You've left me for the monitor, huh?

Eagan: Sorry. sarah [a coworker] was asking me if I loved my monitor

Heather: HAHAHA!

Eagan: haha. Shanghai Supplies! that is awesome

i told her that i told you that i was considering leaving you for it. she loved it!

Heather: Haha

Eagan: I've told other coworkers about my new monitor. I feel dirty talking about my huge "monitor" on the phone. lol. 

Heather: Haha! 

What's the size of your new monitor, again?

Eagan: 24" extra widescreen.

Samsung BX2440X. I already have the model tattooed on my lower back

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BX2440X-Performance-Widescreen-Backlight/dp/B003GKTGYC

that is the monitor!

BEHOLD IT IN ALL ITS GLORY