So I added RAM to my laptop last week by removing one of the 1-gigabyte DIMMs and replacing it with a 2-gig DIMM, producing a total of 3. This is sort of unusual, because heretofore most RAM has been set up with homogenous slots — all 1-gig, or all 2-gig, or whatever.

I have taken to referring to my mixed setup as “The Welk Configuration,” since it consists of a one and a two.

I am nowhere nearly as sorry about that as I probably ought to be.