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At the bequest of
Senator Kelley and
Excelcier, another Jan LAN was proposed. Expecting only 4 people for a modest Starcraft match, it turned into a 12 person event with 10 concurrent players. My lack of planning left us with only FarCry, FarCry 2 and UT2K3 as game options, but it still managed to entertain. Both the
Morlocks woman and Lisas mom got to experience a LAN party for the first time, scarring them permanently. The
timelapse from the
Gnome Cam and
event photos are posted.
Today at lunch I received a text message from Lisa indicating I had just become 20 Gamerscore richer while I was stuffing my face. I immediately showed everyone at the table for +5 jealousy that my wife was farming achievement points while I was at work.
A
$10 rebate brought the price of some
new hardware down to
just under $100 during my Microcenter trip with the Senator. Originally purchased for upgrading my dads computer, the jerk son that I am decided to take the new hardware for myself and give him my
old server hardware. While I've gone from two cores to one, the 300Mhz speed increase seems to more than compensate when it comes to the only processor intensive task on the server;
thumbnail generation. And yes, it's embarassing to run a server on a Sempron, but until the AM2
Opterons drop to under $20 on eBay I'm willing to swallow my pride.
| Old System |
|
New System |
| Processor: | Opteron 180 X2 (2.41Ghz) |
|
Processor: | Sempron 140 (2.71Ghz) |
| Memory: | 3072 MB |
|
Memory: | 2048 MB |
| Mainboard: | nForce4 MCP |
|
Mainboard: | nForce 430 |
In a shocking turn of events,
Senator Kelley was
arrested today in front of my house by a local school bus driver. He was only yards away from salvation when the unmarked (but obviously police) car collided with the Senator, rendering him incapacitated and unable to escape. Charges include uttering and publishing, indecent exposure and impersonating a police officer. Re-election seems impossible, but we were allowed to complete our planned trip to Microcenter before he was incarcerated.
Lisa's adventure in lower bowel obstructions ended with success today. Her time as
snuffaluffagus only lasted a few days before all tubes were removed and she was deemed fit to re-enter society again. Sword swallowing and cocaine smuggling are both out for the immediate future, but knowing Lisa I'm sure she'll be back on both those wagons in a few months.
My
2 year+ adventure in Xbox 360 gamerscore addiction has reached a new milestone today. While solving a case involving a hermaphrodite in
CSI: Deadly Intent I passed the 50,000G mark proving a motivated junkie like me can
accomplish any trivial goal I put my mind to. I promised myself I'd only play games I'd enjoy after the 50k mark, but like any predictable addict I instead have my sights now set on 100k. Bring on the hermaphrodites, daddy needs more syrup!
With the
color wheel on my
HC1500 Projector getting louder and louder, and the cost for a replacement part exceeding $400, the opportunity for an upgrade had presented itself. Once the
Senator passed me
this review I was on the road to 1080p projected goodness. I decided on the
Epson HC 8100 not because it's a higher quality projector, but because the review indicated it was for people who "could spend a little bit more" and I wanted to be in that group. Plus it makes me unpredictable which feeds back into my appearance of being rich, especially after
Tigerbomb approved the projector which escalated it to fine wine status. The new model is also
much larger giving me even more of a status boost, although it comes at a cost of being much more
difficult to mount. While the screen size increased to the full width of my wall (133" vs. 110") I was not able to tell much difference in quality. Fortunately
Stavos stopped by to lend his videophile snobbery to assure me the quality improvement was significant, and that my popularity was on track for an exponential increase. Pay no attention to my
ebay auction, I don't need to finance a new purchase by selling old equipment anymore on account of my new 1080p level of refinement. You can ignore it when making your evaluation. The reliable
RCA RT2770 remains my audio factory.
My refrigerator of almost 10 years sounded off with the click of death yesterday, signalling compressor failure. Today I transferred all my frozen goods to my
new freezer while I wait for a replacement part. This marks yet another rare advantage of living in the forsaken wasteland of Michigan; natural freezers. Of course now that it's location is known, I expect my imitation crab legs will be walking off shortly.
Lastnight, the temperature hit 7°. This is a
record low for 2010 (so far). To celebrate a trip to Sonic was in order. Braving 15 degree weather, I made my way to a surprisingly packed stall service to enjoy an affront to the weather. While the food was good, the 20 minutes of not running my engine gave me a new appreciation for animals left in cars during the winter.
| +7 °F at 06:34 on 03 January |
Stardate 63466.9: Lisa arranged for a quiet evening with
the Kelleys for an event not to exceed a 3/5 excitement level to ring in the new year. The
morlocks sphinx monitoring system quickly caught wind of the event and were invited, along with the Schwartzs which immediately exceeded the planned excitement level. Fortunately the
new Family Guy,
Things and excessive alcohol were enough to keep everyone entertained.
- Kirk-shirt-wearing-nerd out
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