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After doing my taxes and discovering a significant return (thanks to four mortgage payments)
this deal on a
50" Plasma TV begged me to blow my money on it immediately. It satisfied my need for a good deal and was larger than any of my friends digital flat panel TVs. (Yes Ron, your projector is 158" but I did say digital flat panel!). With primary goals met, a quick check that my entertainment center would hold the TV (after a circular saw modification) was all I needed to click the BUY button. Today it finally arrived and
barely fits, a beacon of consumerism in full 1080i glory. After discovering 480p DVD's now look crappy, I switched to on-air HDTV for the same breathtaking video my
42" Plasma displays, but with 8 more inches of it. What next?
Upgrade the firmware naturally, and add an
HD Tuner to my
media pc, which now connects via HDMI. Apparently all those upgrades were too much for the
Morlock to take, so he
rammed his car into a curb and called for a
tow.
Since
Battlefield 2142 was a no go during the
Jan LAN, the pansies (
IronDan and
Leinnintiger) decided to organize an exclusive one that was
held today. They were joined by
Mindkill,
EternalOne,
LordJudson,
Odyssvs,
Cheffords and of course,
me. Various combinations of bots and us on different teams took place with the clear conclusion that even at full skill the bots suck. Despite the lack of challenging enemies, we still managed to teamkill each other plenty to stay amused. Event video from
Gnome Cam is
here.
Six months ago, I built a mid-level PC out of leftover upgrade parts to play around with the then-beta Vista operating system. Feeling bad that Lisa had no computer at my house, I offered it up for her to use. I was thanked, and told she would "probably never" use it. Fast forward to today and it's become her primary computer. During the
condo cleanup, I decided it was time to bring her beloved mac to my house and set it up for her. I can definitely see the chick draw, since it resembles some kind of alien more than a computer. My network would have nothing to do with it, and for three days I tried to get it to recognize the ethernet port. I finally figured out the wireless software I installed at Lisas condo messed it up pretty bad, and after removing it, my network was
successfully infected with a mac. Sure it
looks innocent, but secretly I know it's waiting to wipe all my hard drives. Fortunately the chick factor hasn't degraded over time, and I can still get $500 for it when I "accidentally" ship it to the highest bidder. Whoops I said that out loud.
I thought it was cold
last week, but that was before -2.2ºF last night. Now we've dipped into negative on every common temperature scale except Kelvin, which puts us at a toasty 254.15º above absolute zero. Kelvin makes me feel warm all over. Strangely enough, the new low for the year happened at 4:20am, which puts the blame squarely on the original Morlock. Apparently
El Niņo is no match for the Morlock.
| -2.2 °F at 04:20 on 05 February |
After seeing Ultra 1024MB PC3200 memory was
$50 after rebate, I couldn't resist bumping my system memory from 2GB up to 3GB. I use same-model memory in my system for reliable
dual channel operation, and so far the ULT31664 chips have been good to me. Last week I learned exactly how good when I was re-educated on dual channel memory controllers. After my upgrade, I booted into Vista and had to re-run the Windows experience tool. I was shocked to find my memory score dropped over a point from
4.9 to
3.6. My
total worth as a person was below
MorlockPrime and the
Elder. My motherboard had fallen back to single-channel memory speeds since there was an odd number of chips. This was obviously unacceptable, so I scammed
Stavos into getting me another $50 rebate memory chip (one per household) which bumped me up to 4GB. Apparently the extra addressing operations take their toll on the controller, as I now only get a
4.6 score, placing me on par with MorlockPrime. An excellent example of how effective dual channel technology really is, how much of a sucker I am for good deals, and yet another look into the strange world of the nerd ego.
Stavos discovered some
very detailed photos of my house in
Virtual Earth. The angle and clarity of the shot (obviously taken from an aircraft) is amazing, and beats the crap out of all the (previously) amazing satellite photos. The car you see in my yard belonged to
Morlock #2, so I'm guessing early 2006 for the timeframe. Virtual Earth is also apparently hooked into
Snow White as it was able to confirm the Morlocks
originate from Morlock Street, as has been theorized.
Even though a morlock
beat me to it, I feel it's worth double-blogging on
Google Apps for Domains. They are that friggin exciting. My first attempt at appeasing
Grandpa and
MorlockPrime and their SMTP/POP3 lust was to use the Microsoft services included with
Server 2003. While the
SMTP service was straightforward enough, the
POP3 service was a joke. It felt like it was included as an afterthought, and the under whelming configuration screens seemed to support this theory. Fortunately, a determined morlock proves very resourceful and pointed me to the Google service. Once again Google delivers another shockingly free service that works like a charm. Just point your
mail exchanger records to Google and you can give your SMTP/POP3 worries over to them, just like every other problem you don't want to solve. Long live Google apps for domains! Long live Google! Obviously, if you have a domain on this server, I can hook you up. You know what to do.
Melanie has been infected with the Jaird disease for quite some time now, so they decided to celebrate the growing parasite with a
baby shower. But this was no ordinary baby shower; while the women got drunk on baby gifts, the men got drunk on hard liquor. There was even a
high resolution cake of which my request for the zebras slice was denied. I do miss those zebras.
With less than 2 months of winter left, mother nature is making up for lost time. Last night, the temperature hit a new low for this year at 7.7 °F. The depressing gray-death clouds of Michigan that slowly suck your life away
contributed to this low, but in a meteorological irony helped keep it above zero at night. You learn these things about clouds when you're haunted by them
constantly. The Morlocks might not be as warm as they're used to, but I'm betting they get more sun in their underground caverns than I do in Michigan.
| +7.7 °F at 23:11 on 25 January |
Over 1,000 Gnomes were
brutally murdered near Perth, Australia in "Gnomesville," a sanctuary for oppressed Gnomes. Obviously perpetrated by someone suffering from Gnomophobia, it's a shame to see how once again societies misunderstanding and fear were translated into destruction.
Butt the Gnome, a long time supporter of Gnome rights, had this to say about his recent loss of brethren: "It's goddamn cold out here!"
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