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NZXT Sentry LX fan controller caught my eye a few weeks ago, and try as I might I could not resist the urge to buy one. My fan setup was more than sufficient, but the animated lights and almost 5 inch screen was too much temptation, not to mention the nerd factor which was off the charts. Today it finally arrived and after
setting it up I'm convinced it was the right thing to do. Beyond the pretty factor, each fan cranks up according to what I'm doing, keeping the case almost totally silent when idle. Intense file decompression sessions have my HDD RAID fan max out at 2,000 rpm, while gaming gets the two closest to my CPU/Video card close to 1600 each. Other than that all 4 sit at the silent 1,000 speed until needed. I'd say it's saving energy with all this fancy automation, but I'm sure the ultra-bright monitor offsets any savings I could hope to realize. Score one for
EternalOne, this is most likely an anti-hippie mod.
Lisas complaint about the cord on my mower the one time she mowed my yard was sufficient reason to upgrade to a cordless model. After selling my current model for $60 at my garage sale (which was still going strong 5 years later, contrary to
previous predictions), I found a $200 cordless
clearance model on Amazon. On arrival, the circuit board was damaged from shipping so I had to wait till lastnight for the replacement one. An hour later it was up and running and my
first cut was a success. The battery meter still shows 3/4 charge, so I can easily get two mows per charge. It's definitely heavier than my corded model, probably due to the equivalent of 4 motorcycle batteries on board, but easier to get around and now Lisa approved. Hopefully this hippie mower will turn out to be just as dependable and effective as my last.
Today my frost warning light came on in my Cougar meaning the temperature was below 42 fahrenheit, and as it indicated the ground was covered in frost. The last time this light came on it kicked off 5 long months of freezing weather. With the
Free Press promising snow this weekend now is a great time to move to Florida with Joseph.
Not satisfied with infecting unsuspecting Michiganders, it was time to move my Rock Band addiction machine south (yes, south) to Windsor for some Canadian action, eh. What was scheduled to be a relaxing sleepover at Melindas house (with occasional girl-on-girl action) turned into a 10 hour Rock Band marathon fully hooking
Ron on drums, Jenny on vocals, and Melinda/Adriano/Lisa on Guitar. I operated as a substitute when someone needed hydration or muscle relaxant. While my achievement points per minute rating was lower than I had hoped, the successful hooking of all involved assured additional sessions to further increase them. Normally I'd include photos but my boycott of Facebook prevents it.
IPv6 was created to
save us from the Chinese and give us a much cooler address schema. Unfortunately, hardly anyone can access the two IPv6 websites available thanks to un-american ISPs, so it looks like IPv4 will be around for some time still. This makes today an excellent opportunity to buy up the expired/unused IPv4 addresses and hold them for ransom in the coming address war. The
WhatIsMyV6 website is a great way to determine if you'll survive the Chinese attack or not. I'm currently headed for prisoner of war, but I'm curious if ANYONE reading this has IPv6 connectivity at all. If you can
click this link and NOT get a "Server not Found" please post below excitedly and include your address so I know where to draw my emergency bunker directions to.
After finding the 13 Xbox 360 games with the
easiest achievements available, I promptly rented three of them for some achievement overload. As
mentioned previously the points do nothing but boost your nerd status, of which I felt mine was in need of boosting. The
Avatar game was just as easy as the video promised, boosting me up a full 1,000 points in 1 minute, giving me shivers. Fortunately
Stavos came over to not only clear the cobweb from my
Gnome Cam, but also to help me beat "Big Game Hunter" which started to devolve us both into toothless drunk rednecks. I'm still working on my third game, "Jumper", which seems to randomly hand out achievements, which is in line with the game genre of "button masher." In the end I should be close to 3,000 points cooler and on my way to nerdvana.
Today was another open track day at Waterford Hills. This time I brought my new
Aiptek 1080P Cam corder for some in-car video, and uploaded my second session both
before and
after my redneck camera mount got loose and fell over. As you can see, the camera has no image stabilization whatsoever, so it's only slightly improved from my
last attempt at in car video. Between my first and second session, while I was watching the course, I heard the sickening sound of crunching plastic and metal and ran over to find a Neon had hit the grass and
swerved into a wall. The damage was
pretty major having hit the wall doing close to 50, even
buckling the roof. Apparently accidents are common at open track days, but this being the first one I witnessed I made myself useful running around like an excited idiot until I got a hold of a broom to help clean up the debris.
It's odd. I thought that would be big news. I have searched all over the internet and there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. An article regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard. Well if you have not I suggest clicking
this link.
With the anniversary of Lisas successful
capture of my assetts, it was decided we would
visit Mackinac island to celebrate. While not a big fan of an island that smells like horse poop, I did finally find a fudge I can tolerate thanks to the 17 fudge shops located there. It's cherry chocolate, and it made me into a confessed fudge packer. The rest of the island reminded me of a retirement home, save our tandem bicycle which reminded me of a 60's surf film. After initially visiting their corporate offices 2 hours away thanks to a navigation error, we also managed to make it to the
Shipwreck Museum and
Tahquamenon Falls, both easily the highlights of the trip.
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The NZXT Sentry LX fan controller caught my eye a few weeks ago, and try as I might I could not resist the urge to buy one. My fan setup was more than sufficient, but the animated lights and almost 5 inch screen was too much temptation, not to mention the nerd factor which was off the charts. Today it finally arrived and after setting it up I'm convinced it was the right thing to do. Beyond the pretty factor, each fan cranks up according to what I'm doing, keeping the case almost totally silent when idle. Intense file decompression sessions have my HDD RAID fan max out at 2,000 rpm, while gaming gets the two closest to my CPU/Video card close to 1600 each. Other than that all 4 sit at the silent 1,000 speed until needed. I'd say it's saving energy with all this fancy automation, but I'm sure the ultra-bright monitor offsets any savings I could hope to realize. Score one for EternalOne, this is most likely an anti-hippie mod.
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