It’s absolutely gorgeous outside. Sunny, 61F at 0830h, rained like hell last night so the air smells clean, the birdies are singing outside my open window, the grass is growing and the trees are dotted with tiny bits of pale green. There’s even a light breeze, which is rare for these flatlands where our choices […]

According to the Autism-Spectrum Quotient test, I’m autistic! 😀 I scored a 40 (answering honestly and I know myself well, both the traits I desire and those I perhaps do not), and a 32 or above is considered the point at which autism or Asperger’s is likely. It does say that many people who score […]

Just GRAND. The old fart’s going to be hanging around for the next two days because they’re pouring a concrete walkway or something for the house next door. They put one in here last (summer? early autumn?) and I don’t know why–I certainly didn’t ask for it. One would think that if one’s son owned […]

Cooler Master Hyper 48. It’s huge, its fan is huge, it’s copper, it’s got four heat pipes. I don’t think I’d want to haul this bad boy around to too many LAN parties because I’d have a big hole in the mobo and every card in the case trashed if I did, but it should […]

I just spent over an hour, frustrated and cursing because Ubuntu flatly refused to recognise my SB Live 24-bit. I know ALSA supports it because it worked in the other puter, and I’d disabled the onboard sound (thankfully a BIOS option and not a jumper). No matter what I did, though, it refused to detect […]

…when you combine a pile of computer hardware, two eejits and a steady stream of alcohol? You get….my new computer! 🙂 It’s all done now except for the heatsink/fan, which is currently an AMD stock that P managed to find (the only one in existence in MV except those sold with a processor), but will […]

There’s almost six hours of my life that I’ll never get back. My old hardware knows its time is short, so it decided to do a major fuckup yesterday. First, it lost the NIC, then it said my RAM was bad, then it said I didn’t have any RAM, then it lost the video card […]

When P placed the order for my stuff, the CPU fan I wanted wasn’t in stock, so he got a substitute. I didn’t pay too much attention; I read something about Intel 775 on the invoice, but thought, “Okay, that’ll fit AMD 754–he knows what he’s doing”, and when it arrived, I didn’t really look […]

I may hate the sun when it’s a hundred degrees, but I love to see it when I want snow to melt. Even a soggy lawn is preferable to snow in March. The “sun” actually came yesterday in the form of my puter bits; I didn’t expect them until today at the earliest, but they […]

…roast effing groundhog with red potatoes and glazed baby carrots. I got up this morning and thought, “Geez, it looks awfully light out there, but no sun….” Yes, it does tend to look rather light when EVERYTHING IS COVERED WITH A LAYER OF SNOW. This is not Halifax and it is NOT supposed to snow […]