Monday, December 6, 2004

An AMD 3400+ processor set on sexy.

Comment Commentary

Shin- I have had Pixies tunes stuck in my head for the past three days, and after a while even Debaser makes me want to blow my brains out.

Karmi- It's okay the first time, but it gets old.

Solo- Is Art of Life a ballad? I've never heard it before.

Syk- I dunno, I guess I was too busy chortling at his fanboy banter.

Shin- I need you to help me comprehend it for the sake of AR.

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Alex- Bah, it's over and I only got to play for an hour or two.

Mimmi- Maybe. <.<

Alea- Lack of internetness = :(

Syk- At least I bother to do anything. Zing.

Stacie- You've invited me to the mall ONCE, and Melissa was there. >.o

Stacie- Oh noes.

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As I subtly hinted at yesterday, I finally got the computer yesterday. After buying a couple of cool jackets at the mall, I went up to my dad's workplace and gently placed the computer into the car.

The parts weren't quite at my spec sheet's level- instead of a GeForce 6600 it's a 5700, which gets the job done (if GuildWars is any indication), and the processor went from a 3500+ to a 3400+, and the case isn't the same.

It's not necessarily bad- it's some case that has the temperature readout on the front and a side window. Admittedly, the window is quite cool (it gives me something to stare blankly at while things are loading), but the temperature readout is making me paranoid. I don't know what the norm is, and because of that I have started checking it every few seconds.

There's three fans, two of them glow an ominous blue, and most of the time it's about 81 degrees.

Not that I'm asking for help or anything.

I never realized how different XP is compared to 98. I'm adjusting easily enough, but it's still odd.

GuildWars ran wonderfully on it.. Whereas the the old computer had it going so that it was literally incohesive, everything seems near-perfect on this one. A couple of textures were a bit blurred, and I had one instance of aliasing doom, but it was nice. Destroying.. Volgs, or whatever those things were called alongside Alex and some crazy treasure-hoarding noob.

And nobody seemed to be that idiotic. D3re wuz n0t much of diS>

I'd like to buy it when it comes out, but Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga is probably going to take priority. Limited printings = immediate purchase, you know.

Jumping back a couple subtopics, it was relatively easy hooking things up, though this desk is retarded and has no room for this humongous case in the small space provided. Thus, the little alien on the side fan stares at me from the armrest / desk to my right, with the networking cable invading my mouse's personal space.

That isn't too much of a problem. I would say setting up the speaker system was this biggest pain. The furst hurdle was the packaging. Each speaker had its own little wrapper from hell, blistering my fingers effortlessly as I toiled on and on to undo that damned twisty-tie. Finding places for the speakers, small as they are, was a bit of an issue. As Azure suggested, I have one behind the monitor, one to each side, and two above (off to the left and right). There were no holes in this crappy-ass cabinet for the far ones, so I had to break out a steak knife and violently make little pathways for the wires.

Speaking of wires, you don't want to see the underside of my desk. It's insanity. I think my dog went down there yesterday, and I haven't seen him since.

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For the moment, because of the computer transition, I am officially MP3 and Photoshopless. First off, there is no place to set up the old computer. I was sort of hoping I could put it on the other desk, but it doesn't fit. Second, there's no burning software. I had some before the hard drive crash, and it did the job, but that's lost (it came with the computer, no disc). Third, even if I did have software, it would take a while. Almost 4GB of music spread across 700MB CDs.. That would take a while. If that computer had a DVD burner it wouldn't be so bad, but even then it wouldn't be a snap.

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I finally transferred today. I was given the green slip in first period, ran over to the journalism teacher's class to have her sign it ("So you finally did it, huh?"), and went back into the room to read Catch 22 for a while.

So far, some parts of it are freaking hilarious, and other parts are just mildly amusing. I think my biggest laugh so far was when they said that everybody who knew the guy liked the guy.

"They hated that son of a bitch."

I'm only about a tenth of the way through the book, and I have to have it done by the seventeenth.. Boo, commitment.

Art was okay. I sat in the back of the room at a big table with the "veterans" from last year, and did a bit of a comic. It's funny because I spent all period making sure my faux-stick figures were perfect.

PE was.. Odd. When you switch classes at this school, you have to get signatures from all of the teachers affected. My PE teacher wasn't here today, so someone else had to sign it.. After that I went out to where we sit, talking to people I know and getting violated by people I don't.

If you compared my previous class and my new one, it goes without saying that I'm now in the less orderly one. The squads were all lopsided, with people just running around, and I just sat wherever. We stood around and talked for most of the period, and for a minute I felt a minor sense of regret.

But whatever. I'm sure it'll get better.

I guess I don't have much else to say. I have tomorrow off for parent teacher conferences (thanks, lazy school system!), and I'll probably just read all day. I'm not in the best of moods, and this feels like one that won't go away for a while.

Closing statement: This monitor seems more blurred than the last one.. And that's not a good thing.
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