Damn, it’s Thursday already. The

by | Apr 25, 2002 | Imported Entry

Damn, it’s Thursday already. The critique in photo class went well, everyone seemed to like my stuff and I even got a few compliments on my “style” which never happened before. Go me! Other than that there’s not much going on. I’ve got to start shooting slide film (aka: “chromes”) this weekend for my next assignment. I’ve also got to finish a three page comic and do research on a term paper topic. I hate midterms.

In other news, since Lauren and I were both busy on Tuesday, we’ve decided to “celebrate” our aniversary tonight. I’m cooking my famous “Hong Kong Spicy Chicken” with rice. I also picked up a nice bottle of ’97 chardoney from the liquior store.

Tomorrow Lauren has a field trip to go to so I’ll probably hang out here and shoot a few rolls of film. Maybe I might have time to order computer parts too. It’s really sad that I don’t even have time to order the parts, let alone put them together and enjoy a new system. I don’t want to wait till I get home so I’ll probably end up doing soon. It just seems like one more “good thing” has turned into a hassle. What the heck.

Oh, and did I mention the hippies? There were friggin hippies everywhere! “Wide Spread Panic” a sucky hippy band was playing at the Civic Center and an entire nation of dirty, stinky, stupid people flooded into town. I was asked 3 times if I had any pot. Three!!! And it was over a period of no more than 15 minutes. I hate hippies. I loath hippies. There is no lower form of human being than a fucking hippy. ARG! But they’re gone now, and they’ve taken their “stink” with them. So, I can’t really complain. I think I hate hippies even more than I hate Nazi’s, and that’s a tough thing to do, especially after 20 years of video games to back me up. Is it just me, or are Nazi’s the bad guy in nearly every video game? At least in a good percentage. Whatever.

I’m going to go cook dinner now. Cheers.

Well, today (yesterday, officially) is

by | Apr 24, 2002 | Imported Entry

Well, today (yesterday, officially) is (was) the two year aniversary of Lauren and I starting our relationship. It’s been a wonderful two years with more ups than downs and times of great pleasure and happiness. It’s still so very hard to believe that it’s already been two years. I can remember telling people I had just met a great girl and it seems like yesterday. It’s also dawning on me that it’s been three years of college already. Shit. I’m not ready for the real world. Screw that. I’d like to stay in my little bubble for a little longer. But that’s a whole different story. Back to the aniversary, we’re both exceptionally busy tonight so we’ve decided to celebrate later this week on Thursday. I plan on cooking a nice meal and we’ll break out the candles and I’ll pick up a bottle of wine. It should be nice.

I also got my printing for Color done today, which is a good feeling. Most of the prints turned out very well and I’m happy with’em. I’m not quite done with my pencil roughs for sequential class tomorrow, so I’m probably screwed. Not that I care. I don’t perticularly like that class at the moment, but I don’t plan on letting it drag down my fairly high GPA.

Ok, sleepy time.

I’m also still torn on

by | Apr 22, 2002 | Imported Entry

I’m also still torn on whether I should get the nvidia board or the KT333. Every review I’ve found seems to think the KT333 is the best thing since canned meat. Nothing bad was said about the nvidia board as well. Both board have high marks and seem to be stable. The only major differences is obviously the chipsets, the memory size and the ATA133 support. The nvidia has a larger memory capacity but the KT333 chipset has ATA133 support. Plah. I hate not knowing this crap. I should read more reviews.

Carry on…

See, this is what happens

by | Apr 22, 2002 | Imported Entry

See, this is what happens when you do to much research: you get torn between options. This quandry is with hard drives. In my mind, there’s only two options: The IBM DeskStar 120GXP or the Western Digital 1200JB. Both offer blazing fast 7200rpm rotation speeds, both have an average seek time under 9 ms. The only signifigant differences I can see are the buffer sizes and operating limitations. The WD has a massive (almost SCSI sized) 8MB buffer with the IBM only having a 2MB. Also, the IBM has a 333 hour monthly power on limitation recomendation. Not that I’d be leaving my puter on that long but it’s just a node against stability in my opinion. However, seek times with the WD are almost slow enough to make it an issue. Sure, average seek times are 8.9ms for the 8.5 for the IBM, but the seperation in “Track to Track” and “Average Seek (write)” offer an advantage for the IBM camp. I dunno. The IBM is fast as shit but the WB has a huge huge buffer. Both offer speed, both offer space. The question comes down to the “little things.”