by Matt | Apr 18, 2002 | Imported Entry
Lots going on at the moment. Today I printed some stuff from my shoot last weekend. They turned out well. 1 down, 9 to go. Speaking of those 9, they’ll be shot tomorrow, developed by Saturday and hopefully printed before Tuesday. Tuesday is our two year aniversary, Lauren and I, so I’d obviously like to get those done before then so I can spend the evening out with my girl. Tomorrow, I’ve got a make up class from 9 till 11:30ish, after that I’ll head upstairs to the Studio and setup for shooting the rest of the afternoon. I’m going to be shooting a series of 5 video game consoles (well, 4 and an ibook if Nagle’s still ok with me borrowing it) and then 4 portraits. Pete, Lauren, Nagle and myself will be the portraits and then (if I can still borrow them) I’ll get closeup product-shots of a PS, N64, GameCube, Dreamcast and iBook. The iBook isn’t my first choice obviously, but NO ONE around here has anything other than what I already have, or nothing at all. And no, I don’t plan on buying a PS2 simply to take a picture of it. Although, renting one my not be a bad idea… hmmm. Nah. Tomorrow we also sign the lease on our new place. We’ve worked out a deal with the complex to shut off everything (power, water, etc) for the summer so that we’re just paying rent. That way we won’t have to pay to keep the apartment air conditioned while there’s no one there. That’s about it.
by Matt | Apr 16, 2002 | Imported Entry
This is sort of a random computer question for “da boys.” Lets say that I do indeed get the nForce board, would the built in GF2 work “automaticaly” and/or what would happen if I put in the video card I have now? Would it get confused and use one instead of the other? Would it use the add-in card as extra? Would I in a sense have a “duel Geforce 2” or one I have to pick one? These are things that non of the reviews I’ve read seem to be addressing. Any ideas? I just don’t want the short end of the video card/Mobo stick. I’ve had plenty of Mobo/Gfx card problems before (*cough* TNT2 and Asus *cough*)
by Matt | Apr 16, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well, things have gotten slightly more complicated. After talking with Royal Oaks it seems that we were required to give them 60 days notice before terminating our lease. I found that a bit odd. I was under the assumption that when you don’t say that you’ll be resigning a lease that they would take that as sort of a hint. So, this puts us in a pickle. 60 days from now is June 16th. We won’t be here in June. This is bad. Our options at this point basically boil down to us having to pay for 16 extra days in June when we really shouldn’t have to. But, all that is going to happen no matter what we do, we have to pay for that, there’s no way out of it. So, it’s best to deal with it and move on. So, now we turn our attention to finding some place else. We have. A nice “split two bedroom” at Magnolia Villa (what cheesy names these places have). This is where it gets complicated. If we move in now (or relatively soon) we’re in time to catch their “special” which is $99 to move in, no security deposit or non-refundable deposit, that sort of thing. That’s for April, in May we’d start playing regular rent and so on from there. If we waited until May or June, we’d have to pay a $250 security deposit and a $100 non-refundable deposit, plus May’s rent. So, clearly, the better deal is to get it now. But what about Royal Oaks, we’re still responsible for those 60 days and hense, have to pay for those 60 days. So, either we pay May’s rent twice and $99 now, or we pay May’s rent twice and $350 later. What a shitty situation. I’ve got to get a hold of my parents tonight and see what they think. Rent at the new place is slightly higher, but there’s less utilities, so I guess it works out. Damn, this is a pain in the ass.
by Matt | Apr 15, 2002 | Imported Entry
Anyone think this is an ok deal? Or how about the parts? Good parts? Feedback?
From AlienWare.com:
Dragon Full Tower Case w/ 340 watt PS – “Conspiracy Blue” colored
AMD Athalon XP 1800+
Cool Master DP5-7H53F Fan/Heatsink
512MB DDR SDRAM (pc-2100)
20GB Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 7200rpm
VisionTek Xtasy GeForce 4 MX 440 w/64MB (duel monitor support)
KoolMaxx Video Card Fan/Heatsink
SoundBlaster Audigy 5.1
16x/48x DVD-ROM
PlexWriter 24x/10x/40x CD-RW
+ the usual extras (keyboard, mouse etc)
Price: $1525.00
Thats not a bad price, especially for an AlienWare system, which are said to be tip-top. Whatcha think guys?
by Matt | Apr 15, 2002 | Imported Entry
Well, the other shoe dropped. That is to say that the living situation just got weirder. You see, Pete’s friend Brian was in need of another apartment and so Pete more of less decided to try and find an apartment with him for next year. That in itself is completely ok and we’re happy for him. What wasn’t ok was that he didn’t tell us. I always assumed that when you’re changing housing arrangments that people give the other roommates a “heads up.” I’m sure Pete had every intention of doing so, so I’m not placing blame, but even when you’re “thinking about it” you should let people know. His reply when we asked him about it was basically “I wasn’t going to say anything until I was sure.” That’s not the greatest of responses. You see, our lease is up in May and if Pete had waited a week or two, that would have given Jason and I only a few weeks to come up with alternatives and that would have been tough on us. I appreciate his honesty about the subject, I just wish it could have been a little more forth-coming. But, given the situation, Jason and I decided to be direct and said that if he was indeed leaving, we wouldn’t be resigning the lease. It was blunt, but I think Jason was a tad bit upset at that point. I can’t blame him.
It will unfortunatly (and more than likely) create an air of tension in the house, which was something that I wanted to avoid and didn’t want to have happen. But, I guess the reality of the situation is that we’re all moving on. Pete decided to change apartments and we found out before he told us, so in mini-retaliation, we decided to seek alternatives as well. The only reason I’m being blunt and honest here is because I want to avoid bad feelings between anyone. We felt slighted when we heard, even a little upset and disappointed. I can also tell that Pete wouldn’t do anything like that on purpose so nothing is “his fault” persay. I guess since it’s out in the open it can be a “mutual feeling” sort of thing. At least I hope so. At any rate, the search is on for alternative housing.
All that in an afternoon… oi. On to other topics. First up being photography. Nagle gave me a great idea today for a series. A bunch (5) of product shots of different game systems in a studio setting. Namely the SNES, PS, GameCube, Dreamcast and N64. I wish I had access to the original NES or a PS2, but those will have to do. I also want to comtinue my “portrait” series of images. Seeing if I could get Nagle and Pete to pose as well as Lauren and possibly myself. That would make 10 images (5 portraits and 5 systems) which would be enough to complete the next assignment. Whatcha think?
More later.
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