Well, it’s been a fun weekend. The novelty of having a computer again still hasn’t worn off. I’m surfing randomly and trying to rebuild my bookmarks and links while also playing catch up with the sites that I haven’t had access to in the past 6 months. It’s bliss, glorious bliss.
Of course, once I had a working computer again one of the first things that I did was… no, not porn you dirty minded buggers. No, I downloaded the last couple of episodes from this season of Doctor Who! Yay geeky me. It was glorious.
Next was to go through all the fun and stupid links that people sent me.
Next up is Tokyo Plastic. An odd little Japanese site filled with modern and digital art. It’s not so much a website but an experience. Explore it, it’s rather unique and interesting.
There’s one more link that I can’t find at the moment that I really must share. it’s someone’s breakfast, ham and eggs and toast and bacon, transforming into a mecha like robot and dancing… it’s hillarious. When I find it I will post it. Until then, just imagine the cheesey goodness of that idea in your head.
That’s all from me for now. Back to surfing for cool schtuffz0r.
And my toy arrived bright and early this morning. Thankfully my dog likes to bark at the doorbell or I wouldn’t have heard the courier, but I did and I now have a fancy new toy. Yay. I’m currently upgrading the software and tweaking it to remove as many traces of Internet Exploder that I possibly can. Firefox all the way baby!
The speed of this thing is glorious. Copying my whole 10GB of songs on my ipod amounted to a whole 5 minutes as opposed to the hour or so it took before. This rocks. Now I am sitting here, getting comfortable with the keyboard layout and downloading all the mail that I’ve received since I last had a functioning computer back in September. Anyone care to take a guess as to how many messages that I have (not including deleted messages and spam)?
No, higher than that. I now have a total of 2887 Messages in my inbox since Sept. Go me!
Anyway. I need to start patching WoW. That will sadly take all afternoon using Blizzard’s useless updater. Oh well. I’m back online. The little things like that don’t bother me at all any more.
So here I sit, hopefully for the last (or at the very least the penultimate) time at this keyboard on this crappy computer waiting desperately for my own new toy to arrive. I keep hoping that it will arrive soon. For the past two days I’ve gone to work hoping that I’d come home and there it would be, exhultant in all it’s glory but have been disappointed both days. Tomorrow perhaps is what I keep telling myself. I hope it’s here before the weekend though so as I can spend time setting things up and then come Monday on my day off, I can actually play on it.
Can you tell I was never any good at Christmas?
Anyway, since I’m bored and trying to amuse (read distract) myself from my lack of computational goodness, I’ve been surfing the web randomly looking for things to amuse and delight.
Tonight I came across this fun little article and accompanying photo that paints an interesting picture about Season 4 of Battlestar Galactica. I guess this means I need to hurry up and finish watching season three. I have one more disk to go and then I’ll be a whole two episodes behind by the time my comp gets here… but thanks the the wonders of modern torrent sites, I’ll be able to catch up on them (and Doctor Who) soon enough.
On that note, I’m off to stumble around the web some more looking for something shiny to distract and amuse me.
Just a brief and mindless couple of comments tonight as I’m sick as a dog and nursing the mother of all colds.
Guh!
Snot should not be virulent yellow. At least I have two days off to enjoy my NyQuil. Yup, it’s green death fucking flavour. *grin*
Err, anyways, before I go off on my Denis Leary Nyquil homage I am happy to announce that my Laptop shipped today… about an hour ago actually according to my email, so here’s hoping that come monday morning I have a shnazzy new toy to play with. I don’t have a shipping # yet though so I can’t obsessively track it to find out where it is and when exactly it will get here.
As this is April 1st, I suppose I should’ve thought of some witty and clever post honouring April Fool’s Day but since I have haven’t come up with anything on my own I shall just point you in the direction of the biggest conspiracy theory this side of Mos Eisley.
After many long months I have finally fixed my computer woes.
*does the happy dance*
While I’ve been slowly buying pieces for my desktop over the past couple of months, I’ve kept running into the inevitable problem of bills creeping out of the woodwork and generally not having what I need when I need it… Okay, okay. The $400 dollar spending spree on Books, DVDs and CDs last month didn’t help either but that’s not the point. Well, maybe it is, but I’m just going to move on and hope no one calls me on it. *grin*.
Anyway. I’ve been rebuilding the desktop when I can but I’ve been eyeing a decent laptop more and more as the days go by. They’re just as powerful these days and I’ve always wanted one in addition to the desktop because it would give me the mobility to write and game anywhere.
This past weekend I decided to do some window shopping and did the usual “Dream computer builder” on the various sites out there and realized that what the hell. They’re a good deal. I can afford the monthly payments, let’s see what they have to offer. Long story short, I should have my fancy new Dell XPS M1730 by mid month and then I can still rebuild my desktop and then at some point I’ll be able to Dual box WOW and can finally justify having two accounts *grin*.
There is much rejoicing… and I only owe a little tiny bit of my soul. I can’t wait for my digital joy to arrive! I am such a geek. Go me!
I’ll include the specs under the cut for those of you who’re interested. The rest can just assume the post ends here *grin*
Yes, I’m well aware that the frequency of my posting has dwindled alarmingly to almost nothing and I make no apologies for it. Apparently one can not have a social life and work and write and still blog all within the allotted 24 hour time period. Who knew?!?!
Anyhow, this isn’t going to be any more interesting than any of the previous posts unless of course you’re a Doctor Who geek like me. Yup. Series 4 debuts in the UK on Saturday April 4th, 2008. Which of course means that by about early Saturday evening local time, it’ll be up on the usual Torrent sites for the rest of us to all enjoy. I can’t wait.
And because I can’t wait… here’s the Teaser Trailer for the upcoming season. Looks good. Ood, Sontarans, Daleks, Rose, Martha and Donna. What more could a Who geek ask for… except maybe a Tom Baker cameo. But that’s just wishful thinking. Enjoy
Oh and I will actually try to start posting with some semi regularity very soon.
Recently, the New York Times published an article on E. Gary Gygax and how he influenced much (if not all) modern geek culture. They even provided a shnazzy flowchart that I’ve copied below for handy dandy referencing. I’m still trying to figure out where on the great big wheel of geekiness I fit in personally though.
Yeah, as you can tell, there haven’t been many posts lately. I’ve been busy and distracted by other shiny things (Life, it’s full of them. Who knew!)
As per the norm, whenever I end up being short for time. I always end up spamming a few mindless links to fill up space and to give myself that hollow sense of accomplishment that posting something, no matter how puerile, gives.
Today is no exception. Today you must be a valid holder of a Geek ID card to truly appreciate this next useless quiz.
For those of you who haven’t seen it yet. They released a new trailer for the upcoming Iron Man movie with Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character. It looks good. I’m really looking forward to this movie.
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