Archive for December, 2001
Friday, December 28th, 2001
Troubles
Woke up this morning feeling sick to my stomach, and even vomiting a little, so I called into work and went back to bed. After sleeping some more and watching some Star Trek, I started feeling better, so I dressed and went into SimPro. Not a terribly exciting day by any stretch of the definition.
Also, [...]
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2001
Christmas Loot
Another Christmas come and gone, and now I have a lot of cool new stuff. I guess I’ll run down the list of loot in approximate chronological order. First, my mom and Ralph gave me money to but a new TV with a couple weeks ago. I plan to do that this week. Last week, [...]
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Friday, December 21st, 2001
Case Mod Ideas
Had an idea for a case mod for my new machine. In the drive plates, there’s a grid of square holes. I was thinking I could get some pieces of colored acrylic from a company that Dave R. works with, put those behind the holes, and put a light source behind that to make the [...]
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2001
Holiday Planages
Christmas is nearly upon us! Run away!
I’m actually looking forward to it though. My dad is driving out from Michigan with a U-Haul full of fun stuff for the apartment. He’ll be here from Saturday to Christmas. Christmas day looks a little tricky though, Andrea and I are supposed to be at my parents house [...]
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2001
Happy new computer goodness
Well, so far I am nearly 100% happy with my new computer. Over the weekend Matt and I played some CounterStrike and Unreal Tournament, both of which run amazingly well on my new system, as they should. I also played around with Red Faction, Return to Castle Wolfenstein (single player demo), and Medal of Honor, [...]
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Friday, December 14th, 2001
Computer yay!
Finally, I have all the parts for my new computer. They are assembled, and it is running wonderfully! I am very happy indeed. Now I just need to decide on an operation system, and I’m all set. I figure I’ll put Windows 2000 or XP on for games, and FreeBSD 4.4-R on for everything else [...]
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2001
More info
Well, after exchanging some emails with coolerguys.com, they don’t know why my parts didn’t arrive, but they’re going to ship me a new heatsink and tube of goo today via next-day air, so I should have the stuff tomorrow. I guess they’re not so bad after all, but still, a slip up like that is [...]
