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The Lonely Streets of Sunnyvale
Sunnyvale California certainly has its share of lonely streets. In the 20 minute walk to the grocery store I rarely see another soul on foot. When I do, they usually look sad. The landscape is similar to mall-dra, but subtly different: rather than big-box-marts, I am surrounded by empty corporate campuses. A corporate desert if you will. Corpsert.
June 28th, 2008
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My life is over!
That’s it, all of my dreams and aspirations have already been accomplished by another, and there’s no point in going there if you’re not the first:
Watch the videos, this is the greatest thing ever made! Everything I’ve always wanted in a box: blinky lights, generative music, motion sensors, and fog!
June 22nd, 2008
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Summer Time
Now 5 weeks into my summer in California, and things are good - I have so much that I’ve wanted to blog about, but been so lazy about actually doing so.
One of the big bits of news for me is that I built myself a new desktop from the ground up! Since I’m actually making a little money this summer, I decided I wanted a rig capable of playing the latest games at blistering speeds. I looked around a bit and saw that it was indeed true, half or more of the cost of a new computer is assembly. Thus, I decided to build my own.
I reused the case from my old desktop (a piece of junk built by CyberPower - the worst company I’ve ever dealt with in my life - never buy anything from those thieving bastards), which turned out to be the only hitch in the entire assembly. I had noticed with my old machine that PCI cards didn’t fit in quite right, well now I know why: the case Cyber Power gave me was a misfit - it was off by about 1/4″, meaning (in the end) that my new motherboard’s I/O shield won’t align properly with the mobo. So now I don’t have an I/O shield (because I don’t want to spend the additional money on a new case as well).
However, I am sitting at the new machine as I speak, and it’s a beaut. I’ve been blasting through Crysis at 1920 x 1200 resolution with barely a hitch (did I mention that I also picked up a 24″ wide screen monitor? Oh yeah). So what are the specs? Intel Core 2 Quag 9450 2.66 Ghz, XFX nForce 780i SLI mainboard, 2 x EVGA 8800 GT 512 mb, 4 gigs of Ram running at 800 Mhz, and a few of my own add-ons I had in the old rig (an E-Mu 0404 pro sound card, a couple of optical drives, and more hard drives than you can shake a stick at). I love this thing.
Sadly, this new computer is draining my creative impulses and replacing them with the urge to shoot stuff during all of my free time (hence the lack of blogging).
June 22nd, 2008
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