The other day I was babysitting my four-year-old cousin ( Read more... )

Okay, time to assess. Here are the current specs for my PC:

System
Asus A7V333 motherboard
Athlon XP 2100+
512 MB Kingston DDR333
Radeon AIW 7500
Soundblaster Audigy
3Com NIC
Linksys Wireless PCI adapter

DrivesAntec Sonata case ( Read more... )

Replaced old/busted case with l33t Antec Sonata.It's an utterly fantastic case. Well-designed, fantastic finish, no sharp edges, beautiful drive mounting system with screw-on drive rails and rubber-dampened HDD trays, ultra-quiet 380W power source, dedicated variable-voltage Molex connectors for rubber-dampened case fans, sliding/locking side door ( Read more... )

My sister and I seriously used to do this.

This is a hilarious comic.

-J

Wireless network is up. w00t ( Read more... )

rocks my freaking socks off. I'm sorry, it's really gay to say so, but this new Adult Swim "fill" campaign - the ~10 second animations sandwiched between episodes - beats all their others, which were themselves the best of their kind on TV ( Read more... )

Finally got my DVD burner working. Backed up most of my music on 2 DVD-R's and 35 VCD quality (?) episodes of anime on another. I'll back up the rest of my anime later, but I want to keep this stuff on my computer, for a while, in case I want to do more playing around with Windows Movie Maker 2. I'm using TDK DVD-R's (burner didn't like the ( Read more... )

I'm trying to do this "culture" thing I keep telling other people about, but as I feared, there isn't much more I'd want to do in Boston than I would want to do in Greenville - I know none of the local bands or the local digs. I sort of wish I had a local Max to introduce me to college bands, or that the real Max weren't such a goddamn Luddite ( Read more... )

Well, I'm back in Boston again. Place is pretty much as I left it. I dreaded living with my family again so much that it far surpassed the actual difficulties, so I'm living comfortably. I'm doing some reading - finishing Chaos, started to breeze through The Dark Tower series again, and might pick up a few bushido books I have lying around ( Read more... )

Well, that's it. The last hurrah. Graduation, that damned beast that's been looming over me like its big brother Death, has ensnared me in its claws. So many of my fellow classmates are going directly into jobs, or grad school, or medical school ( Read more... )