Comments | noisegoth: Git 'er done

noisegoth

Git 'er done

Mar 01, 2010 15:19

Work on the Alameda house continues apace. Jade and I installed speaker and HDMI wiring for the home theater last week, then spent most of the weekend helping with demolition upstairs. It's kind of funny to see our lower unit being built up in conjunction with the upper unit being torn apart. Sounds like we'll have insulation and walls in the ( Read more... )

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madeofmeat March 2 2010, 03:24:36 UTC

I can totally feel you on the long commute. My door-to-door is 1:15 in and just a little less out. It'd be 30min in and 35 out if I had a car, but even half an hour of delay out the door at work (or hitting Fry's) blows up the return to 45min or even an hour. Or more if there's an accident or I leave even later. With the trains, it's hammer-nail reliable.

I'm glad things are going well with the house progress. Demo can be fun! But mostly tedious and dirty.

I have nearly all the components for my new system. It turns out the Atom processor in that netbook I was eyeing is MUCH slower than I'd thought, as in slower than my current system. I got a board and cooler from a friend up here and a Celeron E2200 dual-core from the Internet. RAM will wait until the 15th. I expect an easy build and OS install. The new system will be about 3.5 times faster than my current one, with double the memory.

The benefit for my commute madeofmeat March 2 2010, 03:31:32 UTC

I get to read. I finished Scott Westerfeld's _Uglies_ recently. It's YA, and that means simple concepts and small vocabulary, but it also means the story kicks along at a hundred miles an hour. It is also not at all shallow, because Westerfeld makes this YA shit look GOOD. I'll warn you that the book doesn't so much end as it does simply stop. The sequel is _Pretties_. I'll be reading that soon. Meanwhile, I'm reading Cory Doctorow's _Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town_. I keep wanting to like this guy's stuff and I keep giving him chances, and he does produce some really good, powerful moments and strong bouts of insane creativity, but mostly I'm disappointed in the execution. I think this will be the last book of his I read.