Geek desire and how to suppress it

[pseydtonne]

I was looking at my bank account this evening. It seems the gym may need a call because I thought I'd signed a six-month deal with them back in January or so and yet they took a fresh dose of cash this month. Maybe I'll rejoin a gym later...

I want to buy a 1.3 GHz Celeron-II processor. Why? Because even that would be faster than 450 MHz P3. Then I could compile things faster, go to Homestarrunner without getting lags, and avoid buying a new computer for another year. I have the slotket (a converter for fitting the ghetto chip into my older machine) and I may yet find instructions for it. Either way, I'll test it in another computer and get juiced later.

The chip is $55 new at a certain store in Cambridge. I have fought the urge to buy this chip, but I think I'd better get it now before 100-MHz FSB chips cease to be available in the box. I guess I just enjoy building live electronic museum pieces because I can dismantle them more readily.

I have some other errands to run tomorrow. Changing the address on my driver's license and car registration is $41 I think (I'm going in person so I can register to vote as well), getting a fresh registration sticker is $15, and filing a change of address with the post officer is a postage stamp. This, along with taking Maggie downtown for some refills, sounds like my day tomorrow. When I get home, I'll test the chip and get back to my code homework.

Oh yeah: I'm learning C again. My cousin is teaching me this time. My first lesson was more to get me comfortable with compiling options in Visual Studio. I want to get comfy there, then see how the same code compiles and dumps in Linux. That difference fascinates me.

Since I have a few companies that need my new address (including my car insurer -- ooh! Potential discount!), perhaps I should update my health insurer. They may wonder, eh?

By the way: anyone else sticking around Boston this week? I can't be the only person not privileged enough to attend Burning Man or even a county fair.

-still no foot pain but still figuring out whom to call, Dante

Comments

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Boy and I will be around.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Likewise. Though we are double-partied (one each day) so who knows.

Don't learn C. Or rather, progress from C thence into Java or some other "modern" language. :-P I'll lend you my starter books if you want.

Will your mobo handle the chip?

Renewing/changing address on your license should be cheaper than that, no? It's just the charge for a new card, which is like $15...?

Re: foot. Epsom salts. Soak your foot until your calluses soften enough to let you remove the glass, or let some suitably non-squeamish person remove it. If you let it stay in there it'll eventually get infected, or cyst over, or head inward and hit something vital.

About the sliver in my heel

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

I'm going to MGH to get Maggie's refills anyway, so I'll get myself in the line and find out what's up. I feel kinda silly going to the emergency room for a sliver I can't find, but it's gotta still be in there and I'd rather someone extracted it while there's still a hole. This isn't the part of my heel that has hard callous, so I don't think soaking will do the trick.

-off to do stuff then call hakama, Dante

[hakamadare.livejournal.com]

having spent all my vacation days on

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having spent all my vacation days on <a href="http://www.pennsicwar.org/"Pennsic</a>, i will be remaining at home.

btw, isn't today your day off? if you want computer help, call me at work - 781-981-twofoursixthree.

-steve

[michigansundog.livejournal.com]

Meep meep. I'm around.