Geek desire and how to suppress it
Aug. 21st, 2003 01:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pseydtonneI 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
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
