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.

[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

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

[michigansundog.livejournal.com]

Meep meep. I'm around.