Archive for July, 2004

Unashamed geekdom

My friend ffanatic has gotten two faulty Radeon X800 Pro video cards. The first one immediately shorted out (audible pop) when the machine was turned out. The second one gets power from the AGP slot, because the fan runs, but the card insists that it’s not plugged in (it is). It’s somewhat [...]

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Ambition

Courtesy of Despair, Inc.

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Stuff.

It would amaze me if these men are able to meet women.
How to get a 2gb Hotmail account for free.
Are your boobs all that they can be? This strikes me as somewhat obscene, considering how poorly we treat our veterans.
Internet, circa 1994. Notice how they use it as a proper noun.
Crazy [...]

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SP2, OGG, MP3, WAV, CDDA, and other strange acronyms

Yesterday was another interesting day in my computing world.
Firstly, I download the newest build of SP2 (Service Pack 2), which was 2162. This was an internal build, and probably the last before the much-awaited security/et al pack goes RTM (release to manufacturers) in August. I slipstreamed it onto a copy of my SP1a [...]

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The Notebook

The last novel-made-movie that sprang from Nicholas Spark’s loins was A Walk to Remember, the oh-so-saccharine melodrama starring the ever-effervescent Mandy Moore, who, though no Hepburn, seems better suited to celluloid than CDs. A Walk to Remember is, in a word, forgettable. That’s because the characters themselves are forgettable, die-cast replicas of characters [...]

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Papercuts

Don’t you hate it when you reread a book, only to find that it’s far less impressive now? I just read The Dig by Alan Dean Foster (based on the mid-90s graphical adventure of the same name), which I first read several years ago, when I played the game. At the time, not [...]

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