Demmie’s Interview w/ Me…

Here are the rules:
1 — Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 — I will respond; I’ll ask you five questions.
3 — You’ll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 — You’ll include this explanation.
5 — You’ll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

I should have known better than to have Demmie interview me, but here goes…

1.) What would it take for you to move out of your parents’ place and live on your own, and are you taking any of those steps?

At this point, I’ve been seriously considering it. I’d probably need to straighten up my room (so that I have everything put in its place so it’s easier to move out), find a place I’d actually want to live that’s not a hellish drive from work, and actually get some motivation. I’ve been keeping an eye out, but we’re still in the exploratory stages. (Not to mention the fact that I’d feel guilty leaving them without another source of income and someone to help out when needed.)

2.) If you could always have the perfect woman, or the absolute perfect computer, which would you choose and why?

I don’t believe either exists. :-)

Seriously, though, I’d pick the perfect woman. A computer is a tool. It’s not a companion.

3.) What’s your ideal role-playing situation?

Eh? I’m not sure this is the answer you’re looking for, but the best RP I’ve ever done was this very freeform version of LARP done by my friend Jeff. We didn’t pester anyone in public; we kept to the house and it was fairly loose and informal, but still was the workings of an epic story. I miss those days.

4.) Where were you, (in your journey in life,) one year from today? And where do you honestly think you’ll be a year from now?

I’ve never had a grand plan for my life; I take it one day at a time. I’m not too concerned with the future… anything can happen between now and then. If I had to guess, I’d say I’ll probably be at the same job, doing the same thing, with maybe having moved out.

5.) If you could choose to A. finally have that woman you’ve been longing for that you’ve been best friends with but could just never have, and have it end soon after, or B. never have that relationship but always have the friendship, which would you choose and why?

I’d choose B in a heartbeat. One of my classmates back in high school made a rather poignant observation after her parents got divorced: “You can’t be in love without being friends. It just doesn’t work out.” I value my friends’ friendship, and I would rather not destroy it for a moment of passion that would pass by all too quickly and become only one memory.

Another desktop, and PC update…

Yep, I changed my Powerbook’s wallpaper again. This was just posted on the Midway Boards, and I felt it made for the best MKSM wallpaper yet.

As far as my main PC goes, though… the parts arrived this morning. So, hardware-wise, I’m good to go. Unfortunately, my copy of Windows XP Professional 64-bit hasn’t arrived yet. So, do I wait for the 64-bit version, or just go ahead and work with the 32-bit version? Decisions, decisions…

Fortunately, I can wait a day or so, as I’ll be working late doing a hardware upgrade on a server at the colocation. Either way, I’m pretty sure I can spend this weekend upgrading the main server with the main PC’s old components. Fun fun…

Anyway, speaking of the colocation, time for me to head that way…

Stolen from Dementia…

Game over.
Congratulations.
Learn anything?
That’s right…
Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Well, let me break it down for you:

You have a total of 17 friends.
You requested to guess 17 entries.
1 was skipped due to invalid content (surprising?).
You made 16 guesses.
You got 16 correct.
Doing the math for you, that means you got 100% correct.

Guess that Friend

Another update on the PC…

Well, I did some serious thinking about it today, and realized that if I was going to get a new video card, it’d have to be something I could put in future PCs. Unfortunately, the old card was an AGP card, and recent motherboards et al support PCI Express and not AGP. So, I decided now was the time to upgrade the main PC. So, I ordered a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM for the main PC off of Newegg.

The new system will have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ CPU, an Asus A8N-SLI motherboard with an nForce 4 chipset, 1 GB of PC3200 RAM, and an ATI Radeon X800GT video card w/ 256 MB of RAM. The old parts will be used to upgrade my main server, which I had been planning on upgrading anyway. I’ll also go ahead and dual-boot the new system with Windows XP Professional 64-bit edition and Fedora Core 4 x86_64.

Ah, well. The parts should be in early next week. In the meantime, I’ll go ahead and keep using the Powerbook. There’s very little on the main PC I can do without until the new machine is ready, anyway. :-)

Another day…

Well, another desktop for you all to enjoy…

That is what I use on my Powerbook. I had used a PvP desktop for about a day, but ended up deciding I didn’t like it. I always liked this CTS wallpaper, so I figured I might as well give it a try on my laptop.

Right now it’s kind of a slow day at the office, other than wiping out a laptop, storing tapes, and doing some other miscellaneous things. I still have to go to Fry’s after work, which I can’t say I’m looking forward to. It’s just a bit of a hassle, as it’s a bit out of my way on the drive home. Still, I need to try and get my main PC back up and running. I did find out that I have to make a Corpus/Robstown run in the next week or so, so that’ll end up being fun. I’ll probably end up doing that Friday, unless something more pressing comes up.

Otherwise… meh. Just the same old same old around here. Not much to write home about, really.

Oh, well, back to the grind…

Bloody hell…

Well, yesterday was a bit of a bummer when I got home. I had to deal with the Fight Night chat on MK Online last night, and had planned on using my Powerbook and my main PC at the same time to keep an eye on the channel, the IRC bot, and any problems that might arise. Well, I switched on the main PC, and the screen was filled with garbage characters. I ended up going through the event solely on the Powerbook until such time as I could investigate the problem with the main PC.

I ended up checking the machine, and found that the fan on my video card had stopped working. I can get a new heatsink and fan for the card, but the fact that it’s throwing out garbage characters at boot worries me. It’s very likely the card’s FUBARed now. *sigh* So, what I’m going to do is buy a heatsink/fan for a video card and a new video card for the main PC. If the old card starts working with the new heatsink/fan, then I can just return the video card. If not, I can just put the heatsink/fan on the new card. I’ll probably go to Fry’s tomorrow after work and pick them up. Besides, I don’t need anything fancy; I don’t play that many games on my PC anymore.

Oh, well… in the meantime I can still use my Powerbook. Fun fun…

As seen on groovychk’s LJ…

You scored as Antoninus Pius. Your attention to good character and stability has earned you your standing as Antoninus Pius. Your long and moderate reign is probably one of the most peaceful epics in human history up to the modern age. It is too bad more emperors did not share your humility.

Antoninus Pius

71%

Augustus

68%

Marcus Aurelius

64%

Nerva

64%

Hadrian

54%

Vespasian

54%

Tiberius

54%

Trajan

50%

Claudius

46%

Domitian

43%

Vitellius

39%

Nero

36%

Commodus

21%

Caligula

11%

Which Roman Emperor Are You?
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A new desktop…

Not sure if anyone really cares, but I decided to try a little something different for my desktop this time around…

For those who don’t know, the characters are Ping and Miho from the online webcomic Megatokyo. I got this off Piro’s FredArt site; it’s the cover to volume 3.

At the very least it makes a change from the Starcraft and Mortal Kombat desktops I WAS using… heh.