I’m gonna keep this quick. Here’s the facts:
1) I am god.
2) Likely you will never read anything better than this.
3) There is a real post coming soon. Of intense length. Get into it.
4) I bought a new computer on Boxing Day and really should have discussed it earlier:
My computer is the greatest thing I have ever owned. Coincidentally it is also the most expensive. The box itself came in at roughly $1200, and I grabbed a 24inch monitor from Dell for another $350 or so. This computer came about sort of by accident. I was planning on buying a new computer back in November, it was good. But not as good as this one. Wolfgang and I spent a week back and forth on the phone budgeting and looking at parts on NCIX, Tiger Direct, and Direct Canada. And for what it’s worth, Direct Canada is the way to go. Their website is shitty, their ordering process is shitty, but they have the best prices and if your order is over $300 and under 100lbs you will get free shipping. And there’s no PST since they’re based in BC.
Anywhoo, Wolfgang and I finalized this computer order, and I put all my info into the thingy, and ordered it.
Then I got an email. It said that in order to expedite my order I had to click a link which would take me to a secure page showing a 4 digit PIN number. Once I clicked that link I would be contacted within 5 minutes by an automated telephone service and be asked to input the displayed PIN. I did this.
And then I went to bed.
And waited. And waited. And waited some more for an email informing me that my order had shipped. It never came. It turns out that my credit card was declined. But I didn’t see that until I’d gone into the order tracking website, and even then it wasn’t exactly calling attention to itself. I was instructed to phone a 1-800 number in order to sort it all out, but by that point half the stuff I’d ordered was either no longer on sale or out of stock or the mail in rebates had expired. I was all, “fuck that nonsense”, and as far as I know, the order is still pending. I’m not too worried.
In order to have my revenge though, I now began thinking about a super tricked-out computer that I would scoop hot off the internets as soon as the clock ticked over to midnight on boxing day.
Which is exactly what I got. Start with an ASUS P5Ke MoBo, strap it to an Antec 900 case, hook on 2 500G SATA2 drives and 2 LG SATA DVD writers, stick in 4 Gigs of beautiful OCZ RAM, an Intel C2D e6750, and an EVGA GeForce 8800 GT, and then power it all up with an OCZ Stealth XTreme power supply, and you would have the same computer as me.
Now, before someone intelligent jumps in and tells me that I installed too much RAM, thanks. I know. Some dick at a computer store told me that after he made fun of my case. Then I followed him home and pissed in his dresser drawers while he was asleep.
So yeah. This computer does anything I ask it to. And it does it bloody fast. I wanted to be a big hotshot and install XP, Vista, and Ubuntu, but the last 2 decided to be cocks and not work for me. Oh well. I’ll have to stay with a familiar operating system that runs anything I want to use. Shucks.
Well, that’s basically it. I also bought an Xbox 360 for the sole purpose of playing Halo3, so if you happen to own one, feel free to send me a friend request.
I think I’m gonna go play some H3 right now actually. Keep yourselves healthy.
The Conversation {12 comments}
I envy your hard drive capacity Liam. I am 250GB short of your 1TB. And as I have 4GB of RAM myself, I’d have to say that although neither of us need it right now, we’re going to be damn glad that we have it later (maybe next month. lol)
However, I do have to ask why you need 2 DVD writers. That just seems odd. So I’d like to hear the explanation for that.
Many thanks. Your opinion on that subject was the one I feared the most.
In terms of the writers, they were $30 and I wanted 2 drives in order to copy things on the fly, and I got the added bonus of bring able to burn 2 DVDs really quickly at the same time. Should that need ever arise…
Glad to hear you’re alive,
the man-puter will now be known as “the piece of shit”. Because it is clunky and unsavory.
I hate and love you at the same time.
Your music sucks and you’re an asshole.
I’m having a hard time expressing myself with so little sleep.
I’m going to destroy your computer, liam. One day, and one day soon I shall enact sweet, horrible revenge on you.
(after I finish your case mods, of course)
Liam,
I got a new blog today as well: meandmystone.wordpress.com
You won’t like it.
Benner: The Man-Puter will always be seen as a forerunner, a necessary link in the chain from Terminal Dogma to the Arbitrationist.
Keats: Get back in the water. Bring your bone saw.
Holy fucking Jesus!
A post from Liam!
Your return to the world of blogs and frequent posting will act as the harbinger of the Golden Age of our species. These glorious days will drive the Earth to rally in song to praise the return of the Philosopher King.
Now, resume posting. The world has been without your witty and entertaining stories for almost three months. This void has affected me like a sickness. It is good to have you back up and running.
“Your return to the world of blogs and frequent posting will act as the harbinger of the Golden Age of our species.”
The hamburger of a golden age indeed!
The promise of posts to come is nothing but a gold bar in the mail. It’s coming, your don’t know when or how, but when it gets here you’ll be happy!
Also: you’re computers numbers amaze, and frighten me.
How can you have too much RAM?
With 64 bit architecture, the system should be able to have that much RAM installed.
Way I figure it; you can never have too much RAM.
Yeah, that’s what I thought when I bought it. But I was told that XP and Vista have 32 and 64 bit versions of themselves, and this person said the 32bit XP will only use 3 gigs of RAM, even though it shows I have 4 installed.
oh well. The reality is that, in a year or two, you’re going to want Vista anyway for DirectX 10; so all that RAM will be usable soon enough.
Update soon. Your knees depend on it!
Uncle Ben
Jeez, you don’t even say anything about my sexy new template!
Also, does that mean that you’re updating soon or that you want me to update soon?
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