First of all, I would just like to direct everyone to Pharyngula where you can see a mad wicked video of dinosaurs. You all know my love for dinosaurs is a little weird, so you can imagine how excited I got watching that video. My dinosaur documentary watching is going well. But that’s not what I want to talk about in this post.
This post is happening because of a series of events. The first was the break down of my computer a few weeks ago. I had to go and get a new video card (which is working quite splendidly) and for some reason my old one made it out onto the kitchen table… I think I brought it out there to show one of my roommates what a video card looks like.
Anyway, it’s been sitting on our table ever since then, and the kitchen happens to be our regular spot for sitting around and chatting. While we chat someone usually ends up picking up the video card to play with the fan. So Karl and I were sitting there tonight, and we decided that from this video card:
… we are going to make a computer. And its going to be inside of one of Karl’s empty granola bar boxes:
…there are a lot of spare computers sitting out on the side of roads, and around the computer labs at the school. So we’re just going to start stealing parts… bringing them together and eventually we’re going to have a computer, Karl also insists that we use one of these old school giant fans, for the fan:
Karl is one of those people that generally follows through with what he says he is going to do. So. I will keep you all updated on this process because I think our computer is going to be f’n wicked. And by "f’n wicked" I mean a complete and horrible failure. But we’ll see.
Just as another roommate update - Dan’s date didn’t go as well as he planned. I’m pretty sure it’s because a) he didn’t clear up the fact that it was a date before hand and b) he didn’t kiss her! Geez. Kiss Dan, kiss.
I’m really excited for this crap-computer.
