tales from an ordinary world

1999-08-25

I've spent far too much time fiddling with computers lately. Last weekend turned into an episode of complete technology debauchery - first, we gave the beloved bund (upon which this site sits) a new motherboard. On Sunday I popped over to buy a CDROM drive for what was going to be an upgraded gateway box for home, and ended up buying a new motherboard and CPU 'cause it was so cheap...

But that wasn't it. On Tuesday Lee went and bought a DVD unit for our stereo system. It's nice to finally hear stuff in "real" sound (we don't yet have a stereo VCR, but that's apparently about to change too).

Later, I managed to cobble together a second machine out of some spare bits plus my old motherboard. It's been christened Pistolero, after a Frank Black and the Catholics CD - the first thing that popped into my head at the time...

For a while there, I was really getting into it. It's fun getting all the bits going (especially when it all just works first time, more or less). It's fun thinking about the possibilities, even though I'll prolly never quite get around to implementing most of them. Nevertheless, it was heaps more fun than sitting around moping about my life.

Required listening : The Blurred Crusade by The Church. Fabulous stuff. The kind of CD you can throw on while you relax on the couch and let the lyrics overtake you.

And if love was worth a fortune, then I'd need a rise to be in your eyes...