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Ben Folds + Grey Goose = Mellow
That’s my energy equation for today. Sorry, I’m still, STILL shaking off the Fundamentals of Engineering exam. I never would have thought it would stick with me this long, but it has. When I’m thinking bed at 11:30, there’s something wrong.
Screw the election. I’ve already voted. I wash my hands of it, and I’m about to plug my ears. I’m boycotting extended FNC/CNN views until election night, and late at that.
Now for the GMAT…then I think I can pretty much relax completely.
If someone offers to show you the movie “Faust: Love of the Damned,” do not take them up on it. I rented it because I’m slightly interested in the Faust legend. Yeah, big mistake. Many of the post facto reviews I read about it tonight mentioned something to the effect of “almost pornographic” (speaking of both violence and some weird nudity). I don’t know if I would go that far (I did see “House of 1000 Corpses” after all), but it was terrible. “Corpses” at least failed honorably to generate a plot.
If I had paid decent attention to “13 Conversations About One Thing” I would have something intelligent (and probably very complementary) to say about it, but I didn’t, and I just guess I will like it when I pay attention to it later this week. Pizza is just too good to look up from, and reading Slashdot is fun.
If you haven’t seen this bash.org quote, you should. Aight?
VIA (an emerging Taiwanese semiconductor company) is manufacturing circa 1GHz i386-compatible mainboards (soldered-on processor with such a low power draw it does not require a fan) for about $225. These have USB, TV-out, and even an optional on-board CompactFlash reader. If you netbooted this thing as a thin client, you’re looking at a $400 computer including a very nice, custom-size case and a keyboard and mouse.
Kicker: 2 Black, 5 colorless; Target player sacrifices a creature or loses 2 life.
No…no…let me restate that.
Kicker: The board is only 17 cm x 17 cm. That’s right. Somewhere around 30% the size of a regular ATX board. This is car stereo size. In fact, this is one of the emerging applications (hook it up to some of those nice LCDs they’re mounting in headrests now with a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard). This is called Mini ITX (the Shuttle PC’s…i.e., what I’m using now to write this blog…use this factor).
Kicker 2: The “Nano ITX” standard was just announced a few months ago. 12 cm x 12 cm. Eat that.
Alright. I’m going to bed.