Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The UPS man arrived last night, with blessed bounty:
Anatoli will combine the Z68 chipset motherboard in Natalya, the Sandybridge unit on which I do my current puttering, with a super-duper Darth Vader tower case like the one on Eudoxia, my son’s Core i7-powered unit. This has been a source of parental jealousy for me, since Natalya churns away with all her Sandybridge goodness beneath the old skin worn by Grigori, a Pentium II class machine that has since retired.
Ivybridge wonderfulness for Anatoli. When it ships.
Biggest hitch in the giddyup is the 2TB hard drive. Holy smokes, I hope this market settles soon. Kicking myself because I was thinking of buying Anatoli’s hard drive out of my Christmas shopping budget. Common sense prevailed, and I’m sorry it did this time…just dang…wishing I sunk my retirement funds into hard drives. That was three weeks ago. I can get 350 gigs for what would have netted me 2TB back then.
Getting some pushback from my better half about the physical space these units are taking up. I’m sure when I clear the living room of the large box in which the new chassis was delivered, I’ll be back in her good graces. And I’m planning to make a micro-cube out of the Haswell machine, when the time comes…which is cool anyway.
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Huh?
Are you taking over the space program? Holy shit that looks like it can do some serious business.
- tim | 01/05/2012 @ 09:57I need another picture. My co-worker has clued me in to the fact that it isn’t immediately recognizable as a computer tower/case.
The two elegant-looking thingies on the left are push buttons, and the two matching thingies on the right are lights. Push buttons and lights, and unbeatable combination.
Product page here.
- mkfreeberg | 01/05/2012 @ 10:01Morgan as the John Holmes of computer home hobbyists.
- vanderleun | 01/05/2012 @ 10:12On the bright side, hard drive prices should be back to normal by March as the new manufacturing plants come online.
- pdwalker | 01/05/2012 @ 11:03Latest I heard was the Ivybridge was shipping around then…so that would be good enough for me. I’d like it a lot quicker than that, but let’s just say if that rates as one of my biggest problems in life then I got it pretty good.
- mkfreeberg | 01/05/2012 @ 11:06Actually, I guess the hard drive would beat it by just a hair.
- mkfreeberg | 01/05/2012 @ 11:08