catching up, sorta
yeah, people are strange, that's the only constant I've found to be constant in this life... and you don't even have to be a stranger, it's just as constant when you are a friend... but Jim Morrison references aside, and before we step into the slide zone with the Moody Blues (cuz isn't life strange, after all), let's catch up on the RealTime™ for a change...
so work work work is mostly what I do lately... and watch some TV and browse the web and not much focusing of mind... college football takes up much time this time of year as it's almost always on TV... and a few other shows get my attention... and life is lazy, mostly, though there have been signs of waking up again this week... October is going to be a whole lot busier what with eight or more concerts and a few shows and
just returning from another run (does that make three this week?... well, getting there), right exhausted as I've not been getting any extended sleep and the metabolism has slowed in the past month and today started some eighteen hours ago... it's coming up on 2am in these parts and the world is kind of foggy on both sides of my eyes...
once again, my belly full but me hungry... but since curling up alone isn't appealing at the moment and there's no one to cuddle up with and trust with my dreams as I fall asleep in their arms (how romantic, or child-like, depending on points of view), I come here to babble a bit...
I mean catch up in RealTime™...
I've been shopping craigslist for computer for the past two weeks and I'm not finding much responsiveness to my offers as I am offering less than asking prices because the prices are rather high... a few guys wrote me back explaining that they are not pricing or building machines for geeks, but rather for a target market of mostly computer illiterate people don't really know prices or components... I may get one of them to help me build the super machine I might talk myself into building, but then, I might build a cheaper machine too... and then there's the laptop idea... if I can find a decent used on I'll grab it, but people seem to be asking a lot for old crap that I used to find at computer shows for less than half what people are asking...
whatever happened to those computer shows...
ok, I drifted away to craigslist and I just found one, October 6 & 7, right on time for me to pick up a decent used laptop for my big one night stay in Oklahoma City (surprisingly, not one fan has has called yet, don't they have phones in Oklahoma?)...
when did I become such a cheap tightwad?...
oh yeah, that homeless time... somewhere back in my memory I remember the 80's when I was earning more than I earn these days and had a nice stock portfolio and simply bought whatever I wanted... ah, the good old days of the Atari ST1040... I hope it still works when I unpack it someday... and I found a C-64 on craigslist, by the way...
I think RealTime™ is slipping away again, so I'll call this entry over and out and get to writing the previous one that I forgot to write yesterday cuz I thought it was Wednesday (what, me tired?)...
don't forget to frolick!
so work work work is mostly what I do lately... and watch some TV and browse the web and not much focusing of mind... college football takes up much time this time of year as it's almost always on TV... and a few other shows get my attention... and life is lazy, mostly, though there have been signs of waking up again this week... October is going to be a whole lot busier what with eight or more concerts and a few shows and
just returning from another run (does that make three this week?... well, getting there), right exhausted as I've not been getting any extended sleep and the metabolism has slowed in the past month and today started some eighteen hours ago... it's coming up on 2am in these parts and the world is kind of foggy on both sides of my eyes...
once again, my belly full but me hungry... but since curling up alone isn't appealing at the moment and there's no one to cuddle up with and trust with my dreams as I fall asleep in their arms (how romantic, or child-like, depending on points of view), I come here to babble a bit...
I mean catch up in RealTime™...
I've been shopping craigslist for computer for the past two weeks and I'm not finding much responsiveness to my offers as I am offering less than asking prices because the prices are rather high... a few guys wrote me back explaining that they are not pricing or building machines for geeks, but rather for a target market of mostly computer illiterate people don't really know prices or components... I may get one of them to help me build the super machine I might talk myself into building, but then, I might build a cheaper machine too... and then there's the laptop idea... if I can find a decent used on I'll grab it, but people seem to be asking a lot for old crap that I used to find at computer shows for less than half what people are asking...
whatever happened to those computer shows...
ok, I drifted away to craigslist and I just found one, October 6 & 7, right on time for me to pick up a decent used laptop for my big one night stay in Oklahoma City (surprisingly, not one fan has has called yet, don't they have phones in Oklahoma?)...
when did I become such a cheap tightwad?...
oh yeah, that homeless time... somewhere back in my memory I remember the 80's when I was earning more than I earn these days and had a nice stock portfolio and simply bought whatever I wanted... ah, the good old days of the Atari ST1040... I hope it still works when I unpack it someday... and I found a C-64 on craigslist, by the way...
I think RealTime™ is slipping away again, so I'll call this entry over and out and get to writing the previous one that I forgot to write yesterday cuz I thought it was Wednesday (what, me tired?)...
don't forget to frolick!
Labels: catchup, choices, computers, fatigue, football, gadgets, hope, run, sleepy, smile
posted by candoor at 11:59 PM
7 Comments:
i frolique with glee...
lay off craigslist already, it can be ad-dick-tive, especially the "fuck buddy wanted" section.
frolicking and lollying and giggling on through :)
We live in the ready made throw away society (as z0tl mentioned in an earlier post). Nowadays you can get ready built off the shelf multigiga drives with the latest speeds (and everything) at any computer warehouse for half the price of building your own, unless you live in Japan maybe.
A PC that would cost £2000 to self build in bits a year ago, retails for less than a grand in the warehouse, and laptops for less than £500 (at least in the uk). But hey at the end of the day, it is all about what floats your boat, and how you wanna kill some time.
yay for frolicks... froliques too... not garlicks, though, cuz as Dr. Who would point out, they are not yet civilized and basically want to destroy everything... garlic is good, just for the record... well, not just for the record, for the heart too... and the taste buds.... and now, to drift off in another direction...
I want to meet craig...
and as for fuck buddies, craigslists did start in San Francisco, after all, which naturally explains everything...
always happy to have more frolicks and lollying and giggles... and gagging too, but only if accompanied by a lolly...
actually, buying parts and putting the machine together myself would be considerably cheaper than buying a ready made packaged machine... a visit to Dell or any site where you can customize a machine tells me that the parts I could purchase for under $2000, when upgraded in their basic machine, would head for a $5000 price tag... if I bought the parts for a $1000 off-the-shelf machine from, say, newegg.com, and put it together myself, the machine would probably cost $500-600... maybe less...
it's like the difference between buying a stereo receiver and the component parts (amplifier, pre-amp, tuner, equilizer, etc)... in the receiver, the parts are intergrated and do not have near the capacity for processing electrical impulses to produce sound as the components do...
in computers, buying a system put together by any manufacturer means accepting the components they choose, which are always inferior to the better components at comparable prices on the market because otherwise they would not make money...
for instance, most systems do not have video cards with dedicated memory for the graphic function of displaying whatever we'd like to see on the screen... rather they use the integrated video chip on the motherboard, which is ok for some, but not for others... for instance, Windows Vista can not run on a motherboard intergrated video chip, it requires at least a decent video card with 256Mb of dedicated Video RAM memory on the card (they say 128 is enough, but it isn't)... also, Vista might run with 1MB of system memory, but not well and slowly... and Vista Areo, the main difference in Vista, requires at least 2Mb of RAM and works the more dedicated video memory on the video card, the better... same goes for other graphic heavy software or websites...
it's the insides of the machines I ponder, Q... like is the Quad Core Q6600 really better than the Duo 2 Core E6600 for my purposes... and how much RAM do I really need, and how fast... 800Mhz, 1066Mhz, faster?... and would 340Mb be enough memory on a video card or should I get 680Mb...
you are 100% right about the depreciation of computers... the laptop I bought for $1600 in 1997 is worth nothing today, maybe $20... and the desktop I might build for $2000 today could most likely be bought for $1000 or less next year... it's the nature of the technology, most every vital part of a computer becomes obsolete (or at least replaced by a much better item) every 90-120 days... for instance, the CPU I want in my system was almost $1000 two months ago and can now be had for $280...
next month the computer I would build can probably be built for $100-$200 less... the decision is which part is best priced at the moment for the performance it can offer...
and lastly, for now (I do ramble, aye?), I know that there's little or no software produced today that can use the computer I want to build to it's maximum potential, but I want to be able to use that software when it is produced and it will be...
I used to be able to do more with my 1997 laptop (32Mb RAM, Pentium (the first chip), no video memory) than I can do today with a computer ten times more capable because the software for processing the same music and graphics and information requires much more memory and speed...
so I ponder (and read a lot about the various compunents) to choose which components I really need and which are the best priced at the moment... the top of the line parts would be $5000 or more (and by December will probably be $4000 or less)... the $2000 machine is a compromise that will hopefully be able to keep up with the advancements and demands of software for a few years before it becomes a dinosaur that can only do so much before it crashes like this machine I type on today...
thanks for inspiring me to think on all this, cuz even if it made no sense to anybody else, it helps me a lot cuz it tells me that for me, I am not wasting my time reading and learning and waiting until I've learned enough to choose the right parts for the computer I want...
your last sentence sums it up well :)
64MB is all we'll ever need.
Your friend,
PetaByte Bill the Gates
LOL... yeah, 64Mb is all I've got on this old machine... Bill's only mistake (besides mediocre quality control) was that he did not truly see the explosion of personal media and the memory sucking demands that would bring... if he did, there might never have been an Apple Corp and Bill would own the planet and the moon as well, instead of just most of North America...
I now have my sites set on a Dual Xeon business workstation with 4Gb RAM (so much for my multimedia monster machine... for the moment :)
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