Right. So, my life is ruined.
Back when I thought my computer was broken for ever and ever, I bugged out and bought a new 40 gig WD drive and a new CD burner, thinking that hardware failure was screwing my OS installs. Turns out it was a RAM problem, leaving me with a drive and burner that I didn't need. So I marched myself right back to Fry's Electronics to return both, and ended up with about 130 bux worth of store credit. Initially I figured I'd get another gig of RAM, but when I saw how much they wanted for 2 512s of 400MHz PC3200 I actually said "FUCK YOU!" out loud.
Now: a smart person probably would have just walked out with the $130 in store credit and thought carefully about how to use it, and then returned later during a sale or something in order to maximize the effectiveness of their credit.
Not me.
No, I am a fucking moron.
Instead, I bought ACID 4.0 ('bout fucking time!), Neverwinter Nights Gold, and SimCity4 Deluxe. This is in addition to the software bundles that came with my soundcard and my video card. Which means that in addition to those 3 time devourers mentioned above, I now also have Morrowind, Duke Nukem Manhatten Project, Ghost Recon, Fruity Loops, Cubasis and WaveLab installed on my computer. Luckily Western Digital just sent me a new 120 gig SATA drive with a handy 8Meg buffer (I managed to obliterate the last one they sold me by plugging in the legacy power and the SATA power at the same time DRRRR DRR DRRRRRRRR), which allows me to run at least 3 sound programs all at once, so I can simultaneously record, process, and sequence, all in glorious 24bit 48K sound. I have been in front of that fucking computer for 3 days straight, and that is not an exaggeration.
Once I drill a hole in my wall so I can run Cat-5 to my onboard Gigabit NIC, I'll be able to check SG from my machine as well. And soon after that, I'll be such a corpulant montrosity that I'll be too fat to leave my room.
And I can't fucking wait.
Back when I thought my computer was broken for ever and ever, I bugged out and bought a new 40 gig WD drive and a new CD burner, thinking that hardware failure was screwing my OS installs. Turns out it was a RAM problem, leaving me with a drive and burner that I didn't need. So I marched myself right back to Fry's Electronics to return both, and ended up with about 130 bux worth of store credit. Initially I figured I'd get another gig of RAM, but when I saw how much they wanted for 2 512s of 400MHz PC3200 I actually said "FUCK YOU!" out loud.
Now: a smart person probably would have just walked out with the $130 in store credit and thought carefully about how to use it, and then returned later during a sale or something in order to maximize the effectiveness of their credit.
Not me.
No, I am a fucking moron.
Instead, I bought ACID 4.0 ('bout fucking time!), Neverwinter Nights Gold, and SimCity4 Deluxe. This is in addition to the software bundles that came with my soundcard and my video card. Which means that in addition to those 3 time devourers mentioned above, I now also have Morrowind, Duke Nukem Manhatten Project, Ghost Recon, Fruity Loops, Cubasis and WaveLab installed on my computer. Luckily Western Digital just sent me a new 120 gig SATA drive with a handy 8Meg buffer (I managed to obliterate the last one they sold me by plugging in the legacy power and the SATA power at the same time DRRRR DRR DRRRRRRRR), which allows me to run at least 3 sound programs all at once, so I can simultaneously record, process, and sequence, all in glorious 24bit 48K sound. I have been in front of that fucking computer for 3 days straight, and that is not an exaggeration.
Once I drill a hole in my wall so I can run Cat-5 to my onboard Gigabit NIC, I'll be able to check SG from my machine as well. And soon after that, I'll be such a corpulant montrosity that I'll be too fat to leave my room.
And I can't fucking wait.
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I am in hell. Well, sorta anyway.
How are you?