Musings of a Yankee

Way to go NM Tech!

Number 8 on the Princeton review of the least happiest colleges.

This is something that the administration isn't going to brag about!

Barney O'Borg Reviews: "The X-Files: I Want To Believe"

This should be subtitled: "In A Real X-Files Movie."

Barney O'Borg rates "IWTB" 3 AB- severed limbs out of 5.

More after the cut.

Circuitus Citius...

Suckith...

Note: if you go to Circuit City, make sure you know what you want and where it is located.

Old / new toy...

At the property auction at the local college last month I picked up a new/old toy...

A Mac G4 500 PowerPC that came with

a 21" Apple Studio Display.

From Other World Computing (macsales.com) I've purchased the following:

• 80 Gb hard drive (came with no hard drive)
• 2 Gb RAM (came with, I think, 1 Gb RAM max)
• Sonnet Encore/ST G4 1.8GHz (1800MHZ) Processor Upgrade
• Samsung Super Writemaster SH-S202N/BEBN [Black Bezel] 'SuperDrive' w/ Lightscribe

In all honesty I probably sank more $ into this "toy" than what it's probably worth - especially for use at work to surf the web and check email. I'll also use it to write papers in the fall, and with the processor upgrade I can run Leopard on the machine. The studio display, all 77 lbs of it, will be going back to the property yard since I don't need or want it. It does have a VGA connector and 4 USB 1.1 ports. I haven't turned it on, but it probably works OK.

Given the cost that I've put into it, I could have purchased from Mac of All Trades a better base machine, but it would still have needed at least the RAM upgrade. I plan on using this machine as my "hot spare" in case my Macbook Pro up and dies on me. My 13" white Macbook will now become my true portable computer. I might just end up using it in class to take notes, further degrading my handwriting...

Fireworks...

For a large town (pop. ~ 9000), we sure do like our fireworks.

There are at least 7 firework vendors. This doesn't count the at least two stores (Wally World and Safeway/Furrs/Smiths) that also sell the packaged firework assortment.

The neighbors across the street decided to set off firecrackers last night around 9 PM. This normally wouldn't be so bad except that this week I'm on graveyards and am actually having to work the shifts for a change. The better 7/8ths said that it should be OK for us to go out at 6 AM and light off fireworks to wake them up. Maybe they'll be stupid and blow off a finger or two. Can always hope...

(Lord, I'm turning into the "Get off my lawn you pesky kids" old man...)