Much Ado About Everything

About two weeks ago I came home from work only to find my screen blank.  No amount of coaxing would let picture be shown on any of my two monitors, and only upon reboot I’d get to see the picture again.  But the picture was not right – as if the video card (an EVGA 7600GT CO) got sick; white letters of the boot menu were marred with random pink stripes all over.  This is usually a sign of damaged video memory.  I took a look inside my case and found that the cable feeding the video card’s fan was disconnected.  So it was likely the card died due to overheating.

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More hardware problems for me! This time regarding my Plextor DVD burner, Taiyuo Yuden media and BENQ burner. So-called big brand names sure failed me yet again.

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I finally finished Deus Ex: The Invisible War a few days ago, after starting it at least 3 times since it came out. Only now I could get the performance to be acceptable enough for the game to be playable. That alone – needing a machine 4 years from the future – should be a telltale sign that this game is bad. Which it very much is.

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I built my own Freedom Gundam from a model kit! Well, it’s a small one but it’s still nice.

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Ah, this is more like it! This episode was way better than the last one, and I actually laughed a few times. I don’t know the reason for shuffling the episodes around – I really can’t see a good one – except that perhaps they are trying to mix bad episodes (like last) with good ones (like this one) in order to keep the ratings consistently up. No clue.

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Indeed, I am. Call it a guilty pleasure. Well, it’s not actually bad or anything. At least not yet – I’ve seen 25 episodes so far, which is exactly half of it. It doesn’t have the emotional power of the original but it does have the !excitement! of Gundam battles… And the plot, while appearing to be forced at quite a few junctions, isn’t really contrived – more like it’s badly told. Not really bad, but unpolished. But it’s exciting and I can’t say what is going to happen. So I like it! Mhm, perhaps I am turning into a Gundam fan? Though honestly, what guy wouldn’t be a Gundam fan, at least on some level?

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Well, installing a new hard drive in the system is always lots of “fun”.
Expect major hair loss every time you need to do that. Especially if
you’re going to install a new operating system on it!

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