I had a revelation today and it has simultaneously brought me great relief and the somber realization that I am a total geek. For a few weeks/months now I’ve been wondering just what the hell my computer situation was going to be. What would be my media center, what would be on it, which hardware was going in what system, etc. etc. I think today I’ve finally figured out how everything is going to work, and I’ve been really excited about it ever since.

Read on if you’re actually interested in the gory details

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Well, with a lot of help from Josh we managed to move pretty much all the big stuff to the new apartment. We’ve got the couch, TV, furniture and the computers all moved and everything is still working beautifully (so far). Unfortunately, all the food and dishes are still at the old place, but we can bring stuff over as we need it. I also don’t have a desk to put any of my stuff on on, so Jess’ computer is set up on the coffee table (she sits on the bean bag) and I only got around to installing the new video card and checking out the new PC. IT POSTS! I’ll be hammering out about a million mail-in-rebates later this evening (I hope).

I’ll post more pictures and whatnot of the new place and the new computer soon. I feel some ikea trips coming on.

Top Gear season 13 started yesterday. The first episode had the bitchin Ferrari FXX (which apparently you can buy but not.. have), a new Lotus which they were calling a super car despite the fact that it’s slower than the Exige S, and a mediocre race between a bike, train and car.

Oh and I almost forgot.

THE STIG IS REVEALED!!

.. not really

I'm on a BOAT

I got my flippy floppies. It’s so cheap too.

I had pretty high expectations for our trek over to Manny’s last night to celebrate my birthday. Specifically, I was hoping for the best steak of my life. I can’t say I got that, but it was pretty damn good anyway.

I ordered a 24 oz Porterhouse and Jess had the Filet Mignon. We also shared an enormous baked potato. Together with a few beers, a cup of wine and our “brownie” (more like 1/4 of a 3 layer chocolate cake) the total bill came to $150. That’s really not a terrible price. Well, at least it’s about what I was expecting.

If you want to drool a little bit, head over to Manny’s Website and check out their interactive Meat Cart. You can take a good look at some of the delicious beef that we were faced with last night. The “Bludgeon of Beef” is even more impressive in person. We saw two very hungry young men split it at the table next to us. They got close.

Oh, and the best steak I’ve ever had was at Fleming’s in San Diego. I think if I had chosen the Ribeye at Manny’s it may have topped it. I’ll have to go back

I’m reposting this because I accidentally deleted it. Thank you google cache

My old gaming/development computer is finally starting to show its age. It’s 5 years old now with minimal upgrades so I’m not terribly heartbroken, but I’ve run across three games now that I can’t reasonably play and that’s more than enough justification for me to upgrade.

I’ve always built my own computers and so far I’ve been approaching my new build with this intention. But it occurred to me that I only do this for the cost savings. I have no real desire to put my computer together, I just want to save a bit of money on premium parts. So I decided it would be prudent to see if any of the big brands can match a custom build at a given price point. I put together a newegg wish list so you can see my basis for comparison. Then I went to some of the big manufacturers and tried my best to match these specs with their models.

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Would it kill you to take a note from the Pancheros of the world and mix up the ingredients of the burrito a little bit before rolling it up? I have now finished the rice-and-beef portion of my burrito, and am unfortunately moving on to the cheese-salsa-lettuce-hot sauce portion, which I suspect will be considerably less delicious.

Thank you.

So I thought it would be a good idea to have a daily post of all the stuff that I’ve been digging, but it turns out it was just way too much clutter going up. There’s no reason we need to have a post every single day. So, I’ve done away with the daily dish for now, and I’m planning to move back to the old model where there was a permanent widget of the latest feeds from digg/reddit and the I’ll add “hot posts” from the forums. First, however, I have to figure out how the hell I want it to look, so it may take me some time.

I’ll post a quick “how-to” eventually for anyone interested in creating a daily post from their digg and reddit feeds, so stay tuned for that.

I just spent 45 minutes tracking down an error because I had a typo somewhere. I had to insert alerts into the document until I found where it was breaking. I know there are debuggers and IE will tell me more about where it breaks and all that – but damnit, it was just supposed to be a quick fix.

today is gonna be awesome.