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On Friday night, Christine and I went to some new friends (Natalie and Anila, if memory serves me correctly) for a get-together of dinner (hamburgers and cheese-sausages, yum!) and Firefly. Now, I've seen Serenity (the Movie) several times now, but after seeing a pair of episodes of the Firefly TV show (the pilot and second episode), I'm impressed and want to see more. (Ysa, Christine is becoming a fan, too. :D)
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I picked up a few more fish for my fishtank. It's looking very healthy right now, and I'm happy about that. :) I now (in total) have an Angelfish, a trio of strawberry-pink and blue-jay tetras each, 6 red-fancy-tail guppies, a plecostomus, and a pair of siamese algae eaters (of which I have not been able to see both at the same time, it's really bizarre). I also got this neat plant that resembles clovers, and when it grows correctly, it spreads under the gravel and sprouts up randomly, and it looked incredible in the fishtanks at the Aquarium store. I only hope I can duplicate it in my tank. ^_^
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Well, I'm finally (eventually, believe me this time! :P) going to get a new computer. I'm looking at Canada Computers' Office@Home system which has a good amount of horsepower under the hood. After talking with them, I'm likely to be voiding their warranty right off the bat by adding any piece of my old computer into the new one (of which I want to add at least my soundcard, hard drives, firewire card, and CD-RW). I could get them to add them as well, but of course it costs extra. Maybe I'll burn it in for a month first and then add the other parts if I need to. (It may have all I need without an extra boost from, say, a sound card.)
I have to admit that I'm still scared to upgrade to Windows XP, and even moreso to Vista. (Have I mentioned that I downloaded the Vista Upgrade Advisor, and surprise surprise, it needs XP to run? Reminder to self: remove Microsoft's .NET framework). Windows 2000 is a nice, stable system that is not being targeted as much as XP is, and that damned Windows Genuine Advantage annoys me when I want to upgrade anyone's computer (as I hardly know anyone who has a "genuine" copy). I'm considering Linux, as long as I can get some serious support for it. Hm, now that I think about that, I should check to see if the old hardware I want to install in my new computer would have drivers for Linux, otherwise it wouldn't work very well, would it? :P
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I picked up a few more fish for my fishtank. It's looking very healthy right now, and I'm happy about that. :) I now (in total) have an Angelfish, a trio of strawberry-pink and blue-jay tetras each, 6 red-fancy-tail guppies, a plecostomus, and a pair of siamese algae eaters (of which I have not been able to see both at the same time, it's really bizarre). I also got this neat plant that resembles clovers, and when it grows correctly, it spreads under the gravel and sprouts up randomly, and it looked incredible in the fishtanks at the Aquarium store. I only hope I can duplicate it in my tank. ^_^
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Well, I'm finally (eventually, believe me this time! :P) going to get a new computer. I'm looking at Canada Computers' Office@Home system which has a good amount of horsepower under the hood. After talking with them, I'm likely to be voiding their warranty right off the bat by adding any piece of my old computer into the new one (of which I want to add at least my soundcard, hard drives, firewire card, and CD-RW). I could get them to add them as well, but of course it costs extra. Maybe I'll burn it in for a month first and then add the other parts if I need to. (It may have all I need without an extra boost from, say, a sound card.)
I have to admit that I'm still scared to upgrade to Windows XP, and even moreso to Vista. (Have I mentioned that I downloaded the Vista Upgrade Advisor, and surprise surprise, it needs XP to run? Reminder to self: remove Microsoft's .NET framework). Windows 2000 is a nice, stable system that is not being targeted as much as XP is, and that damned Windows Genuine Advantage annoys me when I want to upgrade anyone's computer (as I hardly know anyone who has a "genuine" copy). I'm considering Linux, as long as I can get some serious support for it. Hm, now that I think about that, I should check to see if the old hardware I want to install in my new computer would have drivers for Linux, otherwise it wouldn't work very well, would it? :P
Re: Quality... Nazi... taking over... CAN'T CONTROL ITtttttttttt
Keep in mind that I don't play too-intensive games at all, and the modified Sapphire Radeon 9000 (I think, and I had to remove the fan because it seized up) is perfect for anything I'm doing these days with my old system (Half-Life 2 looks nice for me).
Do you think it'd be easier for me to buy it piecemeal and assemble it myself, too?