seperis | Watson Server, Third of His Name (Reply)

So after last month's less than stellar mental health and an incident, I decided I needed a project during Our Time of Covid.

There's a reason I have lots of hobbies, and it's not just because I have a short attention span and I love learning new things; I do not do well idle, specifically mentally idle. Cleaning all day every day would make me busy, but unless I was redesigning our storage or reorganizing the kitchen--aka things for which I made spreadsheets--as far as my brain would be concerned, I'd be doing nothing and so have plenty of time to worry, be anxious, overthink everything, consider my life and choices, and...every single person reading this with Depresion or anxiety just twitched, sorry. You know.

Reading, writing, maintenance on Watson and my Plex server, Pokemon Go and minor refactoring of my scripts were not cutting it, or a portion of April suggests; what is needed here is something new aka, a project.

So I checked my budget, recalculated everything, and decided to upgrade Watson Server.

Watson Server was born 10/7/2010 when I built my very first computer from components (as opposed to upgrading existing ones). Here I went into how I built it. About two years ago, Child was upgrading his computer to a gaming machine, so I took his old parts to build Watson Server (Second of That Name), but while it was a decent upgrade, it was still pretty slow. Moving the Plex server to the Pi a few months ago helped, but not much.

Enter Watson Mark III.

Watson III

Components:
Build:
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600X
Mobo: ASRock B450M-HDV R4.0
RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 S3200
Case: Thermaltake Level 20 VT
Bluray: ASUS USB 2.0 / USB 3.0 External 16X Blu-Ray
Video: Gigabyte GeForce GT 710 1GB
Power/Drives: already had
Total: $655.40

Can't lie, I built it around this case, which I fell in love with. Also? I can finally try out watercooling.

I think this will keep me busy for a bit.

Currently, however, w e

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That's why he goes bad, you know -- all the good people hit him on the head or try to shoot him and constantly mistrust him, while there's this vast cohort of minions saying, We wouldn't hurt you, Lex, and we'll give you power and greatness and oh so much sex...
Wow. That was scary. Lex is like Jesus in the desert.
-- pricklyelf, on why Lex goes bad
LJ
Obi-Wan has a sort of desperate, pathetic patience in this movie. You can just see it in his eyes: "My padawan is a psychopath, and no one will believe me; I'm barely keeping him under control and expect to wake up any night now to find him standing over my bed with a knife!"
-- Teague, reviewing "Star Wars: Attack of the Clones"
LJ
Beth: god, why do i have so many beads?
Jenn: Because you are an addict.
Jenn: There are twelve step programs for this.
Beth: i dunno they'd work, might have to go straight for the electroshock.
Jenn: I'm not sure that helps with bead addiction.
Beth: i was thinking more to demagnitize my credit card.
-- hwmitzy and seperis, on bead addiction
AIM, 12/24/2003
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-- anonymous, on terrible writing
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In medical billing there is a diagnosis code for someone who commits suicide by sea anenemoe.
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Anonymous: sorry. i just wanted to tell you how much i liked you. i'd like to take this to a higher level if you're willing
Eleveninches: By higher level I hope you mean email.
-- eleveninches and anonymous, on things that are disturbing
LJ, 4/2/2004
silverkyst: I need to not be taking molecular genetics.
silverkyst: though, as a sidenote, I did learn how to eviscerate a fruit fly larvae by pulling it's mouth out by it's mouthparts today.
silverkyst: I'm just nowhere near competent in the subject material to be taking it.
Jenn: I'd like to thank you for that image.
-- silverkyst and seperis, on more wtf
AIM, 1/25/2005
You know, if obi-wan had just disciplined the boy *properly* we wouldn't be having these problems. Can't you just see yoda? "Take him in hand, you must. The true Force, you must show him."
-- Issaro, on spanking Anakin in his formative years
LJ, 3/15/2005
Aside from the fact that one person should never go near another with a penis, a bottle of body wash, and a hopeful expression...
-- Summerfling, on shower sex
LJ, 7/22/2005
It's weird, after you get used to the affection you get from a rabbit, it's like any other BDSM relationship. Only without the sex and hot chicks in leather corsets wielding floggers. You'll grow to like it.
-- revelininsanity, on my relationship with my rabbit
LJ, 2/7/2006
Smudged upon the near horizon, lapine shadows in the mist. Like a doomsday vision from Watership Down, the bunny intervention approaches.
-- cpt_untouchable, on my addition of The Fourth Bunny
LJ, 4/13/2006
Rule 3. Chemistry is kind of like bondage. Some people like it, some people like reading about or watching other people doing it, and a large number of people's reaction to actually doing the serious stuff is to recoil in horror.
-- deadlychameleon, on class
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-- JRDSkinner, on fanfiction
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