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In my defense, I went to Fry's for a SATA cable for mom's new hard drive, since I completely accidentally bought a bare drive. But they had i3-530 dual for 74.99 and tell me that I was supposed to walk away from that.

...yes, I'm cuddling it right now, why do you ask?

I'm going to build a home serrrverrr. I'm going to build a home serrrverrrr. At home! In my living room! From scratch. With Ubuntu! I AM AMBITIOUS.

This could be the greatest day of my life.

(Yes, I know the i3 is ridiculously powerful for a home server, but not if I use it as a media center. I went for only the basics now, but eventually I want to add a bluray player for streaming. This will run headless, so for now I'm interfacing through my TV's DVI port. I think for future access I'll go in through Adam the laptop.)

Note: In the first three minutes--I am not kidding you, three minutes--that I was looking at motherboards, no less than five salespeople wandered over to see if I needed help. It was nice later, though; I looked distressed about cases and vroom, instant assistance. Also 5.25 four bay holder for my extra notebook drives that have been languishing in a drawer for a while in need of love. The board allows up to six total, but it's hot swappable for later if I add a RAID tower. This is probably going to be my project of the week. I am stupidly excited.

This is so going to end in tragic disaster. I've never had the opportunity to build from the ground up before, and I keep bouncing between my bags trying to breathe without hyperventilating. I really have indecent thoughts every time I pick up the motherboard. Just. Mine. Will post specs when I am calmer.

Carry on.

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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.
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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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Adding for Mastodon.
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Someday I wanna go with you when you are in an electronics store and ogling things. *nods* It would be GREAT.

Won't lie, sometimes people find it really creepy. *bounces*

This is me, you know I wouldn't find it creepy. Adorable, perhaps. ;)

perhaps creepily adorable?

Oh my god I am educating a monster.....
*cackle*

For some reason, your entry totally had me grinning this morning. It's like talking dirty to a geek - does that make me odd? LOL

Good luck on the project, though, sounds like it's going to be fun ^_^

Yay servers! I just built a media server so that I can play stuff on my shiny, awesome tv, and I have to say, life is pretty excellent. Except the part where my living room has become a sort of geeky hick front lawn. There are bits and pieces of hardware everywhere. Nothing sucks more than trying to grope through a room in the dark having to worry about stepping on drives and motherboards and random power cords.

Have fun with linux! It's so sweet and slick... once you get everything working -.-

*glee* I am still cuddling my processor. I have to restrain myself to do this very slowly and carefully and not terrifyingly instead of RUSHING IN TO MOUNT THE CPU OH MY GOD THIS IS SO AMAZING.

*breathing* Yes! Fun!

Don't forget the thermal grease!

I hope you have nice mounting clips, and not those super crappy four corners things that most intel processor heatsinks come with =P I HATE those things.

heh, this is almost where I started when rebuilding my media server - it was all 'hmm, lets just get a terrabyte drive' and ended up in 'you need a new power supply to go with the new video card that was needed by the new CPU which hey at least you intended to buy with the new motherboard that you fell in love with while buying your new hard drive'. [cough]

So, Ubuntu (which is awesome)! Are you going MythTV?

Well, it's nice to have a hobbie. ;)

Seriously, you're a braver girl than I am. Good Luck.

You and David Hewlett. *g*

LOL <3

My very first exposure to PCs and Windows involved me building my own computer from scratch and then installing Windows on it.

Since I was already a Unix user I found Windows incredibly confusing and non-intuitive and I still do ;) (MacOS as well. Although they've improved. Command line interactions FTW!)

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