New projector

Let's see if I can do a quick highlight reel from the last few days. Thursday we had another city league game. We played Brady's team, and lost of course. But we played them better than I was expecting. They also had Chip and Jeff, who were both visiting from out of town, so what can you expect. Friday was round 2 of the intramural tournament against Barnyard Madness. It was closest game of the season, but still a pretty easy victory (although if Conkie's backbone weren't broken, it would have been harder). After that I showered quickly and Angela and I went to Wayne's art exhibit (he had an open house for his work, which will be on exhibit at the Provo art center for the month). I think Angela thought it was a bit strange, and I can't disagree too much. It was good, but I think you have to have a certain personality to get into Wayne's art, and I used to have that personality, but not too much anymore. Although we did have fun making our own art with crayons. And then we went to Carrabba's for dinner, which wasn't really all that it was cracked up to be. Although the trees growing on top of it are cool.

Mark's been moving stuff and getting ready to be married. I think they'll make an awesome couple. I'm also glad to have his band equipment gone. I've already reorganized the basement accordingly. And Theo (the Catholic guy who stayed with use last year for a month and wants to open a Domino's Pizza franchise in Provo) will be moving in to take his place. That will be pretty cool.

I spent a lot of the week finishing the computer that I started before I left for the funeral. I returned the Celeron processor that I had bought last week to test the computer, and put in the Pentium processor that was waiting for me when I got back. After some bios updates and some almost scary data losses (I almost lost all my videos on the RAID array), my old computer is now a very safe and secure dedicated server in the basement closet. The new computer is a very quite and powerful and small living room appliance. I'm still figuring out exactly where I should put various pieces of data, but I'm so relieved that I didn't lose all the data on the RAID array (the problem stemmed from putting the hard drives on cable-select. Very weird things happened and it took a while to fix). I am a little peeved that the RAID controller on my old computer won't do 0+1. So now I only have 40 Gigs of secure backup instead of 80. Maybe I'll have to get a DVD writer when I run out of room.

I bought a new projector from Dell to go along with my computer. I figure this is my last major toy before going to school. It's very quiet—I mean, you don't even hear it. Which is a pleasant change. It's also way brighter. It's only 800x600 natively, but it resamples to higher resolutions, and the quality has advanced so much that you can't tell the difference between my current one and this one. Well, it does look a little fuzzier up close, but not from far away. It also came with a lot of cables, including stuff for HDTV, and a very cool carrying bag. I got it for only $800. I put up my projector for sale on ebay, and it's already gotten some pretty good bids. I'm thinking when all is said and done, the old projector, plus the cost of a replacement lamp, will equal the price I pad for the new one. Not bad, if I say so myself.

Posted June 06, 2004 (11:43 PM) | Comments (1)