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I'm a twenty-something writer and web designer based in the New York City area. In my diary you'll find fiction, nonfiction, essays, diatribes, fantasies, harangues and polemics. -
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Daily Archives: July 16, 2005
the taste of metal 0
I am absolutely IN LOVE with my Things Falling Apart LP I bought in Chico. It’s one of my favorite NIN albums.
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Vonnegut 0
“He knew with all his heart that the human situation was a frightful botch, but it was such a logical, intelligently arrived at botch that he couldn’t see how history could possibly have led anywhere else.”
–Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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tech fantasies and financial realities 0
I’ve been thinking lately about how much I want a small form factor PC, and on a whim today I went on the Internet to see how much it would cost to build a small form factor system roughly equivalent to what I have now. It would cost $800, not including the PCI-Express equivalent of my sexy video card. This is the small form factor case that I decided on:
http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SB81P.asp
The reason I love this so much is that the computer is about the size of two 8 1/2 by 11 pieces of paper held 8 inches apart. In short, a third of my current computer’s size.
The point is, I’m pretty sure I could get $800 for my current computer on eBay. So when I save up a bunch of money, I’m going to sell my current computer and then buy the components for the new small form factor PC.
I have also been really wanting that external drive so that I could store my files on it between computers. Oh well. I already promised myself that I will spend no money until I save up at least $1,000. However, I will buy the external drive at the end of the month.
Oh yeah, speaking about the end of the month my mother is going to visit after all. She talked with one of her old friends here and he is going to let her stay with him. So she’s going to be here in like two weeks. It’s kind of sad, I wanted her to wait until later in the year when I had my apartment in Sacramento. Oh well. I have been thinking about it and I’m realizing that if I want to get out of here anytime soon, I’m going to have to get a second job. I was thinking maybe the theater, since I know a lot of the people that work there. Well, I will see what my savings is looking like at the end of the month. I guess I could calculate it out now.
Current balance:
Savings: $300
Checking: $232.71
Next paycheck should be $200-ish
$200
-$50 high-speed Internet
-$140 car insurance + gas
Well, that doesn’t leave me with much to save. I need to work more hours, but I think that my next paycheck will be a bit dismal since I didn’t work too many hours this week. I need to make it up next week. I need to do a bunch of graphics and work on the databases.
I just hate sitting around doing nothing on weekends when I could be working to get out of this hellhole. Fuck. I need to go take a shower.
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erase/rewind 0
> Miss Kittin and the Hacker – You And Us
The road trip this week made me think of this Miss Kittin lyric from the song above:
“We take planes and hotels every weekend
we drive on the highway to unknown places
looking at the landscape running behind the window
we are all alone
listening to something in the stereo
we would like to see the skyline and silly lights of New York or Tokyo
and then come back to the green fields we know
and do nothing
and sleep
and do that again and again”
I’m about 100 pages into Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano. It is much less hallucinogenic then his later novels. It said on the back that this was one of his first, if not the first. I don’t remember. Today I have been feeling very dizzy and disembodied.
I went online looking for solutions to back up all of my data, and came across this deliciously sexy USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. It’s $40, and I would have to buy a drive to put inside of it. But I suppose I could just use one of my old 10GB drives to back up my most important files until I can afford another 200GB drive for complete backup.
I must not buy it until I get my next paycheck though. I am alotting myself around $40 per pay period to spend on frivolities and technology. I still won’t be able to save up enough to leave in time, it seems. Maybe. I’m not sure. I just need to not buy anything. Here’s a pic of the drive. It’s supposed to have blue LEDs that light up behind the grille. Isn’t it sexy? I’m trying to change my computer aesthetic from gloss black to shiny aluminum.
Must go to sleep. Must stop wanting things. Must look into a second job.
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