It was amusingly hard to remember my password in order to log in over here.

So I'm updating from mecha's computer, NOT because he sucks, since he DOESN'T, but because wilson is currently out of order. Nothing wrong, just a minor snag.

See, we bought teh stuffs for to upgrade him with -- nice new motherboard, P4 processor to replace my old celeron-that-pretends-it-is-a-P2, et cetera. Problem is, regardless of what it might or might not claim, the Dell case is not actually ATX-compatible. So the mobo won't fit. So we're stymied until we can get a new case that IS ATX-compatible. I have picked out the most wonderful case from Tigerdirect -- it is so cute. No, I'm serious. It's ADORABLE. Those who know me well can probably intuit what, exactly, that says about the object in question. Hint: it's not the one with the pink lights all over the inside and outside of the case.

Okay, now mecha is referring to wilson's future upgraded self as "the wilsonator." And he just said "I'll be back...ED UP." I think I have to kill him now.

At any rate, currently I do not have a computer, I have a number of computer components sitting around my room. I trust all shall live without my glorious presence, and stuff, until we slap wilse back together while we wait for the case to put the new stuff in.

IN CONCLUSION: FEET

okay so yeah

my computer is IN A BOX

NO SERIOUSLY

a box MADE OF CARDBOARD

LOOK, SEE

BOX MADE OF CARDBOARD

I'm having too much fun with this.

(the second picture is the empty case, now being used for parts storage. the last picture is my favorite. my computer is like a hillbilly's rusted-out old truck on cinderblocks! only, y'know, new and shiny, so more like a Mercedes on cinderblocks.)

[edit] oops this post was in the future my bad

oh crap i just realized my smoothie is sitting on the table slowly attaining room temperature

Does no one care that my computer is happily running in a cardboard box on the floor? Hmph.

I have no sound. I need to install the drivers that came with the mobo to have sound. The drivers came on a CD. We haven't gotten the CD drive out of wilson's¹ old case yet.

Must... listen... to music... will die... without... music... CD player... all of ten feet away... *dies*

1. This new iteration of wilson, the one that will be in the shiny adorable new case I am getting, is henceforth named wilsonator. I decided that earlier today. Whatever we put in wilson's old case, that will not be wilson, especially since I'm leaning towards Sarah Connor. Which I just realized would completely destroy my tradition of naming computers with boy names.² So maybe it isn't a good idea after all. Plus, would you want one of your computers constantly trying to kill another?

2. In order by when they were procured (since first computer was named after we became a two-computer household):
     Kenny the craptastic second-hand computer we bought for $350 in late '98 (NOT '99 like I usually say, because I just realized that that was WRONG)
     Tommy the then-state-of-the-art laptop I got as part of my scholarship in fall '99, who is now horribly, horribly ancient and slow
     Quentin Horace Nebuchadnezzar The Third (Qwenty for short), my short-lived FIRST eMachine from a few months of 2k, who probably got shifted off onto another unsuspecting eMachines customer
     Qwenty Mark II (Mark for short), the eMachine they gave us in place of Qwenty when he went kerflooie, that lasted a couple years more... barely
     wilson, my dear little Dell, which sd readers helped me purchase a couple-three years ago now, and who has served me so faithfully
     maurice, the family's new computer, which I have never seen but picked for them off Dell's website
     and now wilsonator, who will soon be ready to paint the town red (with the blood of people named Sarah Connor) in his lovely new case.

To reduce the nerd content of this post, I will note that Colin put a gummi bear in my smoothie. ...gummi bears are considered non-nerdy, right...?