Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
So my college doesn’t allow freshman to have cars on campus. However, despite $4/gallon gas, and no real need for it, I’m working on buying a car. I’m currently looking at getting a 2000-2001 ford mustang, or a 2000 honda civic. Very different cars, it really depends on where gas prices go. Right now, the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2008
I recently found a pretty cool workaround to avoid buying an xbox 360 wifi cable. Well, two workarounds. One is that you can just buy the xbox wifi card and it will work with the xbox 360. However, I haven’t confirmed that, so caveat emptor. Second, you can get a super cheap router, run a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2008
I apologize for the lack of updates recently, I’ve been working fulltime on building computers, and I’ve gotten, and this is the key reason, and X box 360. However, what I haven’t gotten is a wifi card for that Xbox 360. Mostly because its $100. However, I also haven’t laid 100 feet of ethernet cable [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 12th, 2008
I’m rarely one to call sexism - I think many charges are trumped up, but attacks on Hillary in Iowa after she forgot to put on her best wrinkle cream one morning and looked like, you know, the 60 year old woman she is, were kinda unwarranted. Most politicians are over 50, and of course [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
I was ranting about airport security the other day. You know what would be nice? If this company would take off so I could splurge on a private jet charter. A plane, with just me - and without absurd security clearances, that could get me there without the hassle. Clearly, for that to happen, PennyWise [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
As I’ve mentioned before, there are hundreds of weight loss pills on the market. Unfortunately, tons of them are scams. Oh look - you give us $100/pill and suddenly you’ll lose weight. Or least your wallet will. That’s about it. While I’m not really a pill-person, I prefer jogging (freak, I know), Consumer price reports [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 6th, 2008
This is kind of a general rant post, feel free to ignore it - not computer related, just getting stuff off my chest. You know what’s terrible? Flying. Not the experience itself, though riding southwest is pretty bad as well, but getting on the plane. You go through security, you have to unload everything you [...]
Posted in Build-A-Day, June 2008 Build-A-Day on Jun 5th, 2008
Yes, its back! We’ll be doing Build-a-Day’s for the month of June. If you have a request - a computer build you’d like to have posted on the website, or a price point/application you’d like a build based around - post a comment, and we’ll have it up as soon as possible.
Disclaimer: All computers come [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2008
So now that I’m going off to college, it looks like I’m going to have to purchase my own health insurance. As a rather accident prone individual, its most definitely a necessity. Unfortunately, that stuff is quite pricey. Thousands a year. You’d think, as a young male, statistically the healthiest demographic, it would be a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 4th, 2008
Let me be the first to say that I am a die-hard PC gamer. I’ve never been able to master first person shooters without a mouse, and I was addicted to MMORPGs for, jesus, 5-7 years(Dark age of camelot, if your wondering). I find that the keyboard offers an optimal interface for gaming. However, I [...]
