Weird website of the week, brought to my attention by GM Maelona: Hats of Meat.

Rottcloar trumped it with a stranger and more disgusting one, but I can't link to it. Ewww.

Somebody recently searched my site for "jiffy lube." I don't mean some outside search engine found my site in a search for those words, but somebody actually came to my site and used the search thingy I installed to look for it. Hmm.

The second part of the birthday gift from Kheni arrived: a Levenger Eiffel Tower dip pen, and Raven Black ink (bringing the total colors to 7). I've been using it for a couple of days and will keep doing so -- it's a nice one. I found that the different inks don't all have the same consistency; Raven Black and Fireball are both very smooth and work perfectly with that nib and the paper I'm using, but Skies of Blue seems to be a little thinner. It's a great color though, and might work with a bold calligraphy nib (which I have somewhere among the still-packed-after-the-move stuff).

Kyoko is still fascinated with the shrine and everything in, on, or near it -- burning incense, unchewed paper, open ink bottles, you name it -- but the rattley instrument thingy is a great cat deterrent. After a few seconds of rattling she renews her keen interest in the windowsill on the other side of the room. :)

Unbreakable is good, and neither public opinion nor critics nor Bruce Willis nor Samuel L. Jackson's hair can change that. Please go see it while it's still in the theaters, which judging by last night's "crowd" may not be very long.

Getting somewhat annoyed/bored with GT2 and Einhander, I went out yesterday to look for Playstation games. I braved Best Buy and Toys R Us post-Thanksgiving crowds and wound up buying nothing. Does anyone else have that kind of shopping experience, where you pick up something you want, think about the price, put it down, pick up something else, put it down, etc. for a couple of hours? 5 years ago I'd have bought one of everything, but then 5 years ago I wasn't paying rent. Heh.

Well, that didn't continue today. Jeff treated me to lunch at Red Robin for my birthday. That place rocks, why didn't anyone tell me about it earlier? (Well, earlier than the first time that we went there that is.) I decided not to get a drink though since Bubba's jello shots did me in yesterday. It's a bad idea to eat a dozen vodka-laden gelatinous cubes when you're hungry, instead of stopping to fix real food. Heh.

Stopped at World Market for candy (heh), a rattley thingy (somewhere between a sistrum and a tambourine) and to consider gift ideas. And then a stop at Slackers to check out games.

I picked up Spider, a platform game I rented a couple years ago and had fun with. My criteria for a video game at this point is cheap and either time-consuming and/or replayable, and this fits the bill. It's also a 2D platform game, which I happen to prefer over the 3D ones so prevalent now. Too bad there's no Donkey Kong Country for PSX.

Quirky little game. You're an engineer whose consciousness winds up stuck in a cybernetic spider while goons from a rival corporation haul your unconscious body away. As a spider, little things are a big challenge... like puddles of water or out-of-control robot grasshoppers that throw boomerangs. Control is kind of fun since you can climb walls, stick to ceilings, swing from thread, or replace your "ordinary" spider robot limbs with rocket launchers, flamethrowers, etc. :) Unfortunately the level design is pretty flaky at times. Why is there a room full of tiny floating conveyor belts that aren't connected and don't lead anywhere? Why do spider-sized pounding machines slam uselessly away at the floor? Why are there patches of dirt that spew fire?

Ah well, it's a little mindless fun, and that's good once in a while. So is the Sleater-Kinney album I picked up. It doesn't seem fair to call it punk, but other categories fail too. Maybe it's just really good punk, well written and solidly performed. Whatever it is, it's good enough that I'm sitting here listening to it over and over.

S-K is one of those bands I've wanted to hear ever since I first found out about it. My sis has a CD by Carrie's other band, Heavens to Betsy -- which definitely is riotous, screaming, sympathetic sore-throat punk. You can tell it's the same vocalist, but now she sounds (mostly) frantic rather than dangerously psychotic. Which is not to say that H2B was bad, just... challenging. In fact if I can find it I'd love to give 'em another listen.

Carrie reminds me in some ways of a high school friend that I had a crush on -- though the only things I remember Amy singing were INXS's "Devil Inside", UB40's "Red Red Wine" (actually written by the accursed Neil Diamond... argh!) and Escape Club's "Wild Wild West." She's so mean, but I don't care... heh. Wonder what music she likes now.

When we're done with the new version of play.net (we're talking months away here) I think I'll want to get off web stuff for a while and dive into a big DragonRealms project. Working on the spell list (which took considerably less time to assemble than the one I did for my own site a couple years ago) made me want to write more. I'm presently thinking about that "new guild" noise we made a while back and pondering the possibilities.

This of course is no promise. I don't want to see on the DR boards "but Shalnhh said!" This is just a whim right now. :)

I'm still in the proto-idea stage, not having written anything yet. I think I can safely say that a "simple" Druid Guild or Necromancer Guild (or god forbid, Ninja Guild) is out. I want something that blends together several different things into a coherent whole. Right now I'm thinking about animal totems, conjuring, curses, power sources and transmission, symbols and phrases, true names, and will be hitting the books for more brainstorming before I put it together. I'm shooting for something with a long history, sophisticated and technical but firmly rooted in its ancient, primitive, uh... roots. Maybe you mesmerize your enemy by chanting a complicated rhyming palindrome, stake its shadow to the ground so it can't run away, and let the spirit of an irate cave bear possess you and maul the living crud out of the poor beast. Or something. Like I said, I'm still thinking. :)

Another color shift in lieu of actually redesigning the site. I think I'm actually mostly satisfied with the design, I just have the itch to redo stuff anyway.

A great Thanksgiving dinner with the Mooville crowd. Bruce's turkey, Bubba's deviled eggs and Jeff's yams were the stars, but all the food and company was good. And of course I placed last in the Settlers game again, but I enjoyed it anyway and can attribute the loss to a strategic gamble I shouldn't have taken.

The thing is though, I could have stayed home and it would have been all right. Don't get me wrong, I appreciated the invitations and I'm glad I took one of them up -- but so many people were telling me I couldn't stay home alone on Thanksgiving. My unspoken response to that was "sure I can." Heh.

So what leftovers did I take home? Orange vodka jello shots. Or maybe they should be called vodka orange, they're pretty strong ;)

(Religious stuff here, skip if not interested.)

For the past several months I've been trying to write a piece of Kemetic wisdom literature. It's slow going for several reasons. I don't simply want to restate things that others have written unless I can add value to it in some way. Every phrase and word counts, so I want to choose them as carefully as possible. And I haven't yet hit all the points that I feel the need to, nor found a way to clearly express some of them.

I'm wondering whether ancient sages did it this way, or if they just got inspired and scribbled it all down in an hour and went back to the 2500 BC equivalent of playing Gran Turismo 2. I know that at least in the Middle and Late Kingdom, scribes were aware that their writings would survive for an incredibly long time, and were better monuments than monuments themselves. Would they then, like PC game publishers, release a version of a work before they were satisfied that it was finished? I don't think so.

Only on one level is this thing meant to be a set of advice for fellow shemsu. It's also an offering, it's heka, and maybe it's my legacy. I'm not going to rush it.

I feel pretty confident that one section of it is "done" -- and I had a dream about that section last night that pointed out how critical it is to heed my own advice.

Also on the spiritual front, the thought I've been ruminating over is that Seshat is not just about writing and keeping track of things; there is a reason to record events and conditions. In terms of time, Her position is between Nit (before the beginning) and Nebt-Het (after the end). Our minds are not aware of the present, but of the very recent past. History is not about the entire past, but about events, changes, turning points. There's something to this rambling, I think.

Obscure enough title for this entry? Maybe this will help. :) It's not really the title of the movie that I'm thinking of, though... or the mashed potatoes, even though Turkey Day approaches.

November-December is usually my favorite time of year. Coming out of that September-October slump and into cool weather and longer nights and clearer night skies and more comfort. There's something about bundling up against the cold, or eating hot soup, or wrapping up under blankets. Then of course there's the holidays and the change of pace they bring. Jan-Feb are usually a bit too cold, or else, by then I've simply had enough cold and want a change. Then the "window weather" for a couple of spring months is nice, before it gets hot and un-nice again.

My spiritual life has a kind of wave pattern as well. New Year (early August) is a high peak which gradually drops into a trough at about late September, which I start to pull out of right about now. Any other variations through the year are ripples by comparison.

The two waves apply to this year too -- I'm enjoying the weather and thinking deep thoughts -- but my mood is not lifting with everything else. Part of that right now seems to be a time conflict -- I feel like I need more sleep, but don't want to sleep more because there are things I want to do, and I tell myself 8 hours should be enough. Ah, the silly games we get ourselves into.

And maybe part of it is just having this cold. The symptoms are maybe 5% of what they were in the first 3 days, but it's still taxing.

I got my Missouri driver's license today. I picked a day on which an entire high school driver's ed class was getting their permits (I'm not exaggerating here). And I had to take the useless, bureaucrat-mandated written test written test twice. Why do I need to know exactly how long a license is suspended at the first DUI conviction if I never drink and drive? Why I really be a safer driver if I had known that it's 30 days, rather than a full year like I first guessed?

How many people can figure out, at night, when an oncoming car is exactly 500 feet away and therefore it's time to turn off the hi-beam? How many steep hills are there in St. Louis where it's necessary to park on the street?

All griping aside, it still went smoother than the yearly inspection/tax/registration hooha has ever gone for me, and now I'm signed up as an organ donor. The jury is out on whether the new photo is better than the old one -- it's more current, but instead of being too dark it's now lurid, and I look as if I was being goosed. Let's see... the lamination is much better, and the new number is much easier to remember. Overall, I'll give it an 8.2.

Updated my Amazon wish list. It's got lots of junk on it in case I win the giveaway. I really hope nobody buys me a $900 digital camera... um, wait, what am I saying? Knock yourself out. ;)

Actually I'm not sure what to think of this whole thing. My list is pretty cluttered now, reducing its usefulness, and giving the impression that I really have a jones for these things, when I basically don't. It feels like I'm abusing the system, and it only highlights the need in my mind for a generic wish list/gift registry web site not affiliated with any particular store.

Gotta find the cat nail clippers... I've got little puncture wounds all over my body.

You know the holidays are coming to Simu when the weekly meeting is all about bonuses, parties, gift exchanges, and vacations. Which doesn't make things any less busy... the web staff is in full swing on the play.net redesign.

And when I say redesign, I don't mean moving a couple of menus around and using some new colors and images... I mean building a new site almost from scratch. We have learned a lot since the original one went up -- we in specific as well as web builders in general.

For the first time ever, I have to say that the new Netscape doesn't suck. At least not in comparison to every other version of Netscape that has ever been foisted off on us. IE 5.5 is still better in many ways, IMHO -- it starts faster, doesn't throw pointless splash screens at you, doesn't put junk in your system tray when running, doesn't bog you down with as many marketing-oriented menu items and default links, and doesn't eat empty but valid table cells -- but it's not as broken as previous versions. And Jeff says NS 6 for Linux actually displays fonts properly. Wow!

We're back in gamer mode again. It's not an unusual occurence now for Jeff to be sitting in his room playing NFL2K1 on Dreamcast, Steph to be playing Bust-A-Move 4 upstairs, and me to be playing Gran Turismo 2 downstairs. And That Big Holiday Where People Buy Each Other Things and Game Publishers Release Lots of New Stuff is coming.

In a so far fruitless search to find Soul Caliber cheap, we hit a couple of used game stores on Sunday. I picked up Einhander, a game I rented and was engrossed by back when it was new, and played until my thumb yelled at me to stop. I have to decide whether I want to just see how far I can go, or actually work toward getting the Schabe and Selene fighters (which probably means get myself a GameShark or DexDrive 'cause I have enough trouble just surviving, nevermind all the secret bonus things).

What right does Squaresoft have to release such a good action game? They're an RPG company, everybody knows that. It's not fair.

Anyway, Einhander hasn't completely replaced GT2 for me. At this point I have all the GT and Special Event races won, three of the Endurance races and a couple of the Rallies (which are just not as interesting). Latest project is to go through the Arcade disc and win all the races, which is easy but interesting since I can use any of my cars to do it. There are still two cars that I would really like to try though; one I have to run the All Night race (which is actually one of the shortest of the endurance races, at just under an hour) and then I have a 50% chance of getting something much less interesting (which has happened 3 times now). For the other, I would have to get 10 gold medals in one of the license tests... and I really hate the license tests. I'm not seriously considering it as an option, but I am considering that GameShark or DexDrive. Heh.

Weird dreams last night, now that I'm off the cold medicine. The first was a Weird Building Dream. Exploring the place (I don't even know where it was supposed to be) with a couple of girls that I had a crush on back in high school, I got onto the kind of elevator one would expect to see in a mecha anime, big blue steel plates with numbers stenciled on them and stuff. The doors opened again once the elevator started moving up, which was a bit unnerving... and then it started curving off to one side, eventually settling in on a horizontal track with the occasional upward or downward slope. When I asked rhetorically if it was supposed to do that, someone said "no, it's supposed to go down... straight down." Whereupon it dropped like a rock all the way from the 74th floor (or whatever it was) to the 5th and I woke up.

The second one I remember was worse: the four main characters from Sex and the City were kicked off the show and replaced by John Lithgow. The horror!

Must renew my driver's license soon... real soon. I still have my Florida one which expires Sunday. Was going to take care of that last Saturday but was too sick. I'm thinking Wednesday after dropping Steph off at the airport.

Speaking of delays, I apologize for this one. Some things I can't write about, some things I won't write about, but mostly my efforts have just been going into other things. Today my efforts mostly involve breathing, since I've picked up that cold that Steph got from somewhere and I'm staying home to deal with it. Figured I'd try and catch up on journalling before the medicine fades again.

About 5:30 on Friday we finally picked up SqueakyCar, cat litter, and dinner and started off on the trip. If I'd only known it'd be so much later than planned, I wouldn't have taken a vacation day. Ah well.

Squeaky's not only no longer leaking and not overheating, it's running better than ever. Whatever magic they worked with the timing belt has given it new life, and now it's purring and squeaking like Kyoko. Heh. The steering is improved too, so I suspect they spent a good deal of time tweaking belt tension rather than just slapping it together like whoever serviced it last. So $730 down the tubes or not, I'm still pretty happy with the result.

So of course when the MAINT REQD light went on as we approached the fringes of the outskirts of the suburbs of Chicago, I didn't quite panic as much as I might have otherwise. After pulling off at the first available exit and a minute or so of puzzlement, I remembered reading a discussion on a Dodge Raider forum a couple years ago about how best to disable the 80,000 mile service reminder light. Now it's joined BRAKE as an eternally lit, worrisome to passengers unfamiliar with Squeaky's quirks, but pretty much meaningless indicator.

It was a pretty good weekend overall. Various business got done and various Asian food got eaten. I missed out on the Buddhist service Sunday morning since my guts were breakdancing or something, but I did get my free copy of "The Teachings of Buddha." Some interesting general stuff in there, but the basic philosophy doesn't really fit with the way I understand the world. While I think wisdom and compassion are great things, I don't accept the basic assumption that life is full of suffering and evil and unfairness. Ultimately those things are a matter of human perception. Notice when the same thing happens to two different people, one of them will shrug it off and get on with life, while the other will whine, gripe, complain, scream, rant, and let the thing completely ruin him. Which is not to say that suffering isn't real, but it's not a basic inherent principle of the universe either.

Once again I don't think I'm expressing myself as clearly as I'd like. I'm comfortable with my view of things, I just have no idea how to put it into words because it's so simple and abstract. It works, though I don't know or care how... so how can I explain it?

I'm so often taken by surprise when people are vicious or dishonest. I was pondering that this weekend when I read one of those Chinese zodiac placemats. Born in 1971, I'm a Pig (though I prefer Boar... I think). "You are sincere, tolerant, and honest but by expecting the same from others, you are incredibly naive."

Heh. Well.

What I wonder is whether that's such a bad thing.

Still playing Gran Turismo 2, though not quite as fanatically between being busy and sick. I've reached the phase where I can win big-prize races and spend lots of virtual cash experimenting with different cars. The completely insane Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak Version will win me any of the unlimited races without much effort; I know it has a huge wing and odd little front flaps for massive downforce, but I still think it's a little too good to be true. It accelerates like a bullet.

Other than that, the most valued cars in my collection include the Unisia Jecs Skyline GT-R (my main "winning" car before I acquired the Escudo), the Audi TT LM Edition (the best of my under 591hp cars, an important class), and the Dodge Copperhead concept car (almost as good as the Audi and more fun to drive). For lower-powered races the Tommykaira ZZIII is my favorite -- it's cute and can a quarter if not a dime, and of the current collection is probably the one I'd most want to drive around town. Also a Ford Ka not for any performance reasons whatsoever, but because of the name. Heh.

I don't have much interest in completing every race in the game -- the rallies are not that much fun in single player and there are dozens of specific-car races with relatively dull vehicles -- but in playing with the possibilities. Since GT2 has a couple of extra gadgets to improve stability, I figure I'll give the Vipers a try. They were pretty wild and hard to handle in GT1, but might be a little more tame now.

Birthday wishes and gifts are already arriving. I'm kind of embarassed. Kheni sent me a great set of microbrewed inks in 6 colors from Levenger that comes in a nice storage box. (I love browsing their catalog and website, though I've never allowed myself to indulge.) Thanks Kheni! If I can keep the cat away, I'll use that to write in my prayer journal. :)

And my parents sent me some money to buy a plane ticket home for Christmas -- flights are really filling up so anyone out there who plans to go anywhere better buy their tickets soon. I had to settle for Dec. 19th-29th to get the lowest rates, though I'd have preferred to shift the whole visit about 4 days later.

Which will be done first: the presidential election results, or the repairs to SqueakyCar? The mechanic had to drill out a seized bolt to remove the old water pump, and it turns out Mitsubishi won't just sell that bolt, but the entire assembly. Which may increase my cost or may not, but at the very least is delaying the time that I get my car back.

When I called Monday it was going to be done by Tuesday. When I called Tuesday it was going to be done by Wednesday night or Thursday morning. When I stopped in Thursday afternoon it was going to be done that night or this morning. Now it's projected for 3-4 PM, but I'm not holding my breath...

This is unfortunate 'cause I took the day off to to drive the Kai-Imakhu to Chicago this weekend... :P

Here's a swatch of "Extreme Beige" as we're calling it: the background color we have (probably) settled on for the new version of play.net. Not that any of us think this is a particularly wonderful color, but it's a compromise we can live with. We all liked black better, but unless you use bright, bold colors and lines, it can be a bit hard to read in a bright room on a dim monitor. Being a corporate site we have to worry about stuff like that, which I generally don't ;) Anyway, we don't really dig beige that much but it does work with our design.

I Personally Profess a Predisposition toward Purple, but Perhaps its Predominance on my Pages is Partly Precipitated by the Project leader's rePugnance for that Particular Pigment...

I'm wearing all beige myself today. Okay, khaki. It's a bit much.

My mood was a great deal better this morning than previously. Right now it's not bad, even though Dreamweaver Ultradev gave me plenty of opportunities to go ballistic and I got some bad news about SqueakyCar. Looks like it's going to be in the $650 range: water pump, upper and lower radiator hoses, timing belt, and lots of labor. I am maybe a bit less of a Mitsubishi fan now than I used to be.

The computer is gonna be delayed. I kind of feel like a goob for buying that monitor when I did. Paying back the money I borrowed from my parents for the move is gonna be delayed. New computer chair to replace the $4 plastic patio chair I've been using is definitely delayed. I dunno if I'll be able to afford plane tickets home for the holidays, but I'll see.

But my point is that the bad news and frustration aren't dragging me too far down, and money is usually one of my worst worries. So maybe that SJW is doing something after all. Hmm.

Lots of Gran Turismo 2. I don't think anyone is exaggerating when they call it the greatest racing game ever... though the Law of Whining About Good Games applies. I could come up with a mile-long wish list of features, bug fixes, cars I'd like to see that aren't in the game, etc. I still don't like the license tests or the fact that there are some cars you just can't buy at any price, you have to win them. I have mixed feelings about the horsepower limits on most of the races -- while it does encourage you to drive a variety of cars (some of the light, low-powered ones handle the best and are the most fun to drive), there are a lot of great cars that are left out because they can't be downgraded enough to meet the requirements. And it's unfortunate that none of the rally races have prizes that make them worth the trouble... but like I said, for all the whining I really like this game. ;)

Gotta go now, Steph is dragging us away.

Got the first piece of the new system today... sort of. 19" CompUSA/Pixie monitor, and a pretty nice one considering the brand and price ($280 - $50 rebate). I didn't want to skimp on the monitor this time like I always have in the past. I've learned that monitors are one thing you're stuck with for years, whether it's a blurry 14" cheapie that flickers yellow, or a nice big clear one like this. Plus this one has a cool jog dial control for the onscreen adjustment menus, one I just want to turn and turn and turn even when I'm not adjusting anything. Easily amused, I know.

Still considering my options for the new machine. I learned that someone has already done the fishtank theme, but only by adding rocks and plastic fish to the inside of their clear acrylic computer case. One possibility is to paint it blue and inset an "Aqua Frame" (flat fake aquarium thing) into the side, but it would be cooler to actually have water bubbling up past a window in the case, backlit with neon... a little tricky for me though.

Thought about building a LEGO computer case. I'd have thought this was a relatively common thing to do and was expecting to find at least one web page with advice or a howto, but I was mistaken. Aside from the CompuBrick SE, the Netscape employee who built around an existing case, and the Woo Lego Project, I couldn't find much other than a couple of undocumented photos. Why is that? Seems like LEGO is an ideal medium for case mods...

After some measurements and calculations and price checking, I figured out why. LEGOs are not cheap even in bulk. :P Lincoln Logs, Erector, etc. probably violate my "keep it cheap" rule.

Current thinking is to get a boxy tower case without the curvy front bezel that so many have, paint it a dark steely color inside and out, add hazard stripes (but not haphazard stripes). Later on if I feel adventurous I can cut windows in the sides. Probably not the almost-standard acrylic, but something a little more rugged looking that allows it to breathe a bit more. Possibly a tall narrow window that allows a glimpse of a neon lightning tube behind it. Much cooler than the regular neon that so many case mods sport, and I've wondered about those things ever since seeing them at EPCOT.

Doesn't exactly fit the fishtank theme, does it? I still have more planning to do I think. :) Gives me time to pay off the monitor.

Nearing the end of the second week on St. John's Wort. My mood and energy level have both stayed pretty low and it's hard to get myself moving to do something. But it's too early to say it's not going to do something for me, either. When the first batch runs out I'll try another brand, which according to what I've read, can make a huge difference.

On the other hand, I have caught myself getting frustrated a couple times this past week and stopped myself before it went too far. Whether that's just from awareness of the depression, or the SJW really is starting to do something, or what, it's hard to say.

I don't want to try Tae Bo or anything else that involves being coordinated and moving fast... but I do like that Tai Chi tape even if David Carradine is creepy. One thing I'd like to do is some walking. Maybe I'll start that tommorow, if I can get motivated. Wish I had some MDs to listen to -- music always makes walking easier -- but those are all at the office right now.

SqueakyCar is in the shop, as of Friday morning. Leak and spare tire to be fixed for a Chicago weekend and then a week-long visit to a cabin my parents are renting. Haven't gotten any calls from the shop yet though; I hope they've at least looked at it...

According to the latest test, I'm a Secret Agent and not a Mad Scientist as you might think from this next bit...

Last night after watching the second episode of Fear (not quite as gripping as the first, but still creepy) and then dinner at Outback (oh sweet payday!), I got online to check out some unusual computer case and cooling options.

Some things are just not easy to search for. "Custom computer case" mostly gets hits for shipping/flight cases. "Custom computer enclosure" mostly finds bizarre industrial sealed hooded monstrosities, not something you simply mount a motherboard in. The only solution I found is just wade through pages of search results until you find something resembling what you want... and so far I haven't found the case yet. I thought a rack-mount case, with a little creative painting, might be a neat way to go -- but I haven't found one under $200 yet. Blech.

Water cooling is a bit more reasonable than I thought. You don't have to spend $200 on peltiers, radiators, etc. There are several articles about people building their own cooling systems for $25 (about the price of a decent overclocker's sink/fan combo... and beats the argument that it's cheaper to just buy a faster machine in the first place). All it takes is a water block (replaces the heat sink on the CPU), a small aquarium pump, and some way to cool the water off. In fact, a couple of gallons in a bucket will do the trick without any active cooling, and getting creative with a little copper tubing can bring the CPU down to room temperature no matter how hard it's pushed.

What I'm thinking of doing is using a small fishtank and decorating it with gravel, plastic plants, rubber duck, toy boats, etc. And if the temperature in the tank is not too unstable, even an actual fish. Heh. I'd have to look into the effects of "icky fishy water" on copper to make sure it doesn't corrode the waterblock or something.

Gonna think about case options a bit more before I dive into this project... if I can continue that fishtank theme with the case itself... hmmm.

The goals:

• Keep it cheap.
• Beat 1 GHz (stable) with a Duron 600 or 700.
• Keep it cheap.
• Have a unique setup that I can brag about and post pictures of.
• Keep it cheap.

Did I mention that last night I dreamed about heat sinks, fans, water cooling, etc.?

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