05 Oct 2006
It’s here.
DFI LanParty UT NForce4 SLI-DR VENUS, AMD 64bit 3200+ (939) @ 2.4GHz, 2GB (2 x 1GB DIMMS) OCZ Platinum DDR PC4000, 256MB GeForce 7600GS PCIe, 250GB Sata2 Seagate, Pioneer DVD Combi drive, OCZ Powerstream 520 Watts… and XP Pro still sucks. Necessary evils, I suppose. 2221 3DMark ’06, don’t remember ’05 score.
All this firepower and I’m sitting here playing seven-year-old RTS games anyway. Sigh :P Next stop, another hard drive (just so I don’t have system/data on same disk… I’d complain about the pagefile — wow it’s weird calling a swap partition that — but somehow with 2GBs of tasty memory — mmm brains — that shouldn’t be too much of a concern just yet ;-)).
Also, I’m rather sold on the dual core myth so if anyone has an X2 939 they’re trying to get rid of… PWTB. Not that I need it right now so it’ll wait a while. I’m planning on saving again and getting some decent video hardware to go with my new Sony PVM-411CE :-)
I’ve got some case mods planned but am thinking they’re going to have to wait until summer break for reasons of time and money. And it’s now 1.30 in the morning and I’ve got to be up in five and a half hours. Doh… computers suck.
05 Oct 2006
| In procrastination I observed this yesterday and was prompted to take a photo for no particular reason. Would be a potentially good stock photo. Think usage by people trying to sell last minute HSC services at this time of year : |
03 Oct 2006
It must be crap. This thing is finished nine hours early! Cruising! The language is a bit all over the place, but it’s all in english, and the content is a bit year-11-and-12-rehash in places, but it’s mostly pretty alright (lots of Bahktinian self/other stuff going on, not that I actually thought to mention his name).
In other news I’m really hoping my new PC rocks up today. And that I have money to pay for the damn thing. We’ll see how it goes; if not today, tomorrow. Then I’ve got to get a copy of XP Pro and then I’ll be lost to RTS games for a few weeks. Sigh *good sigh*
02 Oct 2006
Okay, so normally that term has pretty acceptable/well defined semantics… but what’s a “report[s] of textual transmission” in a fictional work?
I just wanna get a big doubleyew-tee-eff out there about that one. In full: “Dracula‘s reports of textual transmission ground its supernatural story in material reality.” My thoughts exactly. Dracula = the text by Stoker. “reports of textual transmission” = wtf1. There’s possibly a wtf2 in there but that hinges on interpretation of wtf1 so I’m not going to bother declaring it. Meh.
The only idea I have is that the “reports” bit is entirely redundant and it is speaking merely of textual transmission within the narrative itself. But that goes beyond mere bad English (which the sentence already is, IMO) and into the realm of… something much worse. Children are dying from HIV/AIDS in Africa because of this sentence.
This one seems to fly in from the office of a certain MH, whom I am utterly convinced is up there as one of the most turgid and incomprensible (obscure) academics in her entire School, if not the Arts faculty at large. She also takes an Arts II PoMo course which probably explains much of it.
02 Oct 2006
Is there anything English-related that Patricia Parker won’t crop up in? My goodness. Shakespeare, modernism, Victorian literature, post-modernism, Romance, and goodness knows what else… her name just keeps cropping up. Lucky Stanford. I believe the word is “prolific”.