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7.27.2004 posted by William 19:38 link |
My 1999-vintage PC is pretty much finished (when I ran Maxtor's low-level disk maintenance tool, it literally said "Your hard disk is failing."), so time to get a new one. I plan on assembling this one part by part, because it's most cost-effective and because I've never done it before. Shouldn't be too hard, as most parts these days are very clear how they fit together, and there are effective guides to putting a PC together all over the net. The best one is probably Ars Technica's. Those guys know their shit. I'm shooting for a point just below their Hot Rod rig, sans monitor and video card, which I will purchase later. In the meantime, no PC = no 5l5k :(. Time to get reacquainted with my CDs. And my LPs, some of which I've never listened to. Oh, and also with the ~12 gigs on my Rio Karma, a good chunk of which is relatively new to me.
This weekend I finally got my bike (a decade or three old Schwinn Traveler) in riding condition, so last night I met up with Christian in Brooklyn and we rode along the Red Hook waterfront, down Columbia and Van Brunt Streets, up to a warehouse-turned-art-studio complex jutting out into the harbor (one of the most peaceful spots I've ever seen in New York), to the Police Vehicle Evidence Yard where Red Hookers angled for whatever kind of fish can survive in the Gowanus Canal, past beautiful Red Hook Park, and back through Cobble Hill/Boerum Hill/Carroll Gardens or whatever those neighborhoods are called (apparently there's an acronym a la Tribeca or Nolita, but it's even more awful). Bike riding in New York City = awesome. I'm looking forward to learning my way around the boroughs, and discovering more randomly amazing spots. Coming soon: the Tour de Slice. |