How far we've come...

In 2002, I built my first computer. It was close to the top of the budget PCs you could make back then. It had an AMD CPU that ran at 1.5 GHz and a 64 MB GeForce4 MX graphics card. I believe I started it out with 60 GBs of hard drive space. With the 17" CRT monitor and 512 MB RAM the total was about $800.
Now it's 2009 and I'm looking at buying a new desktop. The thing that gets me is that for a total of about $650 I can buy a computer with the following:
CPU clocked at 2.5 with ability to over clock to 3 easily
640 GB hard drive
512 MB video card (this description doesn't do it justice)
4GB RAM
A motherboard with better built in audio than I bought for $60 to upgrade my old PC
And what might be my favorite and most apparent part, a 22" LCD monitor.

I already bought the monitor because I found a deal that made it $30 cheaper than the usual sale price. But I still can't believe how much things have advanced and how apparent it is when you look back 7 years. I think I'm going to buy the PC too. I made money from KUMM this year and I know that this PC will last me in the coming years and has great upgradeable options. Oh man.

Notebook find

Rolling ball pen
rolling on then
it stops
dried up
it rolls on again

Out of fuel
out of ink
I'm dried up
trying to think

.*skis

I slept for 3 hours last night, brilliant. I had a paper due and wanted to study for my Calc test today. I finished up my paper early this morning and studied just enough to get some of the test done. It wasn't very hopeful though as Jane came out of the room as I was going in and said that even she thought the test was hard. So that was not a good first impression of the test. But after it took me 15-30 minutes to remember that I was looking for the word polar in PolarPlot[Sin[3x],{x,0,Pi}] that I started rolling. But then I took a nap in Lauren's room as it snowed like 4-8 inches and I did not want to walk home, only to come back again. So I was kept going through the day by little sleep and a large cup of TMC coffee, which is, in my opinion, gross. For the last bit, I loaded it with french vanilla creamer and it was sooo much better. I also haven't eaten yet, but I ate too much food yesterday. After not eating for a bit and having my stomach shrink down in size, I scoffed 3/4 of a subway meatball marinara sub into my gut. Then it hit me like my stomach turning to concrete. It took about 30 more minutes to finish the last 1/4.
Then, I went to the community dinner and although I tried to get smaller portions of food, I ended up with more food than the people around me, and I ate most of it somehow. But I was soo zoned out that I barely knew what was going on. But after fighting with a 1"x2"x2" piece of cornbread I felt victorious. (V-v-v-victorious! (anyone?)).
So now my gut is starting to complain. But I still have chili (chilli?) at home so whenever I go there I'll be set. mmm.

I love noise

So there's this band called fuck buttons. Yeah, pretty great name huh. But they have a 50 minute album that is 6 songs that are just amazing amounts of noise. Loud, staticy, rhythmic, sonic, soundscape, rumbling, scraping, wonderful and overwhelming noise. And I dunno why exactly, but I love it. I guess I'd call it art rock music. Because it doesn't really fit into any other genre. And it has to be called art to actually have people somewhat understand why I would listen to it. But yeah, that's what I've been listening to for the past half an hour.

What's the diff?

So, I am the youngest of three children. I am one of the youngest of my cousins on my Dad's side. He was the youngest in his family. My Mom wasn't the youngest in her family and I am closer to the top of that cousin-age bracket. What's the difference/point?
Well, I've started thinking about how people are different for being at one end of a generation. For me, I'm the youngest and I'd say I have some "youngest sibling" tendencies. I'm shy because I have two older, more outgoing, siblings. I connect with a wider range of aged people, because I spent time around a lot of differently aged people, from my siblings friends to little kids at my parent's friends houses. I am pretty passive, cause I saw my siblings be non-passive.
There is just a lot of things that I see connected to my relative age. But I look at others, who are the oldest, and see some oldest sibling traits as well. I just wonder if anyone else thinks about these things when they meet someone. Because I do, and I think it helps define people and make them understandable sometimes. Just something to think about.

Does bread always smell like this?

i think I fed my cat most of two pieces of bread dipped in chili. I hope he appreciates my cooking and generosity.

So. Vinyl. Next year I'm going to start massing my already decent collection of records. I was at Prash (spelling is probably horrible) and matt's place today and they have a great (kinda) vinyl collection. Like, it's all really old and only some of it is actually good. I was impressed with the Chaka Khan album I picked out. It seemed to be a slight hit. But I want more. More good albums. I was talking with Lauren today ( :) ) and told her about my list of perfect albums and how my goal was to have them all in some hard copy someday. Well, as great as CDs are, vinyl just seems so much more...classy. So maybe my goal will be to own all my perfect albums on vinyl. Costing at most (hopefully most) $20 a pop, thats a lot of mulah. But I have a start and a few on CD, so maybe I'll settle for that. I dunno. Maybe when I'm filthy rich, then I'll buy them.

Another short one bites the dust

I know this is another short post, but I can't write a big one now, gotta go to see planet earth. But this is what I'm doing with my moleskin to get used to writing in it more. Everyday I will put one song that I can play into it. By summer I will have about 60 songs that I can refer to at anytime. Size is sadly a limit as I could barely fit kissing the lipless onto one page. But then I just take it somewhere and can play for sixty songs worth of acoustic greatness. So far it's iron and wine, the shins, and fleet foxes.