I’m starting my fourth week here at Microsoft. Allegedly one of these days they’re actually going to pay me. Apparently all the interns who started May 23rd barely missed the cutoff for getting paid at the end of May, so there’s a rather substantial paycheck in my immediate future. This has naturally made me start thinking about various upgrades.
There is of course bluebeast, the computer i built in my senior year of high school that hasn’t booted since sophomore year. It doesn’t even post, suggesting at the very least a motherboard problem. It’s got a gig and a half of DDR ram and 400GB of hard drive space so i figure it’s worth buying a new mobo/cpu combo to see if i can’t turn it into a media box to drive the 5.1 system that languished in my room this last year.
ASUS K8N-E (NForce 3 250Gb based)
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
Those aren’t exactly an upgrade (the box has an ASUS NForce2 board and an Athlon 1800+) but the point isn’t to turn it into a modern game platform, but rather to get it back in a running state.
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Also making the list for potentially unwise spending is the Sennheiser 280 Pro, blogging about it makes its extravagance more apparent to me, but still, i can’t help but look at that and think “ooh, those would be much more comfortable than this phillips piece of crap i’m wearing now” after which i get into an argument with myself as to just how egregious the grammar violations of that thought were. Anyway, it has been pointed out to me, that those would also look ridiculous around my neck, which is where my headphones currently end up, given my penchant for not wearing a backpack (i actually bring my backpack to work every day, how weird is that)