First get Winamp.
Now if you want to be a sneaky little sneak and eavesdrop on what I’m currently listening to you may tune in to my Shoutcast server by clicking on this link.
My musical tastes range from country to classic rock to rap-rock to jazz to 80’s. You have been warned…
Today in Chico is gloomy, overcast, foggy and cold. What a perfect day for a walk in the woods! So I packed up my pistols and drove up the hill.
It was really foggy, almost dangerous foggy, until I got above 3,000 feet. Then the fog disappeared. Blue bird day, and crystal clear. It was gorgeous! There was snow all over the sides of the road at this point.
So I continued up to one of my many spots where I like park and walk. This spot is about 30 miles from my apartment. There was nobody parked there, so I’d have a few thousand acres of land all to myself–just how I like it.
Snow! Everywhere, snow! It was so beautiful. The air was so crisp and clean and cold. The forest was sooo quiet. I walked for about a mile. I couldn’t hear the cars up on the road above any more. I finally arrived at my meadow and took a seat on my favorite rock.
Quiet. Sooo quiet. I could just barely hear the sound of Big Chico Creek in the canyon below me. I sat there for the longest time in took it all in.
I am a filthy little consumer whore. I feel dirty. But I feel oh-so-good at the same time. I impulse-bought all new parts for my new hot rod.
Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz 800mhz FSB
Asus P4C800-E with Intel 875 chipset
1GB of Corsair TwinX RAM (512MB x2 matched pair)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
2x Western Digital 36.7GB Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA Hard Drives
Total cost: $1600
Considering what brand new computers cost these days that ain’t so bad. If I were to buy a computer with these parts from a manufacturer like Voodoo or Alienware it would cost me over $3000. Hey, now I don’t feel so bad.
This system is going to be so fucking fast I can’t stand it. I won’t have to upgrade for at least two years. All the parts won’t be here for another week. I’m not sure I can wait that long.
As long as I’m going all-out (and I really am buying top of the line shit here) I might as well go all-out. Perhaps I’ll buy that new Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS or those Logitech Z-680 5.1 speakers. Hmmm…