My internet connection went down, so I wrote this dull little thing about nothing, basically, because I figured that I would write something better tomorrow and then backdate it. Then my connection came back up again. And the world shall know my dullness.
Today was a study day, although we did go out and shop around for a new video card. The video card on my PC is giving out. More and more frequently, I get horizontal cyan streaks spreading rightwards from each bit of black on the screen. Imagine how difficult that makes reading text. There is also an odd pulsating pattern of broad, vertical light and dark streaks. It doesn't help that my monitor is eight years old either. It would be really nice to get a whole new machine, but that's not an option right now.
So we go to the consumer electronics stores (I ran into a member of my lab group working at one of them) and check out the lame video card selection. You can buy a whole computer for what one of these fancy video cards costs! So I did not buy a video card. I don't use my PC all that much right now and I can probably get a cheaper card from the chop-shop sort of store where I bought the computer in the first place. Some other day when I'm not dazed with antihistamines.
234 words | March 6, 2005 09:26 PM | Real true story