'Tis a Good Day!

[thessalian]

So, after a bad night's sleep and a hard day's work, I shlepped off to Tottenham Court Road and went to see if I could get a new computer (or at least, the tower and necessary components therein) without breaking the bank or buying cheap crap.

I neither broke the bank nor bought cheap crap. I just went into a little dingy-looking place that pinged up on my usually stellar radar (though to be fair, my radar is most often restaurant-oriented, but it has its moments on other bits of shopping), and ended up with a bunch of really charming Turkish guys staying past closing to assemble a computer to my specifications, and the prices weren't bad for what I got. So now I'm running Windows 7 on a fairly good motherboard, Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB storage and my nifty new graphics card. Now all I have to do is take a determined screwdriver to Hardison to get my old hard drive back (I think I see how to do it but it's like a puzzle box, seriously) tomorrow, and all will be well!

Of course, this one needed a name too, and I thought about it on the way home. From Goodge Street to bloody Tulse Hill. Lugging a PC tower onto and off of a bus, onto and off of a train, and through various turnstiles and crowds and roads and doorways ... yeah. Bit of a bitch.

...So my PC is powerful, useful, beautiful, entertaining ... and a bitch to travel with for any real distance. There's only one name that fits.

First Crudpuppy, then Frankenbox, then Eshu, then Hardison ... and now I have Morrigan.

In other news, does anyone know why a hundred-odd cyclists (emphasis on 'odd') insisted on rolling up Tottenham Court Road towards Camden at 8pm or so? En masse? It was kind of awesome to watch, but a little weird. And frankly, the drivers didn't have to be such dicks about it.

Comments

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Critical Mass is a bike ride that happens on Fridays to protest something or other.

That sounds like what you saw.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the new pooter! It's great that you got one custom built to be exactly what you want.

[nightskywarlock.livejournal.com]

I am vaguely amused that you now have a better computer than I do.

Meanwhile, if the old computer is a brand name build, may I suggest you google "makerco modelname service manual" for HD help?

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

...Seriously? I can't have a better computer than you do! That's just ... that's just not right! (I'm never allowed to say I'm not a geek again now, am I? Though given I'm currently listening to the Mass Effect 2 OST, I really shouldn't even be asking that.)

Hardison was a brand name build, aye. If I get really stuck, I'll do that; thanks. Though I'm going to need a decent screwdriver first.

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Yay, new PC!

Might be worth seeing how much you can salvage from old PC - at the very least, it might be eBay-able.

There was something on the radio last night about a protest, but I didn't catch the details.

Were they dressed? :p

Bit early in the year for the nekkid bike ride, though.

[thessalian.livejournal.com]

They were indeed dressed. Some in costume.

As to Hardison ... well, beyond the hard drive (which I want) and the DVD drive (which I also want), there's not really much to Hardison. There's the old graphics card and a couple of memory sticks, and the (presumably) fragged motherboard. Even the case is kind of in a state unfit for sale. But it's a good thought, thanks. :)

[adelpha.livejournal.com]

Fans might be worth keeping, if you have space for random bits. Power supply salvageable?

[nightskywarlock.livejournal.com]

I have become an odd sort of Tao about my computers. He who is content is rich.

My last two purchases were a new HD for my 4.5 year old laptop and a netbook for school, both of which an i3 with 4 gbs of RAM outdoes by about half a mile.

Lets not even talk about my main desktop save to say that it's from about 2003.