News You Can Bruise for 2001 March 27

Tue Mar 27 2001 10:00: Woohoo! My new eyeballs computer is in! It looks disconcerteningly like my old computer. But it's got a CD burner, a much bigger hard drive, more RAM, and now I've got a big honking monitor.* I don't know how I'm going to fit the monitor into my car to take it home, or how it's going to fit on my desk once I get it home.

*Monitor may not honk.

Tue Mar 27 2001 23:36: Writing this from my new computer (cf.)

Ed won tonight's Illuminati game, though Elise almost won in her debut appearance. The Discordians are the ones to beat, I tell ya. Also, the good thing about playing the Servants of Cthulhu is that you can keep the cards for the groups you destroy and pretend each one is one of Cthulhu's tentacles, and wave them around at other players while talking about Cthulhu's imminent return. This is the only good thing about playing the Servants of Cthulhu.

Going to sleep now.

Tue Mar 27 2001 23:42:

Oh yeah. New BogoMIPS rating: 2011.96.

This keyboard has a bunch of "Internet" buttons, but according to keydump, only one of them actually sends a key signal. I wonder how I can take advantage of this button technology.

I'm going to take this opportunity to finally move onto archival media the Da Warren archives and all the other ancient crap I keep lugging around from computer to computer. First step: get some blank CDs.