Back In The Saddle
Hey, I still have a blog!
I know what you’re thinking: Nathan stopped updating because he’s all busy now, what with living in a new city and starting a new degree program which involves things like new classes with new projects and comprehensive exams and whatnot. Well, actually you’re probably thinking: Nathan stopped updating because he’s lazy and has a lot of convenient excuses he’s going to try to convince us are really the cause.
The truth is, I’ve stopped updating for both of the above reasons! Ponder that, I say!
I assure you there were several interesting topics that I would have discussed these past several weeks. Also, they would have provoked stimulating discussion!
In other news, through a series of perfectly well thought out and sensible actions that should never have caused any problems I appear to have killed my motherboard. Unfortunately, my motherboard was pretty much the most outdated part of my system and replacing it is kind of requiring me to replace most of the core of the system (CPU, video, RAM). Downside: I wasn’t planning on doing this/spending the money to do this for a while. Upside: Hey, an excuse to do this/spend the money to do this! Downside: I’ll probably break everything again in a week. I am of mixed emotions.
Anyway, half the fun of a system upgrade is going back to all those games that I’d been sufferring through sub-standard performance as my old rig aged and showing them who’s boss. The other half is playing all the flashy new games, but uh, that’ll have to wait a while. It’s funny, I had kind of resigned myself to slipping into the lapsed-PC-gamer, using the 360 as a kind of a bridge/stopgap solution to having to upgrade for a while longer (but of course I probably just showed up as a software pirate in the explanations as to why I didn’t buy Call of Duty 4 or something.) But I guess I’ll be getting back into that game sooner than expected.
Also I expect my Serious Business like, uh, compiling code, to go way faster, which is crucial to my success as a grad student, you know?