I managed to procrastinate playing a video game by looking up parts for a new gaming PC and now I feel bad I didn't play a video game.
Well, Catsby is enjoying our new Ikea LURVIG
My account is mostly cat pictures lately, but it's just that they've been being really cute since we moved to the new house.
The boys are on the case of those weird noisy birds we didn't have back in Michigan that are probably scrub jays
So, this is melodramatic, but someday I'll just have to accept that the inside of my head is a melodramatic space:
We moved from Detroit to Portland about 2 weeks ago today. We drove about 40 hours straight to get here. Our moving truck arrived about a week later.
I feel like my soul decided to hike it on foot, though. And it's about a 31 day walk, according to Google Maps. I'm hoping it gets here sooner, but a couple more weeks feels about right.
@sungo Heh, that's quite possibly where the notion came from in my head, since I read that albeit years ago
@sungo I see from goodreads that it goes something like this (and I feel it):
"She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien's theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can't move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage."
William Gibson also said: "Jet lag is the cat-shit Roomba of the soul." and that sounds about right too.
For the most part, I just kind of scratch my head when I see folks getting nostalgic and rebuilding old 486 machines as retro computers. Like, to each their own but meh for me.
But then I saw one with this ridiculous Sound Blaster front-facing drive-bay audio panel and I felt a powerful Mood come over me.
I was also browsing for gaming PC parts last night.
It seems vaguely boring to me that it's really only discrete GPUs that you need to slot in as a major card, these days. Motherboard integrated audio, ethernet, wifi, mass storage ports, misc I/O, etc.
Back in my day, yadda yadda yadda.
But also, those were horrible days.
Of course, others' 486 era was the Commodore Amiga era for me. So, my PC nostalgia only properly starts with the AMD K6 around 1997 or so.
@csalzman @george Ohh yeah, sometimes I'm amazed at the range of what's retro these days https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/
@csalzman @george And I do sometimes have a weird yearning for those angular designs of mid-90s off-white-with-blue-buttons IBM towers https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/caf5yz/theres_something_pleasing_about_this/