[04:26] got the t61 in [04:26] it's awesome [04:26] but the battery life is embarassing [04:29] and without aero windows seeven looks like sheyat [09:26] Morning [10:43] Morning [10:44] OOooooo, its saturday. Anything going on today ? [13:31] Morning. [14:32] learn to solder class at hive76 [20:12] Very dark cloud rolling in over Bryn Mawr. Looks like it was a good idea to get my afternoon walk in earlier. [20:40] and I'm getting ready to go to dinner at a friends house [20:50] dinner is canceled [21:02] wow [21:02] I'm not sure if every started raining here. [21:05] not raining here [21:05] mom doesn't feel good :P [21:06] no steak dinner for me and the bear tonight :-( [21:06] waltman: new asian buffet in norristown is great. [21:08] I was wrong [21:08] it is raining here [21:11] JonathanD: Oh? Which new asian buffet in norristown? [21:11] 5 loaves 2 fishes. [21:11] it's at 202 and germantown [21:11] we stopped there today. [21:11] ah, up there. [21:11] excellent spread. [21:12] Sushi? [21:13] yes [21:13] I'll have to check it out sometime. [21:14] Maybe we'll meet you there some time. [21:16] maybe! [21:16] Not today though. [21:16] No, not today. [21:18] Anything particularly remarkable about it? [21:19] waltman: just a nice spread. They had americanish food for the kids if they we're feeling the asian. [21:19] not feeling? [21:20] Lots of items. I had some chicken on a stick, fried rice, general tso's. [21:20] mmm [21:20] if they were not feeling like asian [21:20] they had pizza and stuff too. [21:20] really good crab rangoon things. [21:20] I have a taste for something asian, but my stomach's been bothering me. I think I'm just going to have some soup for dinner. [21:21] hot and sour soup [21:21] always settles my stomach :P [21:21] waltman: they had a soup bar with 8 or so soups. [21:21] mmm [21:21] there were I think 8 seperate bars, + sushi. [21:22] It was all very good. [21:22] mmm [21:22] and like, $9 [21:23] mmm [21:25] http://www.flickr.com/photos/pleia2/7957087900/in/contacts/ # pleia2's found the holodeck console! [21:28] uhoh. [21:33] it was bound to happen sooner or later :-/ [21:34] I just installed a new server in the basement, too. [21:34] 16GB ram. [21:36] nice [21:36] Running minecraft :P [21:36] Someone paid me with it. [21:37] well, partially. [21:37] barter++ [21:37] If I have to get a windows box for this postdoc, I don't know where I'm going to put it. [21:37] you can host a windows VM on my new server. [21:37] thats what it's for. [21:37] Maybe I'll get a big new linux box and put a vm on it. [21:38] I probably need a big honkin' video card, too. [21:38] What are you doing with it? [21:38] how honkin? [21:38] I have a couple spares. [21:39] The prof who'd be my adviser/boss is doing video analysis of stem cells. [21:39] he's doing something that he's offloading to GPUs [21:39] ah [21:39] so you need real GPUs [21:39] yeah [21:40] I don't have anything, other than a 285, that might be useful. [21:40] his work machine is some crazy big 17" alienware gamer laptop [21:41] The 285 is probably too slow these days. [21:41] I'm just using the onboard intel video on my 7+ year old mobo. [21:41] Thats effectively useless in these cases :p [21:42] http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-285 [21:42] You can have that if you want it, but I bet a newer one would have the same oomph for less watts. [21:42] It's fine so long as I don't do a lot of video watching [21:43] The entire box need to be upgraded. [21:43] yah [21:43] well, 7 year old mobo video card means 7 year old mobo to go with it. [21:43] well, yeah [21:43] SO yeah. Build something capable of virtualization? [21:45] I guess. [21:46] Anyway, it's still to early to be worrying about that. [21:47] Mostly I use this box for email, irc, web browsing, and LaTeX. It works fine for that.