Hard Drive!
I'm uploading this straight off the camera, so it's rather huge and bulky, but here's my new hard drive, all connected and whatnot. Of course, it won't live up here, but I was excited to get it hooked up. You can see it's got some weird things on the corners. I found these drive condoms for $10 a piece and it seemed like less work than killing some poor, defenseless piece of Tupperware. Besides, these stack.Anyway, the blue thing sitting on top of the drive is an adapter I found that allows me to connect this drive (which uses SATA) to my laptop via USB. Normally, drives which use USB are pretty expensive. By this method, I have a 400GB drive that cost me less than $80. The difference, besides cost, lies in that my drive is open and has no enclosure or cooling or anything like that, so if I spill a drink on it, I'm pretty much boned.
On the other hand, it's behind my laptop and speakers now, and is elevated almost half an inch off the desk.
I originally had bought a 500GB drive, but it had some kind of defect. If you've ever gotten the clicky-drive noise, you know it's not a good sign. Anyway, the place gladly took it back, gave me a full refund, and I bought a 400GB from them instead. It's not nearly as good of a value ($65/$70 for 400GB/500GB, respectively) but it's enough that I should be able to pull my 60GB off and use it as a portable hard drive like it's meant to be.
Anyway, I'm glad to have my drive space issues solved. Hopefully nothing will go wrong with it.
Ha.
I thought I posted this before I left for stuff today. I got home at ~2:10AM, jumped in the shower, and it's now 2:23 and I'm finally posting this. I wrote it about 10 hours ago.
Labels: computer
posted by William at
6/14/2008 05:34:00 PM
4 Comments:
Nice to have some hard drive space.
So, what this made me think of is how much I am imagining your Japanese has improved as you have been doing a lot of shopping for various items and even arranging stuff like bike repairs, exchanging faulty merchandise, and such. There are some complexities of the language with both grammar and vocabulary in all that. I think it is fabulous that you get yourself out in the community as much as you do, interacting in the language. It seems that you are making much valuable use of your time. That is pretty cool!
Not really. You can usually get away pointing and making faces to convey what you're trying to say.
"How are you today?" Point at the other person and shrug
"How much is this?" Point at the item and gesture randomly with money
"The presupposition of God, soul, and freedom was then a practical concern, for "Morality, by itself, constitutes a system, but happiness does not, unless it is distributed in exact proportion to morality" Two full arms circles, a cluck, and a disco hand gesture, followed by a shrug
I wanna see you do that little arm circle shrug dance thing...heheh. I think the translation of that one might vary depending on location. :)
You crazy kids. You do make me laugh so.
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