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The light at the end of the tunnel
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 22, 2004 1:55 PM EST- Posted in
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It looks like the problems I was having last night are lessening and you all should be able to see an interesting review late tomorrow morning.
I'm cramming to do as much benchmarking as possible before tomorrow as Vinney and I are flying home for Thanksgiving tomorrow afternoon. We won't be back until Saturday, meaning that I really won't have time to benchmark anything until next week. The more testing I can get done before I leave, the more I have to write about while I'm down in NC. I'm hoping to get at least one article published while I'm down there, but on the off chance that I'm able to write more than expected, I may actually be able to publish my second Mac article soon. Don't get your hopes up though, the trip down to NC is supposed to be to spend time with family, not to continue working like a madman :)
I had been planning to spend November working on a series of HDD guides however with the launch of Half Life 2, Derek getting sick and a bunch of other product launches (6600GT, 1066 FSB, P4 570J) I wasn't able to even begin on those articles. I'm hoping to be able to focus on HDDs in December and maybe get the first guides published by the beginning of 2005.
On a more personal note, is anyone else extremely disappointed with the movies out in theaters (and in rentals) these days? I liked The Incredibles but other than that I can't remember the last movie I saw that I thought was really good. This quick little rant was brought to you in part by the release of a sequel to Bridget Jones' Diary. I saw the first one which I absolutely hated and it comforts me to know that the sequel is getting bad reviews so I don't have to put up with people telling me how much they love the second one (which is what happened after everyone saw the first one). Feel free to comment and discuss amongst yourselves, hope I didn't offend too many Jones fans.
Vinney should be home for lunch soon, so I need to figure out a lunch idea. I find that coming up with what to eat is an increasingly more difficult task, especially when we're both incredibly busy. I'm thinking some sort of a calendar of things-to-make might work, but then again that requires attention and maintenance, both of which require time that presently doesn't seem to exist.
Of course the talk of the weekend was the brawl at the Pistons-v-Pacers game. I've been a NBA fan all my life, mostly because I grew up in the North East when the Celtics were at their peak. Moving down to NC for the latter half of my life my views obviously clashed with those of just about every UNC, NCSU and Duke fan in the area. But ever since Jordan left (for the last time), I haven't been much of a fan at all. The games just don't interest me anymore and I'll admit, the first I heard of the weekend's fight was when a friend of mine sent me a link to it, not by watching the game. The NBA doesn't seem to have passion any more and I can't stand watching college basketball, with the exception of a few teams (e.g. Duke) most of them play too sloppily for me to watch; I know I'll probably get flamed for saying that, but it's how I feel. So what's an old Celtics/Bulls fan supposed to do? Bite the bullet and enjoy college ball or hope for more fights as entertainment in watching NBA games?
Benchmarks (and lunch) are calling me away, have a great day everyone.