Keeping Up With the Industry

I'm suprised that I've gone so quickly from caring about everything going on in the computer hardware industry to nearly not giving a shit. I started looking at the usual hardware sites daily while I was in college. I can say it's definitely helped my ability to understand the inner workings of computers, but that I've reached a threshold for needing to know anything truly useful in a non-tech industry.

For instance, I don't care anymore how many pixel shaders a graphics card has; that the model numbers are easily differentiated and benchmarks are freely available on the internet (between manufacturers), I can make my decisions based on price/performance. It doesn't mean that I need to know who's on top every single day, however. As I haven't needed to purchase a graphics card in over a year, I've seen two or three 'revisions' of graphics card technology (I have an NVIDIA FX 5900xt).

I haven't yet upgraded to a 64-bit processor, either.

In fact, the upgrade I need most is a new hard drive, as my last misc. storage drive (80GB) died. I spent $2/GB on that one. Drives now go for around $0.50/GB or less now. I really want something around 200GB, but I still can't justify spending $100 at the moment. At the same time, I'm unable to begin any honest work at making an Anime Music Video until I have more storage space again. Even then, it's going to take an eon to get the footage onto the hard drive (again), which isn't very fun.

My main point being though, is that when I do upgrade that drive, I don't care who makes it, or which one is the fastest today. I only care in the future, and I don't care about obsoletion either.

Does that make me less of a geek than I used to be? More pragmatic? Or just old?

Mexican Food

I love Mexican-style food. There's a wonderful place named El Charro's in Fredericksburg, VA that's been around for years. It serves up relatively cheap ($6.75 combination dinners, $1.50 sodas) food that's simple but good. You get quite a bit for your money.

I suppose that price is a reason I love it, but the main one is that the ingredients are relatively simple. I can get a taco, enchilada, burrito, rice, beans, etc, and most of them share the same ingredients. If you get one kind of food on another (mixing) it still tastes great! The dishes are designed to go together well no matter what.

Yo quiero comida mexicano.

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The above is quite possibly the dumbest thing to have been born of the Internet. I hate the amount of stupidity afforded by anonymity.