Tidbits

[chezmax]

The Blue Rodeo concert I attended last night was pretty good. It was the first time I'd been to Center in the Square, and it's actually a pretty nice venue. They played some stuff from their new album, as well as some most of their hits: 5 Days in May, Try, Till I Am Myself Again, and in the encore Hasn't Hit Me Yet (my favourite!) and Lost Together. They mostly stayed away from their more country-esque songs, which made me happy. :)

So, pretty awesome. :)

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[Geekery in this tidbit:] With your suggestions, I went to NCIX and went to see what they had in Mini-ITX for my linux computer. I ended up with this, which appears to be a Mini-ITX motherboard with a passively-cooled embedded 1.2 GHz Celeron on it, with everything I need onboard, for $80. I realize it's nearly obsolete technology, but it's perfect for a file server. I just had to add a 1 GB stick of memory ($27) and a case ($56), and I got away with taxes and shipping for less than $200, and I'll just add in an old hard drive I have here. It looks like this will meet everything: easy, cheap, and small! And maybe even quiet, depending on how the case sounds (since it's the only bit with fans).

Maybe I should see if I can get a laptop drive into it for extra quietness and power-frugality. Or flash. mmm.

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Today is Rock Band day at Chez Max. It's totally going to be awesome fun.

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After months of planning (well, at least intending, if not 'planning', per se), I finally bought our plane tickets for England!
We're leaving May 14th in the evening, spending a week in London, and returning May 22nd. I'm excited!

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Got to go clean house for visitors! *runs off*

Comments

[quingawaga.livejournal.com]

Huh, we contemplated going to that Blue Rodeo show - except I didn't actually find out about it until yesterday afternoon, and which point I figured the only tickets left would be shitty seats anyway. We saw them a few years ago at CitS, and we had awesome seats (like, second row or something) and it was great.

[chezmax]

I posted about it months ago ;)

Unfortunately, we were in Row W, so pretty far back, but it was still pretty awesome.

[quingawaga.livejournal.com]

Well, at any rate, you've reminded me to go to their website and sign up for the mailing list again. I guess I fell off it a while back.

[psychedelicbike.livejournal.com]

Acoustically, any seat in the Centre in the Square is fine. If you don't care about being close enough to be splashed with the performers' sweat, the nosebleeds are just fine.

[quingawaga.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen other performances there from the nosebleeds, and it was good. I'm not really interested in seeing Blue Rodeo from that far away though...I've seen them quite a few times in concert, several times from practically close enough to get the sweat-splash, heheh, and it's hard to go back. :)

[targaff.livejournal.com]

We're leaving May 28th - we'll actually be in the same country for once! Whether we're able to do anything is another matter, cos I don't think we'll be able to get down to London, but I'll talk to Heidi about it.

[taldragon.livejournal.com]

we/they could travel to you.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised that you went for the $200 solution rather than the $30, "get a USB2 card for the laptop" option. :)

[roju.livejournal.com]

I went to buy an asus p5e-vm hdmi mobo at canada computers the other day, but they were out of stock. With a c2d and 2gigs of ram, plus a htpc case it came out to about $650. I was so angry they didn't have stock.

[chezmax]

I would also need a USB ethernet adaptor, since the onboard port doesn't work, and both won't fit into the cardbus slot... :> And it might be nice to have the laptop for it's original use :)

[chezmax]

Hot damn! We may be able to travel up to see you if you can't! :)