What happened?

I had just started posting again, excited to be returning to the blog with bi-weekly updates when it suddenly halted.  This seems to be a pattern in my life as soon as some normalcy, some measure of predictability *BAM* it goes all to hell.  This phenomenon probably isn’t restricted to my life…

Anyway, the videocard (one of those fancy ones made by Nvidia or GeForce) melted.  Plastering scratchy horizontal lines all across the screen when it was a good mood and when it wasn’t?  blank screens.  This is the exact same thing that happened to my last high-end laptop too.  Lesson learned:  don’t buy high performing laptops, they get too hot and immolate themselves.

I spent most of September sans computer and then once a new computer was purchased I went on a much needed vacation (don’t worry I’ll be boring you with all sorts of pictures from that later! Lucky you!)

The think the point of this post was to let you know that I’m back and articles that might interest you should be coming in the nearer rather than farther future.

PS – What kind of computer did I get?  A cheap little netbook, the Toshiba NB 305.  This is a picture of it:

Author: Jonathon

Would rather be out swimming, running, or camping. Works in state government. Spent a youth reading genre-fiction; today, he is making up for it by reading large quantities of non-fiction literature. The fact that truth, in every way, is more fascinating than fiction still tickles him.

3 thoughts on “What happened?”

  1. My desktop’s video card overheated and burned itself out not that long ago. That one was a replacement by Gateway of the original card that lost the ability of the fan to keep turning. Same card, both heating problems, and both were Nvidia 8500’s. Upgraded to a higher end 9 series and decided to never go that cheap and crappy on the video cards again.

    1. Art,

      I’m finding the little netbook pretty useful. But, in the future when it comes to a computer for gaming I”m going to stick to desktops with quality components. Building one is on the list of things to-do in 2011.

      Until then the netbook should do.

  2. Sweet netbook dude! Keep us posted on the components you use for your gaming system.

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