Month: July 2007

Anybody Need A Computer?

Long story short, I built a computer for somebody who I thought was a friend of mine who was trading work for me who then decided to leave town without paying me for said computer or finish his work. So I have a basically brand new, pretty darn fast (smokes my home PC), computer with 17″ LCD Monitor sitting here that I can’t afford to keep as I need the money, and just want to get rid of for my cost of the parts: $675 (I’d usually sell it for $800+ with all the time/labor I spent on it to build it).

Quick specs on the thing:

-Antec LifeStyle SONATA II Piano Case with 450 watt ATX Power Supply

-ViewSonic 17″ Black LCD (with built-in speakers)

-ASUS P5NSLI motherboard with built-in sound, network, etc… – upgradeable to dual (SLI) video cards and Core 2 Duo/Extreme processors and up to 4GB of RAM.

-160GB 7200RPM HD

-1 GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM

-Intel Pentium D 915 Presler 2.8GHz (Dual Core)

-Radeon X550 256MB PCI Express Video Card

-10-in-1 Built-In Media Reader

-Lite-On Dual-Layer DVD/CD Burner

-Windows XP Pro (if you can provide a CD Key, as I used this guy’s CD Key to install it and that would be piracy and that would be bad) or Windows Vista Business Edition (as I have a copy of that).

Understand that I’m not Dell, and I don’t have their buying power, so I can’t provide 24-hour tech support, and it’ll probably be chaper to buy from a gigantic vendor. But I have built dozens of PCs over the years, and rarely have to work on them ever again. All the parts in the system carry at least a one-year warranty. It’s been fully patched and anti-virus software has been installed, useless crap uninstalled, as has some basic (free) office software from openoffice.org.

It’s seriously a great little desktop computer, and it’s pretty darn quiet, too. If I had the extra money, I’d just replace my home PC with it — so unless somebody’s willing to just give me $675 so I can keep this thing, I have to sell it.

Would prefer to deal with somebody locally, as I don’t really want to ship this thing. Questions, let me know.

Update on 7/29: The computer’s been sold. Thanks everybody for your interest!

July 24, 2007

I don’t even know what to say about this one…

…I’ll just let the first couple paragraphs explain this one:

TORONTO (CP) – What do a woman wrapped in sausages, a bag full of elephant manure, and a skinned monkey all have in common?

They’re just a few of the strange and stomach turning things officials with the Canada Border Services Agency have come across and confiscated during routine luggage checks at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in recent years.

Update: You know it’d probably help a lot of I gave you the link to the actual story.

July 23, 2007

The 100 Hottest Women

You’ve probably all heard of the various mens magazine’s hottest women lists, but the interesting thing about this one is that it was chosen by lesbians.

July 23, 2007

What’s Pee Wee Herman Been Up To Lately?

Now you know.

(Yes, I know the article’s a month old — I’m clearing out old items, give me a break).

July 23, 2007

Yet Another Reason To Come To (Or Avoid) Central Oregon During The Summer

The tourists that come here like to try to break odd ball world records — like the nearly 4,800 folks who all sat on a whoopee-cushion at the same time, far short of the 5,983 needed to break the record.

They have a video of it, too, but I’d recommend you watch it from the front page of the site as the video link on the article page tries to use Windows Media, which sucks and doesn’t work in Firefox at all, while the front-page Flash version (which I can’t link to) works fine.

All these folks were all here for The Rally, which is a gigantic annual RV Rally in Redmond. I sure you could think of a hundred old farts in RVs jokes that would be appropriate here, but I’ll leave that to you.

July 22, 2007

Local Balloon Guy Is Still Milking 15 Minutes Of Fame

And he’s offering a $500 reward if you find his lawn chair.

July 19, 2007

Why Don’t We Tip IT Service People?

That’s a dang good question.

July 19, 2007

Another Mom Of The Year Nominee

Here’s a new one…

A Syracuse woman is accused of leaving four young children alone for more than an hour Tuesday at Syracuse’s Inner Harbor while a man shot nude photos of her in the woods, city police said.

A passer-by called police, who said they found the children — a 6-year-old, two 4-year-olds and a 3-year-old — “highly distraught and crying” shortly before 6 p.m. About an hour later, Michelle Rendino, 20, of Beattie Street, and a man in a wheelchair emerged from the woods.

Link via Obscure Store.

July 19, 2007

An Open Letter To Subway

I’m glad to hear that I’m not the only one that gets annoyed by this. I know these guys get paid minimum wage, but there is a right way and a wrong way of laying out cheese on a sandwich:

July 19, 2007

Need A Roommate?

A local is looking for a roommate, and she sounds like a dream (and I’m quoting it here in case it ever disappears from the interweb):

I’m looking to score a room for rent with people that are not going to bitch and complain that I drink cheap beer on Tuesdays (not much of a partier, but am an alcoholic-ish), leave coffee cups in the sink every morning and will wash the dishes when there are enough to make it worth getting my hands wet, kick my shoes off by the door and eat meat at least once a week. I smoke- outside. I graduated from the DARE program, abide by most state and federal laws (well, the one’s I agree with anyway) and am certified in First Aid and CPR.

I’m 27 (today actually), am female, and I have a very stable, professional career that allows me the freedom to sit at my desk at post Craigslist ads. It’s probably best if you’re not one of those people that require a credit check, cause I won’t pass- but I do pay my rent and utilities on time, and really- you shouldn’t fucking care if I don’t pay the rest of my bills- cause it nacho business anyway.

I don’t mind animals unless they shit in my shoes. I don’t want to live with kids…if I did I would have some. I say fuck a lot- and this shouldn’t bother you. Sometimes when I go to the bar, I bring random strangers home- but make sure that they’re drunk enough so they can’t remember how to get back. Oh, I’d rather not live with girls. So if you’re a girl- I probably won’t be interested unless you’re just really cool and can make me popular.

$$$: Do not expect me to pay a buttload for a dinky little room. Unless you plan of feeding me- be fair!

Anything else you’d like to know is just a question away- so shoot.

Thanks to that Baker city chick for the link.

July 18, 2007