A geeky Yule
Dec. 27th, 2006 03:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenSo, I had a very pleasant Yule with Pat & Julie* out in deepest darkest Brentwood, home of Amstrad. The only other time I've ever been there was to visit the home of a client of mine, many years back, a chap who put me on to a once quite significant client of mine - now, alas, part of Banque Paribas, so well-supplied with in-house support. IIRC he was a friend of an ex of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamaranth's. Oh what a tangled web we weave...
So today, it was off totwistedanimator's place in Leytonstone to build more PCs for her. She has a disused kit pile like you would not believe. So far, from her junk pile, I've assembled 2 Athlon64 3500+ machines with 2GB of RAM each, both with 256MB graphics cards and about 100G of disk. I am hoping that machine #3 will be an Athlon FX55 with SLI graphics. It should be a screamer, if I can get it working!
Oh, and on top of that, I've upgraded her Mac from 1G to 3G of RAM and scrounged a new 256MB graphics card fornolley's PC. And there's still enough kit left over for one kick-ass PC, 2 or 3 pretty good ones and a couple of basic boxes. Plokta cabal, eat your heart out. This is seriously superfluous tech.
She also feeds me enormous and excellent meals every time I visit. (Even when Pat turns up having forgotten to bring the food.) And pays, too, albeit at a special much-reduced "mate rate"! :-) (So if you would feel guilty asking for large-scale stuff as a mere favour but are prepared to pay a modest amount, give me a shout. I'm charging 1/4 of my normal going day rate, FWIW.)
For all your Flash-animated dragon needs, and indeed general dragon-themed artwork ones, too, go check out Animation Arthouse. (I believe she even does non-flying-mythical-lizard stuff, too.)
I also had entertainment getting a little Quake 3 LAN going between Pat & Julie's Everquest machines. (Like Twistedanimator, they are sensible types, who do actual work on Macs but have PCs for gaming.) Julie had never played Quake before and she whupped my ass but good - first to 20 frags in the first match, no worries. I stopped trying to play nice after I got about 10 frags down and still lost. I won the 2nd match by 1 measly frag and it was hard work. If this is her first time, we may have the next Fatal1ty here, folks!
Alas Pat refused to let me get the iMac involved as well. :-p
* Alex, my apologies if this upsets you. :-(
tamaranth's. Oh what a tangled web we weave...So today, it was off to
twistedanimator's place in Leytonstone to build more PCs for her. She has a disused kit pile like you would not believe. So far, from her junk pile, I've assembled 2 Athlon64 3500+ machines with 2GB of RAM each, both with 256MB graphics cards and about 100G of disk. I am hoping that machine #3 will be an Athlon FX55 with SLI graphics. It should be a screamer, if I can get it working!Oh, and on top of that, I've upgraded her Mac from 1G to 3G of RAM and scrounged a new 256MB graphics card for
nolley's PC. And there's still enough kit left over for one kick-ass PC, 2 or 3 pretty good ones and a couple of basic boxes. Plokta cabal, eat your heart out. This is seriously superfluous tech. She also feeds me enormous and excellent meals every time I visit. (Even when Pat turns up having forgotten to bring the food.) And pays, too, albeit at a special much-reduced "mate rate"! :-) (So if you would feel guilty asking for large-scale stuff as a mere favour but are prepared to pay a modest amount, give me a shout. I'm charging 1/4 of my normal going day rate, FWIW.)
For all your Flash-animated dragon needs, and indeed general dragon-themed artwork ones, too, go check out Animation Arthouse. (I believe she even does non-flying-mythical-lizard stuff, too.)
I also had entertainment getting a little Quake 3 LAN going between Pat & Julie's Everquest machines. (Like Twistedanimator, they are sensible types, who do actual work on Macs but have PCs for gaming.) Julie had never played Quake before and she whupped my ass but good - first to 20 frags in the first match, no worries. I stopped trying to play nice after I got about 10 frags down and still lost. I won the 2nd match by 1 measly frag and it was hard work. If this is her first time, we may have the next Fatal1ty here, folks!
Alas Pat refused to let me get the iMac involved as well. :-p
* Alex, my apologies if this upsets you. :-(
