I had a long weekend. I swapped offs with someone at the office and as a result I had Friday to Sunday off. Three days! The bad thing about having that much time off work is you almost always don't want to go back. Woke up tonight and on the way to the shower I was longing for just one more day to stay home.
Takes me back to the time I was young and I wished I were an adult already so I could do what I wanted when I wanted. Times likes these makes me think being an adult ain't as fabulous as I though it would be.
Monday, May 22, 2006
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Regalo, Atbp.
Look at what I got in the mail last Friday!
I didn't get to try them immediately, though. Had to rush to this company-sponsored community project. We repaired, painted and cleaned up this local elementary school. That took up most of the day. I was dead tired.
So naturally, yesterday I was so excited. I wanted to install the darned HSF onto my PC. My enthusiasm turned to disappointment when I found out that the Aeroflow 2 was to tight a fit because of the capacitors immediately surrounding the spot where it was supposed to go. Out of enamored frustration and weird inspiration, I did a hard mod. I've seen people do such weird stuff in hardware forums that I decided I wanted to do something crazy on my own. I sawed of a small part of the heatsink (a corner, actually) to make it fit. Half-way through the sawing, I realized what a stupid idea this was and kinda doubted if this would still work. I was mutilating a wonderfull piece of technology, after all. I just told myself it was no use chickening out midway into it. It was all or nothing at that point. Fast forward a few minutes later... To seat the thing properly I still had to push the other surrounding capacitors a tiny bit to get that heatsink in. Very tight fit:
Although I cut off a portion of the heatsink, it still worked better than the stock fan and heatsink. I immediately observed a 5º Celsius decrease in temperature for the CPU. That's a world of a difference. I can only wonder if it had been better had I not cutoff a portion of the aluminum.
Afterwards, I loaded up the TF card onto my phone and proceeded to hook it up to the pc to try and load as many songs as I can. Lo and behold, I could not browse my phone. I was getting an error from MS-Windoze saying my USB device was broken. Used the old TF card. Same thing. Hooked up my digicam. It gave me the same error. Darn! I need to reinstall again before I'll be able to try the TF card on my phone.
:::sigh::: I need to backup my data again. See ya.
I didn't get to try them immediately, though. Had to rush to this company-sponsored community project. We repaired, painted and cleaned up this local elementary school. That took up most of the day. I was dead tired.
So naturally, yesterday I was so excited. I wanted to install the darned HSF onto my PC. My enthusiasm turned to disappointment when I found out that the Aeroflow 2 was to tight a fit because of the capacitors immediately surrounding the spot where it was supposed to go. Out of enamored frustration and weird inspiration, I did a hard mod. I've seen people do such weird stuff in hardware forums that I decided I wanted to do something crazy on my own. I sawed of a small part of the heatsink (a corner, actually) to make it fit. Half-way through the sawing, I realized what a stupid idea this was and kinda doubted if this would still work. I was mutilating a wonderfull piece of technology, after all. I just told myself it was no use chickening out midway into it. It was all or nothing at that point. Fast forward a few minutes later... To seat the thing properly I still had to push the other surrounding capacitors a tiny bit to get that heatsink in. Very tight fit:
Although I cut off a portion of the heatsink, it still worked better than the stock fan and heatsink. I immediately observed a 5º Celsius decrease in temperature for the CPU. That's a world of a difference. I can only wonder if it had been better had I not cutoff a portion of the aluminum.
Afterwards, I loaded up the TF card onto my phone and proceeded to hook it up to the pc to try and load as many songs as I can. Lo and behold, I could not browse my phone. I was getting an error from MS-Windoze saying my USB device was broken. Used the old TF card. Same thing. Hooked up my digicam. It gave me the same error. Darn! I need to reinstall again before I'll be able to try the TF card on my phone.
:::sigh::: I need to backup my data again. See ya.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
¿¿¿ Reality ???
At around 10 am everyday, my mother turns on the TV to Channel 23 to watch the Pinoy Big Brother outtakes being aired. It's basically the footage early in the morning that isn't included in the summarized version that airs during primetime. It shows the "contestants" starting their morning rituals and eating breakfast. Really minor stuff. But people watch it for about 2 hours or so. People including my mother.
I emphasized the word contestants because I don't really like reality shows. They show a feigned reality where contestants act in an unguarded and honest way. That is, compared to movie acting or soap acting. Anyway, its fake reality with manufactured "real" life situations. My wife's a big fan of these types of shows. She started with Survivor. With the advent of PBB's Celeb Edition, she was able to influence my mother. :::sigh:::
I hate reality shows. The fakeness factor just makes me shudder. Actually it also gives me goosebumps too -- from utter shame. I can't believe that people feed off of this. Oh, and since everybody in our house (and everybody else everywhere) watches this, it's inevitable that I'll get little bits and pieces of it in my head. Watching 2 minutes of the outtakes this morning and hearing from my mother that there were "forced evictions" of contestants has convinced me -- today's generation of teens and young adults really are deplorable brats. :::ugh:::
I emphasized the word contestants because I don't really like reality shows. They show a feigned reality where contestants act in an unguarded and honest way. That is, compared to movie acting or soap acting. Anyway, its fake reality with manufactured "real" life situations. My wife's a big fan of these types of shows. She started with Survivor. With the advent of PBB's Celeb Edition, she was able to influence my mother. :::sigh:::
I hate reality shows. The fakeness factor just makes me shudder. Actually it also gives me goosebumps too -- from utter shame. I can't believe that people feed off of this. Oh, and since everybody in our house (and everybody else everywhere) watches this, it's inevitable that I'll get little bits and pieces of it in my head. Watching 2 minutes of the outtakes this morning and hearing from my mother that there were "forced evictions" of contestants has convinced me -- today's generation of teens and young adults really are deplorable brats. :::ugh:::
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Fan Meets Karaniwang Tao
Last Saturday I had a chance to meet the man himself - Joey Ayala. I've been a fan since the mid-90's. It was my first time to see him in person so I was quite excited. I uploaded most of the pics to Flickr (browse here if you're interested: More of Daysleeper Ed's photos...) Here are a few pics we took:
Joey signing CDs...
Fan meets Joey...
The twins pose with Joey...
My wife strikes her own pose...
The twins posing with percussionist Noe Tio.
My CDs, signed at last!
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