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When it rains, it pours - then freezes!! Wednesday night, 3AM the heater goes ... 12 degrees doesn't make the bedroom a cozy place. Somewhere between 4:30 and 9 the home PC goes. Today was an hour traffic back up getting into the office. So how you doin'?

Heats back up - PC's in the shop. As I don't keep this below on my sidebar and have only used it back around July of 2005 - seemed as good a time as any. To be clear, every thing's covered, I don't really use the blog for income. If you want to help defray costs, great. If not, that's cool, too. Donations, or no, it won't impact the blogging, or your being welcome. All it might do is help with a new PC, which I'll be getting anyway. Any suggestions on that score are welcome, too - I can't do a lot of surfing now to shop around.

I think this will work. The email address to donate to is itsjustdan-at-comcast-dot-net Thanks!

Comments

[Mike Stark]

I think you should take a serious look at Tandy's TRS-80. If those are too expensive, the Commodore 64 should prove to be pretty versatile and cover all of your needs pretty well. After all, you really don't need much memory or computing power to compose the vacuous ideas posted here... :-)

[windy city]

Mike,

If you don't like what is printed here, why do you read? Are you the kind of guy that lets his dog crap in the neighbors yard and doesn't bother to clean it up?

What is your blog addy. I'd love to check out your views.

[seekeronos]

Mike's not only the kind of guy that would let his dog poop in someone else's yard... he'd take a dump there himself if he thought he could get away with it.

He does have a thing for spitting at campaign staffers and getting physical with them (trying to push his way past them to threaten the candidate(s).

And for generally being vulgar, arrogant, and all those other socially redeemable qualities ya just gotta love about a hothead liberal moonbat. I mean... the sheer depth of his creativity apprently runs so deep, that at the end of one of his recent posts, he quotes a bunch of cuss words from an old Blink-182 song.

Makes me wish that some folks had to learn how to speak properly and civilly before exercising thier rights to free speech.

Read his birdcage-liner of a blog here: http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/

[Seitz]

"If you don't like what is printed here, why do you read? "

Well, I can't speak for Mike, but personally I read it for the unintentional comedy factor. It's off the freaking charts.

[Dan Riehl]

Dont' let Mike bother you. He has to try and kick people when he thinks they're a little down. He used to try it when they were up, but he soon tired of getting his ass kicked all the time. : )

[Digger]

Hey! I had one of those days last year! Water heater blew up and flooded the basement, server threw a hard drive and the home machine took a crap on itself.

Good to see I'm not alone!

[Oregonian]

"Well, I can't speak for Mike, but personally I read it for the unintentional comedy factor."

I think that's why most of us are here. It's like watching William Hung sing "She Bangs" on American Idol.

[Rob Kaufman]

Dan, can I get change from that $.01 I was thinking of donating to your pan-handling effort? I must admit seeing you beg for donations is almost as humorous as the rest of the tripe you post.

[Rob Kaufman]

seek, I know you are not the brightest crayon in the box, but you do realize that just clicking on Mike's name takes you to his website so your posting it was just for the 28% I must surmise who are too dense to manage that feat?

Nice revisionist history lesson though, how long have you been writing fiction?

[Kite]

I apologize for my failings in keeping up with liberal labels for conservatives but what is all this 28% mess about?

Also, it's amazing how Dan just leaves a small update detailing his own personal PC issues (which last I checked wasnt political) and it was quickly turned in to a "DAN U SUK" war. Anyways, carry on!

[Rob Kaufman]

Sorry if you feel slighted Kite, but if it helps I think you suck almost as much as Dan.

[Kite]

Feel slighted? Never claimed that I felt that way. Like I said.....not up to speed on the whole 28%er label that you libs have been throwing around this blog, but then again I try not to keep up with your trends.

As for your personal opinion about me? If I'm gaining that much attention that your hating me almost as much as the blog author then I must be doing something right. If the libs are hating me then I must be getting under your skin. I'll try to dig harder in the next topics.

[seekeronos]

Kaufman:

I like to make things easy for folks. In fact, by playing clickie on Mike's name is how I got his site address, not that I care much for promoting him... but then again, he is about as funny to me as Dan might seem to you. Except Dan often raises good points, if not always constructive. Mike, on the other hand, seems only capable of raising up foul, trollish odors... and strikes me as quite the "enfant provocateur", something he should have outgrown some 20 years ago.

Kite:

The "28%" thing is a thing thrown around that is supposed to be a reference to the 28% of Americans who still support (pick one or more: ) Bush/the GWOT/the Troops/GOP/family values/conservatism in general.

In particular, it may be a reference to Bush's approval rating. If so, I find it ironic, in that after 9/11... Bush had a 90%+ approval rating, which means that at least a few of these brain-dead moonbats who post here at one point in time, probably supported Bush.

It is usually liberally spread around by moonbats with cute terms like "flat earther", "redneck", "stay the course", and similar epithets intended to project themselves as intellectually and culturally elite (as compared to troglodytish conservatives) but only proving that they have nothing but childish taunts and insipid commentary to bring to the tables.

It is quite possible that even these model denizens of the moonbat fringe have worn out thier welcomes at DU and DailyKos - and have been sent over here to waste our time.

One may only hope that if these brattish folks are typical of what the Dhimmicrats have to offer, the Dhimmicrat Party may soon find itself hoisted by thier own petard.

[dylan]

Dan,
Be nice to Mike, 'cause he gets your pretty mug on the Howard Kurtz show.

[David]

Nice getting a refresher course on leftard thinking in response to an extremely low-key, "Hey, if ya wanna hit the tip jar... " post.

Screaming meemies with nothing better to do with their lives.

*yawn*

More on topic, what are you looking for in a computer, Dan? A desktop or notebook? Something that'll do web cruising, email, typical office stuff or a whizbang media center PC? Define it by usage and I'd be happy to put my $0.02 in the "buy this one" hat.

1.) Basic net cruiser with office suite for blogging, email, word processing, database management, etc., etc.? A used/off lease IBM Netvista running Ubuntu Edgy Eft or Puppy Linux (with Open Office and either Firefox or Opera) will blow away most new Xp or even Vista machines for hundreds of dollars less. Lotsa places to buy GOOD off-lease machines really inexpensively, and both Ubuntu and Puppy are "Aunt Tilly" easy.

2.) Media Center PC? If notebook, Toshiba. If desktop, Sony Vaio (Vaio notebooks are often problematic, IMO, and HARD to work on or find parts for). I simply love the last few years' Toshiba notebooks and Sony Vaio desktops are great to use and a dream to maintain, apart from the occasional problem navigating Sony's support site.

Affordable computers from HP/Compaq or Dell are simply NOT anything I'd recommend. Too many crappy parts (I've known slews of cheapo Dells that have had leaky capacitors, necessitating mobo replacements and more, for example).

And there's a pretty wide range of needs between--and around--these two types of uses. As I said, it all kinda depends on what you want to do with your new box.

Oh, the "other" option--Macs? Still too much $$ for what one gets, IMO. And then there's having to put up with Mac users... a population sample that can sometimes make leftards look almost sane. *heh*

[Phoenix]

David,

I was thinking how nice it was of you to spend so much time to help Dan pick out a computer. And then your last line threw me. ha ha :)

I have a Mac and I'd get pretty 'insane' if I had to get a PC. Yeah, and I wear the same pair of jeans for a week.

(You did give great advice, though. I've heard it all from my PC friends.)

[Steel]

Hey Mike ...

Anyone ever tell you that you're just an asshole surrounded by loose flesh?

No?

They have now.

[TheSpartan]

"he sheer depth of his creativity apprently runs so deep, that at the end of one of his recent posts, he quotes a bunch of cuss words from an old Blink-182 song."

Seekronos I'm going to hazard a guess that Mike knows the quote in question from the same place I now it, a George Carlin stand-up routine from the 80's. In context George was referencing the 7 dirty words you can't say on television. He tacked on 3 more words "Fart, Turd and Twat...I mean a twat's a twat and that's that"...this was then followed by an ever growing list of obscenities (Mongolian Cluster Fuck is among my favorites from the list). Say what you will about it, but Carlin is an articulate and literate source.

[splashtc]

Sent a donation to the new PC fund-hope it helps-keep up the good work Dan!

[David]

Phoenix,

"...I have a Mac and I'd get pretty 'insane' if I had to get a PC. Yeah, and I wear the same pair of jeans for a week."

I fully understand. After overpaying for your computer hardware, affording more than one pair of jeans (or the laundry soap to wash them in) can be problematic.

:-)

Oh, BTW Dan, the new freebie version of Linspire (Freespire) isn't bad, either. It defaults to a slick GUI that "mimics" (although the Freespire GUI was earlier to come out in a real release) many of the "Oooo-Ahhh" features available only in the most expensive (and hardware intensive) Windows Vista version--and delivers (as do most Linux distros nowadays) a file system that's as secure and robust as the one Microsoft could NOT deliver with Vista.

Any of the three Linux distros I've mentioned (and there are more very good distros out there) is easily "good enough" (and easy enough) for an average PC (or even Mac!) user to become accustomed to for daily use, IMO.

Just not so good for games.