My Wintendo didn't quite go "boom"; it just sorta screeched to a halt and refused to boot back up.birthdayWhen I opened the case, I saw that there was a burnt component on the video card. So, Dad got me a new card as a birthday gift. It didn't work.
Since that wasn't the problem, I started inspecting in more depth, eventually noticing some burnt dust in the vicinity of the northbridge. Dad was the one who made the critical observation, though: "Shouldn't that fan turn freely?"
Yep, you guessed it. The fan had accumulated so much dust that it could no longer turn, and the chip fried. So, a new motherboard (and rounded cables and an additional case fan, for good measure) later, I have a functioning Wintendo.
12 March was my 21st birthday. Here in the US, that means the government thinks I'm mature enough to get slobbering drunk.danceSuffice it to say, I'm mature enough not to get slobbering drunk, although I did have a drink. (One.)
I spent the afternoon at Disney World, then the night at Pleasure Island. (I spent the morning tracking down the video card; see above.)
One of the slogans of the Adventurer's Club is, "We're funny when you're sober; we're freakin' hilarious when you're drunk."
Amen to that.
4am: Why not try PyDDR?goI definitely need to start doing DDR again; I've lost much of my dance-fu (especially stamina).
It took me an hour and a half to get there, but I went to a meeting of Go Orlando. I watched a lot of go, but only played one game, against another beginner. (I won by a landslide, but I can't say that would happen again; he greatly improved over the course of that single game.)o/~Funniest moment of the night: one of the experienced players mentioned the "monkey jump". A few moments later, I was discussing "stupid things to say to fast food people"... in an absolute deadpan (since I didn't realize it) I said:
"Excuse me, do you take Hawaiian monkey?"Silence. Then, "Monkey?"I guess you had to be there.
what happened next, i don't know
i loosened my kimono
and made a noise like the voice of yoko ono
then just like that, right on the mat
me sicky icky yucky sushi
o/~ -- pat donohue, "sushi-yucky"