Not that I imagine that there are many Windows fans here, but Altima Network’s got all their copies of Windows 7 preordered. (The Best Buy event ends later today</a>, it’s cheaper than if you order directly from Microsoft!) Blastoise and Onyx get Pro, the rest get Home Premium– and one of the remaining 4 is a wildcard. If mother wants to slap it on Evil Stepfather’s laptop, that copy goes to her, otherwise I’ll put it on Dinah. I’m wary of how it’d work out on her because of her age (mostly I’m concerned about her graphics) but supposedly Windows 7 is far less demanding than Vista… Hm.

But most excitedly, with Windows 7 comes the construction of Yggdrasil (aka “old man Iggy”). Most of his parts I already have, it’s just aside from a power supply and maybe a beefier video card (I’ve Blastoise’s old 7600GT on standby), I just need to choose a case. I like Thermaltake, so it’s pretty much down to either the Mozart Media Lab Sx or the Bach Media Lab. Iggy’s role on the network is to take over as the media server so Blastoise can FINALLY sleep at night, but also take over as a secondary Instant Ramen machine. (Even if it means I sacrifice Blastoise’s dual monitors for Iggy’s HDTV. :P) To be a TRUE media center box, I’d need to put in a TV Tuner card… but for Iggy this isn’t really necessary because he’s sharing the TV with my DVR and I have Slingbox ANYWAY, wahaha. Hell, I think my TV has picture-in-picture, I just never fiddled with that.

though… it would be nice if Microsoft could patch in Slingbox support into the Media Center dashboard… just sayin’. :P

Also for the LJ edition: new icon, w00t :D

Kestine is 2 years old today, woohoo.
He is such a good kitty, even if he can be pushy with the whole “pet me naaaao” thing. But that just makes him even cuter. :)

The whole thing about giving computers personalities and such is nothing new in the bigger picture– we’ve been doing stuff like that with ships and cars. Of course, when it’s me who does it, I tend to take things MUCH farther than simply slapping a name and a gender on ‘em.

Blastoise and Dinah got updated Avatars for Windows 7 (well, Dinah most likely won’t be making the jump because of her age, only so much I can do for laptops), but this was more about Yggdrasil (old man Iggy!), the media center box that will join Altima Network once Windows 7 hits.

Lately my dreams have been fixed on time travel. Namely, back to first grade. Why that one…? You would think my subconscious would favor the more… drama-filled eras of third grade and beyond. >_>;

Also I keep falling asleep in my chair, only to be revived by being face-nudged by Kestine, or my glasses falling off. They’re quite heavy, you know… and either they hit my hands or they make a loud enough clatter on impact to wake me.

Whee, sleepy mondays. :P

Haaaaai 4th of july. This somehow translates into “excuse to obtain and consume delicious caek.”
I dunno if we’re barbecuing this time… o.o I THINK we did last year, and I’m too lazy to go diving into archives to verify.

Ah… I spent much of the late morning/early afternoon painting Blastoise. Not sure if I should post all 3 either separately or at once. Probably the latter, seeing as I did that for the wireframe and ink phases. I kinda want to nap before I paint Dinah and Iggy. Considering my neighbors’ love of fireworks, I imagine naptime won’t last very long, but I can try. :P

Oh, so lazy today~