WANT

wantwantwant.
sooo hard.

dude.

incident report.

most of [the 5 of] you that read this know i've been going thru weird and crazy shit lately, and that after this last bout of insanity i'd finally had enough- i've been researching since mid-sunday to replace this frustrating piece of machinery.
and somehow, it earned a reprieve. evidently, the network was the problem, and not the motherboard on this computer that had failed. but it was the oddest of circumstances: sunday was when the network on thic pc failed.. today upon coming back from a couple errands, gar finds that his room comps are down; further checking confirms that the wall outlets are *all* gone. luckily, some unknown neighbor has an open wireless router, and i'm able to use that.. but no notices in my comcast email. a dozen router /modem /switch /etc resets were futile, and eventually we got around to test the net connection coming straight out of the modem itself... NOTHING.
made the march of shame back upstairs to call it in to [frickin] comcast, and had JUST dialed when i hear "WTF?"
gar rebooted his laptop and went to log into the neighbor-fi and was told he was on the home wi-fi network. we ran around the house to check the others and sure enough, the network was back up. how it managed to resurrect itself, no clue.
so, we're back to square 1. this pc still locks up randomly, and it's hard drives occasionaly freak out and howl some weird noise, but it's basically okay. decent specs even [cpu/memory/hd-wise], it's just being the temperamental 2-year old it *is*, i guess.
but the supergeek in me doesn't know exactly how to feel... one part is glad everythings fixed, however miraculously; the other is sad i don't get to satisfy my irritated self and replace this current machine.
especially when i was preeeetty close to convincing myself i needed to spend an inordinate amount of $ on something like this. or this.

whatever. nerd rant off. happy turkey day, people!

'Milestone' stem cell advance reported

Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.

..."This work represents a tremendous scientific milestone -- the biological equivalent of the Wright Brothers' first airplane," said Dr. Robert Lanza, chief science officer of Advanced Cell Technology, which has been trying to extract stem cells from cloned human embryos.

"It's a bit like learning how to turn lead into gold," said Lanza, while cautioning that the work is far from providing medical payoffs.

[link to article, via gary]

ohhh wow.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/personality/trixie/communityspotlights/20071108-halo3proposal.htm

first thought: NERRRDS.

and a moment later: well, if i found a girl that could keep up in a 1st person shooter.....


lawlz.