Mythbusters

Huh. Apparently Mythbusters was at Michigan Tech over the weekend at the Rozsa center. I just went up to Twitter to close my account and saw that way down the page. I assume it was the usual crew, Grant, Tory and Kari.

Heh, they actually flew into Houghton.

Too bad it wasn't on a certain weekend over the summer. But they wouldn't be putting on big talks in the summer.

Twitter dump

I'm nuking my twitter account; I just don't have the attention span required to appreciate it.
( Archiving my posts here )

Video card results

If anyone's wondering, I ordered this card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814162019
Got it today, installed in the family PC, and it's working splendidly. Turned up the resolution and all of the settings (textures, shadows, mapping, etc) as far as they would go on a few games (Spore (running under Steam), Harry Potter) and they run absolutely smoothly.

$40 after rebate and it will run up to THREE monitors (two DVI and one SVideo), 2 year warranty and runs very quiet.

JoeBob says thumbs up. Good card for general use and casual, non-bleeding-edge gaming.

OTOH, I tried it in my PC and determined that a 1.8 GHz single core AMD64 CPU with 400 MHz RAM still can't come near playing 1080i video. So one of these days, this machine will get replaced (given to the church for the tax writeoff I guess).