Bread and Circuses

I got the new computer up and running last night. Ramsey was there too and helped. Oh, it is a sweet machine. 3.4 x 10^9 screaming horses under the hood, a digital flat panel monitor, a graphics card that would make Van Gogh cut off the other ear, weep, and then commit suicide over the feebleness of his medium, and a sound system like a mini-movie theater.

I put some games on it last night, just to see what it was like, and I thought I heard angels singing. Ramsey had Doom3, so I tried that out. Doom3 is the ultimate test of a gaming platform and I almost wept openly. I don't care much for the subject matter of the game, but I love exploring worlds like that. I tried out the oldie but greatie Halflife. On the old system, I could just about count polygons in places, but here it was all smooth and clear. Sigh.

I will get some work done on the machine from time to time as well. :) Hanna and John had fun playing Veggie Tales and Thomas on it.

And now to the weather. Crimineys. I went and bought a whole bunch of aerosol cans with CFCs in them and emptied them into the atmosphere. Why? In hopes of inducing global warming! It's been cold here. Yesterday we had snow flurries off and on! Auuuuggghhhh.