May 2008
Sore Body Sore Mind
Mon, 2008-05-12 16:06 | by Erin
Ouch.
I woke up this morning and I was sore all over. Yesterdays Rugby game was brutal. The ensuing after party was equally brutal and my head is still pounding from all of the after match alcho abuse.
It was pouring down rain the night before and I thought for sure I would get a call in the morning saying the game was canceled. It wasn't and with the ground over 80 minutes from my house I woke at 6 AM to get out to meet the guys. I didn't bring Eric cause it was raining still, but not quite as hard.
When I got to the TobuDobutsu Kohen Station, 4 at a time we hopped into cabs and took a 3000 yen cab ride to the rugby field. I have a love hate relationship with this place. It has a great facility's for amateur rugby field in Japan..... showers a place to eat that servers rammen, curry and other tasty traditional food, and of course beer, and lots of it cheaply.
But the thing I hate about it .... is it is really in the middle of no where. It is a 80-90 minute train ride to get there. I have to change trains at least 3 times, and then we have to take a taxi that costs 3000 yen for 20 minutes to get to the field. This sucks so if your late, or in my case want to leave early, you usually have to foot the cab alone which can suck.
I woke up this morning and I was sore all over. Yesterdays Rugby game was brutal. The ensuing after party was equally brutal and my head is still pounding from all of the after match alcho abuse.
It was pouring down rain the night before and I thought for sure I would get a call in the morning saying the game was canceled. It wasn't and with the ground over 80 minutes from my house I woke at 6 AM to get out to meet the guys. I didn't bring Eric cause it was raining still, but not quite as hard.
When I got to the TobuDobutsu Kohen Station, 4 at a time we hopped into cabs and took a 3000 yen cab ride to the rugby field. I have a love hate relationship with this place. It has a great facility's for amateur rugby field in Japan..... showers a place to eat that servers rammen, curry and other tasty traditional food, and of course beer, and lots of it cheaply.
But the thing I hate about it .... is it is really in the middle of no where. It is a 80-90 minute train ride to get there. I have to change trains at least 3 times, and then we have to take a taxi that costs 3000 yen for 20 minutes to get to the field. This sucks so if your late, or in my case want to leave early, you usually have to foot the cab alone which can suck.
A AMD fanboy. Laymans reasoning.......
Thu, 2008-05-08 23:02 | by Erin
Wow so I looked on Reddit today and found not one but 2 articles about Intel Vs. AMD.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080507-amd-intels-misdeeds-killin...
And
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/107495
I didn't read either...... but I am a AMD fan from way back to my second computer which had a AMD Athlon. It was a 1300 mhz chip that over clocked beautifully to 1600 mhz and only took 22 hours to render a 15 minute video clip........
Reading that you might notice that I got into computing quite late in the game. True, I was almost 30 when I got my first computer job. Regardless I have always been a AMD fan even though some would say Intel based processors are "better".
Lets clarify "better" for one second .... there are a million ways for a processor to be FASTER , or more power efficient or a number of other qualifications, but if your mother board memory and video card not built to match, and you do not have all the most recent drivers patches and firmware you might .... as a end user notice the difference.
This argument brings me back to my youth ... Chevy Vs. Ford .....then throw a Hemi fan in the mix and .... well forget your civility's. In reality it was the same thing. It would always
boil down to a 305 V8 vs a 302 V8, then you change out the valve trains, cam and exhaust. Wait you can still overbore and ......................................
The arguments of yesterday carry over to today.