Reading a “post over at Slashdot”:http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=134143&cid=11197391 and someone mentioned this:
There is a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that someone on the same plane as you has a bomb.
There is a 1 in 25,000,000,000 that two people on the same plane have a bomb.
So always take a bomb with you on the plane, then you’re pretty sure you’re safe.
I don’t know if it’s being up at 5:30 in the morning or not that makes that hilarious. Probably, but I’m pretty used to this schedule after 1.5 weeks at it. Just getting to be bedtime, now, as soon as I go find a snack. Already ate some leftover ham a few hours ago while watching TV, but I’m hungry again.
To prevent a complete waste of space: “ZipZoomFly”:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/ (one of the two best, and usually cheapest (hence, best) online stores for computer stuff, the other one being “Newegg”:http://www.newegg.com/) recently got some “Refurbished Seagate 200GB IDE”:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101560-RFB hard drives in, for only $112.50 with free 2-day shipping (their usual shipping deal). Very good price…although the “new version”:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=101560 they sell for $125, which dropped from $127 a few weeks ago but was as low as $117 a month or two ago.
That particular hard drive is my favorite out of all the hard drives I’ve used personally. It’s the quietest, most reliable, and best of all has a FIVE YEAR warranty, something you can’t get anywhere else on that kind of drive. Go Seagate! I’ve got two of those drives, and a Hitachi Deskstar 200GB that I like all right (I have to RMA one of the Seagates and the Hitachi though, but their failures one right after the other within three days in the same computer less than two months after the purchase of both may or may not be the drives’ problem…I bought a new motherboard and processor just in case, and treated myself to the “3EGHz Pentium 4 with HT, an 800MHz FSB, and 1MB of L2 cache”:http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=80661-1 while I was at it, so I can’t complain except for the money :-) But hey, a motherboard for $74.49 (the “AOpen AX4SPE-UN”:http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-137-041&depa=0) and 3 GHz processor for $186.90 (it’s dropped by ninty cents since then at ZipZoomFly and it’s three dollars more at Newegg) isn’t a bad deal at all, especially when you have (more…)