Hmm. I have a running dialogue in my head. That's probably not unusual, though I don't know how many people would admit it. Anyway, I suppose it explains my frequent long journal entries, and makes John Cusack movies more enjoyable for me ;-)
I forgot to mention a few things the last time around.
My brother called at around 9:00 AM this morning. Earlier than I was expecting.. I said I'd rather not go to the swap meet, but they said they'd stop by later. About half an hour passes, and some knocking wakes me up. My door rattles a lot, so I wasn't entirely sure if it was someone at the door and I just went back to sleep.
By around 11:00, my dad and brother come by. I guess Brian got a few things, but it didn't sound all that exciting. Anyway, they found that my package was outside, and they brought it in.
Well, I guess it explains the knocking at 9:30.. I just didn't expect my package to get here so quickly.
We all went out to lunch at Chipotle, then went to peruse an art fair going on at St. Anthony Park (which is on Como Ave. in St. Paul, nowhere near St. Anthony Main...). It was about as interesting as art fairs get for me, though it was less crowded and the prices seemed somewhat cheaper than the yearly Uptown art fair.
Next, we went over to CompUSA, since I figured they hadn't been to a real computer store for a while. Best Buy just doesn't cut it when it comes to computer hardware. I found a nifty USB2.0+Firewire+Ethernet combo card, which I might get, since all of my computer's slots are filled and I had to pull out my SCSI card to get the FibreChannel card in..
After that, I got back to my place and started opening up my package. Turns out it was actually four cubes taped together to form a big thing. In addition, each drive was independently wrapped in a package within each of these cubes. Inside that, there was only minimal packing material—which I guess might explain why the small box was put in a bigger box..
Anyway, all of the drives could have fit in a single one of the cubes, but I guess I now have a number of conveniently-sized boxes for future gift wrapping.
My new drives are quieter than the old ones, but they are smaller (form factor, not capacity), faster, and have bigger caches (4MB instead of 1MB).
I rule ;-)
Lastly, just because Beth mentioned that she and some of her friends could probably manage to make a company by themselves (since everyone has the different talents it takes to form a business), I've been mulling over the few business ideas I've had. They involve hardware, which I'm not really any good at designing or making. I'm not sure any feasible business model could come out of it, though, and there are probably other companies out there already that do things like what I'm thinking...
Posted by mike at June 7, 2003 07:04 PM | Family , Hardware | TrackBack