This is the second time in two days I have had with hives. I don’t know what has caused them, but an unknown allergen is somehow finding a way to make me uncomfortable. I’m pretty sure benadryl helps keep the hiving (no, not hyphying) down, but it makes me really sleepy. And I sleep.
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
Yesterday, Dad went to China town in Los Angeles and brought back a bottle of passion juice. It reads:
“The sap is condensed from fresh and pure passion fruit.As passion fruit is rich in fragrance which is the best beverage refined from pure sugar and guaranteed on artificial pigment.
Drinking method is as follows: please pour six times of ice water or hot boiled water and its flavor is excellent.
The juice is pure.Any sign of separation does not affect the quality.Just shake and drink.
Ingredients:Pure passion juice,sugar.
HONORABLY PRODUCED BY YUN CHENG Co.,LTD.”
Wow. The writer managed to spell everything correctly, but what he makes up in spelling he loses doubly in grammar. It is important to note that this product was “HONORABLY PRODUCED”
I’ve been having some issues with my computer overheating, so I decided to retrofit a cooling duct over the CPU. As seen in the picture, the SBCC card stock map provides an excellent platform for controlling the flow of heated air. With a fan on the back panel, cold air is taken from outside, sucked through the CPU heat sink, then exhausted out the back. It should also be noted that heated air rising from the chipset heat sink is also being displaced. After doing some analysis of temperature statistics, I can conclusively say that this contraption works.
And the data (all units in degrees Celsius; rounded average across ten data samples):
Before: 47 (idle), 58 (compiling gcc)
After: 37 (idle), 51 (compiling gcc)
It should also be noted that with the case side in place, temperatures rise significantly. For this reason, I leave the sides off at all times. The risk is the attraction of dust and of course, accidental damage to internal components.
Ah, and take a look at the ATX power connector to fan supply. It took some failed attempts to match the correct (mismatched colors, see black and yellow wires connecting to the red and black wires). Failed attempts involve shorting the entire power supply, effectively shutting off the power supply.
While writing this post, CPU temperatures have ranged from 46 to 48.5, and that is running firefox (bad with CPU utilization), emacs, and amaroK.
I figured I should try out this blog thing.
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