I has a new Laptop

And I'm typing this blog on it now.

It's a Toshiba Satellite L675D. Here's what it looks like on Toshiba's website.

Mine has a few Angelspit stickers on it and I only paid $499 for it at Office Depot's Black Friday sale. The folks there were pretty nice too. They had donuts and bottled water for those of us waiting in line. And all I had to do is just go up to the register, tell them what I wanted, they sent someone to grab it. Door opened at 6:00, I was out of there with a new laptop in hand by 6:05.

I set this one up differently from my Dell. My Dell only had linux. It came with Vista, I hated it. The drive got wiped and I installed linux and never looked back. Well not until I tried installing games on it and ran into compatibility issues. Seriously, when you have to recompile the kernel, edit several text files, tweak a virtual windows registry, apply several patches, sacrifice a virgin, do a voodoo dance, and offer up your own soul in eternal damnation just to get one game to run, you start to reconsider things. Now can someone pass me the goat's blood? I need a virgin to masturbate in it so I can play Minecraft, the penguin said so.

So I have Windows on here for playing games and Kubuntu linux installed on a small partition for everything else. So far I'm liking it this way.

And aside from being able to play games once again at work, I'll be able to type my book instead of hand writing it. I type faster than I write. It's easier for everyone else to read too.

That's about it for now.

Need help deciding on a laptop

With a better soldering iron than the one I have, I might be able to fix my Dell. The power connector has gone bad. Actually the connection between it and the motherboard is what has gone bad. As I said, with a good soldering iron I should be able to fix it. According to Dell, I should be replacing the motherboard. I've looked at new and refurbished cards online and $300-450 is way too much to soak into a 3 year old laptop that has had a quite few issues since I bought it. If I can't fix it, I'm going to have to replace it.

The question then becomes what with? I at least need something that can handle Eve-Online. I haven't played Eve in too long and I miss shooting at Amarr. If it can run Eve, it can run the other games I like. I did see this Toshiba at the local Walmart. Less than $400, meets the requirements. Not sure how good of a laptop it really is though. I don't want another Dell. I will not buy another Dell product again. I'm open to suggestions here. I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I don't want to buy a piece of junk either.

So can anyone recommend a good laptop with a good graphics card that's not too terribly expensive?

A little Eve Online humor

Courtesy of my girlfriend.


If You're Happy And You Know It
Pod Amarr
If you cannot find Caldari,
Pod Amarr
If the Minnie are too frisky
Gallentes are looking shifty
Jovians are too risky,
Pod Amarr.

BTW, I love watching Amarr ships pop. For those of you who don't play Eve Online, the Amarr are kinda like Fundies in space. I've encountered many Amarr players that in the real world are total bible thumping dullards, so podding them is totally worth it.

New blog!

I'm keeping a blog centered around my EVE Online character. It's kind of a mix of game events and fan fiction. Have a look.

http://persephone66-in-eve.blogspot.com/

I don't like the real world

I'd rather pretend I'm the filthy rich immortal captain of massive deadly spaceships.

I was just minding my business, mining asteroids. Asteroids are evil and must be destroyed.


Then a pirate came along. Dumb move on his part.



So I jammed him and sicked my drones on him. They blowed him up good and proper.



And finally I salvaged the remains.



I needed to unwind after mining. My agent had just the thing for me, blowing up a repair station and the pirates it serves.

I switched to my Thorax class, it's good at making things go boom.

New cruiser redux

I was able to replace my Torax class and this time able to outfit it. Here's a few combat shots.




These screen shots really don't do the game's graphics justice.

So that new cruiser

Got blowed up by gate camping pirates last night. I was passing through a low security system picking up items to outfit the ship. They managed to get both the ship and my escape pod.

That's about 7 million ISK down the drain.

I have a new cruiser

I present to you my new Thorax class cruiser.


Is it just me being a pervert, or does this ship look like a penis?

I'm still outfitting it. I'll be posting some combat photos later.

Hull Breech!

I obviously was not having a good day in the world of Eve.














At least I didn't lose my ship this time.

This is a mining barge

When you have a character in EVE - Online that does a lot of mining, these come in very handy. Someday I will have one.

If you really love me...

You will buy me an EVE-Online PC in the Gallente case. What would be really great with it is a matching mouse pad, posters and coffee mug from the EVE Store. Caldari case shown here.

If you love me more you will send me to EVE FanFest in Iceland.