Nala turns 3 today!
Here she is 3 months old.
And here she is yesterday.
She’s very focused on the cookie I have in my hand.
Happy Birthday Nala!
Random thought walking
Random thoughts pop into my head all the time, which usually leads me on a random walk of thoughts.
Walking down the stairs, “spoon” popped into my head.
I followed that to “There is no sp oon” from The Matrix.
That took me to “Spooooon!!!!” from The Tick. Tick’s battle cry always seems to have a good time running through my head so it stuck around for a while.
Spoooooon!!!!
Spoooooooooooooooon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spoooon?
Then when I got back to my desk, I thought it might be interesting to Google ‘spoon quotes’ and see what came up.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
EM Forster
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha
One who speaks fair words feeds you with an empty spoon
Italian proverb
High School is like a spork: it’s a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it’s just plain useless.
John Mayer
Dog’s Letter to Santa
Dear Santa,
I’m sorry I chased the kitty-cat.
I won’t do it again!
I try hard to be a good — wait, there’s a cat crossing th
Stolen from an email I got today
Two is enough for now
I really, really need to stop cruising through lab rescue listings before I end up with a third one.
I’m sure the dogs wouldn’t mind another addition to the pack. I just need to keep reminding myself that I have my hands more than full with Nala and Simba already.
That doesn’t mean you can’t give one a good home though.
Does it come with a generator?
Over at AnandTech, they take a look at the triple-SLI graphics configuration made possible with nVidia’s newest 780i chipset. Three GeForce 8800 cards in one box. That’s some serious drool inducing graphics processing power. Minimum power supply specs? A whopping 1.1 kW! That’s more than most microwaves ovens in the average kitchen.
According to the power consumption tests they did, the system draws a little over 400 W just idling and over 700 W under load playing Bioshock.
Ok, it’s a pretty extreme configuration that probably doesn’t appeal to anybody except the most hardcore of gamers (and maybe the number-crunching performance junkies out there). What do normal people need with three GPUs in a system anyway. If you’ve got one of these, you’re not going to be doing anything else with it anyway because there’s no room left for any other PCI/PCIe cards.
I bet a fully outfitted system would be pretty cool for doing 3D word (wicked cool gaming too of course), but would probably cost as much as a small car. I think I could have some fun with one. Will 3x SLI catch on? Outside of the small niche market of hardcore gamers and performance junkies I doubt it. With nVidia’s CUDA though, it might appeal to number crunchers looking for supercomputer-class processing in a (relatively) cheap desktop solution.
I wonder if a generator will be listed as an option…