Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Proscuitto Crudo at Bacco
If you’ve been around the MUSC campus at all in the past year, you know there’s a whole lot of constructing going on. In the past two months, the two new buildings being built (for bioengineering research and drug discovery) have gone from this
to this
While watching some of the construction going on yesterday, the thought occurred to me that the entire sum of human existence can be summarized in a few words: transforming one form of dirt into another form of dirt.
Do you have a dog? Are you on Gowalla?
Then pack up your dog(s) and take the Lowcountry Dog Park Gowalla Trip! Go explore the area dog parks with your best friend and discover a few new places to go.
Time for a major technology refresh.
Just bit the bullet and bought myself a new computer to replace my old frankenputer (2001 vintage). Its been resurrected a few times and probably should have been retired 5 years ago.
Most of what I usually do isn’t very demanding so I tend to keep computers for a while. However, with the number crunching and Monte Carlo simulations I’m anticipating on running for my PhD project, I need something that will be able to handle it.
The new computer isn’t quite as high end as I would have liked, but it’s still pretty decent and more state-of-the-art than any other computer I’ve ever had. Core i7-930, 12GB RAM, 1.5 TB storage (500 GB and 1 TB drives) and nVidia GTX 260 video card.
After the new computer arrives and gets set up, the old computer will likely live out the rest of its days in quiet retirement as a file server.
