{"id":796,"date":"2008-05-02T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianramblings.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2008-05-02T05:26:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T21:26:13","slug":"meat-cleavers-drawers-and-heat-syncs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevepeer.com\/blog\/meat-cleavers-drawers-and-heat-syncs\/","title":{"rendered":"meat cleavers, drawers, and heat syncs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s been a challenging week for The Stevo<\/em>. I mentioned my new desk<\/a>, complete with credenza and movable cabinet. Thursday morning saw me trying to shift furniture around an impossibly small space. Somehow, the cabinet portion became locked after I shut a drawer. After 20 fruitless minutes I was forced to grab ye ole meat cleaver<\/em> to defeat the high security device.<\/p>\n

My desktop computer has looked disemboweled for several weeks. I added a massive SATI drive and never put the guts back in the tower. Given the new desk, I decided to reassembled my old friend. The heat sync over the CPU was dirty. I mean really dirty. There was black gunk all over the cooling fan. I’m sure it wasn’t healthy. I want my computer to be both efficient and semi-clean.<\/p>\n

\"50<\/a>I will say to all and sundry: I DID NOT KNOW THE HEAT SYNC WAS GLUED TO THE CPU.<\/em><\/strong> My bad. Now, the pins on the CPU are bent and the machine is temporarily unusable. It’s kind of like the Bush administration: The computer is a physical presence, but contains no brain. My computer guy<\/a>, accommodating Samaritan that he is, is coming this evening to pick up the soulless box. Hopefully, he can fix it without me buying a new (and costly) CPU.<\/p>\n

Update: The computer guy, Mao Ming, fixed my computer in my apartment, for a whopping 50 Yuan ($8 US). I started this post on my laptop and finished it on my delightful 17″ monitor.<\/em><\/p>\n

What else happened this week?<\/strong><\/p>\n