Blurring the Line between Virtual and Reality

[rootbear75]

sad yet hilarious conversation i had tonight with L.C....

 

L.C.> woowee

rootbear75> ?

L.C.> Savanna doesnt even break a sweat at 3.6GHz

rootbear75> savanna?

rootbear75> you name you computers?

rootbear75> actual names....

L.C.> I need to get her some DDR2 1200mhz RAM sometime

L.C.> yeah

L.C.> I name my computers...actual names

rootbear75> dude....

rootbear75> i would say you need a girlfriend... but i cant.... im speechless

L.C.> the only names I hand out are my favorites or my nickname Qwerty

L.C.> my favorites are...

rootbear75> how many "girls" do you have

L.C.> *drum roll*

L.C.> Savanna, Sierra, Sabrina, Rachel, Elizabeth, Shoshanna....

rootbear75> you're a pimp

L.C.> My laptop's name is Sierra I think

rootbear75> O.O

L.C.> hmm

L.C.> that list looks one name less

rootbear75> i am SO quoting this

L.C.> My $1200-$1500 machine is Savanna

L.C.> she's a beast

L.C.> not mine any more though

rootbear75> thats what he said

L.C.> I sold her to a super nearby ministry for $675

rootbear75> you sold your own girl into slave labor?

rootbear75> what kind of guy are you

L.C.> lol

L.C.> She's got power

rootbear75> i bet she does....

L.C.> I once had a Sabrina...another llaptop

L.C.> It was some IBM Thinkpad

L.C.> I sold her last year or two ago

rootbear75> this conversation is so wrong if you took it a different way

L.C.> Savanna used to be water cooled until recently...she sprang a leak

L.C.> yeah I know

rootbear75> oh my god...

L.C.> already thought about that path

L.C.> She has two harddrives...

L.C.> 500GB and 1TB

rootbear75> how big?

rootbear75> wow

rootbear75> so they arent the same size

rootbear75> how many ports does she have?

L.C.> and now two DVD burners

L.C.> she has two gigabit ports

rootbear75> one in front the other in back?

L.C.> and a quadro 5200FX or something like that

L.C.> workstation card

rootbear75> i hope you know im not too good with hardware

rootbear75> i just know how to play with it

L.C.> I'll provide pictures of her new arrangement sometime

rootbear75> you going to show me her without her case?

L.C.> This is in order from oldest to newest/latest

L.C.> and yes, there are pictures of that too

rootbear75> i hope they are all legal

[L.C.]

You aren't being fair to not include the links to the pix. From oldest to latest:

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/newrig-08032008/

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/09272008-cooling/

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/Savanna-11022008/

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/crtmonitors_01022009/

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/watercooling_01032009/

 

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/Savanna-09072009/

 

And she can encode videos at around 400fps via ffmpeg, and pulls around 51 GFlops. PS2 emulation via PCSX2 also proves to be quite playable at framerates 30+ (at 3.2GHz); probably around 45 to 50 at 3.6GHz.

 

PS. That ministry I sold her to happens to be so nearby that I don't have to move her away from my room. ;P

Edited January 10, 2010 by L.C.

[rootbear75]

i really didnt think it was necessary

[BDwinsAlt]

Insanity at its finest.

[Audry]

... Geek.

[»Lynx]

So I see Savanna, Sierra, Sabrina, Rachel and Elizabeth, very white or nerdy names but then - Shoshanna... Is the the computer that is not very dependable, but runs very fast... with a large hard disk?

[L.C.]

New pictures:

http://www.hlrse.net/Qwerty/Savanna-01102010/

 

Isn't she pretty? Currently fine tuning the airflow and arrangement of fans.

[CRe]

Am I the only one that doesn't find this weird? What's wrong with naming your computers?

[L.C.]

@Cre Donno what their problem is. I find it perfectly normal and acceptable. The server HLRSE.Net is on is called Sixgun. The Dreamhost server bluetoast.org is on is called Espresso. Our gameserver, unfortunately, does not have a name (it is usually referred to as gamepanel.visfx.net). In the past we have had other servers with names like: Warpath, Skynet (or something along the lines of 'sky'), Seabrook, and some other ones I am unable to recall.

 

EDIT: Unique machine names kick butt!

Edited January 11, 2010 by L.C.

[rootbear75]

Its not the weirdness its the fact that the conversation could have been taken 2 ways.

my parents name their machines after classic arcade games.

Mine is Asteroid (followed by Asteroid_II for my laptop and Asteroid_Jr for my usb drive) stepdad is galaxian, brother is Pong and other brother is Tempest.

 

My dad uses cartoon cats at his work (sylvester, felix, garfield, etc.)

[BDwinsAlt]

This might help. We're here for you bro! http://www.utdallas.edu/counseling/selfhelp/computer-addiction.html

 

Edit: Uhh, I only have one symptom of addiction out of all those, but I have some of the physical side-effects: Dry Eyes and sleep disturbances. I woke up at 3am just now and got online, but that's because I'm not tired.

Edited January 11, 2010 by BDwinsAlt

[rootbear75]

You use the compute repeatedly as an outlet when sad, upset, or fo sexual gratification

 

Lol at symptom

[»doc flabby]

My naming convention is much sadder, i name them all after girls i've liked

[L.C.]

I interpret reality and everything in terms and relations of programming, Windows and Linux, computer, etc. For example, in my life situation I see reality as merely an emulation -- just like those console emulators (SNES, NES, N64, GB/C/A, PS2, etc)...centering around words like interpretters, compilers, buffers, etc.

 

Then I even have a framework for error codes ... like certain feelings/experiences/whatever may end up being as a memory buffer oversomething, cyclic redundancy error/check, segmentation faults, bsods, memory corruption, invalid headers... All have logical connections.

 

EDIT: Yeah, I would agree my mentality is kerplunked and screwed up and that Internet Rehab would be for me. Unfortunately Internet Rehab costs a fortune.

Edited January 11, 2010 by L.C.

[Audry]

That is depressing doc...

[»Blocks]

I name my computers, but not after girls....