How cute are we?

My brother Tom, myself, and my sister Jennifer.


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My 2008 CD

01. Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright - 02 - Denial Waits
02. Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright - 04 - Forever Can Be
03. Ashes Divide - Keep Telling Myself It's Alright - 06 - Enemies
04. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight - 06 - Dreamworld
05. Rilo Kiley - Take Offs & Landings - 03 - Wires And Waves
06. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous - 09 - Love And War (11-11-46)
07. Rilo Kiley - More Adventurous - 02 - Does He Love You?
08. Cream - The Very Best Of Cream - 20 - Badge
09. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew - 06 - Keep It All
10. Lisa Hannigan - Sea Sew - 08 - Pistachio
11. Spoon - Gimme Fiction - 07 - I Summon You
12. Paramore - Twilight - 02 - Decode
13. The Black Ghosts - Twilight - 03 - Full Moon
14. The Weakerthans - Purchased - 01 - Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure
15. The Weakerthans - Purchased - 02 - Pamphleteer
16. The Weakerthans - Purchased - 03 - Plea from a Cat Named Virtue
17. Bury Your Dead - Beauty And The Breakdown - House Of Brick

More about the CD later.

American auto makers take note

Ford, Chevy, and Dodge should change their advertisements. They should give up on the "Our cars kick ass" idiom and try something like "Senate declines automaker bailout. Buy American you assholes."

My latest PC upgrade

Here are the parts I bought for this last upgrade:

$189 - ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe AM2+/AM2 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
$173 - AMD Phenom 9950 2.6GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HD995ZXAGHBOX
$129 - Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$129 - Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST31500341AS 1.5TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
$119 - GeIL Evo One 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model GE24GB1066C5DC
$54 - ASUS Arctic Square 92mm Vapo Bearing CPU Cooler
$27 - SAMSUNG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner with LightScribe Black SATA Model SH-S223Q
$25 - LG 22X DVD±R DVD Burner Black SATA Model GH22NS30
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= $1018
This was spread over 3 paychecks, so it wasn't nearly as painful as you might think. I got the WD Caviar first, and found the larger Seagate on sale about 3 weeks later. Oh well.

Here's the CPU-Z validator link.