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Spent the past few days putting way too much time and effort into the desk. I’ll spare you the nitty-gritty right now and just pass on a picture and some details.

As you can see, I have the monitor in and set to go. After countless hours, I finally found a feasible way to mount the drives in the console. I cleaned it up a bit and filed down some rough edges. All I have left to do is the body work, ventilation, and hooking up the computer.

Speaking of computer, I have it all built and set to go. Here are the specs.

• Antec Three Hundred case
• AMD 6000+ 3.0 ghz dual core processor
• 650W 3-rail power supply
• ATI HD4870 video card
• 500GB hard drive
• 4GB RAM (2x2GB)
• 2 DVD RW drives
• Super multi drive (card reader, eSATA, fan controls, USB ports)
• Fan controller
• 17″ Dell widescreen monitor

That’s all for now. Keep on going with the photoshopping contest!

So OhYo and I just got back in from working for a couple hours on the new carputer.. Its coming along. I sure took a lot of flak from both he and my dad about how I did things… But that’s how they are, what can I say?

Below are a few pics of how it looks and a quick (30 min) Google Sketchup render of what I’m thinking.

Google Sketchup rendering of idea

Side shot of dash mounted on frame of 2x4s

Another shot of dash mounted on frame of 2x4s

For the past couple months, I’ve been developing a project in my mind. It all started with a conversation I was having with a coworker about computer desks. I decided that I’d like one similar to this: the V1 Chair. Since they were silly enough to post practically blueprints on their website, I thought it’d be great to build. I did some research and the price for the metal would have been around $200 for steel, $300 for aluminum. I wanted the steel so that I’d have an excuse to play with the welder, but other opportunities arose. (continue reading…)

Hancock. Now this was a movie I’ve been waiting to see. I have to admit that I wanted to see this more than Indiana Jones. More than Hulk and The Happening too.

I figured that I’d be disappointed by this movie, but I could hope for the best, at least. I try not to read too much about movies before they come out (other that the MPAA rating and such) just so when a movie is nothing like the few previews I saw of it, I’ll be surprised.

That’s exactly the case in this movie. I went in thinking it’d be a comedy where Will Smith starts out a super hero bum and turns into a Men In Black agent-esque crime fighting champion. A black comedy meets Spiderman perhaps. Of course, when you think about it that way, it doesn’t sound like a great movie.

I don’t want to give anything away about the storyline, but if you’re looking for the Will Smith comedy routine, you’ll get a bit of it, but so much more. (continue reading…)

Last weekend, I had the chance to go see The Happening. My thought was that it would be a typical, suspenseful, yet profound movie from M. Night; however, it was hardly those things. (continue reading…)