So, my computer is still craptastic (crap + fantastic). It’s full of wonderful shiny parts of tasty hardware that would make most geeks drool. However, I’m regularly greeted with the locking up of my machine when I decide that I’d like to play a (graphically intensive) game, i.e., NOT World of Warcrack or any other wonderful terribleness that’s designed to run on an Osborne 1 (really, really old “laptop”). Originally, I couldn’t really figure out whether my problem was the result of not enough juice or overheating. After removing 8 HDDs and the RAID controller I settled on the latter since I was still having problems and a similar box was made by MaximumPC that uses a PCPower 750W PSU compared to my PCPower 1kW PSU. I’ve complained about my issues on a forum or two and I’ve been told that my case just doesn’t have enough airflow. That’s probably true considering the compartmentalization of the case, there’s essentially no airflow over the mobo area. Lately, I’ve been looking at some custom water cooling setups, I could get by with ~$600; but that’s just not good enough for me…I’m spoiled…I’ve been reading about nVidia’s ESA open “standard” that starting to be adopted by many companies including power supply and case manufacturers…ME WANTS! Yet, all that wonderful terribleness would run up the cost approximately an additional $2400. But since I’m not one to borrow money to get what I want, though that would be soooo easy, the ultimate price just isn’t worth it. Blast you Dave Ramsey and your popularification of common sense! So…I’d need a new job to take care of that ’cause workin’ ~75hrs/wk at ~$x.xx/hr just ain’t cuttin’ it for splurges like that. Well, I should probably monopolize on the time I could be sleepin’ instead of gabbin’.

Well, I’ve made a list of the languages I’d like to learn. The list encompasses approximately 40% of the world’s spoken languages (based on population), it’d be higher, but I am all ready quite fluent, though my wife would likely argue a counterpoint, in the world’s third largest spoken language: English. The list in order of population who speak it:

Chinese (Mandarin)
Spanish (Spain)
Bengali (Bangladesh)
Hindi (India)
Portugese
Russian
Arabic (Egypt, you’d be surprised how many dialects there are.)
Japanese
German
French

Those 10 languages account for approximately 2.74B of the world’s 6.66B people, so, if I’m able to successfully butcher the languages much like our international friends butcher English, I’ll be well on my way to being