So I finally got an Athlon64 X2, and whoa, I love it. I had to get a cheap
PCI-E video card, though, because the integrated video didn't like the dual
core chip AT ALL. Was sorta a pain in the ass, but it's all good now (though
I'm out another $60 for a crappy X300SE). Whenever I'm running lots of stuff
(including autosong which loooves to chomp CPU) and I see the combined CPU 
use go above 50%, it makes me giddy. And everything UI stays so reponsive.
The other big thing that I appreciate is when some buggy application with
a high priority thread chews 100% CPU, I can still kill it trivially. This
has already saved me a couple times today. On a sour note, it seems my little
ST20G5 is slightly noisier with the added load of the second core and the 
video card (which is passively cooled, though), but is still quite quiet.
I've just gotten very spoiled.


songwriting

August 12, 2005
I started writing some lyrics for some music I wrote a month or two ago
("sparseish") today. Once I have inspiration for a song, and the music
done, I find it pretty enjoyable to write the lyrics themselves. Now if only
I could sing. Oh well, I'll enlist other people to help. Or wait, tons of 
people, maybe even. Here are my two initial versions crappy and crappier.
Here are the lyrics as a text file. If you want to sing on them, go for it,
just send me a copy. :)

Just note that you should take liberties with the timing, melody, and the lyrics
themselves (I'm really interested in what other people will do).