Except that the fan died two months ago. Yeah, pretty lame. Another video card that died due to fan failure and not being able to find a suitable replacement.

Well, I’ve mostly been ignoring that lately, and using the card anyway. That finally caught up with me last night.

Basically, the chip was getting hot enough that the failed-out fan literally melted and distended from the heatsink. Pretty insane.

Why am I describing this though? I’ve got a digicam!

So yeah. Slightly less than a year out of that video card. I’m honestly just a little glad to be rid of it. Borrowed a roommate’s geforce 3 for a couple days, and I’ve got a 7600GS on the way. Nice thing is, since I live in Maryland now, I’m right near New Jersey, where Newegg’s shipping from. 1 day UPS ground FTW.

Can’t wait until I’ve got the money to buy new computers n’ stuff… you know … get out of the AGP platform generation and all that …

Fall is ok, lots of nice tree-colors. Winter can be nice from time to time. Summer’s just sort of a big uniform green…

But where campus really shines, and really begs to be photographed, is the spring.

Another 200 megs of photos dropped into the gallery. Took some number >90 pictures just walking through hort garden and up as far north as stew. Lots of flowers blooming.

Flower shots are starting to get old, to be honest. But they just beg to be taken … the colors are nice, they don’t move around much, they’re fairly easy to frame. I think I’m on the downhill side of the flowershot-festival, but we’ll see.

Many, many more at the gallery.

I consider a lot of these shots to be failures. But I’m posting them there anyway. After all, failures are as important to growth as successes, right? (Or because I’m just too lazy to cull out the bad ones ).

Campus really is a beautiful place to be…

Highlights:

Took in the neighborhood of 60 pictures (that I kept, I discarded almost as many outright) and 6 video clips. Pictures are already posted, vid clips will be soon.

Several of the pictures are kinda crap, but I’m fine with that … there’s a couple of really nice ones too.

Some highlights include: The live horseshoe crabs in the bio exhibit

A very long line for cricket-spitting

Equally long line for the “insect petting zoo” — around the corner,

and down the hall

Oh, and some reasonably nice shots of plant life.

I might post some explanatory captions, but not tonight :p. Visit the gallery for all of them.

Gallery is Here.

I’m going to be using that for hosting for a while, ’cause it’s a hell of a lot better on having spare bandwidth and such. I’ll include a link on the sidebar, under the “site” header.