fractaltiger's Journal: Quick

It's been a while. Nowadays, I don't have my mind set on writing much besides work. In tech support and I do a lot of typing everyday, and maybe that explains why my JE's are so few. Besides the mental strain that IT puts on you, that is.

I got an old ATI videocard from eBay to get some real 2D/3D action. I was playing with it a bit but found that there are some glitches. The card is only twice as big as my Intel board, VideoRAM-wise, but it is very fast and has great resolutions and refresh rates. 200Hz for 1024!

Anyway, I upped the resolution to 1152x864 a while ago. I just realized that a couple gamer friends years ago used super high resolutions more as a side effect of 3D cards for their games, than as a standard of geekness. And yet, it is sad that 3 years after seeing 17 inch monitors with high res in the hands of gamers, computers do not come with much power by default. Integrated adapters are crap with 3D. They may render stuff, but they are NOT fast.

On another setting, I'm very busy these days. Learning a bit of infrastructure management for work, and also learning the art of Game Mastering. Life is good. Now, I need to find a way to cram all the information I have into my head. This will probably mean playing less with the computer and reading offline more.

There's a fad with a Massive Multiplayer game called Conquer Online. Do a search to see the site. Pretty addictive stuff, since it is very simple and you pretty much level up your characters and look around to see how high other people are. This is an endless circle, but in the past 2 months has taken over the social lives of my IT friends. I was in a freeze for 2 weekds and am beginning to play the character again.

Well, I have lots of stuff to do. Including going to bed. Darn, another day gone by. No wonder computer people have little time for girlfriends.