I’m in a public speaking class and yesterday I had to do a “demonstrative” speech. I chose to demonstrate, using some physical analogs since I can’t help my class see into the quantum space, how we’ve generated electricity for the last hundred-twenty-ish years (ignoring photovoltaics, I wanted to touch on them but I only had 8 minutes). I used a bicycle as my analog, likening the chain-links to electrons on a wire and the gear teeth to the magnetic flux which causes them to move. It was simple and rudimentary, which was the point. I’m not a physics professor, this wasn’t a quantum physics class. An elementary level explaination was exactly what I wanted.
I got a 98%, only thing I was told to improve was to use more sources throughout my speech. I ended up referencing the folks who define SI, a children’s book, and a college level textbook on electromagnetism, but I only mentioned the children’s book during my speech. I probably could’ve done better but I ended up abandoning my outline halfway through because I realized I was crunched for time and needed to finish up faster than it’d allow.
I’m starting to think I’m kinda good at this public speaking thing.
I have a desk showing up tomorrow. It was supposed to be here today but I woke up to a text from UPS saying it won’t be here til tomorrow. Is it weird that the thing I’m most excited about is not needing to render my games at 4k for them to look right on my display now? This is NOT a 4k gaming rig, it’s a 2k gaming rig, by design. The only reason I can push 4k at all is an unexpected (read:unwanted) but unfortunately needed upgrade from a 3070 with a beefy 360mm air cooler to a stock 5070 240mm air cooler. I say unfortunately because I actually really liked my 3070 but I was messing about with my cable management while the machine was on (like a dumbass) trying to solve some airflow issues that were cooking my pc internals and ended up nudging the gpu and causing a short somewhere on it. That PCI-e rail is dead, along with that GPU. If I had to guess, it probably damaged my CPU as well along the bits that handle that rail, but I haven’t noticed any issues.
Needed to replace my cooler recently too. I had a Wraith RGB on my cpu (That’s the stock lopro that comes with the zen-zen3 cpus). I have a zen2 3800x and its wraith finally bit the dust. It’s getting harder to find air coolers in stores now. Best Buy only had one, and when I was helping the CEO of Games Inc (bet y’all weren’t expecting a callback to that one) build her pc we discovered the other best buy in town doesn’t carry air coolers at all. Kinda sus that my best buy (the lower income area one) has air coolers but the other one doesn’t, y’all rich kids are getting fuckin scammed. There’s absolute no fuckin reason the average gamer needs a $200 AIO Liquid Cooled 360-rad. A $20 120mm tower cooler will do fine. I can’t even hear the damn thing pegging the whole machine at 100%.
I’m looking at getting a new case soon. I want a retro style ATX case. I need 3 external 5.25″ bays and 2 external 3.25″ bays because I do media preservation and emulation (and I’d like to be able to do both at the same time). I like the HTPC case I got from silverstone, but my needs produce more heat than this case is optimized to handle. That and the new tower cooler doesn’t actually fit and I had to modify the top cover of the case to get it to … yeah I guess I can call that closing.
I’m looking at this discontinued one from ThermalTake, the Chaser A21. Thing has like 9 bays on it. I’d need an adapter plate to use the 3.25″ accessories with it but like, idk it’s got 9 drive bays. I’ve got HDDs to store. I’ve got Optical drives to mount. I’ve got floppy drives that need homes! Optical CD-RW RAID0 anyone? (ooh that’s going on the bad ideas list for sure)
I’m rambling again, I’ve gotta set myself a length limit for these posts.
Love y’all,
Nora