My main workstation at the office, Ryoko, is slowly dying. Because the IDE chain has completely failed, replacing the motherboard has become necessary. You can’t get a motherboard without also picking up a processor and RAM, so that’s exactly what I did.

After some shopping at CDW (we have a corporate account, thanks) I found an Asus motherboard, some RAM and an Intel processor. I was fairly certain all the pieces matched.

I was wrong. I ordered a 400MHz FSB motherboard and a 533MHz FSB processor. Just frelling great. I’m an idiot, and even better than that I’m an idiot who’s at least a week away from getting his computer working properly again.

So now I get to contact CDW and figure out what kind of hoops I have to jump through to change out for the correct processor. Grrrrr. I hate being an idiot. I hate waiting for corporate wheels to grind as my stupid goddamned mistakes are repaired.

Brain for sale, barely used. Will let go cheap. Grrrrr.

(update: CDW’s customer service has been outstanding since the first day we started doing business with them, and today is no exception. My “correct” processor should arrive in a day or two, and I’ll be returning the other one later today. Thank you, Roya!)

Let’s just burn through a few news bits, shall we?

• Hot damn! The third Tenchi Muyo OVA series is under way. The proof is in the screenshots. (Aww, Ryoko and Ryo-ohki. How cute!)
  
• The movie formerly known as “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” will see its U.S. theatrical release on the 4th of April. Check out the official (Sony Pictures) website for “Cowboy Bebop: The Movie”. (This is the other anime film I’ve been anticipating for ages. It’s about damned time.)
  
• InuYasha starts up again on Cartoon Network, tonight at 1:00 AM during the Adult Swim block. Set your VCR, or TiVo, or whatever. Background information on the series is available at Sengoku Jidai. (Yes, I love parentheses.)

And you all wondered why I put in a gallery.

That’s the Canon PowerShot S200 “Digital ELPH,” my new toy. Set me back $300, but thanks to a surprise bonus from the company that wasn’t a problem. Next month I’ll be picking up the spare battery pack and some CompactFlash memory. (I have a pair of 8-megabyte squares right now, which isn’t nearly enough.)

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to pester the living hell out of my children by snapping pictures of them. That is, after I read the rest of the camera’s docs…

Let me start right off by sending out a hearty “Ewwww!” to the AOL (l)user who found me by searching Yahoo for “InuYasha orgy stories.” I sincerely hope you don’t find what you’re looking for, sir. Let’s be frank for a moment: If the thought of a half-demon dog-eared boy and a teenaged girl getting it on does something for you, you need help. (Not that Miroku would object to a threesome with Kagome and Sango, but that’s a whole other fanfic. And it’s probably been written. *shudder*)

Then again, the person who found me by way of a search for “horrible website” probably got… exactly what they were looking for. We aim to please, oh yes we do!

Another AOLer used AOL’s own search engine to seek “females who get hiccups.” So much for the phrase-matching power of AOL’s search engine. I’m not even going to ask what sort of kinky evil was running through the mind of the websurfer in question…

Several people have found me by searching for KNRK’s Tiny. Sadly, this is one of those things I can’t comment on without worrying about who might eventually see this page. Far be it from me to chase away NRK listenership. Mind you, I think I still get more people who are searching for Rosey 105, but that’s a whole different posting.

I hate following up Tiny with anything about nudity, but here you are: In addition to the normal slew of “ryoko naked” and “aeka naked” searches I’ve found an AOLer who searched for “pictures of aeka naked.” Now that’s the kind of added detail that search engines are designed to prefer. Way to go, AOL user! (By the way, “ryoko naked” queries: 41, “aeka naked” queries: 15. For those of you keeping score. And yes, I am sort of deliberately baiting the search engines by bringing this up repeatedly.)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans stop by from time to time looking for the canonical list of nicknames from “Mutiny In Space,” an execrable bit of 80’s dreck that recycled a bit of Battlestar Galactica footage and assumed that was enough to make it a viable Sci Fi flick. Lately, someone stopped by who already knew part of the list. Their search reads, “big mclargehuge blast hardcheese crud bonemeal.” In case you’re curious, the full listing is right here.

Last and most certainly least, ever since I wrote my snarky post about the new pole-dancer computer game I’ve been getting search hits for “private dancer game downloads.” So let me see if I’ve got this right, Mr. Web Searcher. You’re too cheap, lazy and timid to visit a strip joint, and you’re too cheap and timid to buy the game, but you’re willing to endure hours of web searching and pop-up ads and eventually a long download session so you can have this silly game for free? I suppose the good news in all of this is that the chance of you ever procreating is damned slim.

I shall now sit back and watch the “miroku kagome threesome” searches roll right on in… *sigh*