There are nerds, and then there are übernerds. I dabble in nerdery (nerdition? nerditude? nerdtia?). My friend, Matt has been struggling to come up to speed in this overclocked and benchmarked society. He now has a P4 2.4GHz 512M (2100ddr) system with a mostly badass video card. We started the project last weekend, and encountered nothing but spontaneous hard resets, and seriously misconfigured video drivers. He almost converted to Mac. Again. But I saw him through the momentary weakness, and slogged onward. The weak link, we decided, was the cut-rate motherboard, so off to the local electronics mart we went to exchange the despised thing for a recognizable name brand. The nerd behind the counter went up the nerd chain of command and noticed that one jumper might have been causing all the problems- it was likely causing most of them.

So today I learned the importance of knowing my place in the nerd hierarchy, that being somewhere near the bottom.

Today also marks the day that this blog became an official shrine to Matt, who apparently is all I ever write about. Tomorrow, we obsess about someone else!