Ugh - Oregon. Great state folks - but it's time for it to end. It's distracted me from my favorite obsession of all - computers. But now that I've planned to return to my shack in the woods of a god forsaken and cold state.... I ponder what shall I do when I return? Easy to answer my friends - mod again!

I often ponder the blissful ignorance I gave up when I came to this site. Once upon a time I was a hapless n00b and picked up my next computer from some electronics chain store... ohh those were the days. Now simple things become entirely to complex. I want a computer case that does not exist, and probably never will because it changes every few weeks. This is why I began to mod after coming to this site. Curse this site... Why do I feel the need to shove 220mm and 200mm fans where they were never intended? Am I over compensating?! Or do I just really like to do things others will never understand?

Once upon a time I was able to stare at the same store bought computer for years before growing tired of it, and feeling the need to upgrade. Now I need no excuse to upgrade, I need excuses not to! It's like a heroin addiction - I always need that next fix. I've tried all types of variations on the same old story to get that ultimate fix. I've overclocked, I've water cooled, I've done over the top aircooling, ATX and mATX, Intel and AMD. Been an elitest bios only overclocker, then relented and gave into software overclocking for a while. Obsessed over RAM, it's timing potential to top frequency. I've painted and had others paint for me with many different hues - Duplicolor rattle can to House of Kolol Pearl coats have covered my computers. I've seen them stripped, I've seen them bare - I've posted pictures of them everywhere.

Hardware - ohh how it torments me. It's like dating a woman and knowing she'll become boring in record time and I'll want to replace her sooner rather than later. The guilt, the shame... but what am I supposed to do? What makes me want to love every piece of hardware I see? Ultimately though - it's figured out by panning through money to performance ratios where the end sum is equal or less than total money on hand to complete the goal.

The average consumer - computers are so amazingly simple. Ohh sure they have no idea about what they're REALLY buying, but they buy it, they use it and brag around the office for a few days about their new toy... they may someday upgrade and yardsale the old, or give it to another relative/friend. No - I start with a chassis. I figure out what mods I want to do to it before I even buy it. In my mind I've ran almost every case you can imagen through my head and threw countless modifications at it before ultimately deciding against it. I gave it a shot, but in my mental tabulations, it somehow fell short normally. If it beats the odds and I do purchase it, I often wonder if the assemble line people in some far off land realize the brutilization it may some day endure. Sometimes I have a plan - sometimes I just wing it. I thrash it, I mutilate it, sometimes I even beautify it! But it's an ugly process - ohh the injustice it had to survive being made into something it was never envisioned to be by it's origonal designer.

It never normally finds a new home - I've invested to much. In storage 2,700 miles away from where I sit right now is a collection of empty shells and stripped down computer chassis. The carnage is great, but hidden away in plastic totes. They sit there - waiting for me to return and begin my sadistic ways again. It's soon too. I'm going back to my hermit shack in 2 weeks - and again the ugly cycle will begin. Stay tuned for return of the Crazy Alaskan Hermit modding - it's returning soon.

Nice to see ya Bro, I thought you got ate by a Beaver

Cant wait to see yer next mod

Time to invest in tool stocks I guess.


Looking forward to what you come up with.

That was very poetic and fawking cool.

Welcome back to your passion and obsession. Enjoy hearing your dremel spool up again to make that first of many slices

Quote: Originally Posted by mnpctech Welcome back to your passion and obsession. Enjoy hearing your dremel spool up again to make that first of many slices

Dude - knowing my luck my Dremel is toast from being in storage. Also I have a cut off wheel for cuts, I only keep a Dremel to etch..... uhm, you haven't hear the rumors of how many tools I've destroyed have you?

Quote: uhm, you haven't hear the rumors of how many tools I've destroyed have you?

Rich is The reason I made a killing on "Stanely Tool" stock trading . I own my own Island now