Nicholas wanted blue and green ice cream. Pick colors not flavors. So much simpler than flavors.
Blue and Green Ice Cream
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Monthly Archives: June 2013
Growing up
Today Nicholas got in the pool without dad.
Happy to see him grow, sad to see a part of our life end, happy to start a new chapter.
Too many games, too little time
Recently, my employer, has been launching a lot of games.
And in different genres.
Wanna play a running game, try out Running with Friends.
Wanna go on a long quest to defeat some dark lords, try Battlestone.
And then if you want to engage in groups of battles just wait for Solstice…
And if you need something more sedate, more cerebral but still fun, try War of the Fallen…The first card battler that was simple enough for me to play.
In the past, Zynga released a lot of games in similar genres. Which was great, but it did mean when you wanted to play a different kind of game, you could play someone else’s game…
But no more.
And as someone who likes to stay on top of our games, and the player experience, I am spending too much time playing games…
Well, maybe my life isn’t SOOOO bad….
The Power Supply Issue with PC hardware
Steve Ballmer must hate his life. His company builds this software, they then hand it to these bozos at Lenovo, and all of a sudden shit happens.
Latest problem.
The Lenovo Ideapad y500 has a dual SLI configuration for its 3D hardware. The problem with an SLI configuration is that it consumes a lot of power. I mean a lot of power.
To actually get the graphics hardware to run you need 170W power-supply.
Which is fine.
If you don’t need the graphics card, then 90W power supply will do just fine. And that is great. Because a 90W power supply costs 25$ these days and you can have several in your house.
And so here’s where the shit hits the fan. Last night I used a 90W power supply because I never paid attention to the 170W power requirements of my graphics cards.
And I spent two hours trying to figure out why my laptop was suddenly dropping frames, etc.
It was the frigging power supply.
Now I ask, why oh why, could Lenovo’s hardware monitors not just tell me that the problem was the power-supply? A simple warning? A notification? Something?
But no. Nothing.