Toast

my com­put­er is slow­ly approach­ing the event hori­zon of unuse­ful­ness. [damn that word has one pre­fix and a dual suf­fix, how awful]. it is toast. the main prob­lem my machine has is lack of HD space. i’m still run­ning on 8.5GB; this makes it quite dif­fi­cult to down­load the amounts of stuff that i wish to down­load. i have to ration the space. at any giv­en time i try to attempt to strive to keep around 2.5GB free for the down­load queue.

this forces me to make ini­tial deci­sions on what to keep and not keep every day. if it does­n’t hit me the first time i play it, into the recy­cle bin it goes. unfor­tu­nate­ly, some real­ly great stuff needs time for me to grow into it. the decrepi­tude of my PC pre­vents this from occur­ring.

i decid­ed this evening, whilst let­ting the bears out of the cave, that when any object forces you to change your habits as a result of said objec­t’s lack of acco­mo­da­tion, said object should be objec­tive­ly chucked. since i have had to mod­u­late my behav­ior because of my faith­ful yet inad­e­quate com­put­er, i should get a new one. this also applies to things like toast­ers and car brakes, when a toast­er does­nt toast bread into toast, the toast­er should be replaced. when you must brake your car 300m before you need to stop, you should get them fixed.

oh yeah, my DVD-ROM is also toast.

now, as much as i would like to pur­chase a new­er com­put­er [per­haps one that runs in GHz and has a tad more than 8.5 GB] i can­not afford one. so my adap­tive behav­ior must con­tin­ue indef­i­nite­ly. that is, of course, unless some­one has a com­put­er they don’t need any­more…