| Rumors of Zack's death are greatly exaggerated, well at least if there are rumors about that. Many have noticed that Zack has disappeared from Olivet's campus, that is because Zack transferred to Purdue Calumet, primarily for financial reasons. Zack may visit his freinds at ONU somtime in the near future, but his class schedual may make that difficult.
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| Ok it has been quite a long time since that last post so Zack will give a quick overveiw of some recent events. After finishing the school year and returning home, Zack built his new computer on and around the tenth of may. Some stuff not really worth mentioning here happened. Zack engaged in a futile search for a job, well almost futile, Zack did get a job at Our Family Center, but it doesn't pay money (a substantional scholarship is involved but we won't count that as money). Zack got a new cell phone, and a usb cable off ebay for it( an evil grin spreads across Zack's face, because this item allowed Zack to hack his phone and set up a free wireless access point). And lastly Zack started writing the prequel to Cowpi and the Grill of Doom; Cowpi and the Search for a Job.
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| On Thursday the remainder of the parts of Zack's new computer arrived.
To Zack's horror, he discovered that the power supply he ordered was
actually wider than the case. As a result, Zack had to RMA the case.
Now Zack has a computer without a case. But for every problem there is
a solution:
Okay that is actually the new testing station at IT, not Zack's computer. Zack will see if he can purchase an empty case from IT, for the time being.
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| Compute this!Zack is building a sweet new computer. He just purchased it on line, and the parts should begin arriving next week.
CD/DVD Burners (RW Drives)
NEC 16X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE/ATAPI Model ND-3550A - OEM
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$36.99
Computer Case
POWMAX MATXARC-3 Black Clear Acrylic MicroATX Mid Tower Computer Case
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$54.99
Internal Hard Drives
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 SATA NCQ 3Gb/s ST3160812AS 160GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard drive - OEM
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$89.99
$40 rebate
Keyboard and mouse
Logitech Cordless Desktop S 510 967557-0403 2-Tone USB + PS/2 RF Wireless Slim Desktop Mouse Included - Retail
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$52.99
$20.00 Mail-in Rebate
AMD-compatible Motherboards
MSI K8NGM2-NBP Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce 6150 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
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$84.99
Power Supplies
Thermaltake TR2 W0070 ATX 430W Power Supply - Retail
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$36.99
Memory
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model VS1GBKIT400 - Retail
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$77.00
Processor
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3200BWBOX - Retail
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$157.00
Including shipping the total was $474.71 + ($40 + 20 in rebates) = $534.71 before rebates
Zack is really excited and can't wait to assemble it.
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| Pi DayMarch 14, was National Pi day, Zack's favorite unofficial national holiday. To celebrate, Zack put on his favorite pi related t-shirt and went to the pi party hosted by Olivet's own math club. Several pies were served; including but not limited to apple, blueberry, and pizza. Among the festivities was a trivia quiz about pi. Zack tied with another person for the highest score. A tie breaker was called; recite from memory the most digits of pi. After a rapid spurt of numbers, Zack was given the prize, a cream pie. This was no ordinary cream pie, this particular pie came with the privilage to smash it in the math professor's face of the possesor's choosing. Zack looked about the room and decided his target. He walked up to the nearest professor, got the pie eady to throw, then Zack turned around and sauntered over to the next professor. Zack repeated this fake-out for every professor, then approached a professor cowering in the corner, and faked him out, turned to walk away, then slammed the pie into Dr. Hathaway's face. Hopefully the pie won't negitivly affect Zack's grade.
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