My nearly brand spanking new computer kicked it’s heels up and died on me this weekend. It looks like my power supply is shot for some reason. Luckily, I had the forsight to buy one of these extended manufacturer warranties. I spent an hour or so on the phone with a support guy who ad me ripping boards and wires out left and right, trying to get the thing to turn on. Finally, after eliminating any other possibilities, the guy set me up to have someone come to my apartment and replace the busted parts and get me running again. This is good. But, seeing as I’m leaving for a vacation in Vermont on Thursday and the replacement parts need to be mailed to me, I’m looking at having to spend over a week without this computer running. I have another computer that I run as a backup, but that too is completely fritzed. It’s just old and has needs to be taken behind the shed and shot. That leaves a G5 that I can use, but no Linux and no video games. Un-fucking-acceptable.

So, I did what any self-respecting antisocial computer junkie would do, which was immediately buy a new computer. I have a brand new laptop being express Fed-Ex delivered to me tomorrow morning. I intend to plug it it and immediately install Linux, throw out my old backup PC and use it as my new mobile/backup system. This should tide me over until my main beast of a machine is back up and running as it should be. I’m tempted to try running one of the preview releases of Ubuntu’s “Breezy Badger” (developers should never name distros. It sounds like an animal with gas.) as it’s got the latest hardware support and the final release is only a few weeks away. All the impending geekdom has me sweaty already.