It's January 2012, and that seems like a really good time to upgrade my workstation.

It's been a long time since I've done a real overhaul on my computer system.  Although I did replace my video cards about 6 months ago, the rest of the system has been plugging along for a year and a half or more.  Because of some end-of-the-year corporate spending requirements, I found myself looking at computer components on the 29th of December, and a few days later some boxes showed up at my door.  Go figure.

Anyway, what follows is a list of hardware because last time I wrote a post like this it was supremely helpful in terms of remembering what was in the box that sits next to me all day long when I needed to download drivers, troubleshoot problems or generally do something useful.   Sometimes posts like this are purely for me, and for that, I apologize. Tombstone, my old system, is still mostly running, although in a semi-gutted state, waiting to be re-purposed as something awesome, either a system in Andrew's growing empire or the hub of my still-theoretical porn empire. Dunno which yet. Maybe something yet different from that.

Anyway, after the break you'll find the components, names and some reasoning behind each piece of the puzzle.

This comes under the heading of embarrassing, but funny enough to post.  Back at the beginning of October, I got in a fight on Twitter with this dumb bitch who took issue with me calling out Chick-Fil-A for being a company run by hateful asshats.  I posted this to twitter:

I'm not into politics, really, but I do think it's a shame when companies use their fat wads of cash to screw over regular folks (through buying legislation or supporting hate groups or whatever else - it's all the same to me).  So I mentioned it.    Chick-Fil-A had just opened a Hollywood location and I wanted to try their food again (it was probably 1994 last time I ate there).  No big deal.  I mean, plenty of people still shop at Target, right?

Anyway, on the morning of the 2nd, after coming out of Bootie, I saw that someone had replied to my Chick-Fil-A post.  Below is the whole stupid story.  I don't even want to write any more till you've read it.