August 6, 2005 

August 6, 2005

Today I went with Kim to Electronics Market to buy parts to build my first computer. I have never built a computer before, but I didn't think it could be too hard, so I decided to build my own and save myself about $2000. I have been marking every day that I am here on a calendar that I bought while I was in the states. That is a picture of it above.


We went to a computer shop at E. Market and I saw this monitor at the store we went to. It might look like a regular monitor to some of you, but if you look hard enough you can see that this guy is using a cardboard box to hold him monitor screen in. Instead of spending $5 for a box to install it in, he decided to go the ghetto route and build his own. Pretty creative guy!


Here is my baby almost completed. I installed a 3.2 GHz SATA motherboard, Pentium D processor, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB SATA hard drive, 16X DVD RW drive, wireless LAN Card, and a TV card. I als got a 1.3 Megapixel camera and a wireless keyboard and mouse for it. This baby is sooo fast. Of course in 2 months it will be obsolete and they'll have 8.2 MHz speed, but for right now, this is the fastest you can find.


And here she is all finished. I love the box that I found for it. It's pretty cool and hides all of the USB ports and drives.


This is another pic of it with the doors open, so that you can see where it's all hidden.


And this is what time I finished making the damn thing. I started at 8 AM shopping for the parts, so in total it took me 14 hours. I wasted an entire Saturday on this thing. It was well worth it though. Sherry really needed a new computer. The old one at home just isn;t good for anything except browsing the internet now.


I found this article in a magazine today. I copied it and saved it for my memory box. It's about the Seoul International Marathon that they had back in March. Inside of it was an article and the author interviewed me about it.


Here is a closer picture of the interview, I highlighted the part where I am speaking in yellow for you. I thought it was pretty cool.