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So, last night I made my new Geekmas Tree for my cubicle at work.


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Yup, that's 8mb 'Ornaments', Zip-Tie 'Tinsel', Athlon XP 1700 'Star' and USB 'Garland'.

Anyone else celebrating Geekmas?

Someone has waaaayyyy too much time on their hands.

You know you could always try and get some work done.

*GASP*

Lol, exellent job. Now only if you had colored LEDs instead of actual xmas lights. Now that would be geeky.

Schway Cool

What no cold cathode lights? Bah!

dolemitecomputers wrote:

What no cold cathode lights? Bah!

Crap! I forgot I have EL-Wire at home!

An AMD star to guide us. Well done!

athlon star

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/7739

Front page, baby!

/. coming in 30 seconds...........

Nice one darkmage

Darkmage wrote:

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

Nice!

Ahahahahaha

Best tree ever. Great poem there darkmage.

Classic JavaDog, nice work.

8 Megs?? Man, that is SO 90's!


Seriously, wicked job.

Good stuff.

Darkmage wrote:

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

The light from the LCD on the face of the lan-er,
Gave the lustre of mid-day like a USB scanner,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh filled with cool pc gear,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew knew he was naviagating with his wireless NIC.
More rapid than Raptors his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

That's it for me.

very nice there javadog!

I'm glad everyone likes it!

I got the ram from ebay. 65 sticks for $1 (plus $3 shipping).
Tree is from Target - $7.99

Total Cost = CHEAP.
Total Awesomeness = 150%

So why's that XP 1700 on top of a Christmas Tree instead of folding, huh?

Rakhmaninov3 wrote:

So why's that XP 1700 on top of a Christmas Tree instead of folding, huh?

He already explained on the front page comments thread that it is a dead CPU.

Dposcorp wrote:

Darkmage wrote:

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

The light from the LCD on the face of the lan-er,
Gave the lustre of mid-day like a USB scanner,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh filled with cool pc gear,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew knew he was naviagating with his wireless NIC.
More rapid than Raptors his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

That's it for me.

Now Dasher! Now Razor! Now Laser and Fittsen!
On Clocker! On CPUid! On Talon and Blitzen!
To the top of the case! To the top of the screen!
Now flash away! Flash away! Flash away all!

As benchmarks that always leave our mouths dry,
When the graphs on TR reach for the sky,
So up to the case-tower the reindeer they flew
With the sleigh of ph4t l00t, and Saint Damage too!

...
whew! The reindeer were tough. So who's next?

Klyith wrote:

Dposcorp wrote:

Darkmage wrote:

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

The light from the LCD on the face of the lan-er,
Gave the lustre of mid-day like a USB scanner,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh filled with cool pc gear,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew knew he was naviagating with his wireless NIC.
More rapid than Raptors his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

That's it for me.

Now Dasher! Now Razor! Now Laser and Fittsen!
On Clocker! On CPUid! On Talon and Blitzen!
To the top of the case! To the top of the screen!
Now flash away! Flash away! Flash away all!

As benchmarks that always leave our mouths dry,
When the graphs on TR reach for the sky,
So up to the case-tower the reindeer they flew
With the sleigh of ph4t l00t, and Saint Damage too!

...
whew! The reindeer were tough. So who's next?

And then in a twinkling I saw in the case
Radeons and Geforces overclocking apace.
As on the monitor video stress tests strobed,
Into the case peered Saint Damage, with a temperature probe.

He was dressed in blue jeans and a Tech Report sweater.
He grasped all the power cables and bundled them together.
He pulled four sticks of RAM from an OEM lot,
And set about plugging them into DIMM slots.

OMG Java, your friggin crazy...gotta bring it home some time so i can see it.....

Felix wrote:

OMG Java, your friggin crazy...gotta bring it home some time so i can see it.....

I'll bring it home before I go on vacation...

Good job on the poem so far guys!

Klyith wrote:

Dposcorp wrote:

Darkmage wrote:

Twas the night before Geekmas
and all through the house
No PCs were stirring,
Not even the MSmouse.

The children were offline
and stuck in their heads
Were visions of DOOM3
so they hid under their beds

When up from the roof
There rose such a clatter
It was louder than a Maxtor
with an off-balance platter...

That's it. The brain is fried. Someone else take the next verse, please.

The light from the LCD on the face of the lan-er,
Gave the lustre of mid-day like a USB scanner,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh filled with cool pc gear,

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew knew he was naviagating with his wireless NIC.
More rapid than Raptors his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;

That's it for me.

Now Dasher! Now Razor! Now Laser and Fittsen!
On Clocker! On CPUid! On Talon and Blitzen!
To the top of the case! To the top of the screen!
Now flash away! Flash away! Flash away all!

As benchmarks that always leave our mouths dry,
When the graphs on TR reach for the sky,
So up to the case-tower the reindeer they flew
With the sleigh of ph4t l00t, and Saint Damage too!

...
whew! The reindeer were tough. So who's next?

While I with my voltmeter
And Ma turning red
I soon found out
the powersupply was dead

Damage, you should organize all the contributions to the poem and publish it as a "TR Geek X-mas" under a GPL!

lmfao, the tree was cool, but that poem just rocks!!

hey guys, first post!
well, i'll start off with...
HAPPY WINTER-EEN-MAS!!

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=arc ... 2004-01-07
( just read there, and go next next next you'll might find it VERY amusing.. )

thought this would suit the situation

Coming next, An Geekmas Carol, Featuring Ithkul_prime as Scrooge, and Licketysplit as the ghost of geekmas past, Javadog as the ghost of geekmas present, derfunkenstein as the ghost of geekmas future, idchafee as mr. cratchit , imi as mrs.crachit, and damage as little timmy.