Todd Terwilliger

Coming Up Acer

Consider my PC acquired. After much muttering, mumbling, and gnashing of body parts, I somewhat over-spent and brought home a bouncing new baby Acer desktop. When it came down to brass tacks, I went with bang for buck over pure cheapness. What that got me was a Pentium Dual Core E2200, 4 GB of RAM, [...]

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The Strange Case of the Sick Hawk

A strange thing happened on the way to kickball yesterday, rather at kickball yesterday: a redtailed hawk had taken refuge in a tree in McCarren Park right off the playing fields.
Lots of people gathered around to take a look. One gentleman who seemed so sincere and serious that I could not help but believe [...]

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Death of a Laptop

My laptop has passed on. What I thought was a dead battery has revealed itself as a short on the motherboard. Basically, it’s done.

Now, I’m looking for the cheapest but least shitty desktop I can find and get home this week. So far, I’ve eyeballed a couple of Compaq, Acer, and HP models. I’ve seen, [...]

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