01/29/2002 Archived Entry: "Birthdays"

Today is BJ's birthday. BJ is another one of my closest friends. He's turning twenty-four today, which makes him, like, older than me or something. He has an old Voodoo 3 video card and wanted a new GeForce or Radeon for Christmas, and supplied that information to his parents. They protested ignorance, so he picked out an exact model and gave them that information, then even told them where to go shop. When they still protested ignorance, he wrote down exactly what he wanted on a piece of paper and told his parents to go to CompUSA, find the nearest clerk, and hand the clerk the piece of paper.

Christmas came, and he was not given a video card. "We just didn't understand what you want," was his parents' excuse.

That's just retarded. I don't know anything about high performance car parts, but if someone wrote down a part for me to buy and all I had to do was hand the piece of paper to a clerk and then pay for whatever mysterious object he handed back to me, I think I could handle it.

Anyway, in light of my GeForce 3 Ti500 purchase, I'm giving to BJ for his birthday my old GeForce 2 GTS, which is still a nice card, and far better than his Voodoo 3-no-new-games-support-me-because-my-drivers-were-last-updated-in-1999 card.

Poor 3dfx. How the mighty have fallen.

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