random Tuesday is random and floaty

[freckles_and_doubt]

I seem to have woken up with no brain this morning, or even less of one than usual, and a bad dose of Gosh Are Those Lead Weights I'm Carrying? in addition to the usual vague sensation of not quite being here. (This may have had something to do with an extremely active night's dreaming, including navigating an old Victorian house as though it were a Zelda dungeon, and incidentally discovering that bumpycat had arrived unexpectedly from Tokyo to attend the party as a surprise. Wearing a suit.) Consequently, linkage ensues.

• OMG it's dream casting! In the sense of putting two of my favourite actor obsessions into the same movie, now with added Victorianism, just to push even more of my buttons. Oh, and corpses, but I can overlook that. I'd squee, but it's undignified and in my current state I may fall over.
  
• In other good geek movie news, Bryan Singer wants back into X-Men. This might actually wash the taste of watching Brett Ratner screw a franchise out of my mouth. Brett Ratner tastes like the bottom of a mutant parrot cage. Also, just to nail my colours to the mast, in addition to loving the first two X-Men films, I also liked Superman Returns. Don't judge me.
  
• This is cute. Go on, go and herd cats. You know you want to! They're elegant, and self-possessed, and their body language and essential wilfulness is beautifully captured.

Quick query: my dad's computer is apparently running on 256M of RAM, which I think is what is causing it to hang ruminatively at frequent intervals and throw out virtual memory errors like a rash. Unfortunately it's an old motherboard that uses DDR-SD RAM (the wizard says it's DDR400, if that's germane in any way; the motherboard is Apacer, string-of-random-numbers MSI PM8M-V [MS7704]). Local computer shops laugh hysterically when I ask if they carry the old RAM. Does anyone happen to have old DDR RAM chips lying around unused since you're all geeks and upgrade madly at frequent intervals while packratting the obsolete bits? Am happy to pay, in chocolate chip cookies if preferred.

Finally, my state of brain means I keep forgetting to bring my notebook with cute Middleman quotes in it up to campus, so the last couple of episodes are held tantalisingly out of your reach until I spontaneously generate a clue. Normal word-pervery will resume shortly.

Comments

[dragonroost.livejournal.com]

I have some LEGEND DDR400 ram lurking here at my office. Only 256meg though, not sure it it is going to be much help. I would say that it will double what you have, but that is not saying much =( It's yours if you want it.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Thank you, kind sir (and apologies for the delayed reply, the last two days have been a bit mad and I only just noticed this). I'll have to check how many slots the wretched motherboard actually has; if all else fails, 2x256 is indeed twice as good as 1x, and marginally better than 2xnothing...