Saturday

[cellio]

We got home early enough that I was able to pick up my computer tonight. (It was ready on Friday, but I couldn't get there before Shabbat.) According to them, the cooling fan was defective and the processor overheated, so they replaced both. (Actually, the paperwork says they installed a new heat sink, but doesn't say anything about a fan. But I can hear the fan, so presumably they replaced it.) I didn't know that "heat sink" was a replaceable part.

The reason we got home early enough to do this is that the SCA event was enough of a disappointment that we bailed. (And for this I missed morning services? Sigh.) There were a few contributing factors. First, there wasn't much in the way of planned activities other than fighting and fencing, and the site wasn't really conducive to just schmoozing. A lot of folks I expected to see there weren't in evidence; maybe they were off doing stuff behind the scenes or maybe they weren't there, but either way, it meant I didn't get to visit with them. The advertised lunch was very disappointing in both content and quantity; I'm used to much better. Maybe I'm just spoiled because I live in a group that does a good job with food; I don't know. Many of our friends weren't staying for dinner, and I was kind of hungry from the lack of lunch, and it was cold and rainy, so after the choir performance we went home.

The choir performance went fairly well, and we had more of an audience than I thought we would given the event logistics. One member was sick and one was absent for unknown reasons, but we still had reasonable part coverage.

I got email tonight from Amazon UK telling me that the new West Wing DVD has shipped. This came as a pleasant surprise, as the published release date is Monday. With luck, we'll actually be able to watch a couple episodes before leaving town for Pesach. (I am, of course, assuming that they aren't going to close the city of Toronto due to SARS...)

Comments

[geekosaur]

(Actually, the paperwork says they installed a new heat sink, but doesn't say anything about a fan. But I can hear the fan, so presumably they replaced it.) I didn't know that "heat sink" was a replaceable part.

For what it's worth, these days the CPU fan and heat sink are either integrated or a matched pair that must usually be replaced together.

[cellio]

Thanks. I had assumed that the heat sink was a semi-arbitrary hunk of metal that just sat there in the case and didn't much care what was connected to it. I didn't know they could fail or had dependencies.