The final parts for my planned (entry-level) kickass desktop are arriving tomorrow! Should be able to put them together this weekend. Also, I finally got a new lens for my Canon -- the Chinese really do know how to reverse-engineer shit. On the upswing, for anyone who remembers my freakout in IRC (doubtful) I finally landed an internship. Gonna be working remote with the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. So that'll be fun :) Loving life and coercing other people into enjoying the ride along with me. Week's been good.
That's a great lens; a friend suggested it and found me a deal in 2012, $92 for the Canon lens with free shipping. I am no pro, nor a big spender, so I can't complain about the kit lens. But when he let me borrow his nifty fifty on a visit to Cars & Coffee, I got my best shot of the day. There's a Canon sale going on at B&H now, with some lenses going for far less than a new car.
I'll post pictures once I actually build the thing :P Intel Core i3-4160 EVGA Nvidia GTX 750 Ti 2gb Superclocked G.SKILL Ares ram 2x4gb Samsung 850 EVO 120gb Seagate 1tb platter ASRock B85M-ITX all in a Cooler Master Elite 110 powered by a Corsair CS450M so I can take it on planes.