Fan notes

WATCHING:
Singles
Starring: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Matt Dillon

This Cameron Crowe-directed film has, of course, a lot of great music (not as good as Almost Famous) and an incredible cast.

It’s been 20 years since its release, and I just watched it for the first time this past weekend. Worth watching.

Not a great movie, but fun – about the lives of a bunch of 20-somethings living in Seattle. Talking, falling in and out of love/lust and so on. I kept thinking of “Friends” watching this. I swear it must be an influence for the TV series.

I’ve been to Seattle a couple of times, so the location shots were fun, and the general tone of the movie made it a nice – but not remarkable – watch.

I’ll recommend this flick, but not push too hard on same.

All movies

Well, I put a new fan into one of the Linux boxes today (an old Dell box that I turned into a Linux server). The old fan was starting to screech – not too badly, but I took this as a sign that it was ready to die.

After shopping at TigerDirect.com – and not having the fan arrive in over a week – I placed an order for two fans (let’s have a spare and save on shipping) from newegg.com and they arrived today.

First time I did this particular repair (been lucky…) and it was pretty straight-forward. My only complaint is that there wasn’t a direction flow marked on the fan, so had to power up the box before securing the new fan. Or maybe I just missed the indicator. No biggie.

Quiet again!