Craig Biggio saved the Houston Astros.

Yes, folks, there is a Major League Baseball team in Houston. And yes, there is a member of the 3,000 hit club that didn't play (except wearing road greys/reds) in New York or Boston or Atlanta. Or even Los Angeles, for that matter.

Bidge's career accomplishment last night legitimized the Astros franchise: there will be an Astro in Cooperstown by 2015 (two, if you count Bags [Jeff Bagwell]). And if he's not first-ballot, well, that's East Coast Bias for ya.

Even hit #3k, where he was thrown out trying to stretch the landmark hit into a double, shows after 19 years, he still only has one gear: Hustle.

Final component.

When I mentioned this to Tim, another friend off BZP, he said I'd finally become a man: "Women come and go, but state of the art technology? Mmmmmmm."

Anyway, the crown jewel of the Windsor cores, the AMD Athlon 64 X2 3.0 GHz Dual-Core processor: [gallery]

Sorry about the nondescript link: it's the spec sheet on that particular processor.

This thing pulls 125 W at full load, so you'd better believe I'm going to install Cool'n'Quiet, as I don't need my power bill to shoot up to $70 unless I forget to pay it.

Now begins the fun part: making it all work.

-KIE