Personal & Technology 16 Sep 2006 04:23 pm
Geek Pilgrimage
When I lived on the east coast, I used to drool about Fry’s. Fry’s is the place where you can actually buy a motherboard, or a case, or a big internal hard drive, or an LED, or soldering iron or … all of those things that geeky types like and want.
So, I did a geek pilgrimage to Fry’s today. The closest Fry’s is in Fremont, which is quite a ways from Berkeley. There is basically nothing around it except office parks and malls - it feels very sterile.
But Fry’s was fun, and I had a great time walking down the aisles looking at varied and sundry computer/electronic stuff. I managed to only leave with a little more than what I went there for (some micro screwdrivers so I could install new memory in my MacBook Pro.) But so much was so tempting. It reminded me of how much of a geek I still am.
And now my laptop has twice the memory it used to have, so I’m happy.