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I’ve been geeking out lately. Watching Big Bang Theory while listening to Jonathan Coulton and reading Wil Wheaton‘s Just A Geek.

I think part of it is that I miss living in Silicon Valley. I miss being a geek among geeks. Going to The Tech Museum, being among fellow geeks when watching Star Trek or any other science fiction movies. I miss the cons, whether it is Comic-Con or JavaOne or SDWest. Or spending a day at a local Fry’s. It’s very comforting.

Although I don’t really miss the work hours and the uncertainty of working in the US, I do miss working for an engineering company (even though I don’t feel like IT is being second-class citizen at my current company). Granted, having Norwegian vacation time means I could pop into Silicon Valley at least once a year. Still, I miss it.

Probably need to get out more.

I’ve been wanting to build myself a new computer lately. Although my current computer kind of serves my current needs, I do sometimes get annoyed by its limitations. Mostly, I want a little more power to run more virtualization. I would also love to be able to try out some of the games, like Mass Effect (I so love those BioWare games). It’s annoying to have the game on the shelf and not being able to install it because I don’t have good enough graphic card.

My two last systems were laptops, which kind of served me well. It was nice having a system I could easily take with me when travelling between US and Norway. With the new netbooks, I’ll probably just build a really powerful workstation, and then a simple and cheap netbook for travel.

Of course, I could just get a gaming console and then I don’t have to worry about gaming on my system. Still thinking about that.

I do want a want to run 64-bit system on my main system, though, and I really want to check out those new Intel’s i7 CPUs. Hmmm… choices, choices. Nice to be a childless bachelor sometimes