Computer parts: Canadian online retailers?

Shepherd · Post by **Shepherd** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 9:34 am

With the help of <a href="http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/298/sle ... y.html">Mr. Sledge Therapy</a>, I'm gonna be building a new computer soon for the patented Mysterious Radio Project.
Any recommendations for reliable, inexpensive on-line Canadian computer parts sellers? Living in Sherbrooke, Quebec I don't have access to really good storefront retailers...

ManMan · Post by **ManMan** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 1:18 pm

Matt... Matt... Matt...
What kind of company do i work for???
A Computer Vendor! & we have a Canadian Branch at http://www.insight.ca & they have all your parts and pieces... I even know a Canadian rep you can call... once you've got the parts picked out, tell me and I'll get you in touch with them...
And for all of our other Forum users...
I work for http://www.insight.com ... so if you need computer crap at good prices... e-mail me.
(I feel degraded...)

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Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 2:18 pm

Hey, does anyone out there know of a half decent comic that features a penguin in it? It would also be nice if he liked to eat cookies, cause Lord knows, I love cookies.

~dave

Penguin · Post by **Penguin** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 2:20 pm

Dave, you dork, <b>YOU</b> do a comic featuring a Penguin. It's called Todd and Penguin.
duh...

Penguin

Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Fri Mar 15, 2002 2:23 pm

Oh, right. How silly of me.

sorry guys, just had to make light of what looked like a blatant ad for <a href="http://www.insight.com">Insight.com</a>

ps: where's the journal Matt? your lack of updates has inspired me to ignore my earlier inspiration that came from your entertaining blogspot.

~dave

Shepherd · Post by **Shepherd** » Sat Mar 16, 2002 6:10 pm

Actually, that was a tribute to the old call/response format of French-Canadian folk songs.

"QUI avait les choses pour ordinateurs?"
"INSIGHT a les choses pour ordinateurs!"
"Tara-lara-ay de boom de Celine!"
"Tara-lara-ay de boom de Roch Voisine!"

Um.

Anyway...I knew James worked for Insight, but to the best of my knowledge I thought they only sold parts and systems to U.S. clients and had no real knowledge of a Canadian branch.

But now I feel foolish, so everything's okay.

Tara-lara-ay de boom poutine.

ManMan · Post by **ManMan** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 5:41 am

On 2002-03-15 14:18, toddandpenguin wrote:
Hey, does anyone out there know of a half decent comic that features a penguin in it? It would also be nice if he liked to eat cookies, cause Lord knows, I love cookies.

~dave

Actually, I looked, and this was the best I could find...
http://www.bloomcounty.com/
http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/kool/comics.html
http://www.penguins.org.au/hightide/
Oh, and something called "Toad and Penguin"...
I think it's like a Disney strip or something...

Shepherd · Post by **Shepherd** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 11:03 am

After checking those links, I've gotta say that Dave wins. Well, BBreathed is a hard act to beat, but the other ones...aren't.

I read the entire Willie the KOOL Penguin site, almost. Chilling (pardon the pun) shit, folks. Check 'er out.

ManMan · Post by **ManMan** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 11:59 am

Penguins are funny... but I think Dave's got the only normal one... The rest are all F@*ked up! Give me a Cookie loving Penguin any day!!! But not in a sexual way...

Shepherd · Post by **Shepherd** » Mon Mar 18, 2002 6:06 pm

Well, I met with Sledge tonight and we costed out a system. Then we went to Costco, and discovered that Daewoo is selling a damn good system complete with 17" monitor, graphics cards, etc. for $999. Even after buying an extra 256 of memory and an eventual upgrading of the processor to an Athlon (it's a Duron 1.1G right now), it`s still about as cheap as just putting the thing together ourselves.

Hooray for Korea! I compute on the back of sweatshop labour!

Toddandpenguin · Post by **Toddandpenguin** » Tue Mar 19, 2002 2:37 pm

there's other penguin comics out there? Whats this Bloom County thing? I never hear of it before.

Thanks for the good words, guys. And no, I will never beat Opus.

~dave