http://www.grumpsplace.com/computers/functional-design-38/ The Passions and Frustrations of Jim McClain Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:43:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.grumpsplace.com/computers/functional-design-38/comment-page-1/#comment-5 I AM The Mad Modder | 1 Foot in the Grave Sun, 30 May 2010 08:23:31 +0000 http://www.grumpsplace.com/?p=38#comment-5 [...] “The Mad Modder” was a tag I picked up sometime in 2003. I was known as “Grump” for a long time – not an undeserved nick-name – and in ‘03, I was hanging out a lot in case modding forums. I built the computer you see in the picture (click it to see a larger version) and it impressed someone at CPU Magazine and it was featured in the October 2003 issue and I became the first “Mad Reader Mod.” Of course, the title was derived from my nick-name and a few people in the modding circles began calling me “the mad modder.” I even got the domain name, TheMadModder.com, which at one time had a pretty nice forum – another one of those things I had to give up when I got sick. Read more about Functional Design, the computer mod. [...] [...] “The Mad Modder” was a tag I picked up sometime in 2003. I was known as “Grump” for a long time – not an undeserved nick-name – and in ‘03, I was hanging out a lot in case modding forums. I built the computer you see in the picture (click it to see a larger version) and it impressed someone at CPU Magazine and it was featured in the October 2003 issue and I became the first “Mad Reader Mod.” Of course, the title was derived from my nick-name and a few people in the modding circles began calling me “the mad modder.” I even got the domain name, TheMadModder.com, which at one time had a pretty nice forum – another one of those things I had to give up when I got sick. Read more about Functional Design, the computer mod. [...]

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