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The donor
I knew I could find all the parts for the build in Taiwan except the chassis, so I focused on this first. I asked around a bunch of custom builders from Malaysia to Texas if they could make a chassis/board kit for me to fit the dimensions of the cabinet I wanted to use. After a lot of emails and a couple of weeks of downtime the overll consensus was that I was just wasting my time, since I couldn't fit all the components on a board cut down to fit in a custom chassis made for the small cabinet I wanted to use.
Hmmm. This kind of pissed me off since I figured these guys were DIY guys, and now they were telling me to go the cookie cutter route and just stick with standard supplies. This meant making the right sized cabinet, ordering the right sized chassis, using the right sized board, and not making things difficult. Yeah, that's all fine and dandy, but my main criteria for this build was to find a use for the cheapo cabinet I had laying around. So I struck out on my own and scoured the city until I found a couple of hi-fi guys who did really nice custom chassis work, but they were way way too expensive. That went against my other rule that it had to be cheap. So back to square one.
I put all this in the back of my mind while I dealt with annoying computer problems in the office. Then one day while I was up to my elbows in hard drives and computer guts, it occured to me. "Hey, this $@%*&! computer cover is about the same size as that $@%*&! hole in my cabinet. What if..."
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I've never figured out whether it's pronounced "Moe's (like owned by one of three stooges) or Moss (like that guy out of Bonanza), but the one down the hill from me is open until 2am most days, which means that if I get out of the club early enough, I can catch the best burger in town, the muo si la bao or the Spicy Mos Burger. They have lots of jalapenos and 
