Stuff of the Week

Ooh, that last post was #50. Whaddya know. That puts me at about one post per week, since I've had this thing for about one year.

I love having 3 monitors... there's just a whole wall of glowy computerness on my desk... and I'm not building another one after all, either because I'm too lazy or because my old desk works - I'm not quite sure which it really is. So, one could argue that I should work on the basement with dad for a bit instead... and I probably will, I guess.

Supreme Commander is a very interesting game. It's very advanced, with native support for dual monitors (Woohoo!) and multi-core processors. It's a very large-scale game, too... as many reviewers have said, it's more about strategy than most other RTS games, because there is so much space.

Cedar Point on Saturday was crowded... but otherwise good. We went on the front seats of Millenium Force. That was DEFINITELY worth waiting 1:45.

And... that's all I can think of writing right now.

Blah, blah, blah

So, let's see... Oh, that's right, I was supposed to write about Spiderman 3. It's hard for me to describe this movie. It is one of the first movies which I could not remember well. I'm not really sure if that makes it good or bad or neither - it moved around a lot between various stories, and I didn't think there was a tremendous amount of continuity between these stories. Well ok, I guess that makes it a bad thing. The special effects were good, though. And I'm not saying the story was bad, either. It was a great plot and whatever... plenty of drama, action, and occasional comedy. But for those who have not yet seen it, I'll not say more.

In other news... I've spent way too much money this week. I bought a 22-inch (widescreen) LCD monitor. It's supposed to come today. I also bought my season pass for Cedar Point - I'm going this Saturday, next Wednesday, and a few other yet-unscheduled times this summer. Now I need to build a desk that can hold 3 monitors and a laptop with room to spare (Can't have too many computers... right?) I'm convinced that there is no furniture company that makes exactly what I want, and I think it'd be fun to try doing something like this by myself anyway. But we'll see where I get with that. I also got something else, but certain temporal circumstances prohibit me from discussing that subject.

Still alive...

So it's been a while, I suppose. This is probably due to my World of Warcraft ... "hobby". But yesterday I decided I'm not addicted anymore, and now I'm bored with it. So now I'm trying to come up with things to fill the big gaping hole of time it left open... so this leads to making a new MP3 CD for my car. (MP3, of course, plays compressed audio files, letting one fit around 130 songs on a single CD)

The iTunes end of this was fine, if not a little annoying. I had to burn standard audio CDs of three sets of songs to strip them of their copy protection. (Grr, it's not like I'm trying to pirate these or anything...) However, instead of renaming all the songs this time after I copied them from the newly burned CDs, I found out that if you never eject the CD in the first place, iTunes remembers all the names. So that saved me quite a bit of time. Then it was time to burn my first CD directly through Vista...

I had a folder containing the 100-some files I wanted to put on the CD. So, I assume the process hasn't changed much since XP, right? Not quite... as soon as I dropped the files on the CD icon, Vista asks me to name the CD. Ok, fair enough, I do. But then it formats it. I'm like... huh? And it proceeds to begin burning the files to the CD. I'm still OK with this... surprised, but it'll work - I had all the files I wanted on the CD. But while actually burning the files, Vista writes each one individually. That is to say, it has the CD drive spin up, it writes one file, and the CD drive slows down. And this happens about 100 times. Very annoying - took around an hour and a half too.


But what else... ok, so it's summer. Even though it won't be for another month and a half, but hey, don't tell Walsh that. I finished last week. Now I'm working in Information Systems at Walsh. Making minimum wage again, but it's fun, so who cares. I still have the library job anyway, so it's not like I'll go broke or something. But it'll keep me "out of trouble", I'm told. Is that a good thing? Oh well.

Tree pollen... allergies... argh.


Edit: And, the CD that I burned with Vista did not work in my car, nor did it work in my mac. Windows? Compatible? Hah! So my solution? Copy the MP3 files to my mac, and burn the CD from there. Worked perfectly, and about 15x faster too, on a computer that's now 5 years old.