Gr. So I find an application (free, and yeah, that’s my problem right there) to fix a video file that’s corrupted, hoping I can recover it’s playability without too much stress.
Instead, it corrupts the entire folder that file is in. Which holds all of my OTHER video.
Every time explorer opens that window, it crashes.
I ended up successfully copying everything out and recreating the folder, being more-or-less no worse off than I was before (missing a few projects, but with all the raw footage intact). That was almost … very bad.
I love this song, though I prefer the version from the Still Growing Up DVD, with Melanie C. Unfortunatley, that’s proven impossible to find on youtube, so you get this one from 1993. Still good.
*notes t-shirt, giggles incoherently*
I updated my bio to include a great comment by Wil Wheaton at the Penny Arcade Expo regarding narrative and video games.
Man, the internet is fast, but on days like today, with the tremendous storm/tornado hitting MI, you see that the peoplenet is still faster (augmented by the internet, of course).
Hope everyone’s staying safe. I hear it’s hitting Livonia now. I’m still at work, and I might stick around until the storm passes. Besides, I’d love to see it from my vantage up here on the 5th floor of this very secure building.
I love that we’re in the kind of world where a gadget blog can write an open letter to a technology company that the CEO will then forward to his executive staff and respond directly. Not that he said much, but the idea that, as a fan of a particular product, you can write a wake-up call that could actually be taken seriously? Love it.
Of course, Engadget isn’t exactly random fan-boy world, they’ve got the eyes to make it happen.
I don’t, heh, but I still have things I’d love to say to the companies currently squandering my loyalty.
I want to make my toys my own. Give me open software standards and file transfer options. Make applications work together, for pete’s sake! (I hate that google calendar doesn’t let me make plans with a g-mail user and then track that, y’know?)
I’ve stuck with Verizon because of the user base amongst my friends. They use it, so I use it, but I’m sick of buying crippled phones.
I get a new phone in November. If I can’t upload my own ring tone, use always-on IM, or add software, I don’t want it. If I have to hack my device to remove restrictions on transfers like I did with my RAZR … I’ll jump to a service that won’t make me work so hard to get what I want.
I went to a lecture last night (with netmouse on the differences between the Net Generation (described as 13-30) and the Baby Boomers (described as, I believe, 44 to 60), particularly in the arena of usability. It was a fascinating thing both for what I agreed with and what I disagreed with.
Afterward, Anne and I sat outside a coffeehouse near my place and went over her lines for Monkey Rampant (her sketch comedy troupe). I didn’t get home until after midnight, but it was really nice. :) Both comfortable and intellectual, at the same time. I definitely think I need more of these experiences in my life (not just the lecture, but the conversations afterward), now that I’m not actively engaged in school.
Today is just the greyest of grey days. I’m kind of enjoying it, honestly – there’s something peculiar about being in the office when it is lit more by the interior lights than the exterior environment that kind of makes me feel more productive. It’s sort of the opposite of when I turn down my interior lights in the car at night, to make it easier to pay attention to my environment.
Unrelatedly, Anne was talking about how cool kitschicat‘s journal profile is, and I took a look for the first time in forever. And… wow. I remember thinking, have I told my friend Trase how much I adore her, lately? I went through each of her quotes, and (as she knows) I identify mightily with each of them. Even my own quotes, hehe. :D
I’ll just put two of them here, for mulling over:
“When people keep challenging and questioning their self-disturbing core philosophies,
after a while they tend to automatically, and even in advance, bring new, rational, self-helping attitudes
to their life problems and thereby make themselves significantly less upsettable.”
-Albert Ellis
Life is full of many small courageous acts made every day by ordinary people. It takes courage to love and be loved. It takes courage to trust and be trusted. It takes courage to allow those we love and care about to make their own choices and mistakes and be hurt. It takes courage to admit that you have made a mistake and learn from it. It takes courage to face your fears one at a time so that you can live the life of your dreams and move beyond mere survival.”
-Sue Wiseman
Those of you with a Wii should watch this trailer on the latest Metroid Prime.
I’m reasonably impressed with what I’ve seen – particularly the ease in changing visors, which I always found cumbersome in the previous Metroid games. Also, I’m glad to hear they’ve got some convincing and engrossing cinema scenes; I think Halo raised the bar, here, and they’d have been foolish not to have an excellent story.
I’m more than a little relieved to hear a few good things about this game – I’ve been enjoying the Wii, no doubt about it, but I still feel like I’ve been waiting for it to pay off; when you have so much unused potential, it starts to turn after awhile, and taint the parts that ARE good. Please, please, please may I have some online, sirs? I promise I’ll still invite my friends over.
I’ve been playing Wind Waker for the first time, and I’ve really enjoyed it so far. I think the Zelda series needs to make another significant change to continue to survive (for -how- many games have I used the boomerang and bombs?), but this one is a pretty unique experience. It has its good and bad points, but I’m glad I took some time to give it a try, despite its cartoonish look.
Wow. Wow wow.
I -love- this watch. It falls under the category of, “If you can’t fly to Finland, Switzerland, or Japan just to buy a watch, don’t even think about it”, but it is soooo neat. He will be making… ten. Yes, ten watches.
I bet being a watchmaker has to be an incredible amount of fun, some days. Particularly the days of inspiration. This set of watches was inspired by a motorcycle kick-start pinion.
Another watch designed with the same inspiration is here, but it’s been discontinued. Each one uses an actual used pinion from a Harley.
