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July 28, 2008

Here’s what’s up.

Filed under: Life — sherl0k @ 4:26 pm

I had an awesome weekend with Liz. The Ren fest was tons of fun. BBQ turkey drumstick = love. Also did some more shopping, got a few shirts and a new wallet since mine has all but fallen apart.

Black Mask is one of Jet Li’s most hilarious movies ever. The plot was horrendous and the action was great.

I got my MP3 player in the mail, a 20 gig Dell DJ. Bought it for $60 shipped from the Creative website. It’s refurbished but looks and plays like new. They even gave me a friendly reminder:

OK OK, I won’t steal. But what if my MP3 player came with music already? Am I obligated to delete it?

Only a few tracks, but I’m not sure how this slipped out of the refurbishing warehouse without its drive getting scrubbed.

I’m gonna load this baby up with music for work and get all my homework done for the week. I’m sick of waiting until Friday to do it all and I’m surprisingly energetic right now. May as well put it to good use.

July 10, 2008

Lovin’ this laptop.

Filed under: Linux,Work — sherl0k @ 5:10 pm

Ubuntu installed with minor hitches, the wireless card wasn’t working at first but after downloading updates the driver was picked up automatically and now works like a charm.

Installed VirtualBox, and put a copy of XP inside it with a copy of Office. Now I can do my schoolwork from my laptop without needing to VNC to my Windows box. My online classes are weird and nothing works right in Firefox. I didn’t want to try and Wine a copy of IE either. Office 2003 wasn’t working last I tried, maybe it’s been fixed since 1.0? Either way, Office and IE are a must for my classes.

720p x264 files play beautifully. The quality is amazing. Downloaded a sample of Matrix Revolutions to make sure. Didn’t feel like wasting time on a 4 gig mkv to find out it would be choppy.

Just need an external HDD enclosure and I have to shuffle some data around, and I’ll be set. Probably getting one this weekend.

In other news, I’m working 10 hour shifts all next week. 6-4:30. Not really looking forward to it.

July 8, 2008

Posting from new laptop.

Filed under: Life,Linux — sherl0k @ 6:47 pm

Pretty awesome specs here.

AMD Turion64x2 TL-58 (1.9ghz)
2GB DDR RAM
NVidia 7000M integrated
120GB HDD
DVD-DL Burner
Web camera
S/PDIF, S-Video, VGA output (boo no DVI, but I’ll survive)
Firewire port
4x USB 2.0

Vista’s installed but I’m removing it for Ubuntu. Just reading up on some forums to see if there are any hurdles to come across.

July 7, 2008

Stupid headaches.

Filed under: Life — sherl0k @ 5:44 pm

My headaches have progressively been getting worse, and I’m not sure when they’ll stop. I took two Tylenol PM last night before I went to bed, and got a full 8 hours of sleep. By 10am today my head was hurting again, and at lunch I took 2 Excedrin. It’s now 6:30pm and my head is still hurting, and I’m not about ready to take more drugs and repeat the process.

Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll have a doctor’s appointment scheduled. I haven’t been to a doctor in quite some time, probably a couple years at least. I really don’t get sick, and if I do it’s pretty mild. This is something else though, I’m almost sure of. I wear glasses when I’m at a computer, I stay hydrated, I don’t have crappy diet, and I’m not really overweight (although the internet tells me I’m one cheeseburger away from being obese).

Here’s to hoping it’s nothing serious.

July 1, 2008

Well that was an awesome tournament.

Filed under: Bemani,Life — sherl0k @ 5:50 pm

Syracuse tournament this past weekend was epic. Seriously, it was. Tons of people showed up from all over upstate to hang out and have a great time. The tournament was ran without a hitch (aside from the right pad going bad during qualifying, but Adamn and I fixed it), and the afterparty at Tully’s was nothing less than spectacular. I was unfortunately part cranky and part hopped up on Starbucks most of the day due to a lack of sleep the night before, but I was still loving every moment of the day. Krystal and Aimee tagged me in a crapload of photos on Facebook so check them out. The entire day was so memorable I wish stuff like that could happen more often. It really brought things back to an earlier time when people actually played the game for fun and tournaments weren’t about who had the better scores, but just seeing friends and having a good time. Also, I don’t think anyone was leeching mall wifi or running to the Apple store to check each other’s Recall. Might have something to do with SN score tracking not being there, but that’s besides the point :P

Sunday Liz and I went to her cousin’s graduation party back out in Cooperstown, and on the way home I took a different route. Unfortunately the route I took wasn’t going in the direction I thought it would and we ended up getting home a lot later than we should’ve, but I’m a guy and I don’t want to listen to women when it comes to directions. If it’s of any consolation, though, I did end up listening to Liz :)

I really need to keep myself more occupied during the week when I’m not at work. I’ve wasted too many afternoons and nights doing absolutely nothing of value, nothing productive. I putz around on the internet, maybe watch a movie, and that’s about it. I can get almost all my homework done in a single night within a couple hours, so that doesn’t really take up much of my time. Alex is back home and free, I really should spend more time hanging out with him. It was just like old times seeing him this weekend.

I’ve all but given up caffeine. I’ll sometimes drink a cup of coffee at work, and go for Starbucks on the weekends, but aside from that it’s pretty much out of my system completely.. Soda is also completely out of my diet. Now if only my headaches would go away.

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