Crept Up And Slipped Away With Her

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 To my mid to late 2003 entries.

There's A Big Gold Dollar Sign On The Sunset Strip

I was listening to The Presidents of The United States of America this evening at work, and all I can think is that the song Naked and Famous seems to do a pretty solid job of describing the occupation of "Content Creator." Or, at least, what most people tend to associate with that occupation, at least post Covid.

Really? Covid isn't a word in the Firefox spell check database? That actually surprises me. 

Somewhere In Time And Space

 Also the Sci-Fi Channel cast of MST3K is about to get back together and throw out four new episodes under the MST3K brand?

What fresh hell, 2026? What fresh hell? 

You Can't Take The Sky From Me

Apparently Firefly may get the chance to exist again in an animated format.

Huzzah for that...I think? 

Slap Me With A Splintered Ruler

Took the Sprocket Rocket and ran a roll of film through it this afternoon.  I'll develop it one day this week, I hope.

I'll be interested to see what sort of nonsense I ended up with.  I should have a couple of pictures of the same person in three different places in the same frame. I suspect the next time I try that, I'm going to need a tripod, but whatevs...It's all about the experimentation, right? 

Nice Shot, Return To Base

Decided to play a C&C Red Alert skirmish game a few minutes ago.  One of those doesn't usually take longer than 15-20 minutes.

Not this time!

 I had to take care of an awful lot of enemy units in this one.  The computer learned how to work with practically infinite money.

You're Gonna Have To Face It, You're Addicted To Spuds

I finally came across something that my current desktop PC cannot run that isn't Windows 11.

Apparently the raw .mkv file ripped from a 4K Blu-Ray is too much for that thing to handle.  I'm guessing it's the GPU, but who knows.  I'll circumvent the problem by continuing to not buy that type of disc, unless absolutely necessary, and encode the .mp4 before I go and name whatever video I'm trying to get, instead of naming before encoding.

Tragic. 

I'm Sitting Here Waiting, The Gun's Still Warm

 

It's two am.

I'm sitting here writing.

Because why the heck not?

 

What am I thinking about?

The food I plan to make this weekend, of course.

Egg casserole, pineapple cheesecake, jambalaya, pepper lime chicken, probably some chicken fajita. Hamburgers. Maybe chili or meatloaf? I don't know.

What else do I need to do?

A bunch of laundry, clean the bathroom, probably clean the house, <Pause to play a quick game of RA2> fix some damn thing or other, blah blah blah.  That's the way of the day. Lists and things. Ideally write. Maybe I need to color something? I don't know. 

Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers

Ugh.

This drama at work is seriously cutting into my time to just exist.  I was there until around 2am writing emails, making signs and making sure people clearly knew what they were walking into at 6.

It's been unpleasant, but it is what it is. 

My Head Grew Heavy And My Sight Grew Dim

My PC 20 years ago had the following specs:

"Windows Vista irritated me to no end. 
An AMD Sempron 1.61 ghz processor, 512 MB RAM, 80 gb of hard disk space, and a 128 MB ATI Video Card were not enough."

I wonder how hard it would be to replicate those specs and try running the Windows Vista Beta again.  I can match the ram, hdd and probably the graphics card without any issues virtually, but I'm not sure about the processor speed. I'll have to look into that, but it sounds like a fun project to revisit...Twenty years later.