ah fuck, i cant believe i'm sick.
Im exhausted and cant sleep so im doing this thing where i write stuff again.
A while ago i backed up ~300gb of movies on a home brew external hard drive. then i tried to bring it to the folks place on thanksgiving to see if their laptop could play some of the HD stuff on their HDTV. it couldn't process the compressed video fast enough so that was a failure, plus the drive must have got bumped too hard on transport cause windows no longer sees it as formatted, so now i have this software restoring the files and copying them to one of my internals which is going to take, days or something. its been at it for 5-6 hours and its still on the A's ('aqua teen hunger force: colon movie' at the moment ) .
I really wanted this hard drive thing to work as im tired of burning DVD's . I may still pursue it and just be gentler to the drives.
My motorcycle broke a few weeks ago, i tried to fix it for awhile and and eventually realized it basically needed a full engine rebuild which was beyond the value of the bike to attempt so I just took it out and worked the shit out of it until i felt the engine self destructing between my legs and finally seizing . Sold it for a few hundred and bought a bandit 1200s.
ive been reading orson scott card lately , I burned through the ender's saga books in the last few months.I love how he makes these complicated moral issues so damn interesting . Science fiction is perfect for that, If you have an idea you want to explore you can set up some kind of hypothetical future where the circumstances are exaggerated just so that the idea has a chance to play out its every possible intricacy . I just recently found out card is a mormon and dont know what to do with that.
Actually, I just now looked into it and found a huge number of his political views are in conflict with mine. Thats always weird, you start feel like an author shares a certain world view with you and then come to find things get much more complicated in the nonfiction world. i also found out that he wrote all the insults for the original monkey island game though, and thats awesome.
Ive also been reading 'collapse' by jared diamond, which is really interesting but im moving slowly through it. it ties in nicely with the apocalyptic fetish ive had the past few years, dealing with real world societies that have crashed . It explores all the factors that come into play; economic, religious, social, environmental, etc. so far ive read about Montana, easter island, Pitcairn islands, Anasazi and Maya . towards the end he gets to more modern societies like Haiti, Rwanda and Australia (hypothetical?).
I also reread world war Z last weekend. I think its becoming one of my favorite books of all time. they're making movie which is cool, but i think a miniseries would be better, preferably hbo or something so it could high production value. The book is a series of stories about a world wide zombie outbreak told from different points of view so it would lend itself well to that format .
the restoring process has moved on to the B's now, hooray! Barton fink! Bar-Ton Fink! Bar-Ton Fink!
Im exhausted and cant sleep so im doing this thing where i write stuff again.
A while ago i backed up ~300gb of movies on a home brew external hard drive. then i tried to bring it to the folks place on thanksgiving to see if their laptop could play some of the HD stuff on their HDTV. it couldn't process the compressed video fast enough so that was a failure, plus the drive must have got bumped too hard on transport cause windows no longer sees it as formatted, so now i have this software restoring the files and copying them to one of my internals which is going to take, days or something. its been at it for 5-6 hours and its still on the A's ('aqua teen hunger force: colon movie' at the moment ) .
I really wanted this hard drive thing to work as im tired of burning DVD's . I may still pursue it and just be gentler to the drives.
My motorcycle broke a few weeks ago, i tried to fix it for awhile and and eventually realized it basically needed a full engine rebuild which was beyond the value of the bike to attempt so I just took it out and worked the shit out of it until i felt the engine self destructing between my legs and finally seizing . Sold it for a few hundred and bought a bandit 1200s.
ive been reading orson scott card lately , I burned through the ender's saga books in the last few months.I love how he makes these complicated moral issues so damn interesting . Science fiction is perfect for that, If you have an idea you want to explore you can set up some kind of hypothetical future where the circumstances are exaggerated just so that the idea has a chance to play out its every possible intricacy . I just recently found out card is a mormon and dont know what to do with that.
Actually, I just now looked into it and found a huge number of his political views are in conflict with mine. Thats always weird, you start feel like an author shares a certain world view with you and then come to find things get much more complicated in the nonfiction world. i also found out that he wrote all the insults for the original monkey island game though, and thats awesome.
Ive also been reading 'collapse' by jared diamond, which is really interesting but im moving slowly through it. it ties in nicely with the apocalyptic fetish ive had the past few years, dealing with real world societies that have crashed . It explores all the factors that come into play; economic, religious, social, environmental, etc. so far ive read about Montana, easter island, Pitcairn islands, Anasazi and Maya . towards the end he gets to more modern societies like Haiti, Rwanda and Australia (hypothetical?).
I also reread world war Z last weekend. I think its becoming one of my favorite books of all time. they're making movie which is cool, but i think a miniseries would be better, preferably hbo or something so it could high production value. The book is a series of stories about a world wide zombie outbreak told from different points of view so it would lend itself well to that format .
the restoring process has moved on to the B's now, hooray! Barton fink! Bar-Ton Fink! Bar-Ton Fink!
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I hope you are feeling better.