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...instead of heading straight home.
I was kind of upset yesterday. Someone at work here posted a "moving sale" list of stuff for very cheap prices, including an Athlon 1700 512mb w/XP Pro for only $60. Naturally I called and someone had beat me to the punch. Drat! It's not like I need another computer, but I'd gladly pick that one up for that price. It would be the second fastest computer I own, and I don't own a copy of XP Pro which I've wanted for a long time (but haven't done anything about).
Oh well. So I could have been content all evening, but just knowing that I might have got a good computer at a cheap price and missed out made me not content.
Then I got home and my cable modem was acting up, so no online gaming for me. That was okay, I had an anime movie to watch... a really BAD one, as it turned out. For some unknown reason I'd decided to pick up "Samurai Girl: Real Bout Highschool" even though the manga was truly awful. I decided that, somehow, the anime might be a lot more interesting. Not. They followed the plot of the manga exactly, which is kind of amazing because the manga had no plot. Just a bunch of oversexed one-dimensional characters fighting. I mean, I know it's adapted from a fighting game -- I HOPE it's adapted from a fighting game -- but you could make some attempt at plot and character development.
The worst part was that I thought it was a double-dvd box but in fact the 2nd "dvd" was actually a copy of the first volume of the manga. Which I already had. Which I don't want.
And I COULD have picked up Chobits instead. I have NO idea why I didn't. The Chobits was packaged in a box with stationary, which I didn't really need... but then the other dvd was packaged with a manga I needed even less. Go figure.
Bleah.
So I spent the rest of the night putting together a couple of world music cds to listen to at work and in the car. :) A mix of roots folk and roots rock... which by my definition encompases everything from John Cougar Mellencamp and Bob Marley to Yat-Kha and Yothu Yindi. Fun!
The best part of DBAmp (or whatever it's called) is that I can rip cds to mp3 files effortlessly, with files named and numbered and sorted into files with the name of the band and subfiles for the cd title... very cool. And then the best thing about Nero Burning ROM is that I can assemble a cd mix, adjust the volumes of the tracks so that they are more or less playing at the same volume, and then save that track listing, and at any time in the future I can call it back up and burn a new copy of the same mix cd just like that. :D
I was kind of upset yesterday. Someone at work here posted a "moving sale" list of stuff for very cheap prices, including an Athlon 1700 512mb w/XP Pro for only $60. Naturally I called and someone had beat me to the punch. Drat! It's not like I need another computer, but I'd gladly pick that one up for that price. It would be the second fastest computer I own, and I don't own a copy of XP Pro which I've wanted for a long time (but haven't done anything about).
Oh well. So I could have been content all evening, but just knowing that I might have got a good computer at a cheap price and missed out made me not content.
Then I got home and my cable modem was acting up, so no online gaming for me. That was okay, I had an anime movie to watch... a really BAD one, as it turned out. For some unknown reason I'd decided to pick up "Samurai Girl: Real Bout Highschool" even though the manga was truly awful. I decided that, somehow, the anime might be a lot more interesting. Not. They followed the plot of the manga exactly, which is kind of amazing because the manga had no plot. Just a bunch of oversexed one-dimensional characters fighting. I mean, I know it's adapted from a fighting game -- I HOPE it's adapted from a fighting game -- but you could make some attempt at plot and character development.
The worst part was that I thought it was a double-dvd box but in fact the 2nd "dvd" was actually a copy of the first volume of the manga. Which I already had. Which I don't want.
And I COULD have picked up Chobits instead. I have NO idea why I didn't. The Chobits was packaged in a box with stationary, which I didn't really need... but then the other dvd was packaged with a manga I needed even less. Go figure.
Bleah.
So I spent the rest of the night putting together a couple of world music cds to listen to at work and in the car. :) A mix of roots folk and roots rock... which by my definition encompases everything from John Cougar Mellencamp and Bob Marley to Yat-Kha and Yothu Yindi. Fun!
The best part of DBAmp (or whatever it's called) is that I can rip cds to mp3 files effortlessly, with files named and numbered and sorted into files with the name of the band and subfiles for the cd title... very cool. And then the best thing about Nero Burning ROM is that I can assemble a cd mix, adjust the volumes of the tracks so that they are more or less playing at the same volume, and then save that track listing, and at any time in the future I can call it back up and burn a new copy of the same mix cd just like that. :D
