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Mar. 7th, 2008
One of my friends told me about Geocaching which involves people hiding something (a small container with , at the very least, a log book) and then listing the GPS coordinates at the web site linked above. What you do is use a GPS device to locate the caches in your area, then sign the log book. My friend called it "a walk with a purpose". Sounds kinda fun. ^_^
I came across a new term this week to describe guys who dress up in elaborate gothic lolita or sweet lolita dresses -- like my ex-roommate Tom did last Norwescon. Apparently, male lolitas are called brolitas.
Last week when I wrote about the Daniel Amos cd Darn Floor, Big Bite and the Swirling Eddies cd Zoom Daddy, I came across a list on Amazon.com of what the person making the list considered brilliant pop music cds. It contained both of these cds and several other cds that I also respected a great deal. On the basis that this guy really seemed to know what he was talking about, I picked up a couple of really cheap cds that he highly recommended -- The Mommyheads, and Closed Captioned Radio by The Bogmen. I got them yesterday and I've been listening to them today -- they're pretty much exactly what I was expecting, great quirky pop music with exceptionally well-written lyrics. Both cds were essentially big commercial flops -- criminally overlooked, which also fits a pattern of really really good music that most people just don't understand or like. I'll probably post about them with one of my song of the day posts later.
I was going to post some other stuff last night but I was playing City of Villains when my computer shut off. I logged back in, played some more, and it shut off again. That made three times that my computer has acted up since I got the new video card, but I decided to try a different driver first and see if that fixed things. I'd installed the drivers that came with the card, so I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia's site. I tried to install it over the old driver, but that didn't work. Then I tried to delete the old driver, reboot, and install the new one. I couldn't get the new driver to behave properly, it would reset to minimum desktop size and low color settings every time I rebooted (which was weird because even with no driver installed it would boot at my normal 1024x768 desktop size).
Finally I went and downloaded the current omega driver, which is not recommended by Nvidia, probably because it works better than their own. And that fixed the problem... but I wasted nearly 2 hours messing around with all of that.
I came across a new term this week to describe guys who dress up in elaborate gothic lolita or sweet lolita dresses -- like my ex-roommate Tom did last Norwescon. Apparently, male lolitas are called brolitas.
Last week when I wrote about the Daniel Amos cd Darn Floor, Big Bite and the Swirling Eddies cd Zoom Daddy, I came across a list on Amazon.com of what the person making the list considered brilliant pop music cds. It contained both of these cds and several other cds that I also respected a great deal. On the basis that this guy really seemed to know what he was talking about, I picked up a couple of really cheap cds that he highly recommended -- The Mommyheads, and Closed Captioned Radio by The Bogmen. I got them yesterday and I've been listening to them today -- they're pretty much exactly what I was expecting, great quirky pop music with exceptionally well-written lyrics. Both cds were essentially big commercial flops -- criminally overlooked, which also fits a pattern of really really good music that most people just don't understand or like. I'll probably post about them with one of my song of the day posts later.
I was going to post some other stuff last night but I was playing City of Villains when my computer shut off. I logged back in, played some more, and it shut off again. That made three times that my computer has acted up since I got the new video card, but I decided to try a different driver first and see if that fixed things. I'd installed the drivers that came with the card, so I downloaded the latest driver from Nvidia's site. I tried to install it over the old driver, but that didn't work. Then I tried to delete the old driver, reboot, and install the new one. I couldn't get the new driver to behave properly, it would reset to minimum desktop size and low color settings every time I rebooted (which was weird because even with no driver installed it would boot at my normal 1024x768 desktop size).
Finally I went and downloaded the current omega driver, which is not recommended by Nvidia, probably because it works better than their own. And that fixed the problem... but I wasted nearly 2 hours messing around with all of that.