So I have the flu right now. I've been fighting it off since Sunday and today the flu won the battle. I'm achey and dizzy, possibly feverish, and on top of that I feel really queasy ( Read more... )

I don't review albums on LJ that much anymore (I don't really use LJ in general that much anymore, in fact) but I require a venue for this one: the new Guns 'n Roses album, Chinese Democracy, is pretty great. I should qualify this statement with a couple of disclaimers, however ( Read more... )

Two (very nerdy) things today ( Read more... )

Finally got around to taking some pictures of the projector and screen setup.

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I've been hearing wildly differing reactions to Obama's sweeping victory two nights ago. Some people, myself included, are celebratory, excited about what the winds of change have wrought in American politics, enthusiastic and hopeful that perhaps the US will now have a president who will approach that office with some kind of dignity and respect ( Read more... )

I had a molar yanked yesterday. Almost ten years ago, I was hanging out at doctorstrange's apartment, I bit down on a hard butterscotch, and my back, left-most top molar broke. Since then, I've put up with it, but over the last couple of years I guess it got infected and it's been getting more and more painful. In September I went to the dentist and he told ( Read more... )

At one time, not long ago, I felt a lot of despair when I thought about the prevailing attitudes in the United States. I am a Canadian but my mother is American, many of my closest friends are American, and I spend a considerable amount of time south of the border. Not only that, but many Americans (and Canadians) fail to recognise that what ( Read more... )

The only thing I hate about my life is that seagulls start crying outside my window at 7am. If I am having a bout of insomnia or have, for one reason or another, not yet gone to bed by that time (as is the case tonight), it is very irritating. A reminder that while the rest of the world is waking up, I have yet to let go of the day before.

So, the projector. Works great, output from the HTPC looks fantastic, but I've run into a stumbling block with the PS2\DVD player. The problem: PS2 has RGA component output, projector has a single video component input, DVI-I, VGA, S-Video and RS-232C. Not a lot of options. S-Video looks like crap, the single video component is about on par ( Read more... )

I have to watch Natural Born Killers for my film violence class. I hate this movie. I have about half an hour left of it and it's taken me two days to get back to it. At the same time, I totally understand the reason behind assigning it for analysis... It was practically tailor-made for it, in fact ( Read more... )