Bit early for Spring Cleaning, but oh well.
Dear god I did not realize how much CRAP I had on the old computer until I started cleaning out my external hard drive. I've been deleting an average of 1000 junk files every time I sit down to clean for an hour or so. I think I'm up to 20 gigs of stuff I just trashed. Pictures, text files I transferred to a OneNote notebook, mp3s I deleted because of lack of interest and/or having duplicates--it's like I'm a packrat or something. I had three folders of Watchmen pictures. Why did I need those. (I will admit that the Twilight Lady: Boner Inspector comics still made me giggle, but seriously, self. You do not need pictures of the Comedian in a fuku.)
Visi-pics has been helping me immensely with this. It's a program that allows you to search directories for duplicates and choose which pictures to delete. I'm so happy I found this thing. Amusingly enough, it was recommended in a readme of one of the Gary Oak archives on /vp/. Very glad I actually bothered to read it. I might actually start using one of the Greasemonkey scripts recommended in there as well, as it seems like it'll make browsing the dregs of the image boards much easier.
So far, I've three folders' worth of pictures to go through, each with a couple thousand pictures. I've three or four folders of music as well--remixes of video game music, mostly, but there are some anime soundtracks as well (the backup of my Get Backers CD that died from over-playing, the complete Yoroiden Samurai Troopers discography, etc.).
After seeing fifty million threads and references to the new My Little Pony cartoon, I decided to watch it. I'm on episode 11, and I am totally hooked. I don't think I've laughed that hard at a real children's cartoon in a long, long time. I am suddenly glad I was able to find a Rainbow Dash when I did, although I may have to invest in the other ponies as well (because Starscream needs a herd, dammit). I'm really surprised that I actually like almost every character in the show so far. This is unusual for me.
In the fan-created world, I'm somewhat amused that I seem to have gotten back into Kingdom Hearts. I was absolutely terrible at the games (honestly, I don't know how I made it as far as I did in the first one, and the second one I watched someone else play) and the proliferation of the series has somewhat turned me off of trying to get back to playing, but I find that Nobody-centric things are interesting to me again. I blame Those Lacking Spines.
The world of academics has been kind to me lately. I aced the midterm exam that I was most worried about, and I've already an idea for my final project in the class (Lovecraft's "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" and "The Silver Key" and Randolph Carter as a Promethian individual, complete with illustration of how overreach can cause one to turn into some terrible anteater-like thing with strange claws that is forced to wear a wax mask and turban in order to pass for human, or perhaps the unfortunate fate of one Richard Upton Pickman and his transformation into the king of ghouls, or maybe even both as they are inexplicably tied together in the Dream Quest). Now I need only to find another film to review, which may prove more difficult than I had at first suspected.
Visi-pics has been helping me immensely with this. It's a program that allows you to search directories for duplicates and choose which pictures to delete. I'm so happy I found this thing. Amusingly enough, it was recommended in a readme of one of the Gary Oak archives on /vp/. Very glad I actually bothered to read it. I might actually start using one of the Greasemonkey scripts recommended in there as well, as it seems like it'll make browsing the dregs of the image boards much easier.
So far, I've three folders' worth of pictures to go through, each with a couple thousand pictures. I've three or four folders of music as well--remixes of video game music, mostly, but there are some anime soundtracks as well (the backup of my Get Backers CD that died from over-playing, the complete Yoroiden Samurai Troopers discography, etc.).
After seeing fifty million threads and references to the new My Little Pony cartoon, I decided to watch it. I'm on episode 11, and I am totally hooked. I don't think I've laughed that hard at a real children's cartoon in a long, long time. I am suddenly glad I was able to find a Rainbow Dash when I did, although I may have to invest in the other ponies as well (because Starscream needs a herd, dammit). I'm really surprised that I actually like almost every character in the show so far. This is unusual for me.
In the fan-created world, I'm somewhat amused that I seem to have gotten back into Kingdom Hearts. I was absolutely terrible at the games (honestly, I don't know how I made it as far as I did in the first one, and the second one I watched someone else play) and the proliferation of the series has somewhat turned me off of trying to get back to playing, but I find that Nobody-centric things are interesting to me again. I blame Those Lacking Spines.
The world of academics has been kind to me lately. I aced the midterm exam that I was most worried about, and I've already an idea for my final project in the class (Lovecraft's "Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath" and "The Silver Key" and Randolph Carter as a Promethian individual, complete with illustration of how overreach can cause one to turn into some terrible anteater-like thing with strange claws that is forced to wear a wax mask and turban in order to pass for human, or perhaps the unfortunate fate of one Richard Upton Pickman and his transformation into the king of ghouls, or maybe even both as they are inexplicably tied together in the Dream Quest). Now I need only to find another film to review, which may prove more difficult than I had at first suspected.