Organizing my music today. I have this "Under Criticism" folder full of stuff I don't get to listen to often enough to become friendly with. It's hard to get all the music through.

Approving today:
Boom Boom Satellites
The rest of Radiohead
Federico Aubele: Panamericana
Between The Buried And Me

Under review:
Apocalyptica
Death Note Soundtrack
The Chemical Brothers
Lupe Fiasco

 

In Folder awaiting review:
Madonna: Confessions of a Dance Floor
X-Ray Dog
20 Fingers Compilation
Aberdeen City
Alice In Chains
Air
And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
Archive
Austrian Death Machine
Bang Camaro
BitterSweet: Drama
Bodyrox
BT
Clutch
Coheed and Cambria
Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
DA CHIP(Daft Punk 8-bit)
Datarock
DJ Danger Mouse
DJ Shadow
E.S. Posthumus
Eagles of Death Metal
Blizzard's Echoes of War
Eject Project
Flight of the Conchords
Funtastic Power
Gwen Stefani
Imogen Heap
Pendulum
King Diamond
Lacuna Coil
Lazy Mutha Fucka(or 'LMF')
m3n Soundtrack
Malice Mizer
Mastodon
MC Chris
MC Frontalot
Mediaeval Baebes
Megadeth
Mimetic Collective
Modest Mouse
Mos Def
Murder By death
N.E.R.D.
Of Montreal
OK Go
Paul Van Dyk
Paul Oakenfold: Greatest Hits
Pink Floyd
Propeller Heads
Public Enemy
Rage Against the Machine
Ridge Racer Soundtrack
Robots In Disguise
Samurai Champloo Soundtrack
Serart
Serj Tankian
Skinny Puppy
Stanton Warriors
Stillborn Child
The Candy Spooky Theater
The Desert Sessions
The Eclectic Collective
The Gothic Archies
The Pillows
The Receiving End of Sirens
Theory of Trance
Portishead: Third
Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
A State of Trance
Ministry of House
Ministry of Sound
Vampire Mooose
Psy Trance Euphoria
VNV Nation
Wipeout Pulse Soundtrack
Xihilisk
YT Cracker
Zelda Mashups
FLOCK Soundtrack

Because getting into my personal music library isn't that easy. There are already some automatic approvals, but I really want to listen to them first. If I just put them away, I'll never do it (name things like Portishead, Ministry of Sound, Pink Floyd, etc.)

Yesterday, I finished reading Hot Gimmick. Hello, late to the party! I always am. I've had the books on my shelf forever and have read a couple before, but somehow forgot them immediately. I'm very difficult at retaining things. Which, for the most part is a bad thing but sometimes the perks are pretty neat. (Goldfish syndrome. Ooh! What a neat rock! ... Ooh! What a neat rock!) So if I come back to something later, I will have forgotten just about everything and then I can enjoy it all over again just like new. Or not enjoy it, in some cases.

Either way, I'm not a fangirl. I don't go fanatic over shit, but maybe because of the genre of the series I've gone overboard. Just jumped into the ocean of it. There's just something about that series that made/makes me giddy. Now I'm not a reader of shoujo comics (it's the only girls comic in my library), for I neither like the excessively childish stories and the exceptionally bad, effortless art put into them. However the sole reason I picked up the books a couple years ago was for the aesthetically appealing design on the front. Simple and catchy. Sure, if I didn't read it whatever, but that's a nice looking book I must admit, good sir. Just like I have Alichino on my shelf and I don't think it's worth my time, but the illustrations are... well, that artist won illustrator of the year a couple times.

I don't know why I saw the story so differently from the opinions that are out there and available. So I hear many people think it should have had a different ending, but then again those same people were only reading the book "FOR THE PRETTY PRETTY BISHIES =^_______^=" holy fuck did I just say that? All throughout the story I was kind of bracing myself for a letdown at the very end, but I ended up enjoying it immensely. The last thing I would have hoped would be that it turns out like 'fine literature' where the main character is enlightened, although ultimately alone and depressed. If you looked at it from a relation perspective, you just wanted Hatsumi to be happy.

( Into the mind )

Here we go:

Air Gear 2+
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 2-3
Purgatory Kabuki 2-3
Bride of the Water God 4(September)
The Twelve Kingdoms 3
FLCL Novel 3
Hot Gimmick 5-12


I want these so much.

It'll happen again, and I know it.

I woke up today to find raw chicken in the fridge again. Which, thawing in the fridge is a viable way of getting meat ready they day of or the day before you cook it. However it really rather irks me that my family likes to put raw meat into the fridge in packages that leak juices all over, nothing underneath it to catch said juice. What's better is that they don't put it in the bottom of the fridge where if it leaks, it doesn't matter; They put it above all the other cold food and leftovers.

This kind of bothers me. The surfaces of the fridge are covered in harmful bacteria and there's a good chance that if I have food in it that I don't cook, I could get sick off of it. While it's not going to be 100% that you'll get sick off of anything, my family thinks it's alright and that precautions aren't really a necessity. I'm not even a goddamn germ freak, but this disgusts me.

Perhaps it's just where I work. I'm used to doing all the right things so that no one gets sick. Wash your hands before you do anything, use a different spoon, wash all surfaces before and after they touch any fruit, vegetables or meat. Then again maybe I should take a hint from the state of the kitchen that the people in this house are absolutely filthy. Roach graveyards under all the appliances, they crawl everywhere at night, counters aren't clean and dishes covered in food pile up everywhere. It's not like the whole house is dirty, but no one cares about the kitchen.

I've never gotten food poisoning, but people in the house have gotten it plenty.

SUCCESS! After like six years of fiddling around with video tools, I've finally re-encoded a video so that it's not Matroska, and is universally readable by other gadgets. i.e. into DivX. The catch is that most video encoders that change Matroska to DivX change it to a default DivX resolution, which is very small (320x240). Just finally found a program that changes formats freely.

What is beautiful is the program also pulls a set of subtitles from the video file. The downside to that is it always pulls subtitles. So whether or not it's in native, it pulls subtitles.

Here's how it goes.

Tool necessary:
MKVToolnix (removes subtitles)
Any Video Converter Professional.

MKVtoolnix will remove all subtitle tracks if you like. Open, add file, and uncheck any group that says "S" or "Subtitle track". Usually the last files in the list.
Now mux.

Take the file that it outputs and open it up in Any Video Converter. Set profile (upper righthand corner) to Customized AVI Movie. Set your video preferences. If you want it the full resolution, set your Video Size to original.

If a video has dual audio, check which channel is the audio channel you want. This means opening it up in a media player and checking the tray icon next to the clock. Click on it and it shows audio: 0: English audio, 1: Spanish audio, or something similar. Choose the number you want for Audio Channel in Any Video Converter.

Simply encode afterward, and it's done.

I'm still working on doing this for ogm. -_- VSO's ConvertXtoDVD will convert ogm files, but only to DVD format. Gotta find something that works.

 D'aww. My friends miss me. I feel appreciated.

I must admit, Alienware is an awfully nice company.

Sent in my computer. It did take a month to actually get a box shipped to me to send it, but whatever.

The processor stopped posting, and in turn was unable to boot up past the bios at all. So as I just received it and opened up the box today, I saw a few new improvements:

When I went to Mexico, I brought it with me via big black cloth bag. Nothing special, nothing protective. The case cracked and broke in a number of places and a few things jarred loose. The LED lights in the front were no longer attached to the case except by wire, and the removable panel was bent on the corner.

All these were fixed. They gave me a brand new top panel and fixed the corner of my case, added new thumb screws to the back, attached the LEDs, and even took my master drive(which was a jury-rigged 50gb harddrive, stuffed someplace below the optics[not secured] and wired between a couple other drives) added a new extension for it, and installed it into the case.

Really nice. On top of that, they replaced the mobo.

The journey through Northrend has been nothing but a bizarre lesson in hesitation.

Maybe seven months of break and an accumulated loathing for it will do that to you. I've been hearing about all the adventures that Tim has been having in Northrend; Instances, quests, raids, guilds. Which is fine and dandy, as I've been sort of tutoring him on how to play the game. He's got an 80 Paladin now, and still I have two 70 priests.

It's been three total days of travel. So far I've gotten to 71, done two new instances, and learned that getting to Dalaran is hard(shortly after learning that I didn't save to Dalaran when Jim ported me there, running all the way to Crystalsong, and that I forgot to finish the transport crystal quest).

Every time I think about doing something in the game, I get that dark feeling in my chest and question why I'm playing. And whenever I start an instance, all I can do is be fearful of the group I'm going to get.

So I ask, why do I hate this game and why do I still play it?

I think I hated it because of all the time I spent hanging around because I didn't have a life. It's still a really good, really well balanced game.

Dear child,

Where are you going, and do you enjoy what it looks like?

With love,
The Dreamer