My iPod, and a Même.
Well, my iPod almost died last night. I was listening to music as usual and became disinterested with the Sailor Moon song that had come up on shuffle, so I tried to skip to the next song. Then the music stopped, and it just sat there like it didn't know anything was wrong. After I mashed the button a few times, it finally jumped back and forth, but it just wasn't as responsive as it should have been. So I restarted it by holding down the Menu and Select buttons, and it did the same thing again. After the next restart it wouldn't even finish booting: it displayed a folder icon with a warning symbol and below it the url to Apple's iPod Support page:
That's generally a bad sign. Macs will display a similar icon when they have a hard drive problem. After another restart, though, it showed a new icon, this time an iPod with a dead face:
I had that once before when I broke it with Linux, so I thought maybe it was a software problem. I restarted it in debug mode by holding the Rewind and Select buttons on startup (you have to restart it first and then hold them until the Apple logo disappears), and I ran a few tests. All the relavent tests passed just fine-no hard drive or memory problems, so it came down to a reinstall.
When I got home, I used the iPod updater program to reset it and reinstall the firmware. It wouldn't install the first couple times, and after another try it still wouldn't boot, so I just left it and went to bed. But then I turned it on today (well, yesterday now), and it booted normally. But it lost its settings every time it restarted. So I tried reinstalling again, but that hasn't really helped. It still asks me what language to use every time I reboot it, and it loses the menu settings. But the Notes files I put on it are still okay, so the hard drive is fine. Now I just have to put my music back onto it whenever I get back to my apartment, where my hard drive is with my iTunes library. I just hope it works. It sounds to me like its cache or something has gone bad. Who knows how that will affect its performance.
For now I'm listening to my RCA Lyra, which as pontelon may remember I bought in Terre Haute a few years ago for entirely too much money.
And now that all that is out of the way, here is a même.
Outcast Genius
73 % Nerd, 69% Geek, 52% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).
Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.
Congratulations!
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 86% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 94% on geekosity
You scored higher than 87% on dork points
Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Oh, and I have a new icon.
That's generally a bad sign. Macs will display a similar icon when they have a hard drive problem. After another restart, though, it showed a new icon, this time an iPod with a dead face:
I had that once before when I broke it with Linux, so I thought maybe it was a software problem. I restarted it in debug mode by holding the Rewind and Select buttons on startup (you have to restart it first and then hold them until the Apple logo disappears), and I ran a few tests. All the relavent tests passed just fine-no hard drive or memory problems, so it came down to a reinstall.
When I got home, I used the iPod updater program to reset it and reinstall the firmware. It wouldn't install the first couple times, and after another try it still wouldn't boot, so I just left it and went to bed. But then I turned it on today (well, yesterday now), and it booted normally. But it lost its settings every time it restarted. So I tried reinstalling again, but that hasn't really helped. It still asks me what language to use every time I reboot it, and it loses the menu settings. But the Notes files I put on it are still okay, so the hard drive is fine. Now I just have to put my music back onto it whenever I get back to my apartment, where my hard drive is with my iTunes library. I just hope it works. It sounds to me like its cache or something has gone bad. Who knows how that will affect its performance.
For now I'm listening to my RCA Lyra, which as pontelon may remember I bought in Terre Haute a few years ago for entirely too much money.
And now that all that is out of the way, here is a même.
Outcast Genius
73 % Nerd, 69% Geek, 52% Dork
For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.
You scored better than half in all three, earning you the title of: Outcast Genius.
Outcast geniuses usually are bright enough to understand what society wants of them, and they just don't care! They are highly intelligent and passionate about the things they know are *truly* important in the world. Typically, this does not include sports, cars or make-up, but it can on occassion (and if it does then they know more than all of their friends combined in that subject).
Outcast geniuses can be very lonely, due to their being outcast from most normal groups and too smart for the room among many other types of dorks and geeks, but they can also be the types to eventually rule the world, ala Bill Gates, the prototypical Outcast Genius.
Congratulations!
Also, you might want to check out some of my other tests if you're interested in any of the following:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Professional Wrestling
Love & Sexuality
America/Politics
Thanks Again! -- THE NERD? GEEK? OR DORK? TEST
My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 86% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 94% on geekosity
You scored higher than 87% on dork points
Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the 32-Type Dating Test
Oh, and I have a new icon.