First, I'm not complaining ( Read more... )

I haven't made a Gratuitous Icon Post in so long, I had almost forgotten what it stood for!

Now that I've already made a bunch of posts about songvids, I finally got around to making a suitable icon! :-) It's an homage to the older vids that I've been digitizing, hence the stopwatch, VCR, and cascading pile of tapes. Here's to many future uses!

I have a bunch of videotapes that I'd like to convert to DVD - things like the Shining Time Station Christmas special and the Harris/Dietrich pimping tape. I don't think my computer has the horsepower to do it digitally, so I'm thinking about getting one of those machines that's basically a videotape player and a DVD burner together. (I think Go- ( Read more... )

We found a special issue of Cinescape from 2001 in the garage that included a roundup of the movies from the year. We had fun going through them and adding a bunch to our Netflix queue. The magazine strongly recommended this movie, a 48-minute anime from Japan, so we added it.

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I sent the laptop back with a description of what went wrong, and got an email saying that they couldn't reproduce the problem. From talking to people at the convention and online, I got the impression that something had been jostled loose in shipping, and that same something probably got jostled into place when I shipped it back! The policy on ( Read more... )

That's bad, right? *points to subject line* I bought a cheapish laptop on eBay (my old one finally died) and the damn thing won't boot. (I'm currently in the hotel business center.) *wails* I miss having a laptop ( Read more... )

Given that Internet Explorer is Evil, and Mozilla Firefox is Good, why do my icons look like crap in Firefox? Do they look that crappy to everyone who uses Firefox, and you guys are just too nice to tell me?

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( I frakkin' HATE Photoshop )

About five years ago I got a DVD player for my birthday, and it has finally died. It did interesting things while it was dying - for a while there, every now and then when I hit pause, the screen would divide into 9 tiny pictures and keep moving. Which was cool, but somewhat inconvenient.

Anyway, about three or four years ago I got a DVD burner ( Read more... )

So... if you're using the hubby's Mac because you haven't gotten around to getting your Windows machine fixed yet, and your older, ginormous cat is super-clingy because you've been away two of the last three weeks, and as he oodges onto the keyboard he manages to lie PRECISELY on both the command key and the F5 key ( Read more... )