Perfect, Perfect, Miss, Boo, Miss, Good, Good, Great
I haven't been able to do very well at my DDR in quite a while now. I just can't get enthusiastic enough about it to improve even to maintain my current skill level. My endurance has improved back to where I could probably attempt Max 300 and such again, but I can't muster the energy to try and hit arrows well enough. The side goal of exercising seems to be working well enough anyway. All my pants are too big in the waist now.
Let's see... the week in review: I ran out of drugs I think Monday. I've noticed, surprise surprise, no change in my moods or energy levels or whatever the hell they were supposed to be doing to indicate that there may have been some sort of effect. Fewer random headaches, and it's been easier to sleep. I can fairly conclusively claim now that I am in fact immune to SSRI type psycodrugs. This isn't unheard of, I remember reading on one or the other documentation for the drugs that something like 20% of people only experience side effects or some shit. I could be totally making that up, but I don't care enough to go verify any sort of facts. The point is I will neve let anyone convince me to attempt to solve my problems with those again.
During the week, I had to work with Macromedia Director some. I fucking hate that program. For how great and well thought out their other programs seem to be in terms of being user friendly and easy for someone to pick up without knowing much to start, Director seems to have been deliberately designed to confuse the fuck out of people. Arguably the most powerful since it can integrate a huge number of media types into a seamless final product, and has it's own programming language for implementation of Shockwave 3D stuff, it still seems to be set up to baffle me. It doesn't help that the language it uses is a bastardization of Visual Basic (not sure on this) which I have no experience with. But the stage, the time-line, everything, are all in their own damn windows. No you can't maximize one and minimize the others. Why would you want the Stage to not be fucking obscured by every other window which is randomly positioned in the workspace every time you open the program? Arrg. And the help documents are fucking tragic. The normal help is alright, including a list of all the (1000s) of functions. However, the "how to" sort of things are ridiculous. Step by step guides that produce compile errors and crash the program. Also, a lot of the help seems to be hidden in separate documents that refuse to stay open so you can look at them and what you are doing at the same time. I had to dig through the files in the install directory and manually open help documents there. Despite all this, I was able to get something that works nominally, and will meet our Wednesday deadline of something that looks like a desktop application and a user can just run. However, if they don't happen to have the Virtools or Flash players installed on their computer, they can expect some nice crashing, in addition to the random crashes they'll get anyway because the Virtools Web Player sucks shit and crashes all the time. Stupid French program.
The AC in the house went out on Friday. Great fun was had by all.
Movies:
"Spiderman 2": Yes, it's good. Sure go see it. I was going to complain about the movie's lack of William DaFoe, but then he went and showed up, leaving me 100% satisfied with my movie going experience. I'm looking forward to "Spiderman 3: Dr. Octopus, The Orange Goblin, and Lizardman Team up to Kill Mary-Jane." That'll be good.
"Mechagodzilla® Against Godzilla®" is exactly what you expect it to be. We rented this at Blockbuster this week and were not disappointed by cheesy action and random silly Japanese people running around going "Oh no! Godzilla!!!"
In other news, I spent $370 on hardware for my computer yesterday. I had been planning on getting a new hard drive for a while, and was thinking 120 or 160 GB would do it, as those appear to be about the cheapest lowest $/GB ratio drives available right now. But, when I got to the store, I determined that I'd only loose about .3 $/GB on the upgrade to a 250 GB drive. So... yes, now I have one drive that is more than twice as big as my other two drives put together. Excellent. My CD burner (Best CD Writer!) had recently been reduced to CD reader, so I also thought I'd pick up a replacement that could also read and burn DVDs as well. Turns out a decent one of those costs the same as a 250 GB hard drive. Remaining purchases I may make to upgrade my computer: a second monitor for great dual monitor justice. New speakers, a sound card with 5:1 support. All this and my system will be fairly tricked out... I might as well track down a keyboard that doesn't have a fucking small backspace key \\\\.
Let's see... the week in review: I ran out of drugs I think Monday. I've noticed, surprise surprise, no change in my moods or energy levels or whatever the hell they were supposed to be doing to indicate that there may have been some sort of effect. Fewer random headaches, and it's been easier to sleep. I can fairly conclusively claim now that I am in fact immune to SSRI type psycodrugs. This isn't unheard of, I remember reading on one or the other documentation for the drugs that something like 20% of people only experience side effects or some shit. I could be totally making that up, but I don't care enough to go verify any sort of facts. The point is I will neve let anyone convince me to attempt to solve my problems with those again.
During the week, I had to work with Macromedia Director some. I fucking hate that program. For how great and well thought out their other programs seem to be in terms of being user friendly and easy for someone to pick up without knowing much to start, Director seems to have been deliberately designed to confuse the fuck out of people. Arguably the most powerful since it can integrate a huge number of media types into a seamless final product, and has it's own programming language for implementation of Shockwave 3D stuff, it still seems to be set up to baffle me. It doesn't help that the language it uses is a bastardization of Visual Basic (not sure on this) which I have no experience with. But the stage, the time-line, everything, are all in their own damn windows. No you can't maximize one and minimize the others. Why would you want the Stage to not be fucking obscured by every other window which is randomly positioned in the workspace every time you open the program? Arrg. And the help documents are fucking tragic. The normal help is alright, including a list of all the (1000s) of functions. However, the "how to" sort of things are ridiculous. Step by step guides that produce compile errors and crash the program. Also, a lot of the help seems to be hidden in separate documents that refuse to stay open so you can look at them and what you are doing at the same time. I had to dig through the files in the install directory and manually open help documents there. Despite all this, I was able to get something that works nominally, and will meet our Wednesday deadline of something that looks like a desktop application and a user can just run. However, if they don't happen to have the Virtools or Flash players installed on their computer, they can expect some nice crashing, in addition to the random crashes they'll get anyway because the Virtools Web Player sucks shit and crashes all the time. Stupid French program.
The AC in the house went out on Friday. Great fun was had by all.
Movies:
"Spiderman 2": Yes, it's good. Sure go see it. I was going to complain about the movie's lack of William DaFoe, but then he went and showed up, leaving me 100% satisfied with my movie going experience. I'm looking forward to "Spiderman 3: Dr. Octopus, The Orange Goblin, and Lizardman Team up to Kill Mary-Jane." That'll be good.
"Mechagodzilla® Against Godzilla®" is exactly what you expect it to be. We rented this at Blockbuster this week and were not disappointed by cheesy action and random silly Japanese people running around going "Oh no! Godzilla!!!"
In other news, I spent $370 on hardware for my computer yesterday. I had been planning on getting a new hard drive for a while, and was thinking 120 or 160 GB would do it, as those appear to be about the cheapest lowest $/GB ratio drives available right now. But, when I got to the store, I determined that I'd only loose about .3 $/GB on the upgrade to a 250 GB drive. So... yes, now I have one drive that is more than twice as big as my other two drives put together. Excellent. My CD burner (Best CD Writer!) had recently been reduced to CD reader, so I also thought I'd pick up a replacement that could also read and burn DVDs as well. Turns out a decent one of those costs the same as a 250 GB hard drive. Remaining purchases I may make to upgrade my computer: a second monitor for great dual monitor justice. New speakers, a sound card with 5:1 support. All this and my system will be fairly tricked out... I might as well track down a keyboard that doesn't have a fucking small backspace key \\\\.