Silly Stuff

A coworker of mine suggested I participate in the SantaCon this weekend.

I never fell asleep last night. That’s not really healthy, but sometimes, I just can’t sleep. I think I’m going to bed very, very, vewy soon.

Two nights ago — the last night I slept — I had a disturbing dream about having disappointed someone. I hate disappointing people.

Having new bedsheets is nice. Having new clothes is also nice. Knowing that I’ll be receiving via UPS a new pair of shoes tomorrow to replace my older black ones that have started to fall apart is nice as well.

This device could be perfect for me. I figure it may be true that “sometimes” I “might” “leave” dirty laundry on the floor of my bedroom. This could be the perfect solution for me. All I would need in addition would be a washer and dryer.

Ever since I bought this car on June 1, I’ve been watching my money disappear. I can’t even bear to open up Microsoft Money to enter in my expenses and check my balances these days. I suppose it’s better that I can actually get around now, but I traded a lot of financial security for that ability. Getting a slightly used car would’t have made that much difference, since the new one was pretty inexpensive as far as cars go.

My primary hard drive in my desktop computer crashed. I’m not sure exactly what the cause was, but I’m leaning towards the SHOUTcast station I was running. A few days ago, I moved the player and encoder to my laptop, which was reading all the music from the desktop over ethernet. The stream was then connecting through the ethernet to the desktop, where I was running the broadcast part of the software and where all incoming connections were directed. I think it was just too much disk activity.

I started the salvage late last night, and I was able to fix the hardware level problem. So far, all I know is that the Windows XP System directory was corrupted. Hopefully I didn’t lose much else, since I don’t have back-ups.

Considering I keep my financial information on my laptop and email on my webserver, I’m probably okay. It’s possible I could lose a large amount (about 100 GB of a 200 GB drive) of music files which have taken a long time to download or digitize. I had already moved all my video projects to a second hard drive (a 250 GB drive), so that will most likely be unaffected.

I also had many, many software packages that took a long time to acquire. I should have backed those up onto DVD+R. I’ll update when I’m at home and can see what’s remaining. Luckilly, I know I haven’t lost anything “important.” My desktop was reaching the time for the one-year Windows XP wipe, anyway.

Unrelated: Today’s search query: What are the effect of Illiteracy

They say a person should embrace those things about himself he cannot change. Well, I do for the most part, but every once in a while I’m reminded of my shortcoming. Here I am delivering a first place trophy and banner to a school at a marching band show last weekend.

I suppose it’s all relative. The three guys standing next to me were likely the tallest members of that particular high school band.

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour this weekend. I know I could use the extra sleep. However, at the designated Turn Back the Clock time (2:00 am), I will most likely be driving home from Baltimore after a very long day volunteering for a marching band championship show. I don’t see sleep in my weekend forecast.

Now for something meta-related… I signed up for BlogExplosion which presents your website to other internet surfers if, while using their interface, you browse random weblogs who have also registered. I’m not sure that it’s worth it. I’ve noted a lot of new visitors here, but what’s really the point of getting random visitors? It would be nice if they come back and read often outside of the BlogExplosion system, but I bet most people browsing through BlogExplosion are only doing so to give their sites more exposure. I don’t know, I haven’t decided if it’s a waste of my time yet. It probably is, but I hope other browsers are getting something out of it if they happen to be served my site. To those people: “Hello!”

The website for the CD Mix Exchange is now up for the most part. If you would like to participate, please sign up there. The theme for the month of November is Mundane Activities.

Okay, Darren brought this up, and Bryan continued with it, and I’m going to try to organize things and possibly reach a wider audience.

We are putting together a CD mix exchange and we’re looking for participants. There will be a theme and everyone will create their own CD compilation based on that theme. After a set amount of time, each participant will share their mix with the other particiants and a new theme will be determined.

If you’d like to participate, simply post a comment here, and people who do not blog are certainly free to participate as well. Also, do we think two weeks is a good time frame for a theme? Now accepting suggestions.

If there are enough people interested (say, at least five, based on Bryan’s suggestion), I’ll make a website for this project over the weekend.

I dub October as “Nature and Science Month” this year. On October 27, if the skies are clear, we should have an excellent view of another total lunar eclipse. The last time we had one, not too long ago, there were too many clouds obstructing the view.

SpaceShipOne has successfully completed its second trip into suborbital space and has won the $10 million Ansari “X Prize.” Now we can look forward to the commercialization of space travel.

Next weekend, I’m thinking about making a trip to New England to drive, see the fall foliage, and maybe do some hiking.

Presenting the Internet’s Most Accurate English-to-English Translation Dictionary.

Your first question is undoubtedly, “What’s the point?” and my answer is undoubtedly, “There is none.”

By the way, it also does Spanish-to-Spansh, French-to-French, and German-to-German. I see no reason why I can’t easily add more languages in time.