Wednesday, July 31, 2002

I Got No Game I purposefully avoided buying a new game due to my trip (see below). Now I am fiending for something to play. I finished Neverwinter Nights before the trip. I am skipping Warcraft III because when people wreck my nice town it pisses me off (I have issues, at least I can admit it). I have Unreal Tournament 2003 on pre-order, but the way things look it's not coming out until deep September at the earliest. In a month I am starting at the Brooklyn Conservatory for guitar. Hopefully my punk rawk guitar skills will greatly improve by time I finish there. So, in the meantime I need a freeking game (far be it for me to get a real life). I am thinking of MOH:AA. I tried it a couple months back and it rocked, but $50 for a FPS game is kind of dumb where I come from. Maybe I will just go back to RTCW online. That could be fun... 11:49:36 PM

Hack that TiVo It's going down tomorrow. Hacking my TiVo that is. I had two IBM Deskstar 60GXPs go south on me in a row. One was a 40G that choked. The replacement, a 60G crashed and burned as well. Had I not backed up a week before, I would have lost over 10M of MP3s. I was seriously considering a class action suit against IBM, but being the have sent yet another replacement I will calm down (for now). Being my system is currently sporting two WD1200JPs I neither need or want that IBM rubbish in my system. What better place to throw a 60G drive than my TiVo? I am kind of worried I will nuke my unit, but hell, the chance of 100+ hours of useless TV at my fingertips that I will never watch outwieghs any risk! I have the Sony DIRECTV™ Receiver with TIVO (Model SAT-T60). After seeing watching Leo Laporte at The Screen Savers botch the job on the same model, I am fairly confident I can screw mine up at least as bad as he did. I'll post on how it went sometime tomorrow. 11:20:24 PM

Coast to Coast Well, I am back from San Francisco.  I have to say, it’s a great city.  One thing, it’s cold out there!  After a couple of days I was used to the weather and loving it.  I could totally deal with long sleeves all year ‘round.  Now it’s back to the heat and filth of NYC, yum-yum!   I met a lot of interesting people out there.  A lot had PhDs and law degrees and are not working in their field, by choice.  Most of them are doing the creative thing.  That’s something I can certainly appreciate.  I am a professional code-slinger myself.  While I love the field, these days learning a new song on guitar, painting or writing is a million times more satisfying than learning a new programming language or design pattern.  I guess it’s logic vs. creativity.  It’s a shame that creativity does not pay the bills (for me at least).   Six days without Internet access was awesome.  I really needed the break.  While the Internet is a great tool, I have to admit that 90% of it is complete and utter garbage.  Here’s to the 10% that’s worth browsing!  Back to work for me tomorrow, um, yea. 1:00:48 PM

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