We've got it all on UHF!

What a weekend. I got some work done around the house, installed an additional 20gig drive in my PC and got all of my photos copied on to it, so that was pretty cool. Perhaps the big work of the weekend was tearing through all of the boxes that haven't been touched since I moved up here, it seems that my tax preparer needed a copy of my return from last year. Normally she'd have a copy, but she changed the way she did taxes last year: she bought a copy of the program, as opposed to doing it online, and it saved a copy of the data on her hard drive. Unfortunately she got addicted to World of Warcraft, and in trying to make a rather anemic machine running Windows ME run WoW, she fdisked the drive.

Needless to say she can't find the zip disk that her data was backed up to.

So I'm pulling out banker's boxes and cruising through the contents. Never did find my taxes. But I did find my Teva sandles, which is a very good thing. I also found the remainder of my DVD collection! So tonight, after finishing my algebra homework (doing parabolic graphs), I decided I needed some weirdness. I also had to re-box three DVDs that were in a computer CD case that I'd apparently grabbed for a road trip. Whilst re-boxing them, I saw Weird Al's UHF....


The rest is history. Well, at least the rest of the night was history. I mean, it'll be history tomorrow night. Can something be history just an hour or two after it happened? I dunno.

Amazing cast and stuff: Cosmo Cramer, Fran Drescher, Emo Phillips, Billy Barty, Flying Poodles, Spatula City, Ghandi II, Conan the Librarian. I would have loved to have seen Druids On Parade in the U62 lineup.


Anyhew, it's a quarter to one and I'm tired. G'night, sleep tight, don't let the bed bugs tear huge rends of bloody flesh from your body.

One thing that I love about modern computers

is the speed at which they can rip music CDs.

When I first ripped my CD collection (over 500 music CDs) it took maybe 20 minutes a disc or so. That was on a P3/750. Fortunately I was able to exploit the software: I had two CD drives (one was a burner) so I could put two music discs in, effectively queueing one. Come back a while later, reload trays, go away.

I'm currently running an Athlon 1.5something GHz, it rips a music CD in probably 5 minutes or less.

LOVE IT!

And sadly, I may have decided on Microsoft's Media Player as my ripping program of choice. It will put my music in the file name format that I want (Artist.AlbumName.TrackNum.SongTitle.MP3). I do have to copy them out of the weird subdirectory format that they like, but that's no biggie.