Category: Tech

You know, I have really had it up to here with Sony products, especially my VCR. God forbid I expect it to work properly. Gah! I recorded three hours of The Fairly Odd Parents the other day. I had to use EP as the setting, but made sure to use a brand new tape. It’s a Sony tape, no less. I tried playing it in the Emerson VCR and every once in awhile the picture would start jumping. So I figured it didn’t like the Sony-recorded tape, since it seems like you can’t watch anything that damn VCR records in any other brand VCR. So I put it back in the Sony one, and it’s even worse. How annoying! The VCR has worked like this since day one, and so did my brother’s (same model). Piece of crap. I recall the days when you could record on EP on a tape used 20 times without any problems. It seems like they are making VCRs shittier instead of better. I don’t even record often, like a few times a year, and this is the crap I get? I can’t wait to get a digital recorder, or something like a T*ivo where my viewing habits aren’t used for market research yet *I’m* required to pay a membership fee.

I swear, I can’t stop laughing every time I see this iPod commercial, especially when the guy’s voice changes. He totally reminds me of Adam Sandler, so I’m sure that’s a big part of it.

Ahhhh … there’s nothing like a brand new installation of Windows XP, complete with the most current versions of my favorite programs, to make me feel all tingly inside. My machine is running so smoothly right now, and I’ve got 120gb of space to play around with. I’m loving this new hard drive.

Ok, I am sure there is a way to do this, but for the life of me, I cannot figure out how. I have a cd that is one big mix, even though it is several tracks. How do I rip the songs off the cd as one big track so there are no pauses between the “songs”? I tried ripping them as several tracks and then re-burning without pauses, but Nero gives me an error saying I have to have 2-3 seconds between each track. This blows. It wouldn’t be so bad if Windows XP saw each track number so I could put them in order, but for whatever reason, it doesn’t. It assigned track numbers to some of the tracks, but not all of them. The only other thing I can think of is creating a playlist in Winamp and manually putting the tracks in order so at least I can listen to them on my computer in the order that makes sense and keeps the one long continuous beat going strong.

I’m in a mood right now. It’s an accumulation of a bunch of little things that separately are no big deal but together make me want to sever friendships and beat the shit out of stupid people.

Yep, that’s how I’m feeling.

The good news is that yesterday I ordered a nifty 80gb 7200 rpm Western Digital hard drive with an 8mb cache and it’s due to be delivered tomorrow. Got a good deal on it too – only $60. New computer equipment always cheers me up.