Okay, so the slogan thing was cute while it lasted, but popular opinion indicates that the good old taglines randomizer is the preferred form of under-the-logo funny here at Hue-Impaired Waterfowl Central. While I was at it, I tackled a lot of the tagline backlog. Yes, that’s right… the tagline file is now even bigger (and, arguably, better) than ever.
Share and enjoy, won’t you?
Getting to play a City of Heroes character through to Level 50 in under five minutes is, in a way, quite a fun experience. In the last day or so I’ve built a half-dozen characters, thanks to the CoH Planner.
I suppose now I should actually… er… play the game, huh?
The Project: See if using external USB devices for TV tuning and quality audio I/O is a viable alternative to cramming PCI cards into crowded 2U rackmount computer chassis, so we can intelligently order appropriate gear for the next batch of production studio computers.
After several workdays during which ATI’s tech support insulted my intelligence by suggesting I try things that I already told them I’d done, they finally came through with a sensible suggestion that helped me get their TV Wonder USB 2.0 device working.
(James Burke Voice:) Well, sort of.
I had to dial down the USB bandwidth setting in order to get video that didn’t look like the actors on TV were experiencing severe and prolonged epileptic seizures. And then I made the mistake of actually hooking up the Digigram USB audio device. Bzzzt. That was it, no more ATI television viewing. At all.
Believe me, I tried a lot of things to make it work (again). No go.
My verdict? This solution isn’t even remotely ready for prime time. Once again, USB devices fail to live up to their glorious advance billing…
In a fit of getting-things-done, I’ve finally posted my slowly-growing collection of photographic computer desktop wallpapers in the gallery. While I was at it, I also posted some of my favorite collected anime wallpapers.
Share and enjoy. Please don’t hotlink, however. I don’t want to have to start doing Stupid Apache Tricks, hmm?
Photographic Wallpapers
Favorite Anime Wallpapers
All I was going to do was check email. Then I was just going to check my RSS feeds.
Suddenly I’m the head of a small nation. What the hell happened, here?
It’s all her fault, I tell you. Bah.
The DVD came out half-right. The second half, that is. For some reason the audio sync on the first episode started out correct and then, about a minute into the show, went horribly wrong. I think I know what went wrong (attempting to trim the video within Nerovision Express, which wouldn’t have been a problem except I was replacing the original audio with a reworked separate track), but I suspect the only way to fix it for the next test burn will be to find a way to trim the raw capture file from outside of NVE, demux the audio track from the resulting file, re-tweak the audio, then put those two files into NVE and not worry about trimming.
Sure, that should only take a couple of hours. Did I mention that remastering the files takes about five hours for the two episodes? Whew. There’s a day’s work.
So, today, I’m not going to bother. Instead I’m going to bring over to the kids’ place a bunch of UT2004 stuff… the latest patch, some map packs, a couple of new mutators, a mod, some models, and a stats generator. We’re gonna have fun today! Heck yeah.
