Category Archives: organization

Eras, ending and so on.

Posted on August 16, 2008 by baudattitude

I can blame a lot of things on my anime habit. For example, when I was first introduced to anime back in 1990 or so, I had a 13″ Thomson monitor, with a composite input, that I had a Sega … Continue reading →

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Life, Love, and the Acquisition of new hardware.

Posted on June 5, 2008 by baudattitude

My wife’s monitor died in explosive fashion, and as the wonderful person she is, she decided that she would take MY old monitor and allow me free reign to purchase a new one for myself. This display of generosity came … Continue reading →

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Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be fanboys.

Posted on March 16, 2008 by baudattitude

…lest they find themselves, someday, in the position of having way too much obsolete media around and an obsessive-compulsive need to convert it to modern formats. I’ve been doing a bunch more VHS-to-MPEG2 capture, followed up by MPEG2-to-Divx encode lately.  … Continue reading →

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Backlog: The Listmaking

Posted on October 12, 2007 by baudattitude

This isn’t really a “to-do” list that is going to happen any time in the near future. Honestly, keeping on top of my three classes is pushing me hard enough, much less getting ready for the JLPT in December. The … Continue reading →

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I made you a mix tape.

Posted on October 3, 2007 by baudattitude

OK.  So I didn’t, really, but if I wanted to, I could now, you see. The unprecedented completion of my “record all the vinyl on to the computer” project prompted my wife to make delicate coughing noises and point out … Continue reading →

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I am good for the environment.

Posted on September 23, 2007 by baudattitude

OK. I’m not GREAT for the environment, or even really that good, because all I really did was take something incredibly wasteful and make it slightly less so. A few years ago, I designated one PC as the “Media” PC, … Continue reading →

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When I said…

Posted on September 22, 2007 by baudattitude

When I said I’d finished Trace Memory, that was a statement made of lies. I went back and played through it again. Turns out that I’d not only gotten the bad ending the first time, but by missing a critical … Continue reading →

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This will be a day long remembered…

Posted on August 26, 2007 by baudattitude

It has seen the end of vinyl, and it will soon see the end of the laserdiscs. Some background: A bit over a year ago, I finally copied the last of our records to MiniDisc and put the turntable into … Continue reading →

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Send-offs

Posted on August 9, 2007 by baudattitude

Losing a bunch of weight tends to get you asked two questions: 1) How’d you do it? 2) Why did you do it? My answer to the first one is usually “Eat lots of fruit and yogurt, don’t go to … Continue reading →

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Tron 2.0 : End Of Line

Posted on July 26, 2007 by baudattitude

Yes, I admit it, I have put off updating the blog while I played Tron 2.0 solely because I wanted to use that as a post title. I’m a sad, sick man. Anyway. I’m happy to report that patching the … Continue reading →

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