Floozy Speak!

So here we are September.. do you remember Summer happening? I sure don't. I guess it happened, I dunno.

She's so shiny and clean, Miss Mini that is.. sooo clean. Still a work out to clean and detail, just cause you have a small car doesn't mean it takes less effort to clean, ok maybe a little but still. Anyways she's soooo shiny! I love her! Vrooom!

I had my first mis-aligned printing on the cd printer last night, totally my fault, remember the switch dan, remember the switch. There's this little lever, remember put it in cd mode! Not a total loss however.

In gaming news I started messing around with FRAPS 2.0, the direct show avi maker for games. Yes what the hell is that? Well you play a game and use this bugger to make avi's of what yer playin. However it didn't really create avi's for me as much as remind me that I need a 3.0g hyperthreadin bad ass cpu upgrade. I had to bump Battlefield 1942 down to 640x480 mode to play and record at the same time. AC2 didn't fair much better, had to take that down to 800x600 and turn off everything. FRAPS wants speed, needs a hefty CPU and possibily gobs of ram to work successfully. I had it at capture 25fps, maybe i could move that down to 15 and see how it does.

Gaming wise still playing AC2. I tossed Sallysue's bow away and gave her a vial instead. She's a fire breathing alchemist as well. Why? Different, just different. Plus I can go DarkSide and change form.. heh. Using DarkSide I change into a hideous beastie and claw at critters. I dunno, seems fun. I like standing around town looking extremely out of place like the old red monster from bugs bunny. I swear thats what they had in mind when they created this 3d model.

"Such and interesting monster too.. my stars.. if an interesting monster cant have an interesting hair doo.. i dont know what I'd do... " - Bugs Bunny

In other gaming news I picked up Battlefield 1942, Secret Weapons of WW2. I love the intro. Let me just get that out, I love the intro. Wireframe animations come to life.. very cool, I need a dvd of that intro. Game wise its pretty cool, I like some of the new city maps, gun fights thru towns is always good. The new planes, while I could never fly in the other B1942's, they are pretty cool, especially the mini jet. The jet pack takes some time getting used too and all the new tanks are a blast. Need a few more hours on this one before I can really review it.

Closer to goodness is what I call it. Goodness is stuff works the way you intended. Like I just authored this DVD right? And? Well? It works sure but I forgot how to author a DVD really. I mean sure i can do the basic but I hardly ever want basic. I want cool menus and still galleries and all kinds of whack ass magic man! I want it all. So far so good, goodness is attained but I must learn how to make chapter stops.

Media is expensive, I picked up some DVD+R's yesterday at microcenter cause I wanted some printable ones right, and thats all they had.. and i didnt look at the price cause i just wanted some and holy crap thats expensive is what my brain said today when I looked at the price. $70 for 30 printable dvd+r's that wont work on my A103 at home. They will work at Lextant but I'm gonna return them and go for media online. I found a firmware for my A103 last night, I guess it takes it up to 2x, thats good enough for now. Heck I need to find 4x media for the burner at work.

Visual Communicator Pro came in this morning along with a 3Comm switch for Troy, he loves installing things! I'll have some words on the Visual Communicator later this week. In a nutshell, Pro gives us DV aka, DVD burnable quality and more! Woohoo!

Lastly and theres no end to dan fun. I have to apologize to Erin I totally phased out on Saturday and missed her fun evening of board games and wine. Sorry Erin!!! Ok I tried to take a power nap at 7pm, I was just tired and all and well I woke up at 11pm. I blame Dave.