Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Porcupine Tree'd!
So, saw Porcupine Tree, as it was their first time playin' in Australia (after being around for well over a decade or so...). I'd say it was worth the cost of the ticket. Dwayne actually purchased a lounge ticket, not the dancefloor area. After wondering how he'd get near the stage for ages, we bit the bullet and wandered in. Myself, Mel and Gareth strolled in without any problems (well, we paid for that area, so why should there have been problems?)
As Dwayne was stopped at the door, he just held up a clipboard that he and Mel were trying to get people to sign (for some reason that I never quite figured out...), muttered something about working for so-and-so, who gave him the wrong ticket, then they let him in. Took all of three seconds.
Fist-pounding moment, that was.
He then slaughtered millions. That was not a fist-pounding moment.
As Dwayne was stopped at the door, he just held up a clipboard that he and Mel were trying to get people to sign (for some reason that I never quite figured out...), muttered something about working for so-and-so, who gave him the wrong ticket, then they let him in. Took all of three seconds.
Fist-pounding moment, that was.
He then slaughtered millions. That was not a fist-pounding moment.
Chocolate Pasta?
Uh, guys? Thought I'd let you know ahead of time: Combining two of your most favourite things ever is not always the best idea and in some cases can in fact be the work of the devil.
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
I'm really digging Lightning Bolt at the moment. A rather cool band.
Y'all should check them out. I doubt anyone who reads this will like them but that's a part of the fun!
Y'all should check them out. I doubt anyone who reads this will like them but that's a part of the fun!
*doonk!*
OK, so I've gone through Touch Me, I'm Sick by Tom Reynolds (and damned funny read, even if the author has a tendency to ramble and sometimes never gets to the point).
While I was reading it, an idea struck me - I'm going to remix some of the more commercial tracks that are featured in the book.
I'm seriously considering getting a myspace for all this crap I'm coming up with, too.
In other news, been spending half of the day trying to update GPGnet so that I can play Forged Alliance online. After realising that my install of GPGnet was out of date (it wasn't immediately obvious that the client was an older version, let alone the fact that there were newer versions out there), I tried updating it. After downloading the update (a 40MBish file), it attempted to install and...died. It proudly presented some sort of error that gave no indication of whether it was an issue with linking to the game itself, with something in my registry or whether it were simply some generic problem relating to man-eating sharks.
I downloaded the update again, hoping that it was just a corrupt file, let it install and it died at exactly the same point that it did before. Probably not a corrupt file, then.
Uninstalled GPGnet altogether with the intention of grabbing the latest installer online. Oh yes, I am a crafty one when I want to be. The uninstallation went as smoothly as I could hope for, so I went to GPGnet's website to grab the client.
...
It didn't seem to be anywhere immediately obvious, so I looked around a bit more.
...
I eventually gave up and googled the latest version. Nada. Nothing useful anyway. I eventually found it linked in GPGnet's official forum but it wasn't the latest version, meaning I'd need to install the out-of-date version then update it. Not likely to work but I had no choice - I clicked the big red button and commenced downloading GPGnet.
70 very large megabytes later I double-click the .rar file with the installer in it, locate the setup file, drag it onto my desktop, double-click the...oh, it couldn't be extracted from the .rar file. It's corrupt, says a dialogue box. In it, an exclamation mark grins cheerfully at me from its yellow, triangular home.
...
Damn. After reflecting on the irony of why these things are called dialogue boxes by some folk - this one was really just talkin' at me, not with me - I try it again. Download the stupid 70MB file from the stupid forum link, extract the stupid file and...nope. Isn't happening. What, is my desktop really that unsanitary?
Sorry to put you through that. I'm about to go to bed, having given up on getting this damn thing working.
While I was reading it, an idea struck me - I'm going to remix some of the more commercial tracks that are featured in the book.
I'm seriously considering getting a myspace for all this crap I'm coming up with, too.
In other news, been spending half of the day trying to update GPGnet so that I can play Forged Alliance online. After realising that my install of GPGnet was out of date (it wasn't immediately obvious that the client was an older version, let alone the fact that there were newer versions out there), I tried updating it. After downloading the update (a 40MBish file), it attempted to install and...died. It proudly presented some sort of error that gave no indication of whether it was an issue with linking to the game itself, with something in my registry or whether it were simply some generic problem relating to man-eating sharks.
I downloaded the update again, hoping that it was just a corrupt file, let it install and it died at exactly the same point that it did before. Probably not a corrupt file, then.
Uninstalled GPGnet altogether with the intention of grabbing the latest installer online. Oh yes, I am a crafty one when I want to be. The uninstallation went as smoothly as I could hope for, so I went to GPGnet's website to grab the client.
...
It didn't seem to be anywhere immediately obvious, so I looked around a bit more.
...
I eventually gave up and googled the latest version. Nada. Nothing useful anyway. I eventually found it linked in GPGnet's official forum but it wasn't the latest version, meaning I'd need to install the out-of-date version then update it. Not likely to work but I had no choice - I clicked the big red button and commenced downloading GPGnet.
70 very large megabytes later I double-click the .rar file with the installer in it, locate the setup file, drag it onto my desktop, double-click the...oh, it couldn't be extracted from the .rar file. It's corrupt, says a dialogue box. In it, an exclamation mark grins cheerfully at me from its yellow, triangular home.
...
Damn. After reflecting on the irony of why these things are called dialogue boxes by some folk - this one was really just talkin' at me, not with me - I try it again. Download the stupid 70MB file from the stupid forum link, extract the stupid file and...nope. Isn't happening. What, is my desktop really that unsanitary?
Sorry to put you through that. I'm about to go to bed, having given up on getting this damn thing working.
