Month: September 2002

Copy Protected CDs?

A friend asked me to make a copy of a borrowed CD. I took it home, ripped it into waves and then burned a copy with CD Text. I took it in to work to give him, but before I did I thought I’d listen to it. Good thing I did as it was silent. Tried it in another PC and when I still got silence, I tried in the car – nothing. Windows explorer read it as 20 cda tracks, the PC CD player showed 20 tracks and it “played it like normal, just no sound. Whe I got back home I checked the wave files and while they looked in explorer like normal files, when opened in a wave editor, they were 2 straight lines. Tried ripping 1 track again to check and got the same results, Ripped to an MP3 with the same results. So I figured what the heck, let’s try the copy CD option -that worked. What the…?

And You Call Yourselves Australian

Finally got around to repairing my 3rd brake light. On the last Master’s Miata Club run, the person following me told me it was dead. As it was twice before it was the wire breaking right near the trunk hinge. Next time it dies it might just stay dead.

Made it to Outback for my birthday “lunch” this evening. Did you know they don’t serve kangaroo steaks? I ain’t never going back there.

Started down, still down.
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I Hate Fall!

Not really, but I do dislike one aspect of it. Like Sunday is the day before Monday, autumn is the season before winter and I really hate winter.

Enetation IV

If it seems that this blog is slow to load, it is the fault of Enetation Must be a server shortfall again. It seems as if their web site is MIA. Another one bites the dust.

One a good British note is Scaryduck, not that he needs any plug from me as he was just voted best British Blog or something and has got a note right there at the top of the Blogger home page. One look and “the blog that was nearly on the telly” will be right up there on your must read list, it is on mine.

The Sopranos Marathon

Backed the Miata out of the garage to make it easier to clean some shelves in the garage. I put the top up to keep out the leaves and any other tree debris that might fall in the cockpit. Damn, now that I said that word it reminded me that I should have used the cockpit cover….

Didn’t watch any of my birthday movies yet. We are right in the middle a “The Sopranos” marathon. We don’t get HBO, so we rent the DVDs when they come out. Season 3 was recently released and I timed my Netflix rentals so that I could get all four discs at around the same time. Thursday, 1& 2 arrived and today the other two were in the mailbox. We watched 1 episode on Thursday and 3 more on Friday. Today was 5 more episodes and we will probably watch the last 4 tomorrow.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
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Big Easy

Instead of Outback, we ended up at the Big Easy Cafe in next parking lot over. Donna & I used to live in New Orleans about a dozen or years ago and this is as close as we can get to the food we loved so back then. Unfortunately every time we eat there the experience gets worse. For what ever reason they have never been able to cook rice right, it comes out all puffed and split. We now know not to get anything with rice, but that severely limits the entrees. Today was the last straw, the first 2 items Donna tried to order that didn’t have and don’t plan on having anymore (they could at least cross them off the menu.) My french fries were cold. And worst of all the fucked up the loaded potato skin appetizer – they covered half with sour cream and the other half with guacamole. Unfortunately the guacamole was kind of watery making it look a lot like baby diarrhea.

Well Maybe One Rule…

Did you know that Outback isn’t open for lunch? I sure didn’t. Oh, well, we resheduled our dining down-under until Sunday afternoon. I hope it rains hard the whole weekend, I’ve got a bunch of movies to watch. Mother-in-law gave me Die Hard & Lord of the Rings on DVD for my birthday. My wife gave me A Hard Days Night and the combo of Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi.

Started down, went up, went down, still down
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