From a tattered diary page found floating on the mucilaginous ooze of the Salton Sea, June 28 2006:
Day 3 of the Windows XP install. Aft #3 torpedo tube is flooded. Captain refusing to leave his quarters. Lt. Zip has not returned from installing the Com+ Deep Fryer and Full-Service Hapax Legomenon (Disabled) (Automatic) (Brazilian). I know that I shall never see my true love or my dear parents again. A watery grave awaits.
Their “friends” setup is bizarrely broken. You can’t see anything but photo and their chosen “display name,” so you don’t know who some people are after a few months when they change their pic to Woody Woodpecker and start calling themselves Antonin Artaud.
I find myself thinking “Who is Potatoes O’Brien?” or “Not only is this woman not Audrey Hepburn, but I don’t know anyone who lives in Macon, Georgia. WTF?”
Then it gets funnier with email. Today I forwarded something and saw how that works; you get the list of display names from which to choose. Two of my friends chose the same one, it being their first name. So I didn’t know whether I was forwarding to turnip or salome_st_john. Fortunately they have similar senses of humor so I just sent it to both.
It’s strange how many recently-built human artifacts are like ancient fucked-up things that Just Somehow Happened.
I have a dashboard widget of the Hypnotoad. It’s fun and rotates its eyes at me.
Tonight it started making noise, RRRR ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD.
It never did this before. I don’t recall updating it.
I’m afraid.
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When I get comment notification mail now, and I click on a link like “unscreen this comment” or “delete this comment” in the mail, it takes me to the old school url and I get a message that the url doesn’t match the journal owner. Then I have to do it all manually, instead.
Does anyone know where one actually reports bugs like this? The Support thing has never worked for me; I get a response six weeks later after it’s all fixed asking me why I’m reporting this because it’s all fixed.
I would like to thank evan, atrustheotaku, and for reviving my faith in the open source software community. You can’t get a 24-hour turnaround on bug fixes from a commercial software vendor for any kind of money. My problem is now gone!
The most recent version of LAME (a new one after a very long time) is a huge improvement at least for me. I was previously using 3.90.3 which the mavens at hydrogenaudio said was the best version. They started recommending this new beta and wow! I’m getting 8.5x instead of 2.8x ripping speeds with “–preset fast standard”. Sounds great, too. Highly recommended. Source is at this sourceforge link, and binaries for those who do not compile are at Rarewares.
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