we did our powerpoint presentations for NET120 tonight.. and I was the only person that had slide transitions, and had the bullet items come up one at a time each time you hit spacebar so you can talk about each one seperately.. so he wrote “Bold use of PowerPoint” as a comment.. haha. I don’t get it, does noone else know how to use powerpoint? if you’re gonna just have static slides, what’s the point?
btw if you’re really bored, you can grab my presentation from here
Gil, Brian, Adrienne, and I spent the day in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a lot of fun, but my feet are sore from all the walking. Afterwards we ate at the new italian place in east windsor, and then Gil and I went to see Robots, which is also very good.
Anyway I’m too tired to elaborate, so I’ll write something more interesting later.
I almost hit a MATTRESS on the way home from work! It fell off the back of a truck and took up the entire right lane of 133E. Didn’t see it until the car in front of me swerved to avoid it. Scary stuff!
Microsoft’s guide to l33tspeak. Quite amusing. It’s not often you get to see “ph34r my l33t skillz” on an official Microsoft page 🙂
So I finally broke down and bought an Ignition Pad and it works perfectly with my adapter on my Mac! I can finally play StepMania on my PowerBook G4 instead of having to lug out an old Windows box!
Plus, it’s X-Box compatible, so if I ever decide to get a console with DDR that isn’t from Sony, I’ve already got a pad 🙂
Well I’m making progress on my quest to play StepMania on my Mac. I now have an adapter that works perfectly with StepMania, as well as being able to produce the up/down and left/right doubles — as long as I use a real Playstation controller. If I attach my Mad Catz Beat Pad, I get no input from the joystick. Apparently it’s a known problem with the old grey Mad Catz Beat Pads, so I have to go out and pick up a new black one, or another brand. I’ve been eyeing the Red Octane Ignition pads at Gamestop, but $100 is a bit much for a soft pad, considering you can get a hard platform for that much.
I guess I’ll leave the grey pad and the Mac-incompatible adapter I got last time upstairs for my sister to use on the yucky Windows computer in the living room.
root@sigbox:~# uptime
12:23:26 up 152 days, 20:45, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.06
I have to shut sigbox down today for an upgrade 🙁 152 days, 20 hours, and 45 minutes without being powered down or restarted. But when it comes back up, it will be running a fresh install of Slackware Linux 10.0 and have a much larger storage capacity.
W00t! So I finally broke down and booted Windows on one of my 2 linux boxes and played some StepMania. It was awesome, I haven’t played since the end of December when came to visit.
Soft pads are teh suck, I miss the hard platforms we had in the apartment, even though the buttons kept cracking. I can’t go higher than light mode, otherwise the pad moves too much. It happens sometimes on light mode, too, but only ’cause I’m a fat-ass 🙂
Also, one of the designers of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 is smiling evilly, knowing that his automatic update message box keeps interrupting my game every few minutes to “remind” me that it installed some updates, but I haven’t restarted my computer yet. Well duh, the reason I didn’t reboot yet is because I’M BUSY PLAYING A GAME!! Eventually I just gave in and rebooted.
I also ordered a really HID-compliant USB adapter, so in 2 – 3 business days I can play on my Mac, and the Windows box can go back to running MythTV again.