Really cool. Gave me goosebumps because it was just that realistic. When the mp3 first started, I was like, are you sure somebody isn’t in my room right now? Kinda creepy. Especially when the person “whispers” in your ear.
Of course, you ought to use headphones to listen.
I haven’t updated in a while, but then there isn’t much to talk about. Back to the routine of school, but it’s already mid-April, and in a month’s time, this semester would be over. It’s hard to believe sometimes. Papers coming up, of which I have barely started, or started and got more confused than ever. Like that biology career paper. It’s just confusing me more and more.
Too many documentaries recorded on my tv tuner finally got to my hard drive with its scanty 160GB. The sad thing is I’d to delete some documentaries before even watching them so as to make room for new ones. Ok, so I admit, I record them but I don’t necessarily watch at once. Or for a while. Anyway, I was keeping an eye out for a good deal on external drives. For that, Slickdeals is one awesome site. Members post deals they find, which are commented on by others, so it’s much more reliable. So I finally found a WD 640GB drive for about $57, which included a bunch of fillers since I’d to use a $25 off $75 coupon.
My poor iPod Touch’s headphone jack crapped out on me. So now, it’s basically just a sort of PDA, and no longer the media player it used to be. It’s still under warranty, however, so I suppose I could get a replacement of sorts. Of course, I say that, but who knows when I’m going to start doing something about it.
On a side note, one of best shows on TV is finally back. Guess what it is? Mythbusters! Would be very interesting to do something like that in the future - not on TV, however. Back in the present, I’m still undecided about a major. I’d like to take a whole bunch of random classes, but money - it’s always the deciding factor.
I was just checking my mail, in an effort to procrastinate and delay writing that book report (ugh), when I saw an email that someone is now following me on Twitter.
Hm. That was interesting. I don’t remember ever signing up on Twitter.
I clicked the link, and was brought to my page where, apparently, I had a silly username. Waait. I was signed up for Twitter? When did it happen? Must have been years ago when Twitter first came out or something and I just signed up for it and entirely forgot later.
Weird.
Anyhow, I’m not entirely fond of this concept. But still, if you feel like it, you can follow me… @joytyy
I’m not an avid TV fan, but sometimes, TV can be quite entertaining. Especially when you want to watch documentaries (Mythbusters! and other Discovery Channel stuff) and old movies - which are hard to find online. I don’t include those crowd favorites here (like Heroes, 24, etc), because if you’re in USA, you can just about catch them anywhere online, and in quite good quality too.
So after a lot of debating, I went ahead and spent about 70 bucks on this little piece.
I wanted to get the Elgato Eyetv, but truth be told, it was awfully expensive. So I settled for this Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950Q, which according to extensive research online seemed to be similar to Eyetv hardware-wise. It took me a while to get the software working, but at last, it didn’t let me down. It isn’t all that great quality - I never expected much from the direct cable-in from the wall (yes, my dorm has the coaxial cable thing jutting out of the wall. But they block some channels… I think).
Was 70 bucks (plus another 10 for the coax cable) worth it? Time will tell. Right now, it’s kinda hard to say. When good movies that have always evaded me online come to some channels, it’d be worth it. The only bad thing is that, being just one tuner, I can’t watch tv and record it at the same time.
Oh, and if I go on recording like crazy, I’d have to buy a hard drive, which will definitely cost quite a bit more. But the 1TB ones seemed to have dropped in price, going below $100 regularly, whereas just a couple of months ago you’d be hard pressed to find one under $100.
Would you believe it, in all the months I have been here, I have never stepped into a real Apple Store? I got my first chance at the mall. It wasn’t big, just one of the stores of the many inside the mall, but passing by I saw it crowded with people, and most importantly, a huge white apple glowing above the door.
I just had to go in.
Perhaps Apple stores are not very good if you’re trying to feel content. The first vibe I got from the store, despite its crowdedness, was that of spaceyness. Definitely felt spacey and nice. Tables with computers and iPhones on it, ready for you to smear your hands on. The older models are relegated to the side. Made me suddenly dislike my white Macbook and wish for one of those newer, slicker, unibody aluminum Macbooks with black keyboards. Sigh. But beyond its appearances, its guts are not that much different from mine. So it wasn’t that bad. But my Macbook will probably stay with me for a couple of years - depending on my priorities. A new amp, or maybe a new guitar (think Gibson or PRS) would be pretty awesome. Placed on the scale against a Macbook? Difficult decision. At least it’s not one I have to make now.
It seems so surreal. Now, I’m in a foreign land, miles and miles away from home, sitting in front of a white Macbook, with my iPod Touch next to me. Which is so awesome. I’ve always dreamed of a Macbook, and now that it’s here, in front of me, it seems so hard to believe. And it does live up to its hype (generally). Of course, the free iPod Touch is simply great - it’s free after all, and I managed to jailbreak it, so it’s ten times more awesome now.
Anyway, there was church on Sunday, pretty similar to our Youth Worship, what with the people all being stiff and unemotional during praise and worship (which is my style). At least I could understand the pastor preaching, unlike the previous Sunday, where in a fit of boldness, I went by myself to a Cantonese church. I sat there, hoping no one would talk to me and thus notice my inability to communicate or understand Cantonese. But in the end, though I did not know what the pastor was talking about, I was glad I went, because it happened to be Holy Communion Sunday. Away from the comforts of home, God seems ever closer, ever nearer, ever real.
Perhaps looking at stars is not the most practical thing, at least definitely not useful in Sherlock Holmes’ world (as established in A Study in Scarlet, where Holmes doesn’t even know about the solar system…). Anyway, if you have the slightest interest of knowing where the Orion is, and how to find the North star, take a look at this website. Who knows, maybe it’ll launch you on your future astronomy career. And at least now you know where north is at night, though that probably won’t mean much when you’re lost in the tropics on a cloudy night. Besides, chances are you have no idea whether you’re supposed to go north, south, east, or west.
What can be more frustrating than absolutely slow, barely crawling along internet speeds?
Makes you want to grit your teeth and beat up something. I waited for ages for the ‘write post’ page to come up, in between lots of page-reloading. This is crazy.
What’s worse is - get this - a torrent with about 1000 seeders, and can only connect a maximum of 50. (Now it’s 3 seeders connected). Whatever happened? Something with the broadband supplier? Something with the computer?
Takes days just to download a 500 mb file, at this rate.
I put up a new blog almost different some weeks ago - but I hardly updated it. This was due to fact I found out that Wordpress was finally allowing users to host blogs on wordpress.com, and I just had to try it out, to see the difference between blogsome and wordpress.com
What were my findings?
I liked this blog better. Despite the fact wordpress.com allows pages, and I don’t think - at least I never could - that blogsome can have pages. Which is a disturbing and saddening thing. wordpress.com also allows transferring of posts from other blogs, unfortunately not blogsome.
I’ll stick here for the time being.