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Jan. 5th, 2009
The conquering hero returns
Jan. 5th, 2009 04:51 pmWhew. Just got back from a lengthy Springfield trip, which I twittered extensively as it happened, so expect to see the whole sordid story pop up around midnight tonight—complete with photos, thanks to the Twitpic service that my friend Sandy turned me onto.
The upshot of the trip to the doctor was that the specialists in Columbia, MO to whom he sent my x-rays wants to see me toward the end of this month, and I'll probably be going in for surgery not too long after that.
I'm pretty tired, but there's a post I have to respond to over on TeleRead. Seems someone took exception to me complaining about Stanza, and decided I must be biased. Still working out just how to respond to that one. Basically, I'm not biased—I grumble about e-book readers equally. :P
Just discussed with the parents the timetable for moving me back up to the apartment. It looks like it's going to be this weekend. I have mixed feelings about that. It'll be good to be home, but I'll miss the good home cooking down here.
Well, off to the grind.
The upshot of the trip to the doctor was that the specialists in Columbia, MO to whom he sent my x-rays wants to see me toward the end of this month, and I'll probably be going in for surgery not too long after that.
I'm pretty tired, but there's a post I have to respond to over on TeleRead. Seems someone took exception to me complaining about Stanza, and decided I must be biased. Still working out just how to respond to that one. Basically, I'm not biased—I grumble about e-book readers equally. :P
Just discussed with the parents the timetable for moving me back up to the apartment. It looks like it's going to be this weekend. I have mixed feelings about that. It'll be good to be home, but I'll miss the good home cooking down here.
Well, off to the grind.
DVD problem driving me up the Wall(-E)
Jan. 5th, 2009 09:36 pmI got the DVD of Wall-E today as a belated Christmas present from a friend.
Both disc 1 and disc 2 are giving me problems when I try to play them in PowerDVD on my computer. Disc 1 played to the menu once, then wouldn't let me load it again; it gave me some kind of weird stuttering error and digital noise on the screen the one time I got part of it to play. (It wouldn't play for me in VLC or MediaPlayerClassic either.)
Disc 2 seemed to load and play all right the first time, but it gave me some weird digital noise on the screen, in the shadows. When I quit to the menu to try to play it again, it gave me the same sort of error as disc 1: the copyright warning screens appeared, then froze as the sound was this weird stuttering robotic noise (I think it was the menu background sound, but stuttering).
It might be that I need to reboot; I got a virtual memory error earlier. I'll try that tomorrow, as well as other DVD players.
But has anyone else experienced anything like this? If so, was it fixed by replacing the disc?
Both disc 1 and disc 2 are giving me problems when I try to play them in PowerDVD on my computer. Disc 1 played to the menu once, then wouldn't let me load it again; it gave me some kind of weird stuttering error and digital noise on the screen the one time I got part of it to play. (It wouldn't play for me in VLC or MediaPlayerClassic either.)
Disc 2 seemed to load and play all right the first time, but it gave me some weird digital noise on the screen, in the shadows. When I quit to the menu to try to play it again, it gave me the same sort of error as disc 1: the copyright warning screens appeared, then froze as the sound was this weird stuttering robotic noise (I think it was the menu background sound, but stuttering).
It might be that I need to reboot; I got a virtual memory error earlier. I'll try that tomorrow, as well as other DVD players.
But has anyone else experienced anything like this? If so, was it fixed by replacing the disc?