Neither here nor there (有的無的)

[ilai]

This last month has turned into Performing Arts Month without real planning:

• On the 7th I went on narya's mob to see The Rimers of Eldritch (directed by desireearmfeldt with lighting done by puffy_wuffy and rusalka)
• The night of the 14th I saw The Heidi Chronicles (technical director brief_life)
• marcusmarcusrc came into town and had a mob to see the Capitol Steps on the 29th
• shumashi introduced me to the Soweto Gospel Choir on the 30th
• Last night (6th) was the Harvard-Radcliffe Choir with ukelele and chenoameg singing Vasks' Dona Nobis Pacem and Poulenc's Gloria

I'd been on-and-off sick, which got in the way of my enjoying some of these shows, but now I have lots of cold medication and cough drops. And I didn't realize it at the time, but I don't get any ice-cream from chenoameg.

In other news, I have a replacement for my old desktop purchased fall of 1998. Technology has passed me by these last ten years; since then non-USB input devices have fallen out of fashion, as have IDE hard drives and parallel ports. In their place I found little glowy blue lights, a metric buttload of USB and Firewire ports, and an extra miniature screen on the front panel of the computer. Apparently the Chinese government thinks my mouse has more lead in it than is safe (well, it exceeds a certain unrevealed threshold), but Dell has apparently not bothered to translate this into English.

Also, the book Fight Club is somewhat more intriguing than the movie.

Comments

[jadia.livejournal.com]

The IDE-to-SATA is relatively recent (in the last 3 years) and is also going to mess me up with my new computer! damn. Video cards have also recently (in the last 2 years) switched standards from AGP to PCIe, which was tough last year when I was upgrading my video card. RAM, however, has remained the same I think.

I think I'll just try to transfer stuff over ethernet or something, with Windows sharing.

[fredrickegerman.livejournal.com]

I think you can still grab IDE enclosures with USB for about $25 at MicroCenter.