Oh my good­ness I can feel myself turn­ing into an aspir­ing engi­neer. WHY ARE MY INTERESTS SO COMPLETELY SCHIZOPHRENIC? And no, I have no inter­est in being a highly lit­er­ate, well-read engi­neer that is capa­ble of com­mu­ni­cat­ing well, so don’t even sug­gest it. Mostly because I do an Arts degree and am not ter­ri­bly good at com­mu­ni­cat­ing to start with (I make sim­ple con­cepts take hours to explain, but if given those hours things should hope­fully be abun­dantly clear and open for inde­pen­dent explo­ration + thought… so I don’t really know how the teach­ing thing would/will go. Fact is I suck at talk­ing to peo­ple in nor­mal con­texts with­out a mas­sive focus on particulars).

Any­way. I’m kinda pissed off with myself for want­ing to take the thing down any­way and try fix­ing it because that is SO GEEKY and anti-social, etc. Like, I’m sure there’ll be a quiet hour or three in which I can do that with­out appear­ing such, but… bleh. Dis­lik­ing… var­i­ous things. Oh yeah I’m talk­ing about a pro­jec­tor with RETARDED MGA (26-pin, 3-row. Used as AV fea­ture con­nec­tors on mid-90’s Matrox cards and pos­si­bly later, D-SUB part impos­si­ble to source with a day’s notice.) CONNECTORS that SO NEARLY match up to VGA VESA spec as to be indis­tin­guish­able. The only dif­fer­ence is two pins for some kind of dig­i­tal IO… even device ID pins (intro­duced in DDC spec for sup­ple­ment­ing pro­pri­etary ID bits man­u­fac­tur­ers were start­ing to use any­way, appar­ently) are the same. The dig­i­tal IO pins seri­ously should have been saved for some other socket, because this causes so much unnec­ces­sary pain. Grrr.

I’ll source real parts upon return to Syd­ney if I haven’t ‘acci­den­tally’ dropped it from the back of a rapidly-moving vehi­cle before then. I am suf­fi­ciently pissed off at the eBayer who neglected to say that absence of cables meant impos­si­ble con­nec­tion. Despite list­ing PC and video input in item specs. Bas­tard. Grr grr grrr. Okay I’m done being angry at the world now. Time to go fin­ish pack­ing then throw crap in car then sleep for… six hours, then get pink slip for car because it goes out of rego in the mid­dle of the week away (!) and THEN drive with peo­ple south­wards to Ori­ent Point. And in that week I’m hop­ing to do stuff with people/read books WAY more than geek­ing. Will see how this goes. :-/

Tags: aspiring engineer, literate, pain, sydney, well-read engineer