It’s tea weather

Only it’s tea weather so much that “tea” has suddenly become “te”, as my burnt tongue struggles with the motion of “eay” (te-eay). Would you like some te?

Tea and soup weather, that is. Not coffee because of awful instant and its amazingly bland contextual associations (has anyone ever drunk instant coffee anywhere interesting?), and the fact that real coffee is too far away/too expensive/with too many side effects I really don’t need, being awake and up/down plenty already. Anyway, tea is warmer. Coffee you spend your time waiting for it to cool because burning your tongue with coffee is infinitely worse, as the taste imprints itself and won’t go away until you burn your tongue with something else, and then, assuming you didn’t burn your mouth, end up drinking it luke-warm (yuck) as quickly as possible because most hot drinks don’t taste any good luke-warm, least of all one that (when badly made from instant) probably didn’t taste that great to start with. Sigh. So many people over-rate coffee (that sentence is meant to be like that, because coffee can be good but mostly isn’t and this fact is ignored by the masses, etc.).

Bejeweled

Consider it under trial. I downloaded it not-from-an-official source because I haven’t got a Windows machine hooked up to this thing and can’t install anything by ActiveSync, so I needed an unofficial package (that, in this case, just happened to be cracked because that file looked like the right approx size on various peer-to-peer nets). If I’m not over it after 30 days I’ll fork out $15 or whatever it is from AstraWare. Which I probably won’t be (nor, I imagine, will various other users of this thing allow me to!)

ΜΥΘΟΣ

ΜΥΘΟΣ (μυθος), n. A sequence of words with a particular meaning, a discourse, a story.

Usage: “Any pretense made at study was an object of myth: dubiously historical, heavily distorted by discourse, and of little persistent value.”

Nearly edited

Everything transcoded okay, Cinelerra even opened the file, I assumed OSS just couldn’t get a lock on the device because of another sound server, so I edited blind from timings in other playback. It even rendered fine. (Not, of course, in a format everything could read).

Then I realised that there was, in fact, no sound in (what must be) the three-millionth transcoded file and so it defeated me, at last. I was so excited for five minutes there that I’d be able to quickly do things the way I was planning on doing them from the start, but it wasn’t to be. So now someone will have to cue a file manually for playback… but at least it won’t be off a DVD that’ll inevitably take an embarrasingly-long period of time to spin-up.

Time to re-read Philippians 2:14-17 and shut up, I think.

¹⁴Do everything without complaining or arguing, ¹⁵so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe ¹⁶as you hold out the word of life—in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. ¹⁷But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

Praying for patience, energy.

I need a Mac

There’s something wonderful about a platform where everything seems moronically simple and there are no codecs to worry about, files that can’t be read, and processes that might-just-not-complete and eat your entire day. This isn’t more rampant consumerism… I’d trade in a rather-well-specced XP MCE box for a decent Mac soooo quickly right now. *launches something heavy at computers which will cause failure of exams*