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I PASSED A CATA!!!! IN FRONT OF LIKE FIVE PEOPLE, TOO!!!!
Okay, so in reverse order: I just got home from IMSO, which was in 4623. I showed up around 10:40, after bridge. 5th mix was in. I played a whole bunch. At the end, after eating pizza, Mike and Bayani were doing a "puke up your dinner set" of Paranoia Evolution, Afronova Primeval, and Matsuri Japan, all on Maniac. Well, actually, only Bayani played all three. Mike played PE Maniac with him, I played Afro Prime Trick, and Rebecca (who is now![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sorakirei) played Matsuri Japan Maniac. I was like "Hey, I want to try Matsuri Japan Maniac too, will someone keep me alive for it? Mike? I can do the gallops..." so Mike and I played it. AND I PASSED! I even got like, 260 perfects to Mike's 265. Holy shit. Wheeeeeeee! At IMSO I also got to meet ancilla and I guess bedlamboy who are both beginner DDR players but who I think will be very good very soon, they are catching on pretty quickly.
Before IMSO I played bridge withnickjong at Temple Sinai. We placed like, third from last. All of the mistakes were mine this week I think (except like one bad overall of his). I even didn't play the ace of hearts at one point which was my big mistake. Oh, the ace of hearts, my nemesis. Anyway.. I still had a decent time even though my brain was elsewhere for the three hours we were playing. I'm glad to be playing bridge since I'm sure I won't get to play anymore after this summer.
Before that... eh... I forget the rest of the day. Does anyone know what the fuck a "PCI Simple Communications Controller" device is and why it might fuck up using my USB scanner?
Oh, I went to K-mart. I bought some bras and socks and stuff like that, but I didn't manage to get a new pair of jeans because the store had ONE PAIR in the size I wanted, and I took it with me to the fitting room but didn't take it in since I was trying on other stuff, and it got stolen from my cart by the time I got back out. Fuckers. I also tried on some button-down shirts and stuff for interview clothes but they all looked like crap, so I'll have to come up with something else to wear. Boo business casual, I say. Boo. I wonder if my tan jeans still fit me.
Before that I just sat around here, looking for writing samples, playing with Photoshop to enhance the pictures from DDRFest (Rebecca will notice that the signs, for example, are not as washed out in my version of the scans, and I tried to edit the date thingies off the pictures), and trying to play with devices on my computer. Whee. I also finished reading the Jacoby Modern book. It's pretty funny shit. Tomorrow I should read C++ and Perl books to make sure I'm up on my C++ and Perl. Lately I am fascinated with scalars. For example, what would you expect the following to print out?
$foo = 1;
$foo[$foo] = $foo;
$foo{$foo} = $foo[$foo];
$foo[@foo] = $foo[$foo{$foo}];
print @foo;
Anyway... I guess all in all it was a good day. I got to see friends, play bridge, drive around a bit, and PASS A CATA, even though I did poorly at bridge and lost all of my WB data.
Okay, so in reverse order: I just got home from IMSO, which was in 4623. I showed up around 10:40, after bridge. 5th mix was in. I played a whole bunch. At the end, after eating pizza, Mike and Bayani were doing a "puke up your dinner set" of Paranoia Evolution, Afronova Primeval, and Matsuri Japan, all on Maniac. Well, actually, only Bayani played all three. Mike played PE Maniac with him, I played Afro Prime Trick, and Rebecca (who is now
sorakirei) played Matsuri Japan Maniac. I was like "Hey, I want to try Matsuri Japan Maniac too, will someone keep me alive for it? Mike? I can do the gallops..." so Mike and I played it. AND I PASSED! I even got like, 260 perfects to Mike's 265. Holy shit. Wheeeeeeee! At IMSO I also got to meet ancilla and I guess bedlamboy who are both beginner DDR players but who I think will be very good very soon, they are catching on pretty quickly.Before IMSO I played bridge with
nickjong at Temple Sinai. We placed like, third from last. All of the mistakes were mine this week I think (except like one bad overall of his). I even didn't play the ace of hearts at one point which was my big mistake. Oh, the ace of hearts, my nemesis. Anyway.. I still had a decent time even though my brain was elsewhere for the three hours we were playing. I'm glad to be playing bridge since I'm sure I won't get to play anymore after this summer.Before that... eh... I forget the rest of the day. Does anyone know what the fuck a "PCI Simple Communications Controller" device is and why it might fuck up using my USB scanner?
Oh, I went to K-mart. I bought some bras and socks and stuff like that, but I didn't manage to get a new pair of jeans because the store had ONE PAIR in the size I wanted, and I took it with me to the fitting room but didn't take it in since I was trying on other stuff, and it got stolen from my cart by the time I got back out. Fuckers. I also tried on some button-down shirts and stuff for interview clothes but they all looked like crap, so I'll have to come up with something else to wear. Boo business casual, I say. Boo. I wonder if my tan jeans still fit me.
Before that I just sat around here, looking for writing samples, playing with Photoshop to enhance the pictures from DDRFest (Rebecca will notice that the signs, for example, are not as washed out in my version of the scans, and I tried to edit the date thingies off the pictures), and trying to play with devices on my computer. Whee. I also finished reading the Jacoby Modern book. It's pretty funny shit. Tomorrow I should read C++ and Perl books to make sure I'm up on my C++ and Perl. Lately I am fascinated with scalars. For example, what would you expect the following to print out?
$foo = 1;
$foo[$foo] = $foo;
$foo{$foo} = $foo[$foo];
$foo[@foo] = $foo[$foo{$foo}];
print @foo;
Anyway... I guess all in all it was a good day. I got to see friends, play bridge, drive around a bit, and PASS A CATA, even though I did poorly at bridge and lost all of my WB data.
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You -can- just crack the case and examine it, then go to the manufacturer's page for drivers, etx. (Windows update isn't very reliable for OEM drivers, and I'm assuming this is an OEM machine, so I'd avoid that.)
Or, if your machine is a Gateway (and I think Dell was going to start doing this too) they've both got a new feature where you go to "support", enter the serial or model number of the machine, and it creates not only a list of the installed hardware when it left the factory, but all the drivers for said hardware.
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