Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Now that the Surround Sound is properly working, I took some time setting the speakers to really give me enveloping sound.

By default on pretty much everything I've watched/played, the speakers were FAR too "forward" for me, with the sound coming from the screen. The music often over powered the voice, and surround sound was pretty anemic.

Eventually I maxed out the subwoofer (Jenn like Big Boom), maxed out the rear speakers, set the center speaker, which carries most of the dialogue to default, and the left and right to negative 5 volume.

That gave me a nice surround sound finally, with the V'Ger "Wok" scenes REALLY feeling like I'm in the wok with them, with proper echoing and good rumbles instead of the sound coming almost completely from the front. The sound is still a little tinny from the regular speakers, but it's probably cause the speakers are kind of cheap.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go beat up on Ganon in Breath of the Wild in Surround Sound. :D

::watches Dr Who's Boom Town in proper 5.1 Surround Sound::

Oh. Oh this show loves a good subwoofer. Hope the neighbors don't complain....

PIXELS AS BIG AS CATS

Picard thoughts: Someone just joked that the cloud the Titan is stuck is Nagillum from "Where Silence has Lease" and I laughed a bit.

But then I thought about it and....

You never forget your first Urusei Yatsura Opening Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kefw1srsFv0

The sheer joy on her face as her PC freezes from the chaos made my day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwEjEMi1gik&t=2m37s

Jenn: "I'll make my own Star Trek! With blackjack and hookers!"
Friend: "They did that. Called it Deep Space Nine."
Jenn: "DAMMIT!"

So...this signal is from World Christian Broadcasting, and was very listenable, playing some Arabic music. It's broadcasting out of Madagascar, and...TEN THOUSAND MILES AWAY. O_o;

The nice thing about being unemployed and suffering from insomnia is I can just stay awake and then nap when I feel tired, she said after getting what amounts to two hours of sleep.

"Some of us bask in the decisions we've made. Others are trapped in the decisions forced upon them."

#thebestwritinghappensintheshower

Taking the dough instructions for the kolache and merging them with the instructions for the Pigs in a Blanket in the hopes the Kolache dough works better (which is how Weikel's makes them anyways)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJumUOGIPw

Had a night of terrible dreams with one bright spot: the city of "Aiolinaisse."

And then there are days like today, where six hours of sleep are all I'm getting.