Artificial Wench

I can't believe they put Big Iron in so early in Episode 1. It's like they knew they had to include it and decided to get it over with as soon as possible. This season of the show is going to be so strange sort of like watching a show set in your home town.

Had a grocery delivery today. One of the things I ordered was 0.2kg of diced bacon and instead of supplying what I ordered they gave me an entire commercial bulk pack of the diced bacon that I estimate is about 2-3 kg. So they gave me about 10 times what I ordered. This is a lot of bacon, not sure what I'm going to do with it all but I'll figure something out not going to waste a gift of about $50 of bacon.

Been spending the last few weeks off and on trying to find an annoying bug in my code that only seems to exist in builds I make for debugging. after finding what the problem was I realised that I anticipated it years ago when I first wrote the code. Seems I now need to finish the work past me left alone because it seemed to work well enough but a combination of factors only had it be a problem now.

Playing a game and reach a particularly obnoxious level with a minigame that requires more speed and accuracy than I'm capable of. After countless game overs I decided that I might just have to cheat to get past it but the usual cheats wouldn't work. Looked into the data files and noticed the script files were all plain text source code. Maybe I could edit the script to get past the problem, but this didn't work, which was not unexpected as games don't usually like to load modified scripts when loading save games. Ultimately I found a developer command to interact with the scripting system and spent an hour and a half figuring out the undocumented command and how to use it to get past the minigame. Overall with the amount of time I spent trying to cheat my way past I felt quite satisfied when the end of level cutscene played. I'm not sure I would have enjoyed myself quite so much if I did it properly after spending more than an hour getting continuous game overs. The game was supposed to be played one way but it is a single player game and if I am unable to play it as the developers intend I'll do things my way especially as it is clear the developers made things modding friendly by leaving all the scripts as source.

Been trying to recover data off an old CD-R that I made from the 90s with read problems. Found that an Old CD-RW drive is able to read all but a few files off the disc. The disc is a multi session disc and most of the bad files are in session 5. Oddly a number of the unreadable files in session 5 are replacing what should be identical files from session 4. This made no sense until Windows Defender started alerting me that it found the CIH virus had infected some files in session 4. So it seems that I tried to burn good copies of infected files into a new session (I do not remember doing this) but the disc has degraded and I do not have any good versions of 7 files. None of the readable files in Session 5 are infected , and everything in sessions 1, 2 and 3 are perfectly good too. Not that i really care now. The 7 bad files are either things I can easily download from the internet , are drivers for hardware i haven't seen in 20 years, are things that are horribly obsolete now or I just have no idea what it is. I could try combining readable data from session 4 and 5 to see if they create good versions of the files but I don't really care enough anymore. Until I noticed the virus infections I was really wanting to get everything off the disc, it was an irritant that this disc refused to be read at all in pretty much all of my other drives. Now I see that it is pretty much pointless and I have already recovered everything off the disc that I might want and can't get elsewhere. Ultimately this was a learning exercise about how to recover files from CD-Rs. I doubt I'll have to do this again but if I do I know exactly what to do. I have already backed-up all my other very old CD-Rs from the late 90s that all still read perfectly, except for the one disc that I threw away because I decided it contained nothing I would ever need again.

For people like me Tumblr premium has no real appeal. Ad free would be nice but the ads are far less annoying than the spam. I do not feel that I can reasonably support Tumblr if they won't fix the spam problems.

Getting ready for bed I think of a potential problem in code I wrote earlier. And now I can't stop thinking about how to fix it. So much for sleeping. I could get up and go fix it but then I'll probably be unable to stop and continue doing things for hours which will be far worse.

Ugh the Rooster Teeth website went down while I was trying to download a bunch of videos. Thankfully I had already cached all the metadata and CDN video urls that appear to still be valid for the videos I want to download, so I can complete my downloads in this state of limbo while the CDNs still host the content but no one is playing the bills. I don't to expect the CDN urls to stay valid for long so I need to get a hurry on and finish this asap.

Weird buying something from ebay expecting a used item that might be in bad condition but it arrives and it is actually new, it is not in original packaging but still undeniably new. Check the listing and sure enough it says new but I never noticed. Now to install it in a needy computer with no worries.

Sitting on the couch hearing a strange rumbling sound, thinking it was coming from outside which would be super annoying as I was about to go to bed.I get up wander around doing various things and I notice the noise actually seems to be coming from the computer. Check to see if any applications are making noise but no nothing at all is making any sound even though the noise seems to be coming from the left speaker, then I realise what the sound actually is, it was just a new 6tb hard drive I got that seems a little noisy while I process some videos and I'm left thinking has it really been that long since I have seriously used a hard drive as working storage that I've forgotten how noisy they can be. Apparently so but this drive seems a lot noisier than the other various hard drives that I use for large infrequently accessed storage. All my other hard drives are WD but this new one is Seagate so maybe that's why it sounds so different.

Watching old reactions of a show you like can be entertaining but also frustrating as you cannot correct the reactor when they missed something and jumped to the wrong conclusion years ago.