So I have a dvd in my laptop…

Never really used it. Between YouTube, Netflix, and the uber-high speed wi-fi (now that I figured out how to configure my router to the ‘n’ standard), I never really used it till now. Netflix doesn’t have all the movies I want to see, and I’m not going to pay extra to rent a dvd.

Cue the Pierce County Library. They have DVDs. And a pretty good selection, too. And the 1-week loan is longer and cheaper than blockbuster. So, I’m watching Battle Of The Planets. I remember seeing this growing up, and Ted Turner did a version of it a few years back. You can tell that it was obviously an adult anime edited down and redubbed into essentially a Childrens’ show…

The original series must’ve been good, but trying to watch it through the editing is a bit tedious….

Thanksgiving has come and gone

For those of you who chose to do The Airing of Grievances and The Feat of Strength, you jumped the gun…

Went to my Aunt’s for thanksgiving. Turkey was served. Along with the usual sides, and what I could’ve swore was Soylent Green… Although I did appreciate the effort she went through to bake the no-sugar added pumpkin pie.

Ok, I got my flu shot...

I got my flu shot a week and half ago. So why am I still getting sick? I guess its part for the course that get sick during the holidays. Last Christmas I had a very passable Brian Johnson voice. Hopefully this year, it won't be so bad...

I voted today….

I filled out the absentee ballot today. This is an ‘off-year’ election, where the main issues are the initiatives. There were also a couple of miscellaneous candidates, most of whom were running unopposed. I had some fun with those. I wrote in JP Patches, Gertrude, and Brakeman Bill. On the initiatives, I voted this:

• I-1183, I voted no. Both sides have been running misleading ads. I don’t think we need to change the current system of state liquor stores, and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. I also voted against this on the principle that the initiative process is there for people to change the law directly, not for Costco to try and buy it.
• I-1125, I voted no, just on principle. It is a Tim Eyeman initiative, and he has admitted to doing this as a profession, and most, if not all of his initiatives are pure crap. the first one he did that actually passed was promptly thrown out by the supreme court for being poorly written. <rhetoric>Maybe somebody should propose an initiative to have him tarred and feathered. Or deported to France.</rhetoric>.
• Prop 1. I voted no. This would authorize a tax increase to improve 911 service. If the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department has enough funds to accost me when I’m walking home at night, because I’m on some sort of double-secret probation or because Parkland residents are beneath the protection of the law, then they don’t need any more funding. Hint: not everybody you encounter is a criminal, and treating everyone like suspects and criminals is not really fostering trust in the community. Maybe it was a stop and frisk initiated under false circumstance, but the end results are the same….
• There were a few other issues, but I voted for them, namely one that would require background checks for senior caregivers. The vunerable need to be protected…

We have Gingerbread!

Finally, I found a Gingerbread ROM for my phone with tolerable issues. Yes, they all have problems, but this is the first that I feel comfortable with. I’m going with Blue Droid. Right now, they only have posted the version for the European version of the HD2 (which uses an ext partition on your SD card, to overcome the only 512 Mb of space on the phone which is not good when you’re trying to shoehorn HTC Sense into it). The CMYLXGO Froyo ROM dies have it’s advatages, and I’ve also updated my version of it, but I like this ROM. I know NRGZ28 updated his ROM recently, but I’ve had too many issues with it. I’m also doing a few things differently with this ROM:

• The only app that I’m cooking into it beforehand is the Amazon App Store. And the Terminal Emulator. Everything else can be manually installed when I install Root Explorer (which I paid for from the Spamazon app store.
• No alternatives keyboards. I tried cooking in the native Gingerbread keyboard, and I think that may have caused more issues than it’s worth. I’m not even going to use the Swype public beta. Besides I really don’t need to. With the HTC Touch Input, there is also a trace feature (like what swype uses as well), so I don’t need it. The other keyboards, while the looked good, and worked well, aren’t worth the hassle…