2015 — 12 September: Saturday
Less nice to start another sunny day (after overnight rain) with an email1 forwarding an "Internet circulating joke". Still, the form of one of the other email addresses in the list of known recipients (and its absence from my own Address Book in that form) confirms the mischief didn't originate with me.
Speaking of mischief...
... I've decided to dip a toe back into the world of larger PC screen real estate. My previous giant leap2 along that road was with the Philips 40" 4K monitor my son is now enjoying. But less dramatic gently-curved 34" screens of lesser pixel load now exist that could do nicely. This Samsung example...
... shows their "Ultra WQHD". My now more cautious3 toe will first be applied to a silent graphics card with a DisplayPort connection. (My motherboard graphics is limited by its HDMI 1.4a output to 24Hz refresh rates at resolutions above WQHD.) If the card works with my Asus screen, a new screen is then more a matter of bank account surpluses, surely?
As I lug...
... my sea-chest down to join Aubrey and Maturin on their Indian Ocean adventures...
... I find my thoughts — as I complete the defragmenting of my CaseLogic video folders as far as "L" (or 3,168 physical disks) — turning in a somewhat lunchy direction. It is, I note, already approaching five bells in the afternoon watch. But can I find any ship's biscuit? Tea will have to substitute for grog, I fear.
I fear isolated...
... musical keys from a variety of crime films are all very well, but they don't help this week's Sound of Cinema coalesce into anything of much coherence.
I'd better not...
... stay up until 03:00 or so again tonight as I'm summoned by Iris on a mission of malware-related mercy "first thing" tomorrow morning. On her Win 8.1 PC, naturally. <Sigh>
I've filled all the gaps...
... in my "system" of CaseLogic video folders. Having first worked systematically through the folders from "A" to "U" pulling out the disks to discard I've now worked through them again, filling all the newly-empty slots with disks taken from the far end of the folder "system". The exercise culled 691 physical disks. I'm left with 3,776 films or TV shows spanning 4,634 physical disks. (This includes disks that are out on loan, and others ["unknown unknowns", if you will] that are mysteriously AWOL.)
There are some amusing but utterly spurious correlations noted here. My source said he never liked Nic Cage films... (nor do I, in general).