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Very, very bored. Sitting here waiting for the guy from the telephone company to show up to check out our main line- it's not working, again/still. And it finally stopped being an intermittent problem they couldn't track, and instead became this constant annoying thing... So anyway, sometime between 8:00 and 12:00 this morning he'll be here, so I, of course, don't get to sleep in. Bah.

But I'm here, and I'm bored.

So I'm going to mess with the journal and how it looks. So if it seems a little funky for a bit...that'd be why.

Just, you know, warning all two of you who read this thing. :)

edit: Okay. Liking colors better now. Let me know if you can't see some of the links, or anything else funky like that. I'm still playing with this a bit, and I may screw it up. :)

Misadventures in Screencapping

I forgot what a bitch screencaps are. No, really. I have two methods, and both of them are tedious. Method one requires having the stuff on a DVD. It goes in the CD-DVD drive on my laptop, and with a couple keystrokes I can screecap anything. The problem? It doesn't have all the options the DVD player does as far as speed and such. The software has a "step" button, but it's right next to the "stop" button, and three guesses what I keep hitting accidentally?

And then when I hit "start" again, it starts the disc from "Shadow Dancing", so I have to kick it back to the menu, hit "Z'ha'dum"...

This method generates better screencaps. And the occasional really blurry in-motion ones, that I just shrug over and toss, because I've learned I can't fix them.

Method two is a real pain in the ass. It involves the television set and my digital camera. Normally I only use it for stuff I only have on tape, but for some stupid reason today I decided I'd try it with the Babylon 5 DVDs. I thought the semi-bad quality of the captures from the tapes was just the tapes. Turns out it's the whole camera-TV thing. Oh well.

What I'm really not looking forward to, though, is when I have to go back and screencap the two-hour seaQuest premere, which I have on a slowly dying VHS tape from the 1990's. It'll take forever, and I'll only get maybe a handful of decent caps out of it. They won't be the ones I really want, either. *sigh* Oh well. Maybe I won't do it at all. I was going to take the new caps so I could redo Command Decision, but now I'm wondering if I should bother. Nobody else cares about my silly little pet project; why should I?

Anyway. Back to sorting through .bmp files from the DVD captures, I guess. *yawn*

I need a hobby. I need a life.

I need to stop feeling so sorry for myself because no one is reading my lame Alias fic. (But if you guys are bored? irina_derevko; new stuff. One of them is up at ff.n, and so is the Allison story.)

Yeah. I am pathetic.