April 14, 2007

Shiny Happy Pretty

Scott wrote this at around evening time:

Cowon D2 PMP

Cowon D2


* 2.5 inch QVGA (320×240) 16 million color 24 bit LCD touch screen.
* 30fps video playback
* TV ouput
* Available in black (2GB and 4GB) or white (Only 4GB)
* Audio codecs include MP3, Ogg, Flac, Wav, WMA
* Video codecs include WMV, MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid)
* Image viewer in JPG format
* Plain Text viewer
* Audio recording capable
* FM radio
* SD/SDHC and MMC card reader slot
* Up to 52 hours music, 10 hours video

So far I’m pretty happy with it. Ok, so maybe all I’ve done is transfered music onto it and listened some, but still happy. I don’t seem to have any video to transfer over, but at some point in the near future I’ll probably buy a DVD drive for my computer (the old one went crazy, and the spare I thought I had turned out to be a CD-ROM drive), and start figuring out how to convert video. Which could be a nice thing to have for the flights I’m planning next month for family visiting. If it doesn’t work out, at least I’ll have music to listen to.

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April 11, 2007

It’s going to be a long night

Scott wrote this mid-afternoon:

Well, I get to spend the evening through early morning hours at work today/tomorrow. In the dark.

Edison gave notice on Monday that they are taking our power away from 8PM to around 3AM. Thus endangering well over $1million in projects going on, but fortunately we got a hold of some portable generators to patch in to power the critical systems. Someone from my group has to be there to take care of monitoring and verifying that things that should be working are working, and since I’m a fairly nice guy once in a while, I volunteered. Primarily since I have the least going on tomorrow that I need to be fresh for, I’m pretty much just wrapping up documentation for some projects right now.

I feel kind of sorry for Radar, since he’ll have to spend a night alone tonight, but I get the feeling that he’ll just sleep and won’t notice I’m gone until 5:30AM when it’s time to eat. Which I could very well be home for.

I’m going to take some flashlights that are powered by cranks so I can just recharge them and set them up for some light. Probably I’ll spend most of my time reading, and if it looks like there are some long stretches of nothing, sleeping.

Update: Then again, maybe it will go really smoothly on the initial transfer to generator power and I’ll be able to go home and wait to be called back when they are ready to switch back to normal power.

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