Blrg

I don't understand this obsession with widescreens. I don't.

No, I don't like widescreen at all. It has it's uses, but for me, I'd rather it stick to TVs. Leave my monitors and especially my laptops alone! Arg!

The only laptop I could find that was still being sold that isn't a widescreen is Eurocom's D700T Enigma. A fine laptop, but I'm having an incredible amount of difficulty with them and getting a working laptop. (When I bought it, I had to bring it back the "next" day to get it fixed. Only about three weeks later did they finally stop trying to fix it and basically gave me a new system; Even so, the video card appears to have issues and I may have to bring it in again!)

I'm still looking for a portable media player that can be truly customized. First one to suggest an iPod will be shot. It may seem silly, I want to load the 10+ different file types that I use and not have any problems playing them (companies looking for small codecs may be interested in looking at the source code of foobar2000). Bonus points if it comes with (or there is, somewhere on the internet) software that can re-encode certain formats to lower bitrates (since you aren't going to get full sound quality from a P.A.P. anyway) automatically and still manage to handle changes on both sides transparently (e.g. if, on another computer, I change the tags or add/delete files, those changes will affect the library on my main system).

What? I can dream, can't I?

On a related aside, I've been looking at the GP2X (official) (which has found it's way into my wishlist) and VirtualCogs - specifically, the Portable Computing COG which I may yet use to build and sell a mix between P.A.P. I'm looking for and the GP2X. Hmm, I could sell that. I wonder if Virtual Cogs Embedded Systems Inc. has anything against that sort of thing.

Gizmo's been getting more and more upset with Celty, not less. Originally, he was graining weight - I think someone else may have been feeding him when he went outside - but I weighed him today and he's actually at 11 lbs (!).

So...

My mother's planning on getting rid of her in some way, whether that means giving her to my brother, bringing her back, or bringing her to the SPCA...

Anyone local interested in a kitten?

Or anyone have any suggestions for getting them to get along (unlikely, but, I'm still open to suggestions)?

A little bit of risky business, telling your potential employer that you might only be around a month. But I did it.

You see, I have two options at the moment:

I have an employer who's interested in hiring me (at least, I originally thought this; the above news seems to have rattled his cage a bit), who'll be giving me 12-14$/hour.

I have another potential employer who's to contact me "within a month or so" to let me know whether or not I'm hired. They, however, would pay me approximately 25$/hour (if my calculations are right: 50,255$ - 58,000$ yearly was their figure)!

Obviously, the danger here is threefold:

If I insist to the first employer that I may only work for about a month, he may decide I'm not worth the time and not hire me (though, as I understand it, there are several openings in this position).

If I accept the first job, the second employer may slam the door in my face if I tell them I can only work in two weeks from their notification (I really don't want to "quick quit", especially seeing as it's become kind of a standard).

If I don't accept the first job, I may not even get the second job in the first place (despite still qualifying for two out of three positions), and be left with nothing.

The whole "Which would you prefer doing?" question doesn't help, either, as I'd like to do either.

Grr. I wish employers were more open about applicants' chances of being hired, even if it were a simple "You're one out of X applicants left.".

Yes, my cell is once again unusable.

Oops.

Alternative title: Oh boy, we're going to have our hands full!

I'm not sure it's hit my mother yet how much effort it's going to take to train this kitten - because we're going to have to, I'm sure - especially as she seems to be a bit of the stubborn kind. Or maybe she's just that energetic, which makes more sense as she's still a kitten.

The movies are up now, but may require IE, sadly. Movies are XviD encoded to make sure to grab (or update) your CCCP.

I forgot to mention last time: We had a choice of a black male named Riker, a peach/tan-colored male (I don't really remember his color, and at the time I had trouble deciding what to call that color to call it), Celty (pronounced Kelty, by the way), and a gray faintly-striped female who apparently, despite not being the eldest managed, to be the alpha of the family. Originally, we were to get Riker (this was, I think, my mother's choice), but after looking up information on introducing a new cat (and asking our vet) we found that it was better to introduce a cat of opposite gender and thus upon hearing that we had the pick of the litter I immediately ruled out males as an option. Possibly unfortunate, as Riker did look cute, and the tan-colored male seemed to be the submissive type (though playful). I wanted a somewhat creatively colored kitten, so that pretty much left me with just the choice of Celty.

But... she's a noisy one when not being given attention... and those claws!