Walking Through Gardens

Today I spent an hour and a half walking around campus exploring buildings I had heretofore left unseen, many of which lie on the southern half of Campus Drive. It's curious how many of them are simply fun to look at as compared to those of North Campus. Had my first major assigned me classrooms in these buildings, I might not have switched.

I saw two blue jays. If only I hadn't run out of Poké Balls.

How to add "Add to Now Playing" in WMPlayer Context Menus

A recent discovery I'd like to share with everyone:

If you use Windows Media Player as much as I do, you're probably frustrated when you go to enqueue a filetype that you know will play but lacks the available option in the context menu. MP3, AVI and so forth are already meant to be added to the queue with a simple Right-click->"Add to Windows Media Player list", but additional types, such as OGG Vorbis, Matroska audio/video, MP4, etc.--if the filetype was added after upgrading your Windows Media Player--must have the option added manually. Here's how:

Every file has both an extension and a filetype, which are defined in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. You're probably more familiar with the extension; filename.ogg has the extension ".ogg", etc. Scroll down to .ogg in the list and note the three values associated with it. The first is labeled "(Default)" and contains as data the filetype (in my case, "ogg_auto_file"). Sometimes the filetype is non-intuitive; .mkv's filetype in my case is "CCCP.Matroska.1".

Scroll down the list of keys and select the filetype. Here we need to add a key:
shellex/ContextMenuHandlers/WMPAddToPlaylist.
Change the (Default) data entry to {F1B9284F-E9DC-4e68-9D7E-42362A59F0FD}.

To remove the "Add to Now Playing" option from a filetype's context menu, simply delete the WMPAddToPlaylist key.

"More Length and Width"

Change your life -- enlarge your organ.
Strip her and take her.
The age of miracles is not past.
Make your hot rod longer.
Upgrade your hardware now.
Instinctual elation
You can get longer, faster with us.
Man's Stuff Mall
Catch the eye of every woman.
Summer girls frolic.
Skimpy swimsuit contest
Immeasurable wand of pleasure
Make it large and steady as rock!
Sumptuous goods for your respectful look.
Feel yourself more manly.
Find out how to grow your d1ck.
Rise to the occasion.
Steely hardness awaits you with express herbals.
Your PENIS will make more shadow than a tree.........
Take out your secret weapon.
Be strong and assured.
Be a real man. Buy today.
Shannon Elizabeth will make you hard as cement.
Make your weapon esteemed.

I've bolded my favorite metaphors. Half of my spams are in Russian so I can't get beyond reading them aloud, but I'm sure they're just as entertaining.

Computer Troubles, Part (n+1)

Windows XP Service Pack 3 is a bitch. But from this utter disaster came good things:
1) I became motivated to fix my wireless card and get Laptop #3 connected in all its obsolete goodness.
2) I reformatted Laptop #2 and got it running smoothly.
3) I discovered that my brother has one of my power cords and thus owes me something in return.
4) I learned the remarkably simple process of attaching an external monitor to Laptop #2, thereby overcoming the reason I stopped using it in the first place.
5) I got to get pissy with Microsoft.
6) I found, through my interactions on Laptop #3, the interest and inspiration that led me to become a computer engineering major.
7) ?????
8) Profit!

Unfortunately, until Laptop #1 is fixed I am without many of my personally important files. So no remixes or anything for a short while. =(

Wh33p!

Finally completed my remix of the battle theme from Chrono Trigger, done in spiffing hardstyle with unexpectedly pleasant results (Acid Over Sydney, anyone?). Click here and enjoy.

And for reference, I've uploaded the original. Might be better to listen to this first, but whatev trev.

Predictions

I'm shootin' for 60% this year, which should be easy unless the Academy goes b0rk. I've gotten lazy these past weeks and haven't yet seen many of the nominees, so this list is subject to change over the next day and a half. *ahem*

EDIT (4:59 PM, 2/24/08): Still unsure of Actress and Supporting Actress, but here goes:

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Predictions Correct: 9/19 (47.37%)

Achievement in Costume Design
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Ratatouille

Achievement in Makeup
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
La Vie En Rose

Achievement in Visual Effects
Transformers
The Golden Compass

Achievement in Art Direction
Atonement
Sweeney Todd

Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role
Javier Bardem -- No Country for Old Men

Performance By An Actress in a Supporting Role
Cate Blanchette -- I'm Not There
Tilda Swinton -- Michael Clayton

Adapted Screenplay
No Country for Old Men

Achievement in Sound Editing
Ratatouille
The Bourne Ultimatum

Achievement in Sound Mixing
Transformers
The Bourne Ultimatum

Performance By an Actress in a Leading Role
Marion Cotillard -- La Vie En Rose

Achievement in Film Editing
No Country for Old Men
The Bourne Ultimatum

Achievement in Cinematography
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score)
Michale Giacchino -- Ratatouille
Dario Marianelli -- Atonement

Best Documentary Feature
No End in Sight
Taxi to the Dark Side

Original Screenplay
Juno

Performance By an Actor in a Leading Role
Daniel Day-Lewis -- There Will Be Blood

Achievement in Directing
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen -- No Country for Old Men

Best Motion Picture of the Year
No Country for Old Men

MS2k's 3rd Annual Movie Recap

So it's time for MS2k's annual run-down of movie ticket stubs acquired over the past year, which means I'm tired as balls and want to pretend to accomplish something... for the third year in a row.

New for the collection:

1/01 - Rocky Balboa
1/04 - The Good Shepherd
1/09 - Notes on a Scandal
1/10 - Children of Men
2/23 - Clockwork Orange(!)
3/14 - Infernal Affairs(!)
3/16 - 300
3/21 - Zodiac
3/23 - 300
3/24 - 300
4/04 - The Last Mimzy
4/07 - Grindhouse
4/07 - Blades of Glory
4/20 - Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
5/24 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
5/26 - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
6/08 - Ocean's 13
6/15 - Knocked Up
7/02 - Transformers
7/03 - Transformers
7/07 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (!)
7/11 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
7/28 - The Simpsons Movie
8/05 - The Bourne Ultimatum
8/19 - Superbad
8/23 - Big Trouble in Little China(!)
9/13 - Shoot Em Up! (Free)
9/14 - Shoot Em Up!
10/05 - 3:10 to Yuma
10/22 - Lake of Fire
10/23 - The Darjeeling Limited
10/23 - Lust, Caution
11/09 - American Gangster
11/17 - Beowulf 3D
12/20 - No Country for Old Men
12/21 - Sweeney Todd
12/21 - Charlie Wilson's War
12/26 - Juno

What sad isn't that I've gone to the theaters 10 times fewer than last year, but that I cared enough to count. Meh, here's to '08. Next post'll prolly be Golden Globe predictions.