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 On 05/08/2017 at 11:59 AM by goaztecs See More From This User » |
So the past couple of days have been a bit odd here in my little piece of Sunny Southern California. Friday it was 104, a little toasty but not too bad. Yesterday I think it topped at 60 degrees and it left me with a sore throat, and my allergies hate me right now. Talk about fun. Good morning Pixlpeeps! Other than that fun stuff I played a total of one game, trying to get to that magic number of 100% and so far I ended up at
I spent Friday, Saturday, and Sunday going from 80.4% to my current spot at 95.5%. I used a guide on IGN that helped me out when looking for things I had to paint, figure locations, etc. The guide wasn't always correct, and I spent a good hour and a half searching for an item that wasn't in the spot that the guide said it would be. Instead while running around the city destroying everything out of frustration, I found it...right behind the spot my character was standing when originally looking for the item. Anyways there is a lot of spoilers so I won't speak about that but I will write about another thing I was doing this past weekend and that was creating a backup to my photo drive.
A couple of weeks ago I came up with this crazy plan that I would have smaller portable drives for my Photo and Media hard drives. I would copy everything to these smaller drives and once a month copy whatever was new from the smaller drives to the bigger drives. On Friday I started
On the left my big ol' desktop external drive with all the pictures I have taken, some funny Reddit memes, and video I shot with my phones, and GoPro's.
I spent Friday copying over all the stuff from the big drive to the little drive
Like my printing? Next payday I am going to buy another drive for my big Media drive so I don't get the two mixed up.
Saturday and Sunday was spent looking through folders, figuring out which items I could get rid of, and everything else was being sorted (I wish I was this neat in real life)
While looking though some of the older stuff I found pictures from an old 1Up blog I took in 2011 about the time I decided to turn a Nook Color Tablet from book reader to Android Tablet. I probably have the document I typed that blog on in the Media folder but for now I can kind of tell you my thought process behind why I did it, so let's take a trip back on the way back machine.
I remember watching a bunch of YouTube videos on how to do this process and it was easy. You take an SD card, download some files, write the files to the card, place the card in the tablet, reboot and you have a cheap ($170 compared to the more expensive Android tablets)
It is amazing how much I crammed into 8GB of space. Hell my first desktop computer had 6GB. It also had 8GB of internal space so I used a combo of both.
There's my tablet. I have to say that little tablet was sturdy and had some weight.
The fun Android animation of the custom rom I was running. I think at the time it was running a version of Froyo from Cyanogenmod.
My swanky lock screen. Hopefully I saved that wallpaper so I can use it on my current Android Tablet.
And I believe this was my first setup. I went through a ton of other setups including one where I locked it into Landscape mode. Hopefully I can find pictures of that
Now the real reason I did this was so I could play games...and have a swanky tablet. I used that tablet for everything. I stopped bringing my laptop with me, I started reading books using the Kindle App (I didn't like the Nook app) I tried all the features even music streaming.
Sadly my Nook tablet no longer runs. I think a year or two after I bought my first real Android tablet the Nexus 7, a file somehow got corrupted and the tablet got caught in an endless boot. Its still sitting in a drawer, and it was the my first trip into tablet gaming.
Well that's my little trip on the Way Back Machine. I hope I didn't bore you good people. Anyways I must be off. Have a good week, and I need to once again catch up on everything you good people have written.
That's all for now, more later!
-Chris
"The guide wasn't always correct, and I spent a good hour and a half searching for an item that wasn't in the spot that the guide said it would be."
Sounds about right. I hate when there's that one little thing in a guide that's not exactly what you're needing or throws you off. Like when I need help with a certain version of an Adobe program and all the forums are talking about CS6 when CC 2017 is different enough that it doesn't give me what I need ...
That right there is a pain. It would be nice if people are going to put the effort (by the way thanks people for creating walkthroughs) at least take the time to make the info correct on it, or in your case mention which version they are talking about.
Isn't it supposed to be... like summer? Instead you're getting temperatures close to what I'm getting. Either that or my Farenheit to Celsius equations are way off.
Yeah we were teased with triple digits but then a cold front hit, and currently a lot of wind so we've been under the normal temp here. I think the summer will make up for it again when it gets really hot and humid.
it's cool here too now. Man, I could use a 4TB drive, but I am just such a cheap bastard when it comes to buying hard drives.
It would be nice to see the prices of the little portable hard drives start to fall under $100, but it looks like they are hovering around $110-120 for 4TB. I think it was either Walmart or Best Buy that is currently having a sale on 2TB for $70 which isn't bad.
My 2 TB external drive is still plenty enough for my music.
I'd like to play a Lego game sometime soon. The Star Wars Force Awakens one was on sale last weekend. I'm on a no-buying regimen for a while. I think I have Lego Worlds on my rental list, so maybe I'll play that next.
Oh 2TB is a lot of space just for music. Hell I think I did the math and if I ripped everything I owned into lossless it would still be under 1TB.
I need to jump back into Worlds. I just finished Lego City last night, but I do want to take a break from plastic block games for a bit.
I've considered ripping everything at some uncompressed format. Force of habit, I guess but I use the highest quality setting in Audacity for any vinyl rips.
The radio station I used to work at uses two 2TB drives and neither is even CLOSE to full; the station has been operating for 20+ years and has constantly added new music. Even the stuff out of rotation is likely on there somewhere.
I've been reorganizing my music on my 2TB drive. It's at 252 GB. What's that, like 1/6th the capacity. That's my entire collection too which I've added to for years. I've begun saving stuff at the highest bit rate because, why not? I've got the room.
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