If you have Windows Media Player 9 or 10, and you’re playing MPEG or MPEG2 content, just press CTRL + i to save a capture of the screen. Alternatively, you can drag Video Acceleration down to None. mvps.org Tonight, we were watching Naruto, and I finished all 75 episodes which my friend gave me to…Continue Reading…
The Wii has arrived in Marks Hall. Jason Lee picked up a new Nintendo Wii, waiting in line for it early this morning. (Although Nolan apparently paid for it, he’s going to pay him back.) It’s really, really sweet. Not only is it by the far best-looking of any of the next-gen consoles, it’s also…Continue Reading…
Here’s a very quick overview of my weekend. I left Thursday evening and flew to Houston, TX for my uncle’s wedding, which was held at Rice University. While in Texas, we went to a butterfly exhibit at the Museum of Natural Science. Later, we went to the Museum of Printing History, where we printed a…Continue Reading…
I have a GameCube, and we have an orange controller whose C-stick no longer works (and makes some games unplayable because it’s stuck in one position), and another whose analog stick is starting to wear out (can’t tap it right twice– the spring or sensor is stuck). I was just thinking: how practical can the…Continue Reading…
I’m cleaning up my room, and I found a big stack of computer games that I grew up with. Leo Laporte is right. It’s probably games that got me into computers to begin with, just like most of history’s great programmers. I don’t know what to do with them. They’re really old, and probably not…Continue Reading…
I was seriously thinking about creating a separate “fun” blog for this, but having multiple blogs just means one won’t get updated. So it goes here, along with everything else. Rely on the “Categories” if you want to see just a certain topic. The fun category, by the way, is “Entertainment”.