:: So It Is Written... ::

:: Monday, September 16, 2002 ::

 

Today I ran into one of the most Rude professors I've had this displeasure of meeting since I've been here. I was in the physics building, trying to grade scantrons, and the scantron machine is off away from everything else. Well, naturally I couldn't get the thing to work since I was trying to grade sheets that didn't have any answers marked... (just for attendance)... since I couldn't get the thing to work, I decided to call the lead TA who knows how to work the stupid machine. Well since I was off away from everyone else, I just stuck my head in the office next to the one I was in and asked the professor if I could borrow the phone for a second... his response? "well, why the H*LL would you want to do that?" I tried to explain to him, but he continued cussing at me and saying I was disrupting his precious time and he was trying to concentrate. Overall, he spent about 5 minutes yelling and cussing at me... now... I left kinda dumbfounded... but after I regained my senses, it took every bit of will power I have to stop from going back over there and telling that guy what I thought... not only did spend more time yelling at me that my 15 second phone call would have taken, but like I said, he had to have the most rude attitude I've encountered since I've been here... The fact that this guy in no way is related to my work or my education just made it harder for me to not go tell him off... oh well.... I think I might just have to make it a habit to go by there every week now...

in other news... I'm debating doing one of several things... I recently aquired the skills and software necessary to burn VCDs... and I've already made a couple that have been worth watching... The Count of Monte Cristo and Signs... now, neither one has been DVD quality, but that's only because of the movie files I had... Richard burned some music videos to VCD and the quality was excellent... So now I'm considering making more VCDs... I'm downloading high quality rips of a couple of movies, and maybe tonight or tomorrow I'll see how good I like those... There's also the possibility of burning them back to DVD... Richard is considering buying a DVD-R. That would mean I could either burn downloaded movies to DVD or just copy DVD's straight to another DVD... hmmmm.... tempting...

If it turns out I like the quality of the burned movies, I might pop another processor in The Beast to speed up the conversion times from avi to vcd... currently it takes about 10-12 hours to convert a single movie in two parts... so another processor will cut down the times in one of two ways... if the process can be divided among processors, it'll theoretically cut the time in half... if it can't, then it will at least allow me to do normal stuff like browse the internet, check email, etc, while the other processor chews away at the movie... either way, it's faster...

let's see... not much else is going on... I'm bored... I have homework to do tonight... and I miss Deedee... yeah, I think that about covers it....

:: posted by Tmber :: 2:16 PM ::