Booked holidays for October recently. On the 4th, I'll be in Hiroshima. On the 6th, A Ryokan in Hakone (Yes a picturesque part of the country with no ulteerior geeky motive at all) From the 8th, to the 11th, Tokyo, a kilometre from Tokyo Tower. Should be a blast. Even if I only booked the thing beca...

http://www.marantz.co.uk/Assets/images/products/SR7400/XL_SR7400_D.jpg Aquired one of these, at somewhat of a knock-down price after it sat idle for over a year waiting to be disposed of. It's quite old but I'm running my turntable, PC and PS3 through it with some old speakers we had lurking around...

From Iron Maiden's Latest

Empire of the Clouds

Have the triple-disc of this and it's something special.

Contemplative Dog.

(I'll post for 2-3 days then fuckoff for six months again, probably)

And Car.



Whole Album

Kaizokucon on March 4th, for anyone here in Ireland. Good con, worth going to.

Will have The Hakushu Distiller's reserve, maybe some Teeling and... ahem.... I think you can guess the con might be secondary.

Some cunt keyed my car at Cars and Coffee.

Not a big keying... but it's fucking noticeable.

And they didn't notice the difference in capacity? Sheesh! 2x1tb drives in Raid0 look a lot like 2x2tb drives in RAID1. Nobody in the company is IT. It was bought, configured by someone else and left to sit in the hope that it was configured right. It seems like the shop we bought it off consid...

pwhodges#808863 wrote:That's not a computer stupidity - that's a computer manager stupidity!

Everyone thought it was RAID 1. It'd been misconfigured since purchase day by someone in a hurry.

I have been somewhat raving about the latest offering from Iron Maiden The Book of Souls manages to be a thoroughly enjoyable experience. There're some who've said that it tends to plod along in places because of the 2-disk format, but it otherwise manages to hit the spot. While still being ...

I will say only one thing.

Datadisk on a network server containing mission critical information.
RAID 0.

pwhodges#791404 wrote:My, I can't remember when I last saw a reference to a Wankel engine!

Is Mine.

It's been nicknamed the Planet Killer by my neighbour.

http://imgur.com/a/HPGq3#0

Cars and Coffee Last Month

So, I bought a Rega RP1 on Saturday. Even hooked up to a basic pre-amp, the effect with the volume cranked up was altogether just a bit 'wow'. Also, listening to Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East . Came with it. After years of listening to music on an old iPod, the difference is staggering...

I've always had a soft-spot for the RX-8. I'd love to get one one day but it's highly unlikely to happen unfortunately. Price in te EU are basically rock-bottoming because of all the bad ones lurking in the system. Considering the performance they offer, they're actually fairly chea...

You ever experienced being in a Dodge Viper, Dartz? We don't have them in this country. 3000 a year in annual taxes. Not to mention import taxes, registration taxes and the like, tend to liit cars to eurocono boxes. Compared to the average car, a 200bhp RX8 is more powerful than the vast majori...

About eight months ago, I did a silly thing. I bought a car. But that's not silly, you might say. I suppose, that depends on what sort of car I bought. What I bought, was a Mazda Rx8 . You know, with the wankel engine. Now, a picture should've immediately formed in your mind if you're in...

Went to a con recently and took some photographs of the Cosplay

Took me over a month to get around to getting them developed, mind.

Nuclear Lunchbox#772060 wrote:I watched Tokyo 2040 over the summer. It was pretty good-- I guess I'll check out the OVA, now.

The OVA's are vastly superior.

And unfinished.

I'm sitting here, watching the first episode of Bubblegum Crisis and I remember why I thought this was so awesome. It basically does everything right in the first episode. The first two minutes basically set the basic tone of the setting, the next five minutes make for the greatest fusion of mus...

I still have to get my photographs from Eirtakon developed... It was a strangely melancholy experience. I've been to all ten of them - from the first one where 200 people showed up, to two weeks ago when that number was closer to 3,200. In other news, Otakucon has had a guest pull out, and has m...