After generally avoiding the hassle of making myself smarter, I finally decided to figure out torrents this weekend. I've half-heartedly downloaded clients in the past, only to completely ignore the fact that you need to actually find torrents for the clients to work. However, actually reading a bit did wonders and I soon and discovered the wonderful Mininova search engine and coupled it with Bit Tyrant. Voila! Within minutes I was listening to Velvet Elvis. Why Velvet Elvis you ask?
The OTHER thing I did this weekend was organize my gear room, which was home to dozens of cassette tapes (remember those?) I haven't touched in years--amongst them Even Worse. I needed some good cleanin' music and was thus inspired to torrent my heart out. Good stuff. Note I didn't pirate anything, not a single RIAA protected song, especially no old Metallica. Nope, none you hear that Lars Ulrich?!
One of my future projects (also semi-inspired by the gear room) is to go through all my old photos and get them on my PC. To do so I need a bigger hard drive (40 GB ain't cutting it) and a scanner. Scanners are getting harder and harder to find due to the fact most people are using digital cameras these days but I should be able to find a decent one for under 100 bucks online. I have a box of pictures from around 1994-2003 I need to sift through and admittedly, it's going to be an interesting journey. A majority of shots are from highpoints trips (including a good 23 photos + doubles of the summit of Kentucky's highpoint, where I thought my camera remote wasn't working--and it was).
It seems like since the digital camera era, I've aged quite a bit. I can't differentiate myself from about 1995-2003, as I essentially look the same. And what the heck too, there I am smiling all young and happy, fit and tan etc. and I couldn't get a date for like 5 years in that era! Not that I'm bitter. Oh well, at least I have photoshop for the modern age.
