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Aug 21, 2006 - 08:39 PM |
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Dead Drive & GenCon |
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So, it finally happened to me. I lost a drive this weekend. It was working fine one moment, and then suddenly, transfers started hanging. Even scandisk was taking forever. As it stands right now, any program that accesses the disc, locks up until I turn the drive off.
The drive is only 6 months old, too. A brand new 400 GB, on which I was storing all of my anime soundtracks. They are all backed up on DVDr, but it would take ages to pull 4500 soundtracks off all those dvds. So, I've been thinking about this, and I've decided that I'm done with collecting anime music. Unlike game music, I don't even listen to it, unless it's from a show or movie that I watched and liked. It's probably better this way, for my sanity's sake.
Also, I need to reconsider my archiving strategy, because this could happen to my game music Hard Drives as well. The only safe solution is to backup regularly to a spare set of Drives that I keep offline.
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Somehow, I missed my opportunity to update, even though Endless Sorrow kept reminding me, so this entry is dedicated to her.
Last weekend, I went to the Video Games Live concert in Indianapolis, which was held in conjunction with Gen-Con. So I drove down there on Saturday morning, planning to hang out at the convention, and meet up with a few people, and then see the concert in the evening.
The Concert The concert was awesome. I could write plenty about it, and in fact, I already have right here.
Gen-Con Wow, a day badge was $45. It was only about $15 the last time I went. I didn't have that strong a draw to go, since I'm not that into gaming nowadays; it was mostly something to do, and it worked as a convenient place to meet up with a few friends. The whole venue was jam-packed with people, and I mostly spent my time in the dealer's room, aside from attending a seminar put on by a friend.
Totally by luck, I ran into the guy who bought my Magic the Gathering collection a few years back. He had it all with him, and pulled out my old binders to show me what he's picked up. He had added some nice misprints to the sizable collection that I had put together back in the day. It brought back a lot of memories, and even elicited a faint pang of regret in me. But, I really didn't have the time or passion for it...
Some of you probably remember Chaos Angel Sox, who posted here for a while and who was a friend of Aeristerra's. I got to meet her and her friends for dinner at Bucca de Beppo's before we all headed to the concert. We had fun, though I think they are all into gaming and anime much more than I am, so there were plenty of times I had no idea what they were talking about. Unfortunately, Aeris wasn't able to make it. ;_;
Oh yeah, there was a fair amount of cosplay there. Just walking around, I saw:
- Lots of Star Wars characters - Stormtroopers, Boba Fetts
- A neat full-size remote control R2D2 unit. The best was when it was sitting at the bottom of a staircase outside the RCA dome, with no one around, it look like it wanted to go up the stairs.
- I saw 3 Princess Leias, in Jabba's Slave Barge costumes. The first woman was way too overweight to be dressed like that. I saw her walking one way while I was waiting for Sydney, and everyone who came the other way for the next 2 minutes was talking about her "Man, Princess Leia really let herself go."
- Cobra Commander and one of the female cobra agents
- Commander Will Riker
- Lost of medieval stuff, knights, maidens, barbarians
- Not much vampire stuff. Maybe that fad is finally over (or they were all in their coffins.)
- oh yeah, Pirates were everywhere.......
- I only saw 2 furries. One was a guy standing in line in front of me at the fast food Japanese place. He just had a long wolf's tail. There was also some other guy with a goofy looking blue tail and ears. Plenty of catgirls too.
- A team of 4 Real Ghostbusters
- A box of Pocky
- Lots of anime characters, of course, mostly unrecognizable to me. There were some nice Inu Yasha characters though.
- Somehow, I missed seeing the giant Pikachu, but everyone was telling me about it.
- a couple people with uniforms from the old show 'V'
- Jesus Christ, complete with crown of thorns
- And the biggest laugh for me -- someone was dressed as a Cardinal (the catholic kind), complete with crimson robe, and was walking around holding a chalice in both hands, blessing people.
Maybe I'll dress up for something like this, someday.
For those Sci-Fi nuts, both the original and new Starbuck from the 2 Battlestar Galactica series were at the convention. It was kind of cool, getting to see them from about 10 feet away. The woman who played the Blue-skinned girl from Farscape was also there, as was Kevin Sorbeau (Hercules).
After the concert, Socks, ldycatlin and I all went back to Gencon, and saw a movie called Gamers 2: Dorkness Rising, which was everything the D&D movie should have been. It was hiliarious, though watching it in a room full of gamers at 1 AM was probably the perfect venue.
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