Asymptomatic

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D&D in Philly
March 22, 2003

We visited Jen at her new house in Philly this weekend to play D&D.  It's a pretty nice place.  The only thing that I didn't really like about it (and it wasn't a big deal) was the lack of yard.  Actually, that would probably suit me better than having to mow.  Of course, Abby would probably enjoy grass to stain the knees of all of her clothes.

After dinner, we played D&D.  Dave ran this City of the Spider Queen module we've been going on for a while.  I really hate drow.  I think this game is having problems, though.  As always, the first issue is that it's difficult to remember what we did in the previous session when that session took place three weeks prior, but there's nothing we can do about that since it's based around Jen's work schedule.

Verizon catches up with me
March 21, 2003

"Well, it was bound to happen eventually."

I got a call a few weeks ago on a Saturday from a Verizon employee.  He wanted to confirm that I had received notice that my service was going to be "upgraded".  Of course, I had not.  So he proceeded to politely explain that I was going to be switched over from a CAP line to a DMT line.  That's a good thing.  Unfortunately, I was going to need new hardware.  In itself, that's not bad, but it does preclude my use of a static IP.

Digital Video Digitizing
March 18, 2003

I'm perplexed.  A few years ago I bought a Dazzle Digital Video Creator.  The DVC was - and still is - an amazing device, even though at first glance it doesn't seem like it does much.

The purpose of the DVC is to convert video from a VCR or camcorder into digital video.  The DVC itself is a box that plugs into a USB port on the computer.   The box has inputs and outputs for video and stereo audio.  So far, nothing here is remarkable.