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[captain_slinky]

Molly finally gained some weight and is now a whole 7 Lbs! There was a little bit of concern that she wasn't gaining weight fast enough and the doctor wanted us to suplement with Formula, but we made it without resorting to The Devil's Slime known as Similac!

My neice (Haley) has been staying with us since Monday. She's a great little helper! She keeps things moderately clean for us, cooks little meals, holds the baby when we have to go to the bathroom, and otherwise is just completely quiet and willing to do ANYTHING. We are having a good time trying to learn her in the Geektastic Arts. Poor girl has the raw material to be a good little nerd, but has never had the proper encouragement! Never seen an episode of Star Trek, knows nothing of Sci-Fi... we started her on Back To The Future and Weird Al videos last night, will start working the Star Trek angle tonight.

An old 70's Japanese Giant Robot I bought for 50-cents at Value Village sold on Ebay for a bit more than I expected it to when I listed it last week. Just a bit more... $218 more! SO that shall become my Convention Money for the Emerald City Comic Con in April.

So many good things going on!

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[agelesseuridice.livejournal.com]

congrats on the ebay thing, and the baby sitter...
now that I have been social ;-D I wanted to ask you what the share ware program you are using to download dvds? and if you have a link to it? Yeah, I want to steal....um preserve some movies. :-D

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Hoo boy... that's actually a much more involved question than you might think!

If you're just looking to make back-up copies of movies already available through retail and rental establishments, I would suggest a monthly membership to Netflix and a little program called DVDShrink. By far the best place to ownload it from is http://www.mrbass.org/dvdshrink/ because they also have the closest thing to a Manual that you're gonna find for this program. Depending on the speed of your DVD burner, this little program will crank out the back-up coppies at a rate of about 1 every 45 minutes.

But you'll also need DVD43 from http://www.dvd43.com/ because the DVDShrink will sometimes run in to a DVD that has been very highly encrypted with security and junk. DVD43 strips that stuff away and allows you to make your back-up just fine on the second or third try. So far with this combination I have only found 2 disks (out of the aproximately 900 I have burned) that I couldn't get past the encryption with, and I think that was because of a corrupted disk!

Now however, if you want to bypass using "Originals" all together and just download content from the intenet making your OWN DVDs? That's a horse of a differen - and extremely more difficult - color!

[agelesseuridice.livejournal.com]

hmm I thought that there was a program you were using a particular program. I'll have to read back check out your history see if I can find the one I was thinking about but thanks for these 2 and the advice.

But really how is the wee Beastie? (feeling more maternal today) She looked like a hungry bird in that last photo I saw. Bet she's cute when snuggled into big bad daddy Beast's chest. How is your seperation anxiety? Maybe they won't notice if you bring her to work. All the girls will swarm and be happy to take turns watching (holding) precious baby beast.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Ah. In that case you're probably looking for my Bit Torrent client, Azareus. Download locations are always changing, so you'll have to google it.

It doesn't have a search function, you have to use one or more of the on-line torrent search engines like Torrent Reactor or some such nonsense. I'll post a link to the multi-engine when I get home tonight :) THing is, you'll need a program that converts files from .avi to DVD... and I'll post the name of THAT when I get home, too!

Wee Beastie is doing just fine... she's hitting a growth spurt and refuses to sleep much. Just like her Old Man!

[agelesseuridice.livejournal.com]

I did my home work and re-read some of your journal, and then I saw the link for DVD Shrink I was looking for. And you had put the program I was thinking of in this post, DVD Shrink.
That's what I get for scanning a detailed and helpful post at work, during the hours the techs are desperate to close out of the field...duh
and thanks.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Oh good! Glad to help!

Also, I'm not sure who it was but ONE of the techs last night needed a kick in the head! Showed up at 7 (3 hours after the window of noon-4, but you guys called to let the cust know he was running late), took till 9:45 to install two addl outlets. Thing is, when he installed the two addl outlets? HE DISABLED THE OTHER 3 OUTLETS IN THE HOUSE!!!

[agelesseuridice.livejournal.com]

fingers crossed it was a contractor, those guys are forever running behind....

Just curious, because its the one thing that causing the techs to swear as we do when confronted with a "network engieneer" and his piece-o-crap router, how many outlets did the customer ask to be installed. Installing/activating outlets, is the most time consuming thing they do. Its not unusual for them to have to pull cable. Far too many reps tell the customer the tech will activate all the outlets in the house but they don't add the install charges to the order because they don't want to hear the customer scream about 14.99 an outlet. Its the install charges that gives the tech the points he needs for the job. In the name of God add the freaking outlet install and then wave the fee (love the IR discount code)It will give the tech the time (points)he needs to do all the work the rep promised he would do.