For the longest time, I’ve had to deal with audio delaying at the beginning of every song/movie. I could never figure it out until this morning. Basically, when I would play something, VLC would freeze for 5 seconds before playing and I couldn’t figure out why.

Under ‘Preferences,’ click ‘All’ under ‘Show Settings,’ and open the ‘Audio’ category. From there, click on the ‘Output modules’ subcategory and make sure the correct audio output method is chosen; in my case, I chose ALSA. Save your settings, and the initial audio delay should be gone. I think the delay was due to VLC trying to find a suitable output method.

Now only if I could figure out why gnome-screenshot doesn’t include the title bar in gtk-window-decorator under compiz.

Autechre’s “Lowride” samples Kool & The Gang’s “Summer Madness.”
Boards of Canada’s “Aquarius” samples the film, Hair’s, “Aquarius.”

Lady GaGa + George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” = Lady GaGa’s “Dance in the Dark”

Mind = Blown.

The hipster tastes so good.

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I’ve been looking forever for these and I finally found them. I did nothing but spend all day in Asheville looking for them and a phone battery. It took me a few hours to find them in the mall and I never did find a phone battery for a decent price. I ended up seeing Alice in Wonderland, which wasn’t that good, actually. I never had the desire to see it in the first place, but I had some money and my sister and I had nothing else to do so we saw it. It’s basically a regular Disney story with characters who share names from Lewis Carroll’s version. I did get to see the trailer for Tron: Legacy, which was actually more exciting than Alice in Wonderland itself.

I wish it would get warmer outside so I could go for a walk. I’m tired of it being cold and/or windy. I don’t think I’ve ever had a problem with winter before, except for this year. It’s just been depressing, super cold, and annoying. I’ve also been thinking of having my lobes stretched and may have them pierced this week so I can do so. I don’t think I’d stretch them any bigger than a hole the size of a pea, otherwise I may have problems with future job prospects. Oh, this is disgusting.

I’ve felt so indifferent about a lot of things lately. I used to have so much care for the smallest things, but I just don’t anymore. I’m not sure if it’s good or bad, but almost everything seems trivial now. School has even gotten to the point where it’s trivial, although I’m doing better than ever and I’m not even trying. I’ve felt strange for the past couple of weeks and I can’t quite describe it. I’ve thought about all of this a lot lately and I’ve wondered if it’s because I’m depressed and I don’t think that’s the case. I’ve finally been able to sleep decently these past few days and my appetite hasn’t changed; I was able to eat three platefuls of raw spinach last night.

I used to be so sure of what I was going to do when I was finished with school and I don’t feel that way anymore – for certain reasons. I don’t feel that things are hopeless, but I feel like I’m walking down a corridor heading toward thousands of doors – some locked, some not. For the past two years I’ve not had to think much about what I’m going to do with myself when I no longer have school, because everything seemed to make sense then.

I once heard that a system administrator is the 21st century version of a ditch digger; it was something I scoffed at. Recently, I was told by someone in the industry that it’s not something you want to do your whole life; you’re supposed to have something else lined up. I don’t exactly have that, but the more I think about it, there seems to be some truth to all of this. That’s not to say that I’ve changed my mind about what I want to do when I’m finished (I sure as hell don’t want to program), but there’s always the question of “what if?” I think a lot of this worry stems from my fear of incompleteness. I came across this while talking to someone and it’s kind of strange. I realized that numbers ending in 9 really make me uncomfortable, so much that if I am able to control it, I will increment whatever it is just to make it complete. Maybe this will come in handy at some point. The way things work out is pretty funny.

This week is my spring break and I don’t have much planned other than to swap out my piercings – the bar in my conch for a hoop, and the bar in my tragus for a super-duper titanium one. Oh, I’ve been listening to Mujuice lately. He’s pretty good.

Chris: Where’s the money symbol in Excel? Surely it has it somewhere.
Me: Uh…as in a dollar sign?
Chris: Yeah
Me: Shift + 4?
Chris: looks
Me: Pretty standard.
Chris: :O
Me: Oh wow.
Chris: Shut up.

I think it’s time for spring break to start.