yesterday I finished my revisions of the circular ruin, and today the plan was to move on to ocher eyes (whose second half really needs some work) but instead I'm fixing my ps2. 90% of the time when you get the 'disc read error' problem on the old, thick ps2s, it's a problem with the distance between the lens and the disc. I'm not sure why that should make so much of a difference, but I've fixed it before and I'll fix it again today.
It just takes 2 screwdrivers, some patience, and one of each kind of cd/dvd. see, the black and blue cds and dvds are the easiest to read, normal dvds are a bit harder, and playstation 2 dvds with the silver backs seem to be the most difficult. That's why they stop working first. So I'm setting the lens height, moving it two clicks to the left, testing it with shadow of the colossus, and moving it again, repeat a thousand times. I'm not afraid to open a game system and fix it, if I can find out how, and this particular problem is fixed all over the internet. And don't worry, I'm unplugging it before taking the shell off every time. Don't worry about me.
I did get shocked trying to fix a stove once, but that didn't turn out so well. Anyway there are few electrical appliances that are complicated enough that you can't fix them at home. As long as you look up how, and do it very carefully, you're golden. Why does it matter, though? It really doesn't. Entropy will get the best of you eventually anyway. I just don't want you to be afraid to try.
besides all that? Not much going on. But that's almost a lie. still, I can't tell the truth because it's not my call. I keep having dreams where I'm traveling. Usually I'm late for the plane and I've forgotten some important item or else I'm just somewhere else. That, on the whole, is not abnormal: all dreams take place somewhere else. But it's distressing that none of them seem to have people from this state, none of them seem to have places in austin, and all of them have as their basis the idea that I must keep moving.
I start back at EZs on Sunday, so... At least I'll make some money again. Whatever else I do, well, I'm not afraid to take a soldering iron to my own motherboard, either. Not that I've ever actually worked on a motherboard, but I would not hesitate, given the opportunity.
It just takes 2 screwdrivers, some patience, and one of each kind of cd/dvd. see, the black and blue cds and dvds are the easiest to read, normal dvds are a bit harder, and playstation 2 dvds with the silver backs seem to be the most difficult. That's why they stop working first. So I'm setting the lens height, moving it two clicks to the left, testing it with shadow of the colossus, and moving it again, repeat a thousand times. I'm not afraid to open a game system and fix it, if I can find out how, and this particular problem is fixed all over the internet. And don't worry, I'm unplugging it before taking the shell off every time. Don't worry about me.
I did get shocked trying to fix a stove once, but that didn't turn out so well. Anyway there are few electrical appliances that are complicated enough that you can't fix them at home. As long as you look up how, and do it very carefully, you're golden. Why does it matter, though? It really doesn't. Entropy will get the best of you eventually anyway. I just don't want you to be afraid to try.
besides all that? Not much going on. But that's almost a lie. still, I can't tell the truth because it's not my call. I keep having dreams where I'm traveling. Usually I'm late for the plane and I've forgotten some important item or else I'm just somewhere else. That, on the whole, is not abnormal: all dreams take place somewhere else. But it's distressing that none of them seem to have people from this state, none of them seem to have places in austin, and all of them have as their basis the idea that I must keep moving.
I start back at EZs on Sunday, so... At least I'll make some money again. Whatever else I do, well, I'm not afraid to take a soldering iron to my own motherboard, either. Not that I've ever actually worked on a motherboard, but I would not hesitate, given the opportunity.
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# posted by Max Roderick on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 
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