Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Today looked like it was going to be one of those “sit around and mope while feeling unmotivated in any general direction” days that frequently permeate lectureless weeks. All this was changed, however, the instant we discovered the data projectors my good woman had borrowed from Uni might stand some playing with before she took them back tomorrow. Data projectors are pretty expensive kit and it was probably a huge abuse of our position to use them, so it took some serious moral quandrying. Most of which we did after watching Kill Bill Vol 1. in our new Home Cinema setup! Haha!

Okay, that’s not the best picture to use as an example, but to be honest the flash ruined most of the pictures I took, so I chose one where it was obvious there was a lot of colour going on. We set the projector up facing the front wall of the room, having moved Nikki’s Busted calendar for a clearer space. Ian and I rearranged the speakers from my PC on either side, and we had our own private showing. In order to show you just how cool it is, I also projected Transformers: The Movie up there.

Great stuff. Have I mentioned how necessary acquiring one of these now seems? We think that if we club together, buy one, and then charge people a quid per movie, we can make back our money in no time. Of course, earlier in the day I’d been putting it to real use. See, the way these things work is that they project your computer’s output, so we were watching the films on the PC and putting the image of that onto the wall. This also meant something excellent - I could play Unreal Tournament 2004 on the wall! To be honest, after a while it seemed just as normal as playing on a monitor, but it was fun. And UT2004’s not all it can play:

Though that’s not really as glamourous.

I don’t seem to be needed by Aqua tomorrow, which is both good and bad. Good, because I’ll have time to concentrate on my project tomorrow, and bad, because at this point any money is a Very Good Thing. I do have well over hundred quid to invoice them for. Of course, as if to combine the PC and money-related threads of today’s post, my DVD-ROM drive seems to have given up the ghost. I forget how old it is exactly, but it’s surely not too long ago I bought it. I try to remember when I bought my first DVDs. Admittedly, it was before Uni, but did I just watch them on the downstairs unit? I believe so. Still, the DVD drive seems to have stopped reading DVDs altogether, which is annoying from a cost perspective, but then, I’m not too rushed in getting a new one since I still have my glorious DVR drive. Vanilla DVD-ROMs can’t be too much these days anyway.