Elevated Structure of Terror

I am utterly exhausted from the Anime Dance evening, so I'll make it short. I had a blast, didn't dance much in groups though (I was too shy to butt-in to circles tonight) and even got a little catty with a fellow Nekochan. :D

High point of the night was seeing a couple dressed up as Earthworm Jim and Evil The Cat. I couldn't believe it. XD Floored me and Roupen.

(No wonder I was drawing so many similarities to EWJ and The Neverhood/Klaymen... they have the same creator, Doug TenNapel.)

Ahh Pbbbh. The King of Town has the best costume this year. XD

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I forgot to mention that last night's fog was so thick that again, without any lights in the complex across the road from me, I couldn't see it.  Right now I ca't see the CN Tower, but heck, I still can't see the 401 right now.

( Really long survey meme! )

WELCOME TO WALMART!!

Total Geek Day today. I went with my Dad to purchase a new computer for him and Mom, and we stopped by a few places - Costco and then PC Shop, and grabbed what we needed and headed home.

After we got Windows XP in there, it was blazing. It takes maybe 12 seconds to boot. O.O I've never, EVER, in my life seen a computer boot that fast. (Well, there's Commodore64...) Maybe it's because Windows needs to be rebooted so often...?

Ok, I don't know about this, but I'm pretty amazed that even with Plug-and-Play, the companies release their own software and tell the user not to plug it in until after the installation is complete. That kinda defeats the purpose of Plug-and-Play since they're basically overriding Microsoft's drivers.

Also, if the installation software doesn't work correctly, it becomes a headache. Check out this dialogue I had with one of HP's Tech Support about installing the brand-new All-in-One Printer/Copier/Fax/Scanner for my parent's new computer.

(The sad thing is that the All-in-One is only an All-in-One physically. In the Windows universe, it's considered to be 3 separate machines, plus some form of USB Splitter on one port.)

Also, take into account that after any of my messages, that it takes about a minute for "Steven" to respond. He's not a bot, unless the bot is programmed to misspell every once in a while. But I have to wonder...

( HP Chat )

I ended up calling a phone line rep and he walked me through this "scrubbing" process that removed all evidence that the HP software or the printer had even been in contact with the program. He suggested I download the software from their website as the CD might be wonky (it's a good 400MB - hey, it's not my bandwidth I have to worry about) and try installing with that. Plus, he also confirmed what the website said - that I'm not supposed to cancel that "Found Hardware Wizard". *rolls eyes* Isn't that the point of tech support? It's worth a shot anyhow to get it running. I ended up leaving my parent's place around 10 tonight and left the system downloading it (it was going to take an hour to download), and put on other things, like the AVG Anti-Virus and BOINC (heheheh). I'm going back tomorrow early afternoon to install (hopefully) the printer and maybe some games, if I can find the discs I had for them. Otherwise it's re-download time...