"vacation" weekend

[jazzfish]

"Everything is connected. That's why it shorts out so often." --JMF

My utter slackness and need for a Morning of Rest prevented me from catching up with Scott M-- and/or Jeff F-- on Friday morning. Instead I alternated between playing _Fire Emblem_ and writing bits and pieces of my rant about plot in video games.

(The abbreviated version of said rant is that plot ought not come at the expense of gameplay, and that wandering around town clicking a button to move through a conversation tree is not gameplay. There are games whose plot I adored: Thief: the Dark Project and Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, to name just two. These games also had compelling gameplay to back up their plot.) (Darkened Skye didn't have plot, really, nor did it have gameplay that was all that compelling. What it had was a great sense of humor. I will forgive much for dialog such as "Go ask Gannish. She's the obligatory wise old knows-everything character.")

Friday afternoon there were games and people at elf's, including half a game of Caylus. Perhaps next time she'll get to play it to completion. Then I drove out to Rockville (which is not Gaithersburg and I don't know why I keep calling it Gaithersburg) to be sat on by Kai and Chaos for a bit. Then home.

Satyrday morning I got on a plane. Details of my adventures in oddly snow-bound Seattle are forthcoming. I got in Monday evening and had a lengthy Conversation. Not precisely how I'd wanted to spend the day but still better than some I've had.

Anybody got any recommendations for a program to get MP3s off an iPod such that their file names will reflect the actual song and/or artist?

Comments

[rockynomad.livejournal.com]

Ah, the iPod hack. Look up how to show hidden files on whatever OS you're using, and then skim through the "I didn't know those were there" folders on the 'Pod. Last time I did it, the folders were numbered sequentially, and there were about fifty of them, with a handful of songs in each. I didn't detect any rhyme or reason to why which songs were in which folders, but they were there with their titles as their filenames.

[jazzfish]

No such luck. On mine the folders are named F00 through F49, and the songs in them have random four-letter names.

That's the main reason I'm switching out my iPod for an Archos Gmini. When I put something on my iPod I bloody well ought to be able to take it back off and put it somewhere else. "Piracy" be damned: my computer's hard drive is the same size as my iPod, so I don't want to waste space mirroring the songs.

[elf.livejournal.com]

i'd really like that. i'm not sure what your schedule is, but i'm all for some concentrated caylus playing at some point in the near future. i'm happy to host and invite a limited number of interested parties, or to plead for you to invite me over the next time you're going to play :). as you're the one with the game (at least until after christmas!) i leave said decision in your hands.

[jazzfish]

And so it shall be. Um. I'm free all weekends in December except the first one, though the last is probably going to be mostly Spoken For rather quickly. So there can be Gaming in some form on one of them other weekends.

I'm slightly partial to you doing the organizing/hosting, since that way A) I don't have to and B) I get to meet other neat people. But either works for me.

[elf.livejournal.com]

I am more than happy to organize/host, hence the offer.
Let's discuss when you get back in town; if you're still up for it, I'll start putting things in motion for something day-ish either the 16th or 17th (unfortunately I have evening plans for both). Your job is to let me know which of those is better for you, how many people are optimal for a good game of Caylus, and if there are other people you'd like to bring/invite, then the number thereof.

[jazzfish]

I'm not back in town but I'm more or less back online, so close enough.

Either day is good for me. The sixteenth is slightly better since it's a Satyrday, which means that uilos can play as well; however, if Sunday is what works, then Sunday it is.

Any number of players from two to five is perfectly fine. It /does/ get more chaotic with more players, though.