Short Ramblings

I've managed to get my room clean and organized over the last week. This is somewhat amazing for those of you familiar with my living conditions. More amazing is the fact that my room actually seems to be staying clean with little or no effort on my part. In addition, I can actually find stuff quickly. And I'd always dismissed such possibilities as merely propaganda by those with a bit too much Order in their alignment.

Skeptics can see for themselves at my party this Friday. Oh, and as a side note, it is now basically closed invitation. So if you want to bring people you haven't already mentioned please say so.

On another note, I've finally upgrade to a paid account. A lot of the cash for Moti's camera, (from which we still haven't seen pictures.. get on it man! ) went into paypal so I've been spending it on Internet stuff. Amusingly, I had some difficulty finding the link for paid accounts and a few times I tried and it was down. To reiterate Live journal in general was up but the way to send them money was down. Bless their new economy hearts. ;p

Fun with Piracy

I've finally taken the time to rip all of my CDs, or at least all that I could fine. I have around 45 and could around 37. I've actually got enough music I have rights to on my machine that I'm gonna try to wean myself off the pirated MP3s. I'll make exceptions for AMVs and a couple other situations, but that'll bring me down to a few score songs, which I'm willing to accept.

However, due to the poor job I do protecting and caring for my CDs, many of them are marked up and the rips I made are consequently far from click free. Now, I am no master of copyright law, but I am perfectly content to use rips other people have made for songs that I have legal access to. So, if I rip a song I had previously found online, and the pirated one is higher quality, I'll stick with that. This may well also be illegal, but I just don't seem to care.

So, once I have a full time job I think I'll go on a CD buying binge to fill out my collection. Then I'll rip the CDs immediately and keep them somewhere nice and safe from the big bad world that wants to scratch them (read me).


Sadly, due to the poor job I do looking after them