Month: May 2002

I’m not sure it is all together acting correctly. When you have the camera on to take pictures it goes to “sleep” after two minutes. The lens retracts and to take a picture you have to turn it back on. There is a sleep mode setting, but it has no effect on when this happens. I read the manual it seems the sleep thing just shuts off the LCD display after 30 seconds….hmm I wonder if I use the LCD would it go to sleep and not have to be turned back on. I’ll experiment.

I’m back. With the Sleep mode on the LCD goes blank at 30 seconds and then after 2 minutes the lens retracts and off the camera goes, no wonder they are so proud of their power consumption on the web page, it’s built in. I think I need to start saving my scheckles for a different one.

One hour and 14 minutes in and the picture just froze. Couldn’t fast forward, nothing. Tried going to the main menu and picking the next chapter, nope. After a few other attempts I took the movie to the PC and played it there, but only got 5 minutes further in before it froze up the PC. In my 2 year history of renting DVDs from Netflix, this was only the second DVD that crapped out in viewing.

Set in Jamaica in the early 70’s it tells the story of a rural “kid” that travels to Kingston to make it big in the music biz. He gets the fame he wanted, but not in the way he originally intended. Half the dialog is in such a heavy accent that it is hard to make out what they are saying, but fortunately the story is easy enough to follow. I’m going to have them mail me another one so I can see what happens in the final 25 minutes. I may watch it from the start though just to listen to the music again or maybe I’ll just go listen to the soundtrack CD…

Only two episodes left. Tonight we wrapped up the mystery behind John Doggett’s son’s murder. Seemed a lot like the supposed conclusion of the disappearance of Mulder’s sister, too neat, a “serial killer” leads them to the answer.

No scenes with little William this week. Was last week’s episode to be believed, Scully gave him up for adoption to some mid-western couple to protect him? Sounds a lot like the plot line of Star Wars, mother hides child in a little visited part of the country/galaxy to protect it from the dark side… Of course a really educated person would be able to tell me that that same plot line was invented Shakespeare or Plato or earlier. Not much chance of that happening though, as a really educated person would be reading this. 🙂

Made a little trip to Augusta this evening. Dinner out at Damon’s, our favorite place for ribs. While driving on the by-pass on the southern side of Aiken, I got behind a Suburban that seemed to be a little late on the brakes and a little late on the start from a light, plus he did a little lane drifting as well. When I stopped behind him at the next light I noticed the drivers arm exploring the overhead console area, a light went on, then off again, and of course we were a little slow leaving that light because we were busy futzing with something else. It was then that I noticed the paper dealer plate on the back. It was starting to sprinkle and the sun was going down, I hope he/she knew where the wiper and light switches are. Fortunately they turned right when I turned left so I wasn’t behind them when they started looking for the switches.