Comments on: Bleh.

By: yvette

yvette — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:48:26 +0000

oh my god, the chicken portrait is great. they look murderous but very cute.

By: gayle

gayle — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:01:53 +0000

Envying those flowers. Everything up here is well and truly dead…
Chickens really do pull off that Demented Killer Look, don’t they?

By: Devon

Devon — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:02:05 +0000

You should start charging for Sims Sunday updates I’d pay for that! LOL

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:00:25 +0000

Maybe you should sell some of those eggs! Who could eat that many alone?

By: Lisa E.

Lisa E. — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:19:10 +0000

Sometimes I want to puke on the alarm clock, too.

By: Erika

Erika — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:34:36 +0000

It’s actually a weirder problem than that! CPU usage is only 10-15%. But video starts skipping if you pause it during play, and leave it paused for more than about 2 minutes.

I finally discovered that the fix – even if you have a full buffer – is to go back a couple minutes and start playing from there. This makes no fucking sense whatsoever, but it does work.

I never put laptops right on the table. This one is kept propped up with a phone book, so that air circulates around the vents and the hottest part.

By: aimalyn

aimalyn — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:42 +0000

Ah yes, another Saab story. I just got my Subaru fixed for–get this–under $200. I KNOW. I never thought that was possible, ever.

Anyways, if your laptop is dropping the frame rate, check the CPU usage. A lot of laptops overheat when they’re playing videos, and start to overclock, so your CPU will read 100% even though you only have that one window open. You need to keep it cool. Prop it up on some blocks and blow a fan under it, and you should see some improvement. I would put my old laptop on a milkcrate for watching hulu.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:43:34 +0000

Well, ya know, we all have our share of predicaments, amirite?!

By: two silver cats

two silver cats — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:30:04 +0000

I should not be laughing at your predicaments. I should not be.

….but I can’t help it!

Good luck with the car, et al….. you know that we’re thinking of you!

By: kmkat

kmkat — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:28:40 +0000

What a great chicken portrait! They do indeed look intimidating.