Mortal Kombat II revL3.1

October 31, 2002, 10:43 pm

I had my meeting with my faculty review person for my portfolio. I really need to get to work on it... I haven't done anything with it and the whole thing is essentially due in a month. And by that time, I'll be knee deep in ColdFusion shit...

Well, my CIS 420 presentation went really well. Everything worked as expected and people asked questions that seemed like they were genuinely interested in how we implemented our stuff and not just trying to snipe at us.

It has been brought to my attention that lately, I've been nerding it up a whole lot in my diary: talking mostly about school and technie, dork stuff. I cannot deny these allegations. In fact, it just clearly demonstrates how much school is dominating my life. I'll be so much happier when it's over.

I'm really interested in getting some sort of digital recording solution. I don't think I can settle for fewer than 8 tracks, though. I was looking at this Fostex VF-160... it's pretty fancy: 16 Track Digital Recorder with Internal CD Burner. And it's only 900 dollars... And it's so small and compact and whatnot that I could transport it easily...

I have a really hard time spending money. I know that my car isn't going to last me forever. Plus, I know that I'm not going to be that interested in recording music all my life. So I don't want to blow one thousand dollars buying recording stuff that I won't use that much... I dunno. I'm such a wimp when it comes to spending a lot of money.

After I got home from school, I was fixing dinner and I looked at my Mortal Kombat II arcade machine. When we moved here, I took it all apart to move it easier. It's been sitting lifeless in the same corner it has sat since we've moved here. Jerkface made an attempt to hook it up, but he said there were problems and I don't think he knew what he was doing and I was sincerely worried that he might have shorted something or broken one of the PCBs. So I turned it on and looked at it and all the ROM chips on the daughter board failed the bootup test. So I turned it back off and pushed down on the connectors for that part of the board and when I turned it back on, everything seemed okay.

Then Jerkface and I played it for a while. It'd been a really long time since I'd played and though I could remember nearly all the moves (after a bit of testing), I had a really hard time remembering fatalities (except Lui Kang's... who could forget DOWN, TOWARDS, AWAY, AWAY, HIGH KICK?). I'm relieved that it's still working, but honestly a little ashamed that it took me more than a year to get around to hooking it back up... And of course, the PCBs are still just sitting in the cabinet... they aren't screwed into the sides like they out to be if they were properly installed. I'm such a slacker.