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soc_puppet) wrote2006-02-09 03:50 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2006-02-09 03:50 pm
Chocolates and Data
I went completely chocolate nuts this afternoon and made chocolate while watching (the first version of) The Producers. I'd have to agree with Dad in that everything was better in the remake--except for the lack of Gene Wilder. Anyway, chocolate. Made some more chocolate-hearts-onna-stick, half red vanilla-ish flavor, half dark chocolate. Then went completely batty and finally gave the banana, chocolate, and peanut butter thing a try, in the hopes that they would indeed be three great tastes that taste great together (instead of just remaining three sets of two great tastes that taste great together). It seems to have worked magnificently, though I should probably up the peanut butter for the next batch and make it something more like a 1:1 ratio with the chocolate. Had lots of extra peanut butter-chocolate mix left over, so I sliced an apple and coated that as well. It's also nice, a quick juicy spike of sour to balance out the sweet, though I think the banana may be the favorite. Still had leftover peanut butter chocolate mix, so just poured it into a mold. It's hard to tell it from the dark chocolate, but that won't be a problem for some of us ;) Now my only problem will be trying to keep from eating all of this...
Downloaded a new BitTorrent client thanks to help in the previous post and getting used to it again. Thanks to those who offered advice and suggestions ^_^ I'm currently giving it a trial run with a manga I had wanted to download earlier but hadn't been able to. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
Edit: Okay, Azureus is working fine for me, mostly. See, the thing is, my cable modem? Has an issue where it goes wonky every now and then. I'll be surfing the net or decide to refresh a page and suddenly, whammo, bad connection. As in, the connection between the wire and the device is lost. The PC link: Activity and Cable: Activity lights go off, the Cable Modem: Status light flickers orange, and then it and the PC Link: Status light flicker off for a few seconds, then flicker on again, and the first two lights come back to life. Mostly I've noticed when refreshing my friends page, or when I'm checking my mail after letting my computer sit for a while. Trouble is, the disconnect interrupts downloads, which is really really annoying. It was why I couldn't download anything from YSI over 100 MB before getting YSI Get (and why I still can't upload anything very big--is there, by any chance, an upload manager in the world?). Anyway, long story short, it does not like big downloads, torrents included. Every time it goes wonky, I lose the connection with the seeders and peers, and it's a real pain to get it started again. Anyone know how I can fix this, or even what the problem is? It seems to happen more often when I have a large torrent running, for some reason. (I know it's unlikely, but I figure that at least three computer-savy people read this journal, and maybe they'd have an inkling at least.)
Downloaded a new BitTorrent client thanks to help in the previous post and getting used to it again. Thanks to those who offered advice and suggestions ^_^ I'm currently giving it a trial run with a manga I had wanted to download earlier but hadn't been able to. It seems to be working pretty well so far.
Edit: Okay, Azureus is working fine for me, mostly. See, the thing is, my cable modem? Has an issue where it goes wonky every now and then. I'll be surfing the net or decide to refresh a page and suddenly, whammo, bad connection. As in, the connection between the wire and the device is lost. The PC link: Activity and Cable: Activity lights go off, the Cable Modem: Status light flickers orange, and then it and the PC Link: Status light flicker off for a few seconds, then flicker on again, and the first two lights come back to life. Mostly I've noticed when refreshing my friends page, or when I'm checking my mail after letting my computer sit for a while. Trouble is, the disconnect interrupts downloads, which is really really annoying. It was why I couldn't download anything from YSI over 100 MB before getting YSI Get (and why I still can't upload anything very big--is there, by any chance, an upload manager in the world?). Anyway, long story short, it does not like big downloads, torrents included. Every time it goes wonky, I lose the connection with the seeders and peers, and it's a real pain to get it started again. Anyone know how I can fix this, or even what the problem is? It seems to happen more often when I have a large torrent running, for some reason. (I know it's unlikely, but I figure that at least three computer-savy people read this journal, and maybe they'd have an inkling at least.)