Well, today went reasonably well. Started off the day at Salem with Dave and JoeBuck. Then went and decided to start moving things from the laptop to a different drive since the laptop still made some weird noises when I booted it up. I turned off swap to minimize traffic on the drive, and went from around 24GB used to around 3.8GB (3.3GB in my home directory and most of that is active use (email) or tons of small (although some big music and multi hundred MB video files) stuff that I don't want to archive multiple times so will just get thrown in a tarball with everything else. Of course throughout that whole process the drive was making funny sounds, but now seems to be fine with it. Of course that doesn't mean I'm gonna trust it... This afternoon I watched Star Trek: Generations which has to be one of the worst DVD transfers I've seen in a long time. Another scope but not anamorphic, and they had major issues with the soundtrack. Like the center channel being badly distorted on a quiet scene and then they do a cut to a much louder scene and it's fine. Pretty much has to be in an early stage so I'm amazed they missed it in the final mixing. I seem to remember the laserdisc being better, so maybe I'll have to pull that out sometime. Anyways, tomorrow I have to be at Dave's place at 7am for the roadtrip, which doesn't sound fun at all, but such is life. Should be a good time later.