long post is long (maybe)

Ok so it's time for another round of...... let's talk about random things! YAY!
First up on our menu is toilet paper. Maybe I shouldn't have used food imagery with toilet imagery...

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Anyway, this is something I've noticed only since living in an apartment with a shared bathroom. And it leads me to this question: Which direction do you hang your toilet paper? Please excuse the following horribly illustrated image. I didn't feel like creating a sophisticated looking diagram, nor did I want to take a picture of the real thing. So you must opt for the final choice of mouse-drawn MSPaint l33tness.

This is something that truly bothers me. I do the latter of the two choices. I ask because I wonder if people really do intend on doing the former? or if they're just being lazy when they put on a new roll and don't check on its direction of unrollage.

The problem I get is, we have a trashcan in the vicinity of the toilet paper roll dispenser thing. Having the TP roll in the former position always causes the edge of the TP to extend from its center of mass. And by that I mean..... IT FRICKIN DIPS INTO THE TRASHCAN. I don't want something that's dipped in the trashcan (or even brushing the wall) to be wiping my buttocks. The latter orientation of TP protects the loose TP from extending past the immediate radius surrounding the toilet paper. It also keeps its separation from the wall. The former orientation often swings and brushes against the wall. Anyway, that's just me being a neat freak.

On the topic of bathrooms, while typing those previous paragraphs I had a hard time choosing the proper word for bathroom. The main subject was the toilet. But the word bathroom has the term 'bath' in it - which is not the main subject I wish to talk about. I could have used toilet - but this can refer to both room or physical toilet. Also using toilet too many times is no good. And then there's washroom. But I don't speak English (in its strictest meaning), so that would just sound pompous coming from me. I now end this paragraph with no conclusion.

What sounds cooler? "End of Eternity" or "Resonance of Fate". If you said End of Eternity, you are cool. Resonance of Fate sounds like they're trying too hard. At least, to me it does. Anyway, Resonance of Fate is the localization of the JRPG End of Eternity. I just wish they kept the original title in bringing it overseas. Is it some copyright issue? Who knows, but I think End of Eternity sounds cooler. I'm looking forward to seeing more about this game though. An RPG featuring gunfights is unique enough to warrant some attention (and hype if they make it fun).

Speaking of JRPGs, I still need to finish Star Ocean 4. I think I'm at the final moments of the game... storyline-wise. Myuria is the cool character in the game. And if you're unfamiliar, I must clarify that it is not because of her ... assets ... that I like her character. Which reminds me of a character from another game that I liked. Viola from Eternal Sonata was awesome. I think that's enough of my dork comments.

On to the nerd comments. So recently I added 4gigs of RAM to my computer (like I said I might in that Win7 First Impressions post) for a total of 6gigs of RAM. And I've yet to get over 4gigs usage (I got close while playing Crysis with a buncha background apps). But I now idle around 2gigs with all my usual background apps running. Of course a problem comes up... of course.

So it turns out Creative sucks. (I know this, and I've known this, yet I still use their products. Stupid silly me) My first problem was a long time ago with the SCREECH OF DEATH plaguing the Audigy line. I'm sure you can google it if you're interested. But anyway, I've had a newer Audigy 2 ZS for a while now. Aside from crappy Windows 7 support, the specific problem incurred is this: Microphone input is extremely erratic and can result in a robotic type of voice. It's hard to explain, but let's just say it can be difficult to understand at times. (Especially while playing FPS games and chatting).

What's the cause of the problem, you ask? (You did, didn't you?) There is a bug in the Creative drivers. It manifests itself on 64bit operating systems with more than 4gb of RAM installed. Lucky me. So for the past week I've been trying alternative drivers and all kinds of stuff. No luck. Today I stumbled across a quite simple solution.

Turn on my onboard sound card! No, I'm not replacing my Audigy - it has too many features that I like. But instead, I can just simply use the onboard sound microphone input! Output from the Audigy, input from the onboard! Problem diverted! Ok, I still want a fix Creative! DO IT NOW!

And now the direct stream from the nfinite shall be terminated. I hope none of that was poorly worded and confusing (as it many times can be). But I don't feel like going back to proofread.

Enjoy life! And I hope you can solve your problems instead of just diverting them!