On the second day of Christmas...

[pne]

My family visited today (except for Ireen and Felipe, who are over in Peru), and we exchanged more presents.

Well, Stella and I got the most presents, since the others had exchanged their presents yesterday already.

I got a Latin/German dictionary (twice! my sisters and my parents had had the same idea; now my sister wants to see whether she can get it exchange), a Calvin and Hobbes volume I already had (but forgot to mention on my wishlist when I said which ones I had already), a copy of Computer Science & Perl Programming: Best of The Perl Journal, a pair of working/gardening gloves, a CD of LDS Church Magazines 1971–1999, and a German thesaurus (Duden volume 12). So yay!

Stella got a colour printer, among other things—she had put this on her wishlist but had not realistically expected to get one, but my parents sprung for one. She was a bit fed up at the fact that my printer hasn't worked for about two years or so now. (I'm not sure what's at fault, though: the printer, the connection through the scanner, or my computer. Perhaps we'll see when we try to connect the new one.)

I presume the new one is a GDI printer, as most inkjet printers seem to be these days, which is a bit of a pity, but "gift horse" and all that. And realistically speaking, most of my printing would be done under Windows anyway.

Had some Christmas pudding with custard, played Carcassonne with family, chatted a bit with my dad, and generally had a decent time, though I was still glad when they left. So yay; survived that.

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Re: Awesome

[komsip.livejournal.com]

I was into tracking 97-01. And I still keep dowloading mods. Been to one "hack" (geeks-get-together) with demo people (Dreamhack 2000). I still do play around with trackers. I used to hang around on IRC with the people behind modarchive (http://www.modarchive.com) for some years.
I hadn't even seen a computer until '94 or so and didn't really bother using them for anything except games and homework until about '97. My first own computer was a 450mhz PII so I was never into this in the early stage of these things, never seen an amiga or known anyone with such. People just didn't have computers and didn't know about them where I grew up.
About Awesome, he is someone all trackers know about, and I recognize most of his titles.

Re: Awesome

[pne.livejournal.com]

About Awesome, he is someone all trackers know about

Ooh, wow. I wasn't aware of that.

Though I didn't have that much exposure to the mod and demo scene, so I didn't know much about who was good or famous and who wasn't. (Reminds me of a conversation with this friend of mine and his friend and I asked, "Who is <some name I had heard>" and they looked at me as if I had asked who John Lennon was; apparently, that was someone very famous and respected in the mod scene.)

I like most of Awesome's pieces a lot.