So yesterday was the second occurrence of Reg Smash. Nadja wasn't around and we couldn't find any more people so it was just Grant and me. We had forgotten again that the Reg closes at 5 on Saturdays in the summer, so we didn't get to play very long (the guards came in around 5:20, just when we were packing up). Also we found the TVs actually do have sound.
Afterwards, I took the N64 back to his apartment, since he had actually gotten a TV now. They had taken it from someone's trash, so they expected it would be low-quality - which it was. It didn't have red-white-yellow, but he had an adapter. So we set it to channel 3, turn it on, and... nothing. Just snow. Whether or not it's on or not affects the picture quality on other channels, but channels 3 and 4 remain snow regardless of which it's set to and whether or not it's on. Someone gets the idea of disconnecting the antenna, so we just have the signal from the N64. We disconnect the antenna... and the TV continues to work! And no, still nothing from the N64. I suggest the TV probably has an internal antenna. When we remove the adapter, though, all the signal goes away. The TV works if the antenna is plugged in, or if the adapter is plugged in, but not if neither is... weird. We eventually concluded that the wire in the adapter itself must have been acting as an antenna - that's not supposed to happen, is it? And no matter what, we couldn't get any signal from the N64.
Much later that day, I decided it was finally time to put the pot I had bought to use, and set to making some rice pilaf. Now of course this is only the second time I had actually tried cooking anything by myself - the first attempt having gone rather disastrously - but my mom had made a point of teaching me how to cook when I was at home, so I had done this before with help, and I knew it wasn't hard, and all I had to do was follow the directions on the box.
I managed to screw it up anyway.
I'm going to blame the directions for being ambiguous, though I know what I did wrong now. Basically, I didn't use nearly enough of the flavoring, so the result was perfectly edible, just, well, flavorless. How did this happen? Well, IINM, the whole box is supposed to be enough for 3. As I was only making for 2 - me and Scott - I just multiplied everything by 2/3. But there are two different things contained in the "spice packet", and they're not evenly mixed together. So I got 2/3 of one, and next to none of the other. Had I just made the whole box - which might have been a better idea in the first place, as I can eat quite a lot of the stuff - this wouldn't have happened. So, yeah, I'm going to be eating a bunch of overflavored rice pilaf sometime soon.
Also, while it was cooking, having nothing better to do, I decided to turn the TV on and see if anything was on. I hadn't actually used the TV before, except when Nadja and Grant came over and played Smash. Strangely enough, the TV only seemed to get 5 or so channels, many high-numbered - i.e. it seemed as if it were getting a few random cable channels, but not all the ordinary broadcast channels. Huh?
-Harry
Afterwards, I took the N64 back to his apartment, since he had actually gotten a TV now. They had taken it from someone's trash, so they expected it would be low-quality - which it was. It didn't have red-white-yellow, but he had an adapter. So we set it to channel 3, turn it on, and... nothing. Just snow. Whether or not it's on or not affects the picture quality on other channels, but channels 3 and 4 remain snow regardless of which it's set to and whether or not it's on. Someone gets the idea of disconnecting the antenna, so we just have the signal from the N64. We disconnect the antenna... and the TV continues to work! And no, still nothing from the N64. I suggest the TV probably has an internal antenna. When we remove the adapter, though, all the signal goes away. The TV works if the antenna is plugged in, or if the adapter is plugged in, but not if neither is... weird. We eventually concluded that the wire in the adapter itself must have been acting as an antenna - that's not supposed to happen, is it? And no matter what, we couldn't get any signal from the N64.
Much later that day, I decided it was finally time to put the pot I had bought to use, and set to making some rice pilaf. Now of course this is only the second time I had actually tried cooking anything by myself - the first attempt having gone rather disastrously - but my mom had made a point of teaching me how to cook when I was at home, so I had done this before with help, and I knew it wasn't hard, and all I had to do was follow the directions on the box.
I managed to screw it up anyway.
I'm going to blame the directions for being ambiguous, though I know what I did wrong now. Basically, I didn't use nearly enough of the flavoring, so the result was perfectly edible, just, well, flavorless. How did this happen? Well, IINM, the whole box is supposed to be enough for 3. As I was only making for 2 - me and Scott - I just multiplied everything by 2/3. But there are two different things contained in the "spice packet", and they're not evenly mixed together. So I got 2/3 of one, and next to none of the other. Had I just made the whole box - which might have been a better idea in the first place, as I can eat quite a lot of the stuff - this wouldn't have happened. So, yeah, I'm going to be eating a bunch of overflavored rice pilaf sometime soon.
Also, while it was cooking, having nothing better to do, I decided to turn the TV on and see if anything was on. I hadn't actually used the TV before, except when Nadja and Grant came over and played Smash. Strangely enough, the TV only seemed to get 5 or so channels, many high-numbered - i.e. it seemed as if it were getting a few random cable channels, but not all the ordinary broadcast channels. Huh?
-Harry
