Leap Year

It's Leap Year Day... Leap Day? ..... February 29th! Happy Birthday to all of those (surprisingly older looking for their age..haha) people born on twenty ninth of the fourth month~

Apparently women can propose to their men today...though I don't see why they can't do it on any other day (or year) if they are the kind of person who would want to do that.

Personally, I would not want to propose to my boyfriend at all. I think I would feel like I was missing out, and I'm sure he would hate me for taking that away from him (at least my current boyfriend would feel that way).

There is a reason for everything! So why do we randomly have an extra day every four years? Any guesses? If you didn't already know, it's because every year is actually 365.25 days long... We obviously can't have a random quarter-length day every year, so they are added up at the end of four years and we get one whole day!

Apparently this started in the days of Julius Caesar.

'Leap Year' would seem to apply to the entire year.. I mean, a single day wouldn't be called 'year'. I guess it's the year where leaping takes place? If feels more like...slowing down? taking an extra day doesn't seem to involve any leaping... that makes it sound like we lose a day, or maybe the whole year! The year that is leaped over...hmm...

Maybe it's a year for leaping! ....I'm just going to stop now..

Explaining My Last Post Somewhat..

Hello!
So, last night I blogged and typed up a load of nonsense.
So! Here we go:

New keyboard: new laptop. I spilled water on my old dell and it kind of died. So, my dad got me a new laptop that is actually new (my last one I got used from a friend). It's an HP Pavilion G6 something 1C40CA maybe. It's pretty decent so far. It's 64 bit, got Radeon graphics, Windows 7...and it's AMD. I've never used an AMD computer before, but it doesn't seem to be different than any Intel computer. For some reason though, it won't play .avi files on Windows Media Player or DivX player, but they do play on Windows Media Classic... I have all of the right codecs, so I really have no idea what the problem is.

Anyways, yesterday I was having some issues installing the Sims 3 Generations expansion pack. Well, the installation went just fine, but when I tried to play it I got a weird error. (0x024e424f) was the "code" thing at the end of it. I ended up fixing it by using a crack.  Now it starts up just fine, and I don't need the disc, haha!

At the same time my TV was having issues. I was trying to watch something recorded on my DVR because we were recording two other things simultaneously. But, a weird error popped up at the bottom, in a blue box, saying something about not being connected to the drive. I think my dad fixed it today..

Also at the same time, I was working on editing a paper that was due this morning before 8am. I did end up finishing...and then didn't end up going to class because of nausea and vomiting whooohooo. Thankfully I only needed to hand in my paper electronically.

If you have an HP laptop kinda like mine, and it's randomly changing brightness, changing brighter and darker, dimmer and brighter... It was doing this to me, and kind of driving me crazy, so after dealing with all of that stuff in the evening, I went on a hunt for answers. 

How to fix this: it's called Vari-Bright. To turn it off you have to get to the menu connected to the Radeon graphics card. From the start menu, type CCC into the search. It's called something catalyst control, but typing in the actual name of it didn't help my find it. From there there's a menu about gaming or something and then PowerPlay, from there you can untick the Vari-Bright box, and voila! it's fixed. Yay.

Am I missing anything? :P

Nothing In February Yet Eh?

Nothing except that one below this one!
Yeah, that's right, I freaked myself out thinking someone had hacked me or something only to think "heeey wait a minute..."
Yeah..
I will blog later, I really can't think right now. I just finished editing (hah, suuuure) a philosophy paper and fixing my Sims 3 expansion that wasn't working. What an interesting combination...
And, now I'm tired and thinking about weird things and typing words into this box instead of reading for my class tomorrow...and instead of sleeping!!! I'd better get on that.
Well, anyways, I apologize for wasting your time..."you" who probably isn't really anyone because no one reads my stuff... maybe this is a good thing then? I'm not wasting anyone's time...except my own maybe.
AH well... argh, still getting used to this new keyboard. AS I SAID I WILL GET TO NEW STUFF LATER I AM DONE WITH PROCRASTINATING... you know, it wasn't until about half way through typing the word "procrastinating" that I actually turned caps lock on..? I think I'm one of those people who prefers to type in all caps while holding shift down..curious.
ANywas. Goodnight.
(gosh dangit keyboard)

Happy Birthday To You Two

Today in 1809, I believe, was the day that both Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were born. Same day, same year. Very interesting.

I don't know most birthdays of famous people, although I'm sure there are many more that happen on the same days as each other. Apparently a bunch of famous-ish people were born on the same day as me according to the internet, but I haven't really heard of any of them. 

If you want to know who you're born on the birthday of you can check on this site. I actually have no idea how to use it, but I found my birthday on there somehow. I'm sure you're smart, you should be able to figure it out.

Happy Birthday to anyone who shares this birthday with these two famous dead people :D

On another, completely irrelevant, note. This is my first "scheduled post", and I want to see if this really works...lol. I'm such a dork.