Weird Noises
Jun. 26th, 2005 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI love Glastonbury. For the past couple of years or more I have avidly taped all that I can of it. This year, thanks to advances in technology, I've gott all of BBC Three's and all of BBC Two's coverage, onto hard disc. So I can now spend a happy week editing it onto DVD. So far I've only seen bits and pieces, and most of it has been great. Indeed, it's really a matter of mentioning the groups who "pass me by" rather than the ones who I enjoyed. So, null points from Birks for Bloc Party and Primal Scream, and zillions of points for New Order, Rufus Wainwright, Garbage, Interpol, the hitherto not-particularly-admired Kasabian, and, best of all (of what I have seen), The Kaiser Chiefs.
Since I got the office computer back, apparently repaired, it has been doing weird things. I spent ages trying to work out what was causing the strange beeping noises when I turned it on, and then also resulted in occasional crashes. It seemed like an intermittent motherboard fault. So I hunted down all that I could, and found absolutely nothing.
So you want to know what it was? It was the "+" key on the numeric keyboard that had jammed down after its friendly plaster attack. Garbage Dell keyboards.... I must have come across the "sticky keyboard" problem at least four times in the past 20 years of computer use (the Amstrad's were particularly vulnerable to it), and it fools me every bloody time.
Since I got the office computer back, apparently repaired, it has been doing weird things. I spent ages trying to work out what was causing the strange beeping noises when I turned it on, and then also resulted in occasional crashes. It seemed like an intermittent motherboard fault. So I hunted down all that I could, and found absolutely nothing.
So you want to know what it was? It was the "+" key on the numeric keyboard that had jammed down after its friendly plaster attack. Garbage Dell keyboards.... I must have come across the "sticky keyboard" problem at least four times in the past 20 years of computer use (the Amstrad's were particularly vulnerable to it), and it fools me every bloody time.
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Re: Don't edit it yet!
Date: 2005-06-27 02:11 pm (UTC)And indeed - that's wonderful.
I have the majority of Glastonbury 2004 on video if you wanted to borrow and create, but of course video is really crappy to edit with in that sense. You more or less have to watch around 24 hours of video even to know what's there, although I did have an index to it somewhere.
Last year notable for how bad Oasis were, how utterly stunning Muse were and how singalong-ish Paul McCartney was. This year's effort in the same vein was Brian Wilson who I watched without adequate suncream on. As I said, if you're going to get sunburnt, doing in field watching the Beach Boys certainly has style.
Re: Don't edit it yet!
Date: 2005-06-27 03:09 pm (UTC)Just noticed a misplaced apostrophe in the first post. Must have been tired last night when I typed it.
I watched a bit of Brian Wilson yesterday, and when he did Good Vibrations, I just thought to myself. "I am lucky to have lived a life where this song was written only a few years after I was born" or something like that. That was one feel-good moment in spades. You were lucky to be there.