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Random Acts of Ali Larter: Painting a Man

7 April 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Ali Larter with paintbrush

Ali Larter

This week, Ali Larter is painting a man. No, literally painting a man.

Huh.

Why’s she doing that again?

Ah, to raise money for charity. That almost makes sense. But which charity?

Is she doing it prevent violence against women, again? Not this time. Normally she recites from The Vagina Monologues for that.

Is she doing it to strengthen community resources for women, or help children with serious medical conditions? Not this time, although she has been known to draw things to help kids with epilepsy.

Ali's drawing of her Heroes character

No, she was doing it to help foster a community spirit and responsibility in children as part of a mural painting exercise. Which apparently requires painting on people. Oh wait, that’s her fiancé. Fair enough.

Have you seen Ali Larter acting randomly? If so, let us know and we’ll tell everyone about it in “Random Acts of Ali Larter“

Technology reviews

Bastard the PVR continues to live up to his name

31 March 2009 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The hardware may have changed, but Bastard, my PVR, continues to be a bastard.

And it all looked so different a couple of weeks, when I discovered he could now record two things at once. Cracking! No more worrying about scheduling conflicts, no more worrying that the end of episode one is going to get recorded on the beginning of episode two if there’s an over-run.

Marvellous.

Except I updated him to version 3.1.1 of his EyeTV software, which worked fine in most regards, except with exports. Suddenly, little Bastard didn’t like to export programs with their soundtracks intact. I didn’t realise this until about a week later, by which time I’d deleted the originals.

Curses.

So I downgraded back to 3.1, using Elgato’s preferred method. Except I didn’t restart my computer since they didn’t ask me to. Now Bastard won’t start recording unless EyeTV is already running. The problem went away after a restart, but not before it had failed to record one programme: American Outlaws, starring Ali Larter.

Bastard.