Ocarina of Time: Zora's Domain, Inside Lord Jabu-Jabu

But since that stranger, Ganondorf, came here, Lord Jabu-Jabu has been a little green around the gills...
King Zora

( Ocarina of Time: Zora's Domain, Inside Lord Jabu-Jabu )

Random book meme

While stumbling through old posts (searching for a quote I once quoted), I stumbled upon an old meme...

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.
6. Nominate five people to post this meme.

'...The rage is similar, in that it throws off the constraints of your normal self, your normal physicality, rationality and emotions. In fact, it is possible that the berserk state is itself a form of Free Magic, or is derived from some ancient effect of that magic.'

'I never really understood what Free Magic actually is,' said Clariel. 'Our teacher just said it was evil, something to fear, and warned us to seek help should we ever encounter any...'

From Clariel, by Garth Nix.

Nominating... (spins the wheel of LJ usernames) elemnar, talismancer, ladyofastolat, olego, allegramente... and the rest of my flist, because I'm curious as to what you all read :)

Write-once, read-never?

Well, this is a new one on me. I've burnt a CD-R (several, in fact) that cannot be read by the drive that created it. I know it's not a failed burn because I can read it in another drive.

I'm blaming the CD-R media - Verbatim AZO printable, re-order code #43309 - which I picked because the Internets claimed that it's good quality (bad Internets. No cookie for you). I don't know whether it's a bad batch or just dodgy in general, but nothing I've got quite agrees with it. The laptop's Hitachi-LG DVD±RW drive will happily write to blank ones, but then can't read them once written to. The Plextor PX-755A DVD±RW tries very hard, but ultimately fails to detect the media. Even an ancient Plextor 48/24/48A CD±RW drive (kept precisely because it can read anything) has to think about things for a bit before finally managing to read/write the discs.

Sigh. Anyone know which CD-R brands are worth getting these days?

As to why I'm still occasionally using CD-Rs in this day and age? Well, it's rather hard to burn an audio DVD... (that, and they're also handy to send someone a set of photos as a present, and a DVD-R seems like overkill for a mere 100MB).