Blog - Weekly revue: 2013 week #15 (April 6 to 12)
Weekly revue: 2013 week #15 (April 6 to 12)
Last weekend the weather was rather bad, and also it remained cold for most of the week. Still on Sunday we went to Shinjuku to meet a couple of friends who had just arrived from Taiwan for vacation. After a bit of window-shopping we went to have kushikatsu. They gave us a box of pineapple cakes of a brand we hadn't tried before. I always love pineapple cakes, but these were delicious! :)
On Thursday I went to karaoke with friends from work, we all sang songs while trying to respect an "idol" theme. Fun! :) On Friday I watched an event held at 2.5D on Ustream, featuring DJs Yoshida Tetsuto (8-bits) and Hase Yasuhiro (Yume to Cosme), MC Edobor (who I had just seen DJ the week before), and a show by idol group t.c. princess (aka Tekupuri) from Sendai. The songs they sang sounded like they borrow from Pizzicato Five, Perfume, Yasuda Toshiyuki, Denpa Gumi, all pretty good.
New music: I got Towa Tei's new single from MachBeat! Two new instrumental tracks, good stuff! This comes ahead of a new album, but no details yet about when it will be released. The 2nd track on here is a special short edit (still over 6 minutes) of a track said to be 15:45..!
Music release news: Yakushimaru Etsuko, Tamaki ROY, Tarte Tatin
Playlist: Breakbot, "Yellow Magic kayōkyoku", Hosokawa Fumie, "Techno Magic kayōkyoku", Perfume, Tomoki Kanda, Dorian
Tech: Last weekend, because of the rain, I decided to clean my computer's CPU fan some more. I did a little mistake though, I removed the fan/heatsink from the the CPU without thinking of the CPU grease that's in between... The grease was all dry which probably didn't help conducting the cooling. So I went to buy "high-density polysynthetic silver thermal compound" (Arctic Silver 5) and a little spatula to spread it. I also got strong wet tissues to clean the surface before applying. As a result, I was able to render video without any tuning (before, the CPU would heat up and the computer would shut down within about 2 minutes of rendering), and also it seems to be more quiet than before (thanks to a close fan cleaning using the vacuum cleaner). All good!
I noticed CPU temperature is still a bit high when rendering video though, so maybe when rendering for a longer time I'll have to watch CPU temperature (with Core Temp) and gauge CPU usage (using BES).
This week's video: Yakushimaru Etsuko "Lonely Planet" (from album "Radio Onsen Eutopia")
Posted on April 13, 2013 at 00:29 | Tweet
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