Community Transit

It looks like Community Transit has new buses running, the 28100 series. These are the first new local buses since 1999. As far as I can tell, they're of the New Flyer D40LFR type, and feature amber signs in lieu of the green that is common to the local fleet. They may even have air conditioning, as the one I saw had a large grille instead of a window at the back. Something really strange was that the numbering on the back is vertical, not horizontal like the rest.

I wanted to take a photo, but by the time I got my cell phone out, it was already pulling away. Hopefully I'll get a chance to ride one of these sometime soon.

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It's hard to say, but it may have to do with these:

• Board to Consider Buying 12 New Buses

学校 - aiko

Today, I just received aiko's newest album, 秘密. I've been listening to it for a while, and the song called 学校 (がっこう, gakkou, "School") really caught my attention, mainly due to the jazzy feel with horn accompaniment.

• 学校 (2008, from 秘密) [Java applet]

朝9時　雲が前へ進む　あたしも家を出る
朝10時　トンネル抜けたら雲が太陽に変わってた

心も体も消えてしまう時はボロボロになっていたい
そうやって生きて想いたいの

※今日はちゃんと学校に行って　靴箱まで走るんだ
友達の事　これからの事　大好きなあなたの事
考える時間はそんなに無いから※

強めに縛った靴紐解いて　魔法を掛けてみる
久しぶり　両手で抱えたカバン　底にある傷の跡

「自転車を貸して」教室飛び込んであなたに言ったの
言葉は心を動かした

腐りかけそうになってしまう程　本当はただ好きなんだ
赤白青紫黄緑　声を枯らし灼けた頬
忘れない　あなたが輝いてるから

少し遅れてしまったけど　少し日射しが強くなった
少しだけあたしも晴れた気がした
生まれて初めて　こんなに逢いたい

(※くり返し)

iPod Video Back/粉雪は忘れ薬 - 中島みゆき

My iPod Video is back, and I've already put RockBox and my songs back on it. Unfortunately, I've lost a few scripts I'll have to rewrite, but it likely won't be too much of a pain. If I recall, I've already put some of them up here. The new default RockBox theme is pretty nice, but it needs some work before I can use it without being a bit annoyed. I'll likely fix it tonight.

I've noticed that I haven't posted much lately, and this is mainly because it's the week of midterms and because of the rut my life is in right now. Here's a song (粉雪は忘れ薬: こなゆきはわすれぐるし, konayuki wa wasuregusuri, "Powdered Snow is Forgetting Medicine") that I've been listening to a lot on my 4G iPod while the Video's been out of service:

• 粉雪は忘れ薬 (2000, From 短篇集) [Jav applet]

忘れなけりゃならないことを
忘れながら人は生きるよ
無理して笑っても　無理してふざけても
意地悪な風　意地悪な雨
忘れさせて優しい日々を
忘れさせて楽しい人を
足音?　車の停まる音?
間違えながら待ってしまうから
粉雪は忘れ薬
すべての悲しみ消してくれるよ
粉雪は忘れ薬
すべての心の上に積もるよ

遠い町を訪ねてみても
1人きりで暮らしてみても
忘れるための無理は　どこかに隙がある
よみがえる風　よみがえる雨
忘れさせて　古い約束
忘れさせて　古い口癖
覚えておこうとしないのに
何かのはずみ　思い出して泣ける
粉雪は忘れ薬
すべての心の上に積もるよ
粉雪は忘れ薬
些細なことほど効き目が悪い

粉雪は忘れ薬
寂しい心の上に積もるよ
粉雪は忘れ薬
すべての心の上に積もるよ
粉雪は忘れ薬
すべての心の上に積もるよ
すべての心の上に積もるよ

iPod 4G Lives Again!

As it turns out, the old RockBox on my iPod 4G was dead, but with some work I was able to install the newest one, get rid of the iPodLinux bootloader (which couldn't find RockBox except via the old method which doesn't work anymore), and install a new RockBox loader. It's more convenient this way, anyway. What's more, I'm glad to have my old iPod up and running, without any loss of data.

Now time to wait for the repairs on my new one.

Indeed it is Down

Well, it looks like the Video is actually down. I accidentally went through the online service procedure, and I'll have to do it via mail rather than the nearby Apple Store. At least I know my 4G is still operating just fine.

iPod Video Down

Well, it looks like my iPod Video is dead. It died in even less time than my old 4G iPod did, and the 4G was a refurbished model. Unfortunately, I'll have to send it in and will have to recreate all of the Perl scripts and playlists on it, other than the scripts posted here. I was thinking about backing it up yesterday too, but never got around to it. Oh, the irony. What's really strange is that my 4G iPod did the same thing (very often) before I installed RockBox on it, and the Video does it even with RockBox.

It wouldn't be so bad if my 4G iPod weren't full (it still runs, I know that), and if my iPod Touch would stop corrupting files on transfer (and weren't so small). Hopefully I'll get a replacement soon, if I can't figure out how to awaken it from its death.

Maybe that's Apple's business model: sell things that break often and regularly and make up for it with decent technical support and warranties.

Nph2

Earlier today, I managed to come across one of the games I wrote quite a while back. Although the versions 0.4.1 and prior aren't very usable, the latest one I found was actually quite a bit of fun: nph2-0.2.1.tar.bz2

It requires NCurses and a G++ to run, but not much else. I need to do some work to make it a bit more fun, but it's usable at the moment.