Sushi vocabulary, food storage and safety, Media Player Classic

Bingo of the night so far:

EPHEDRINS (510 points) - against Heidi H.

High-scoring words of the night so far:

LAVAGES (448 points) - against Pete M. [2W, two 4W] (a good deficit-erasing word!)
TARZAN (216 points) - against Janet H. [4W, 4L on Z]
ELEGANCY (106 points) - against Katie S. [two 2W]
ADAGIO (128 points) - against Steve L. [two 4W]
DEFRAY (140 points) - against Brenda G. [5W, 2W]
ASTEROID (1450 points) - against Lynn K. [4W, two 5W]
EX (157 points) - against Lyna F. [2W, 5L on X, hook off TRAYS to make RE and AX]
FOSSA (144 points) - against Rosalind H. [two 4W]
EWE (182 points; two 5W, hook off IN to make WIN), OUTMODE (216 points; two 3W) - against Heather M.
EPHEDRINS (510 points) - against Heidi H. [two 5W, bingo]

Hey, here's a sushi vocabulary site! I found this because Corey and I were discussing sushi earlier, haha. For bonus fun, here's a food storage article with a chart. Talked to Eric H. about Jon, Harmony, plans, airfares, chilling, and more. Then I found out that Jess W. added me to Facebook: cool stuff, even if I didn't get a notification!


[23:46:23] Corey: so have you tried to watch a movie yet? you said you wanted to
[23:51:08] Flami: the hamsterette: I've put it in now... let's see if it works
[23:51:53] Flami: hey, AUTOPLAY! (Funny and DBX! ?)
[23:52:12] Flami: the hamsterette: Windows Media Player or Winamp?
[23:52:34] Corey: Media Player Classic
[23:53:12] Corey: Windows Media Player sucks
[23:53:28] Corey: Winamp will work, but it's not a great video player.. the interface doesn't work that great
[23:54:40] Flami: can I get Media Player Classic?
[23:55:40] Corey: you don't have that? that's easily the best one
[23:55:46] Flami: wait. another download? are you sure?
[23:56:33] Corey: it's designed to look like (old) Windows Media Player. nice and simple, and works. nothing flashy or getting in the way of the video, and you can hit spacebar to pause like you used to
[23:56:49] Corey: it's a pretty small download... like a meg or two
[23:58:33] Flami: should I save it or open it?
[23:58:46] Corey: doesn't matter
[23:59:22] Corey: it's just an .exe file in the .zip
[23:59:25] Corey: you don't have to install it
[00:00:12] Corey: just save the .exe where you want it (Program Files, or wherever), and make a shortcut for it maybe if you want it on your desktop. I think it might ask you if you want one the first time you run it, but maybe not
[00:00:48] Corey: you've used VLC, haven't you? that's good too, but this is the best
[00:09:55] Flami: well, I let the Autoplay thing come up again, and the only options are STILL Windows Media Player or Winamp, even though I downloaded Classic
[00:10:33] Corey: well, don't use the stupid autoplay thing. just tell the autoplay to open it in Explorer
[00:11:22] Corey: then right-click a file, choose Open With, Choose Program, then find mplayerc.exe, which you just downloaded and hopefully unzipped somewhere
[00:12:14] Corey: make sure the box is checked to always use that program, and you won't have to do that again... just double-click the video files, and they'll play in MPC
[00:12:27] Corey: you'll have to do that for each different type of video file, though
[00:14:08] Flami: (open folder to view files using Windows Explorer?)
[00:15:15] Corey: yes... choosing to play won't work for anything anyway, there's lots of files... you'll probably want to pick one, not just play them in order or just the first one, or however it'd do that
[00:19:31] Flami: I can't find it on the list.
[00:20:51] Corey: click Browse and go to where you saved it
[00:20:59] Corey: it won't show up until you do that
[00:21:38] Flami: this is a stupid question, but.... where's BROWSE?
[00:21:54] Corey: right below the list of programs
[00:22:30] Corey: are you in the open with -> choose program menu?
[00:24:02] Flami: OH! NEVER MIND.
[00:24:53] Flami: now it's not a valid Win32 application, whatever that means
[00:25:13] Corey: what?
[00:25:43] Flami: I tried opening it with the Zip, and that's what it said
[00:25:53] Corey: ..............
[00:26:00] Corey: well, what are you doing that for? a zip file isn't a program
[00:26:12] Corey: unzip it and save the .exe inside
[00:26:30] Corey: a .zip file is like a box. you're trying to use a toaster without taking it out of the box first
[00:43:16] Flami: well, it wouldn't unzip
[00:43:53] Corey: well, then you don't know how to unzip things, or it didn't download completely or something
[00:52:12] Flami: let me tell you exactly what I did, okay? I double-clicked on the player.exe
[00:53:53] Corey: where are you clicking on that?
[00:55:26] Corey: Windows will show zips as folders, to confuse you or something... they're not. If you're looking at that in Explorer, you need to move the .exe somewhere else... just clicking on the zip file if you don't have a zip program like WinRar, which you should have, you're just seeing the contents of the zip file, not unzipping it. Copy and paste the .exe to somewhere else, move it out of the zip file.
[00:59:03] Flami: in the WinRar evaluation copy
[00:59:27] Corey: well, don't double-click it... click Extract, or you can just drag the file to another place
[01:04:36] Flami: there's a button which says Extract To... so where should I put this thing?
[01:05:07] Corey: wherever you want to keep it. program files would work
[01:07:18] Flami: I'm clicking on Program Files... is that okay?
[01:07:45] Corey: anywhere is okay if you remember where it is
[01:09:26] Flami: I get that... should I be clicking on it to make it save there, and erase the other thing which was there before?
[01:10:02] Corey: that works :P
[01:14:42] Flami: okay, I think it's done... will anything weird happen if I move it to the Desktop?
[01:14:55] Corey: don't put it on the desktop.......
[01:15:12] Corey: put it somewhere reasonable, and make a shortcut. put the shortcut on your desktop
[01:17:46] Flami: why is it not in Program Files?
[01:24:19] Corey: I don't know
[01:24:25] Corey: it should be wherever you put it...
[01:24:52] Flami: and I think I did put it in there.
[01:25:46] Corey: are you looking at the files there, or just the folders...
[01:26:35] Flami: I FOUND IT BY ACTUALLY CLICKING ON "PROGRAM FILES"!!!!
[01:26:37] Corey: it's just a file, it won't be in a folder unless you made one
[01:26:44] Corey: well... of course
[01:27:03] Flami: I'm getting old... confusing files and folders like that :P
[01:28:05] Corey: so now go right-click a movie file, Open With, Choose Program, and go click on Program Files again to find it :P unless that's what you just did
[01:31:33] Flami: right after I create a shortcut before I forget :P
[01:32:45] Corey: if you set up the file type stuff, you don't need a shortcut... just go to Explorer and double-click what you want to watch and it'll open it in MPC.. you don't really ever need to just open MPC by itself
[01:33:01] Corey: you can, though... you can open the program, then go choose a file to play, and set up playlists and stuff
[01:35:34] Flami: great. it says the same thing about it not being a valid Win32 application
[01:40:46] Corey: did you choose the .exe file?
[01:40:53] Corey: mplayerc.exe?
[01:47:41] Flami: yes, but now I should go to bed. tomorrow!