[13 Oct 2006|01:30am] Instead of preparing my presentation on Nigel Burch's criticism of Mizoguchi, and definitely instead of working, I fucked around for several hours. Basically through lunch, until punch out. I had found this very old video game that I used to play as a kid, back in the days of Windows 3.1. I played it all the time, during the summer of 5th grade. I really, really wanted to play it again. I tried running the old game in compatability mode in XP, but that didn't work. Then I tried using a DOS emulator, Dos Box, but, again, no luck. I turned to the web for advice. A crude-looking BBS post from 2004 said my game needed to be run in 3.1, but could "sometimes" be run in Virtual PC, in 3.1 virtually. I downloaded VPC for OSX, for free via the University license, but found that it wouldn't run on my Intel Mac. It was PPC only. Alas. Then I tried running a virtual XP installation using Parallels, and downloaded to windows version of VPC. Inside the virtual XP I was able to run Virtual PC virtually, and virtualize Windows 3.1. To my surprise, this worked. I could run a game from my childhood inside a virtualization inside a virtualization. Daniel came over, and saw the concentric cubbied windows inside windows inside OSX, and laughed. I guess it was pretty funny, but when the excitement of searching for a solution to my problem waned I realized it was actually kind of sad. Was this ordeal some kind of incredibly contrived metonym for my loss of innocence? Once I got it working, my interest in the game dwindled. stand on the water?.

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