Well, after spending two hours driving all over Lafayette looking for a 9 pin to 15 pin serial adapter, I finally found one.  On Amazon.  It should be here this week, which means we’ll finally have two functioning pads.  Hopefully.

Also, if anybody would like to recommend a brand of metal pad that’s still being produced, come find me at a meeting and let me know.

As a refined DDR connoisseur, I must say that last week’s Stepmania availability left a bad taste in my mouth.  Slow menu, lag issues, etc.  Well, today I’m here to assure you that this week’s will be better.  For starters, we’ve added a couple of themes that should solve some of the graphical lag problems.  Also, we’re going to be using a different external hard drive this week, in an attempt to rule out bad hardware as a cause of the selection lag.  Finally, we’ve updated our mix to include 3,425 songs, which is a large number and therefore good.  Hopefully, if all goes well we should have a much more enjoyable Stepmania experience this Thursday.

By the way, if you’d like a copy of our Stepmania mix, please bring an external hard drive with at least 9 gigabytes free to a meeting, or contact us and I’ll burn you a DVD (please bring either a blank DVD-R, $1, or one of those big cans of Arizona Green (or Raspberry) Tea to cover the cost of the DVD).