Current Ramblings
Monday, February 28, 2005
O. M. G.
Another new Game Boy already!?
I think it's just a symptom of my age that hardware upgrades seem to come at me so fast these days. Or maybe it's not. I should research that sometime. I suppose technically with the Game Boy, the DS, and the GameCube I'm following three different development branches.
Oh, and this week's Lying in the Gutters has a fun rundown of Dreamwave's current debts. I'm wondering if the "secured" notation on Roger Lee's two BMWs means "reposessed". And something tells me Simon isn't too hard up for cash these days, since he seems to have been happy to just keep writing Transformers for a while after the checks stopped coming. Damn, that's why I love him. His heart's in it. Oh, and I don't think anything Rob Ruffalo did for that company was worth $805.
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Saturday, February 26, 2005
Retro Goodness.
I finally picked up Metroid Prime recently, and just started playing it today. I've never been a fan of first-person shooters, which is why I hadn't been chomping at the bit to play it. But my mom offered to get me a game at Costco when I was home, and that just barely beat out Harvest Moon. And while it hasn't exactly made me a big FPS convert, it's unspeakably awesome to see all the classic critters from Metroid in full-fledged 3D glory. I all but squealed realizing what each of them were, translating shapes and patterns from their old 8-bit incarnations.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2005
For #wiizzaa: Somehow Even Geekier Than Anticipated
Okay, taken from Recharge in preparation for our #wiigii! filesharing network, here's the first 10 things that show up in Random on my computer:
"Invasion" - Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy Tactics score)
"Pink (A6)" by Shinkichi Mitsumune (FLCL: Addict)
"Into the Game" - Vince DiCola Project (Sci-Fighter Score)
"Bran-new lovesong" - The Pillows (more FLCL: Addict)
"I Won't Be Home For Christmas" - Blink 182 (sorry, but it got me through a bad X-Mas with the folks)
"The Enemy Revealed" - Vince DiCola (from that TF:TM score from BC '97)
"Born Too Slow" - The Crystal Method
"Smoke" - Big Bird & Lil' Twump (YEAH!)
"Santa Claus" - They Might Be Giants
"Dice Behind Your Shades" - Paul Westerberg
I was tempted to reshuffle until I got something more, uh, flattering, but that'd be cheating. I'm surprised both that there was so much Vince and FLCL in there and no Ash, since I have more Ash CDs ripped (7, counting double sets as 2 CDs) than any other band. Ah well. I = geek.
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Sunday, February 20, 2005
I guess it's starting to get predictable...
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Saturday, February 19, 2005
Weighty Issues
So yesterday I started walking again. I went in for a check-up with my gastrointerologist (Yay, I don't need another colonoscopy anytime real soon!), and even taking into account that I had just had a nice meal before coming in and I was fully clothed and all, I still did not especially like the numbers the nurse wrote down after I stood on the scale. It's not that I am like so many young women who fixate on their weight. I detest doing anything that might suggest to anyone that that particular horrible-but-so-often-true female stereotype has anything to do with me - ordering Diet Coke, fussing about how fatty things are, that sort of thing. But in my mind there is a weight I am supposed to be. It's not some unreasonable goal, just a number that used to apply to me in my late teens and stopped applying so much when I moved to Michigan's Scenic Upper Peninsula and for all intents and purposes shifted to a sedentary lifestyle. A couple years ago I started walking every day, just a trip around the block, about 1.3 miles in 25 minutes, and within a couple months I had lost that extra 10 pounds from sitting in front of the computer so much. I dropped from what I think of as my "sedentary weight" to my "active weight", and that was all I really wanted. But winter came, and as the weather got cold I got wimpy, and then around the time last year I had been planning to take it up again I got sick, and so while I made spotty attempts to get back into my routine last year, I never did. As soon as I got the UC under control I crept back up to my sedentary weight, which I wasn't thrilled about but considered acceptable. But now I seem to be going beyond even that, and that's bad. Clearly it's time to get off my ass and put those earmuffs with the headphones in them to good use. Before I have to take more drastic measures and stop picking the crunchy fried bits off everyone else's trays at Long John Silver's. We can't have that.
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Friday, February 18, 2005
I WANT.
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History lessons.
In lieu of actual content, some of which may come as soon as this very weekend, I'm going to borrow a note from some of my friends on LiveJournal:
Not my own first post, but barring lists of people doing fanzines and a mention in a BotCon report, the first real mention of me on ATT, consisting of a guy asking for info on my zine, now-confirmed child porn junkie Nixtr posting all my contact info, and someone else noting that maybe one should not post a 16-year-old girl's home address all over Usenet without her knowledge. Also, then-vague-acquantance-and-now-good-friend Steve-o's total dis of my now-ex. Awesome. :)
And yes, my own first post, which is just commenting on the usefulness of friends with jobs at TRU. I fear I never exactly burst on the scene like some of my friends. I just stood back and looked cute and unspeakably young.
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Thursday, February 10, 2005
Hours I have spent playing Pokemon:
Pokemon Blue: 89:43
Pokemon Silver: 215:06
Pokemon Crystal: 14:49
Pokemon Sapphire: 131:09
Pokemon Colosseum: 36:48
Pokemon LeafGreen: 72:17
Total amount of my life spent playing Pokemon as of 12:30AM, 2/10/2005: 559 hours, 52 minutes. Or, if you like, 23 days, 7 hours, and 52 minutes.
I never really got into Crystal after all that time logged in on Silver, and it's for that reason that I'm probably going to skip the impending release of Emerald here in the US. And I'm not counting non-RPG Pokemon games like Pokemon Dash or Pokemon Puzzle Challenge. Though I have logged in sick amounts of time on Puzzle Challenge. It's probably for the best it doesn't have a clock to tell me just how much of my life I spent playing that game.
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Stuff.
No, I haven't given up on my big blog-to-main-page overhaul or anything, I'm just tinkering with Blogger. I guess technically turning on comments here makes my LiveJournal redundant, but my friends who are already on there probably wouldn't even read any of this without the convenient Friends-page syndication feature, so I'll keep mirror-posting for now. And this template didn't want to work with IE, but it looks beautiful with Firefox, and I always liked it better anyway.
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Thursday, February 03, 2005
Catching Up
Yes, I realize I haven't posted for about a week now. I figured the whole work/school thing would make that inevitable, plus I just haven't felt like I had much of import to say. I don't like making posts that're just about how I spent my weekend. But just so nobody thinks I'm dead, here goes:
My car is fixed, at least that particular funny noise is. I finally found the last two Energon Aerialbots (or rather, Graham found them for me), and while I could probably create a wole post simply around them, I'll spare you the discomfort of reading it. I will simply say that Windrazor is quite red, and Terradive is simply the most beautiful thing to grace my apartment. He is not only a wonderful toy, but he is in my colors. I have taken to calling him my little angel, what with the big white-and-light-blue wings. I also found a lot of really good records at work, some of which I have already purchased but most of which will be purchased later this week. School is going exceptionally well. I missed Algebra last Thursday because of the whole car thing, and I have never been so sad about missing a class in my life. But I kept up with the homework despite missing class and I am getting excellent grades in both my classes this quarter. Today specifically I am working on a new project, dyeing an Energon Arcee into a little friend for the Upstart I made over the summer. (I was tempted to keep him all for myself, but it would never have worked out, what with him being about 5" tall and inanimate.) I'm going to get away from the computer and go work on that now.
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