Current Ramblings
Sunday, July 31, 2005
You'll know why in a few weeks.
Because my friends are heathens, I give you: Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Match Girl.
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Saturday, July 30, 2005
This honor and duties is a lot too big
Here's some more of Backstroke of the West.
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Friday, July 29, 2005
I loves me some Engrish.
Thos of you with Obs in your LiveJournal friends will have seen this already, but for the rest of you, I present: Backstroke of the West, or, terrible subtitles from a bootleg DVD of Revenge of the Sith.
Space general, you and not equal to I think severe.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
I'm the first!
To take a picture of Override molesting Hot Shot, that is.
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Sunday, July 24, 2005
It's okay to post song lyrics if it's because they're terrible.
Okay, I'm slow. I didn't realize until yesterday that TV-Nihon put Galaxy Force 28 up on Thursday, so I left it Torrenting overnight and woke up to it this morning. No spoilers, don't worry, but they changed the opening and closing credit sequences. I don't really mind the current tradition of doing that halfway through a series, since you get everything back up to date that way, but GAH, the new music is HORRIBLE. I can't properly capture the badness of the songs themselves here, but I did transcribe the lyrics to the new closing song, "Growing Up" (yes, in English), so you can all be properly horrified at the latent pedophilia of the opening line.
Thrust your right hand up into the unripened future!
Right! Call it forth! It's our history!
My curiosity hasn't been beaten yet!
The rampage has begun!
The rhythm of growing, rises high into the sky!
The future you looks strong
But isn't it the present you that can help!?
Shake that heart in the darkness!
Grab a hold of the light!
You mustn't be negligent!
Thrust your right hand up into the unripened future!
We're on the path to perfection!
Now! Let's step in! It's decided!
There are no rules!
Put in all your power! Rish high into the sky!
Growing up!! (This last line is in English.)
"Thrust your right hand up into the unripened future!"? Uh...
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Friday, July 22, 2005
*sigh*
Once again I turn to you lot for advice. I might have mentioned in my last post that my computer course for this quarter is the first half of the stuff you need to know for A+ certification. I've decided I'm definitely going to take the hardware half next quarter so I can go ahead and get that under my belt. Today I found out that there are about to be a couple openings at the store near my apartment I have been pushing to get transferred to, in addition to, apparently, a running need for more people on their part. Does this mean they're all ready to send me over now? Of course not! Why would my company possibly want to not shit on me? Between that and a growing bitterness toward my place of employ that festers in my soul and makes it very hard to not just hate, I am seriously considering seeing what just that A+ certification will get me. I'm not giving up on the full Network Tech degree, I just want to go ahead and hop to something else with some pay, and I dunno, maybe some respect while I finish my classes. A dedicated tech place that might offer tuition assistance would be a plus as well. Anybody know what I can do? Keeping in mind that I already work retail, so nothing short of food service and janitorial work would be "beneath" me. I'd be happy with Best Buy's Geek Squad at this point. Maybe even CallTech, unless anybody has some good horror stories.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
School Stuff
I suppose, three and a half weeks in, I should probably make a post about my third quarter of school...
So far I'm feeling ambivalent about English 102. As I mentioned earlier, the teacher is not nearly engaging enough for an 8AM class. Tuesday was spent talking about MLA documentation. The whole hour, MLA documentation. But anybody who's read this knows I'm certainly capable enough with words, and I was reassured to find that the class expects you to know how to write a proper sentence already, so I don't have flashbacks to CIT 101 and the instructor feeling a need to review how to make a folder. So far the workload has been really light, which I both like and find unnerving. I mean, it's great not having much to do, and being able to do it pretty fast, but it seems like I should be working harder. I'm still thinking in terms of the 4-hours-of-homework-a-week algebra classes I had the last two quarters. Our project this quarter is to write two argumentative research papers, the second of which can build off the other. The first is arguing a point, and the second is arguing policy relating, if you wish, to that same point. So you can just take the 5 pages of your first paper, rewrite it a bit to be about policy, pad it enough for an extra page, and bam, second paper. You could write the second paper about something else, but that would be dumb. The rough draft of the first one is due next Tuesday, so today I went to the school library and found some sources. I have chosen video games for my subject, specifically arguing that there is a massive adult market for them that our culture largely tends to ignore and therefore there's nothing unacceptable about companies making mature games, and parents and legislators both need to stop thinking of video games as being unilaterally geared toward children. It took me all of about an hour to find enough sources, including not just the one required "scholarly journal" source but a second as well. Then I sat around Cup O' Joe for about 20 minutes with a tasty iced coffee thing and highlighted parts that I thought would make good quotes, and I was done with what I hoped to accomplish today. Tomorrow I write the actual paper, and, as verbose as I tend to be, filling up 5 double-spaced pages should take me maybe two hours tops. At which point maybe I'll play Riviera (Rated T for Teens!) some more.
CIT 121 - PC Operating Systems - has been pretty fun so far, though I feel like I should really get a copy of Windows 98 to play with as we go. It's much, MUCH easier to learn computer things when I can actually mess with them firsthand. The first half of the quarter involves a lot of DOS, which I always enjoy fiddling with. It makes me feel 1337. The lab projects there haven't been a real strain either, though I know I'm going to have to study my ass off for the midterm week after next. And I actually used my textbook to help with my own computer problems last week! The partitioning software that came with my new hard drive didn't like the LILO boot program Linux had put on there, and that installation of Linux never worked right anyway, so I looked up how to go into the Recovery Console in XP and use the fixmbr command. Whee! The instructor - my first female instructor in a CIT class, and I like her a lot - is somewhat certain there'll be a new edition of the textbook next year, and I think this is one time where I won't mind too much if they won't buy it back. It covers the software side of A+ certification, so I'll probably want it for that anyway. Yay certification!
I checked with the degree audit program on Columbus State's web site last night and it looks like, at my current rate of taking classes, I have 12 more quarters - three more years - ahead of me. Not too bad, I'll get through this with some certifications under my belt in just slightly less time than it would take for a CS degree at a four-year school with a full courseload, and this'll be specialized for a particular career path. Two and a half quarters in, and I'm still feeling upbeat about all this. :)
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Yay!
Popular Local Comic Writer Sean McKeever won an Eisner!
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Sunday, July 17, 2005
OMG SNAPE
OMG
(More sensible postings when I can catch a break. I have to catch up with my CIT studies something hardcore...)
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Saturday, July 16, 2005
Woo!
I sure do got me some Harry Potter! See ya in a few days! ;)
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Friday, July 15, 2005
Man, fuck an EB...
While I was out shopping for a hard drive this morning (Maxtor 120GB, installed as a slave to my 40GB one now, with a 40GB partition for music, a 60GB partition called "Stuff", and 20GB formatted in FAT32 for maybe playing with Linux, $70 plus tax at Staples) I decided to check EB Games in that part of town for this Riviera game Steve-o and I had been looking for. I figured if they had two copies I'd pick them up for both of us. As it turned out they did technically have two copies, but one was used. Well, c'mon, I work at a used book shop, I do not generally shy much away from used things. (You'd think it would make me want used stuff LESS, but I don't learn quickly, apparently.) So I asked about the used one, figuring I could let Steve-o have the new one. The one they had was just the cartridge, which happens a lot with Game Boy stuff. That'd have been okay...IF IT HAD BEEN MORE THAN A THREE DOLLAR PRICE DIFFERENCE. Okay, I know the game's been out, like, two weeks, but seriously. $30 new, and $27 for a copy that came with no book and, more importantly, no guarantee that it had never been in anybody's pants? LAME.
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
Ta-dah!
So finally, after months of apparently being all talk and no action (unless you're Siph being bugged about art or Phil being bugged about code), my new site, based on the old blog site, is up and running! There are still a few things I think I'd like to tweak, like how I had a clean-edged version of the graphic until Internet Explorer's sorry obsolete ass wouldn't recognize transparent PNGs, but I think it's more than acceptable for the time being, especially given I did the whole thing in Notepad. Now I have to try to catch up with my CIT 121 reading...
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Another appeal to those more 1337 than I...
Tomorrow I might be getting a new hard drive. Between ripping CDs for my mp3 player and just enjoying broadband way too much, it has come to my attention that my 40Gb just isn't gonna cut it. So now I have a delemma: What's the best way to install it? Should I...
A) install it as the main drive with the old one as the slave, install the OS onto it, copy all my important stuff over to it, and then wipe the old drive and leave it in there for my next attempt at Linux
B) do the same as A, except not put the old hard drive in until the OS is installed on the new one
C) back up all my old crap onto CDs, install the new drive, and toss the old one, even though that seems like a huge pain and I'd have to go buy a new spindle
D) install the new drive as a slave to the old, then use the old drive for running the OS and programs and stuff and use the new one for storing crap, and I dunno what I'd do with Linux then, maybe just partition part of the new drive
E) some exciting other solution
Also, I think Aaron Archer likes me. Every time he runs into one of the other guys - like, say, Walky at SDCC today - he asks about me. I wonder if it's too late to get Primus a Sparkplug Mini-Con...
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
While you wait...
...here's a question: Will not working retail anymore make me more or less misanthropic?
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Bleh.
My English 102 teacher is not an engaging speaker. Especially not for an 8AM class.
School and work and whatnot have kept me away from this for longer than I planned (I'm actually posting this from my CIT 121 classroom while waiting for class to start), but I plan to do a nice big data dump come Friday or so - including finally shifting my main page over to the blog - so I can have it all off my chest before I settle into that new Harry Potter book you might have heard about. Yes, that was an impressive sentence.
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
More tomorrow...
...but tonight I'm feeling cruel.
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