Archive for January, 2008
still alive.
still pissed off.
did find some interesting old stuff in notebooks, though.
i’ll share it eventually.
now i have to feed the cats and go back to sleep. whee.
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Sometimes I wonder how it is any of us have survived this long without supervision.
Seriously. My mother and I had something of a fight last night, during which she asked me why I was so angry about the whole moving thing. She said, and I quote, “You need to go tromping around in your innards and figure this out.”
No, no I do not. I already know what’s the matter, and I am surprised and annoyed that she apparently has no idea.
She counted off on her fingers, rather sarcastically, that “[I] don’t like to move”, “[I] don’t like to move”, “Oh, and not all of this stuff is mine and [I] didn’t make the whole mess and [I] shouldn’t have to be the only one to clean up”.
And she still couldn’t figure out why I’m angry and unhappy and not interested in helping.
She’s a fucking GS 12-step-whatever and she can’t understand that it’s as simple as I really really fucking hate to fucking move and I’m pissed off because I don’t want to move and I like it here and don’t want to live somewhere else? Particularly not somewhere in the fucking Mat-Su valley or even Eagle River?
And no, I’m not planning on telling her any of this, mostly because I don’t think I could do it without shouting and swearing; while she doesn’t mind ‘damn’ and ‘hell’ and the rare ‘ass’, ‘fuck’ is right out.
Being the odd little weasel that I am, I’d love a medal to show that I’ve survived more than one console war…
I recently discovered Tastespotting. Almost every picture manages to make each recipe look appetizing, even if I would never eat whatever it was in a million years (i.e. B-sprouts, the Filipino delicacy involving semi-developed duck embryoes [though -that- picture did not make that particular food look appetising]).
I haven’t made much in the way of baked goods recently, though I have made a bunch of Russian teacakes. I think I’ll make more tomorrow, in fact. I love them because they’re fast, easy, and tasty… Plus it may get my mother to leave me alone about packing things up.
Mild* Eyeshield 21 spoilers after the cut!
I don’t mind watching shows I like raw, but boy howdy does it reinforce the fact that I pretty much know A) bupkis Japanese and B) what Japanese I _do_ know is limited to utterly random stuff like “ika-san wa patoro-ca~ de Nikko wo ikimasu ka?” and “anata no tomodachi wa mikan desu ka?”. Well, okay, that’s not -entirely- true, but it’s close enough.
(‘Does Squid-san go by patrol-car to Nikko?’ and ‘Is your friend a tangerine?’ respectively. Whee!)
* Mild, in this case, meaning it has nothing to do with the winner or loser of games, or life-changing events affecting players/players families, etc.
And it’s preeeeeeetty. Ooh.
However, it is missing a few things, like Photoshop Elements and fun fonts and the like. And my writing, too, of course. Oh well, that’ll get fixed sooner rather than later. Yaaaaay!
Aiiiiiieeee! Run! Run while you still have legs!
…*Ahem* I mean, hi! Hisashiburi desu!
Yeah, I know. Things have just been kinda…blah, for me, lately. If nothing else, I should have my computer tomorrow! Speaking of which, I asked my mom if, once I get everything backed up/migrated, she wants me to put her old HD into this laptop so she can use it. She said that’d be nice. I offered to let her have the new cooler for it, too, because while the old one works really well, it’s got some issues that make it a little cantankerous. She said no, the new one was mine and that the old one would be just fine. Okay, then, I said.
Not really any new writing to speak of, at the moment, though I keep trying. No new art or drawing, either.
Still looking for a new place to live, though we may actually have that figured out — and it won’t be in the bleeding valley, either. Woo. Nothing’s set in stone, though, so I’m not -too- excited, yet. (Not that I’m going to be all that excited if it does work out. Have I mentioned how much I really really fucking HATE moving?)
Speaking of hating things, I decided to give the baseball anime Major a shot while waiting for the next episodes of my current favorite series to get uploaded. What a mistake THAT was — not because it’s an insipid show with no redeeming value whatsoever, but rather because the first half-dozen episodes were a complete waste of my time. All I can say without spoiling it is that if you’re inclined to watch Major, start with episode 7 instead of episode 1. Later, if you’re desperate for backstory, you can go watch the first half-dozen.
Other series I’ve been watching with little to no chance of seeing release on North American shores:
– Uninhabited Planet Survive, about some kids that get stranded on (surprise!) an uninhabited planet and how they go on with their lives. Some of the characters start of thoroughly annoying, but get better as the series goes on. Some cute moments, some scary moments, and a little soft romance that’s nicely done — doesn’t leave you feeling like you need to see the dentist. One of the drawbacks of the series, though, is that some of the science leaves something to be desired — particularly when it comes to the prevailing winds.
– Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro, featuring a demon that has eaten all the mysteries in the demon world, a high-school girl, and a former loan-shark. Neuro (the demon) has come to the human world to find more food (mysteries), and presses Yoko into becoming a Famous Schoolgirl Detective. Godai, the loan-shark, seems to have been won in a bet (or something, the series hasn’t gotten to how he came to work at the detective agency). Pretty funny, even if the mysteries are fairly simplistic. I think the seiyuu that does Hiruma’s voice in Eyeshield 21 also does Godai’s voice.
– Ookiku Furikabutte, which is another baseball anime. This one, though, focuses on a boy that was the starting/ace pitcher for his middle school’s baseball team, mostly because his grandfather is the owner/director of the school. He decides to go to a high school in his home prefecture and make a fresh start in baseball… And he does, despite his nearly zero confidence in his own abilities. Fortunately, he’s got a good catcher to help him out… It’s a pretty standard baseball (or any sports anime, really) plot: “Let’s all go to Koushien together!”, but the relationship between Mihashi (the pitcher) and cranky Abe (the catcher) is interesting (and/or sweet, depending on how much you like BL), the baseball is -great-, and the other characters are fun, too. It also has some of the most ridiculous facial expressions I’ve yet seen in an anime. (I’m working on bases from this series.)
- Sugoiyo! Masaru-san!, which is very much like Cromartie High, except with marginally more of a plot, to wit: Okometsubu Fujiyama has just transferred to Wakame High School, where he plans to make 100 friends. His plans start going off the rails when he runs into Masaru-san, the weirdest kid in school and creator of the Sexy Commando style of martial arts (which primarily consists of taking off your pants to confound and disturb your opponents, then kicking their asses while they’re distracted). The episodes are short — seven to ten minutes, and start with an admonition to A) watch it loudly, because it was recorded in stereo; B) watch it -quietly-, because it’s late and people are sleeping; and C) not to watch it at all if you have any sort of sensibilities and don’t make fun of the artist, signed, the artist’s father. It’s something to watch if you want something that’s just stupidly funny, or you’re in the mood for something short that isn’t Jagainu-kun.
And that’s really about it, for now.
Perusing the comments on certain series at Crunchyroll always makes me wonder how people think things work. F’r instance, on the super-popular series (Bleach, Naruto Shippuuden), you get comments of the “OMG OMG wens teh next wuyn comeing otu!!!@21EHW3OHFRO!?” variety, occasionally interspersed with “Damit eth rawz r out to [whatever number] allredi!!!#rh234bn!”. (This doesn’t apply to Shippuuden as much, ’cause the new season is actually in the process of airing in Japan. The fansubs are only about two weeks or so behind the premeire of the latest episode, which is pretty impressive.)
Then there are the comments on the semi-popular (and likely never to see release on this side of the Pacific) shows, like Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro. They generally consist of whining that “They/you should make the mysteries harder!”… and I’m never quite sure if the posters mean that the writing staff should do so, or if they’re under the impression that the fansubbing group is also responsible for the plot(s).
I tend to skim the comments for the most part, due to the fact that there are usually spoilers all over the place and that a number of people think that chain comments and spam are an appropriate thing to post. Gaaaaah. Oh well.
As far as I know, Sakura-Con will still be held every year forEVER, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that nothing good ever lasts.
I’m looking for a job (because if I don’t get one now I’ll probably never get one, and besides I’d like to go to Sakura-Con at least ONE more time before it goes under*), and I somehow managed to stumble across a blog by a manager in the technology industry. They wrote a post on resumes (A Glimpse And A Hook), and then revisited their post more recently.
The basic gist of the posts is to be yourself in your resume, as well as make it interesting and different.
This is pretty much exactly the opposite of what people have told me for years — particularly my Aunt In Seattle, who has worked many different places and has actually helped hire people (I thiiiiiink. That’s the impression that I get, anyhow.)
I’m all for writing my resume and sounding like me — kinda flip, kinda snarky, kinda apathetic — but seriously? I doubt that it’d help.
I’ll probably try it anyhow… It can’t hurt.