3.25.2K1 - 2.48

I love these people. I really do.

Him: "I need you to send a technician to come and fix my monitor?"
Me: No. "What's wrong with the monitor?"
Him: "It's all black, and it's been like that for quite a while."
Me: Cable not plugged in, monitor not plugged in. "Okay, so when the monitor is on and the power light is on, the screen is black?"
Him: "Yeah, it's..." (a voice in the background) "Oh, it's working, you musta just fixed it."
Me: Right. With my Jedi Techie powers. Use the Force, Frank. "Anything else I can do for you?"

3.25.2K1 - 2.00

I am BOMA, hence I blog. I have been here since 7 and I have taken ONE call.

Ragabash, I think it got left behind. I'll tell Jim to bring it in tomorrow and give it to you. And I envy you - I don't WANT to remember anything after that.

whoosh. *bahahahah*

Dora-san, just like anything else. ^_^ Be safe, be smart, be happy. Clef just fits in anywhere. Now Mokona as a house elf, THAT's messed up. I think Hermione would go insane.

NnM, don't bother. Ender's seems to have been a complete accident, the rest of the books, just...suck from what everyone who's read/tried to read them says. I tried too, but...shudder. Although I hold out hope for Ender's Shadow, Bean's story, which I haven't yet opened.

Alan, Clef could teach Conjuration I guess. Ascot, yes, would do C&FoMC best. Zagato? He'd be the Dark Arts professor. (Did I say defense? no.)

3.25.2K1 - 10.59

kore...kore ga HOSHIIIIIII yo! 17" plane surface monitor, CR-R/CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 128mb RAM, 800mhz, 40gb HD, and (Japanese) TV tuner. And it's only 1300 bucks!!!

snicker...snort...BAHAHHAHHAHAHAH!! This is just strange. And why is it called "My Dolphin"? *wanders off humming the Flipper theme*

3.25.2K1 - 10.24

And something I forgot: a picture of ASIMO next to a cute Japanese lady in some SERIOUS platforms.

3.25.2K1 - 10.06

Here's a neat thing: Japan Today: an english-language newspaper for Japan. From the headlines:

A new "robot" that can understand spoken words, has its own language processor, and can carry on conversations with people. Again, I point to Chobits.

Hugh Heffner, eat your heart out.

Another robotics article, this one more of a history for Honda's rather amazing work in the field.

More information about ASIMO.

And you all thought T1s were fast - try 100mbs home service.

And this from a poll onsite - Who should be the next Prime Minister? First place is: "Who gives a damn" at 206 votes (27.0%). Second place? "Yet another cardboard cutout" at 177 votes (23.2%). A joke? Not hardly. There are actual people to choose to vote for - they just don't get any votes. And in a burst of true black humor, "Alberto Fujimori" with 58 votes (7.6%) is only in 4th place.

I am so doomed! A page full of nothing but the latest digital products in Japan! *girly-eyed measles*

3.25.2K1 - 9.07

Geez, Ragabash, you weren't joking about CNN. Check out the end of this story.

Juno's new service agreement twisting all kinds of tail feathers out there. Apparently you have to download a SETI@HOME-like computational engine, plus recieve data from Juno from time to time, in addition to paying their monthly usage fees. They're already losing users...

Hmm, someone didn't log out of their computer and left their intra-company e-mail open. We're tempted to BOFH the guy and set up a delayed-send message for around noon on monday, something to the effect of "Guess what everyone, I QUIT! This place sucks, the pay is crap, the work is stupid, and I've got a better job. Shout outs to all who were with me, and I'm off to go to a better place. The HR department can bite me, I don't care what they put on my references." And carry on for...oh, a page or four. Just because I'm not a journalist doesn't mean I can't write.

My section is evil. I am evil. ALWAYS log out of your computer.

From Slashdot: Paradigm shift in "superhero" movies? Okay, mostly it's a soft pan of the new Steven Segal movie, but it does mention one thing that makes me wonder:

The Net generation favors a new kind of superhero. Neo (Matrix), Vincent Freeman (Gattaca), and for that matter, the Skywalker gang, none of whom are muscle-heads. They're more likely to use low-tech forms of combat, like martial arts and quick wits. Unlike the massive, thick-necked behemoths above, they're slight and vulnerable, neurotic and brooding.

3.25.2K1 - 1.12

*staggers in* my brain...huuuuuuuuurts...

Umm, more random crossover fun for tonight.

The next Professor for the Care and Feeding of Magical Animals: Clef.
Shamanic Project: A-ko and B-ko fighting over MORE cute girls!
"Be good, Tiara! Be good!"

I think I'll finish with that. I have to be at work in under 6 hours. Boku ga shin da...uwaaaa...

3.24.2K1 - 18.52

To Fapfap.com: Alright, I will admit then that I was wrong about the overseas abortions issue - I had heard it in the local news some time back that the order would cut funding to groups PERFORMING abortions. My apologies. As for the second part, I partly refer to the "moment of silence" rule which was to give you a moment to pray to God, Allah, your ancestors, kami, or try and finish your homework. It was intended to give you the option of praying if you wanted, and would not have been led. Also I refer to bills that have tried to make prayer in public illegal, which do get killed in Congress before they can be voted on.

I'm not the most well informed person in the world, though I do try. And I'm definitely not a writer nor a journalist. I do thank you for reading, and for commenting - only way to get better at it is to learn from the mistakes, right?

Now, one counter-complaint: I do enjoy reading your blogs when I can, but GOOD GOD that anchor pic is disturbing! *laughs*

3.24.2K1 - 17.23

Ragabash, to each their own I guess. *grins* True, kevlar does a better job, but there is an incident where a cop was attacked by two men, one grabbed his service pistol and held it on the cop, gleefully promising to kill him. Cop asks to be allowed to pray first, the crooks look at each other, cop gets to one knee, looks down, pulls a Glock 26 out of an ankle holster, and shoots both of them. Cop lives, both felons in hospital. So prayer may work in more ways than you think. *grins*

GRR. I can only get translations up to 6 in the Clamp Rakuen. Pantsu ga nani?

Firefly-chan: How would you like to be told that there is a way to build the wings for Suu DIRT CHEAP. *grins* Did you attend/see photos from the last few Anime Expos? The guy who built the Giant Robo beast and Mirage Knight outfits is an old friend, and we can assist you in building what you need. What cons are you attending? And I still say you should get compensation for your work from OW.

3.24.2k1 - 15.14

News to me. It can't have been that long ago because I was talking to friends who were out here not more than 6 months back who did the Beverly thing. DAMN. That was fun to watch.

Ruby, here's what the Babelfish had to say: "of q want saver of my and of it q I think is very grace" The "saver" and the loose qs were untranslatable, so here goes - "If you want my ?saver? I think it is very graceful(pretty? nice?)." Spanish suffers from netspeak too, I guess. I'd hate to see someone try and translate Hi how R U into their language. *laughs*

WHOOPS!!! Verisign gave website security certificates to an unknown person posing as an MS employee.

Another new blog: Paint It Black. Just because I like the song that much. And it's still green, hee hee.

Reading translations of Chobits between calls. This is weirdly cute, and a little disturbing. However, the brain wants to rip out Chii's AI system, what little it may or may not be, and dump it in a much more classic boy-meets-robot-by-accident-anime...Metal Skin Panic MADOX-01. "Chii? *BOOM*" Oh god, this is getting twisted. *laughing* Hmm. Okay, so Chii has a virus for an OS and has some sort of ungodly ICE as well. Screams military here...

Ya know, this COULD be done now, at least the little note-persocon. Anyone remember the little 20-inch Sony robot that can move around and do other neat things? Hell, give it another 3 years, we'll have Moore'd ourselves another 4-fold increase in computing power, and it wouldn't be difficult at all to have the cyberdolls going around. With a USB port for a tail, no less.

First part of this story sounds a LOT like "The Game", that movie a while ago with Michael Douglas? This could be weirdly fun to play.

Chii-chan it is. Ragabash, can you get me a good Chobits background? Since I'm going LINUX and all with the ex-386. As for tonight, I have a ride over there, we can still meet you at the GC and convoy over (I'll ride in something other than your German Micromachine) if you're not SURE you can find it. Alternatively, I can get some DB shells for my 12 gauges and send up flares to guide you. ^_^

Fran, if you get this, we have your Rolling Stone mag. It's at my desk, I'll e-mail Taz & Mike and let them know you left it. And then there were two...

3.24.2K1 - 13.13

*notes the timestamp with a twitch* iyaa...

Ragabash, damn straight. Like I said - I WILL fight for this country BECAUSE it's the best damn thing on Earth, and I will be DAMNED if I let someone take it away. I'd be a lifer in the military if it wasn't for a bad heart & back (I didn't gain weight till after I tried to get in the service). And by my comment about abortions in other countries, I'm not saying don't help people - let me do that. Don't steal my money to do it. And Ragabash, the Afghans are getting pissed - you heard about the Buddha statue destruction? There's a LOT more buddhists there than you'd think. And don't get me started on China. Hell, don't get YOU started on China. *grins* I need a picture of the squeak toy now, do you have a scanner?

Now fix your tags, and you'll be all set. And are you SURE you can find it? It's four or five houses past the REALLY big tree and two or three houses past the big concrete fence, on the right. I'll be there at 8, and just take over his couch. ^___^ Or just meet me at the GC at the usual time and we'll have another contortionist show.

Being 6'5" sucks.

Wah, I'm all out of models to build. Sigh. I need a friggin Perfect Grade, dammit.

3.24.2K1 - 13.05

Now this is cute. Letmestayforaday.com is run by some Dutch kid who wants to see the world for free. He's got guts, give him that.

And on the whole Malfoy-Crabbe-Goyle thing...hee hee, well, it does make a twisted sort of sense. But I take no responsibility for it. So there.

The Register reports on pieces of Mir for sale. Bummer all those auctions got pulled...

And just to let you all sleep warm & comfy at night, an article in Milparade, a Russian military journal, talks about all the heavy modernization and other advances Russian shipbuilding is making for their naval export market.

I'm gonna go raid books off of Ragabash's desk, I'm bored. Back later, kids.

3.24.2K1 - 10.45

Dora-san, Pat Benatar is VERY cool. She was just out here in Vegas too, darnit. Missed it.

Zeruel, enjoy your stay in Vegas. And while you're here, go to Coke World - it's on the strip right by the Aladdin. Go through the tour, you'll get to the 3rd floor and get as much free soda from around the world as you want. Try Beverly, it's quite good. The Italian one.

A new link: Nataku no Miko!

3.24.2K1 - 10.30

Taken out of context by someone who just walked past me: "Ma'am, do you know how many Johns there are out there?"

It occurrs to me how disturbingly genki certain people who work here are. I like this place. Schizophrenia in a single room.

Hm. New Secure PC to work with encrypted audio files and keep you from copying them. All well and good, except for one WEE problem. If the data is encrypted, then it cannot be played, right? Okay. So there has to be some way to decrypt it so you can play it on a SecurePC, right? Fair enough assumption, even if it is Windows. Okay. If something can be decrypted by a program, it can be decrypted by another one - look at the recent flap over the DVD decrypters that have come out. And besides - just because it's encrypted doesn't mean you can't copy the file. And upload it. And let anyone with a decryption utility, OEM or aftermarket, have at it. Sum total of all this money and work? About a 30 second slowdown in the process. If it can be done, it WILL be done. Data is just data.

Yvette, it's that kind of uncaring attitude that is killing this country. "Another school shooting? Peh." And then you launch into a whine that someone HUFFED at you when you were looking at a menu. Because you were black. How damned self-centered can you be? How do you know, in all your self-centeredness, that you were even the point of huffing? Or are you so racism-paranoid that you read everything that way? No, school shootings do not happen in big cities. And I don't see anyone out there saying that school shootings are caused by violent, filthy, disgusting black people. Until this last fuckhead shot up Granite Hills, there HAVEN'T BEEN any black school-shootings. So noone's blaming your race for this, don't worry. But I'm sure you're busy keeping up on all the times you might have been discriminated against. You want discrimination? You want racism? Go through Idaho. With your windows rolled up, very quickly, because you may not make it out. That's not a threat, that's a warning - I used to live there. Being told that "the SPAS-12 shotgun [I had] was a fine weapon to take to L.A. and kill niggers with." "We understand why you left California, it's because of all those slant-eyed colored people." THAT is racism, the second phrase being said by a UNIFORMED full colonel in the National Guard unit out there. Not getting huffed at for reading a menu.

Open your eyes and look at the world around you, girl. Would you believe that there is a government out there that

Takes money from its citizens to pay for abortions of children in other countries?
Takes money from its citizens to kill some of them?
Actively disarms its citizens from legally-owned protection against fucking scum who would kill you as soon as look at you, in the name of safety?
Tells you that your children know how to raise themselves better than you do? And enforces it?
Takes your children and locks them in a building for 6-8 hours a day in a place where they do not do anything except lose their minds?
Threw out the morality of the first two hundred years of this country and makes it illegal to pray to God in a public place, because you might offend someone?

Major earthquake hits Kyuushuu area, at least 2 dead. Heavy damage in southern Japan.

3.24.2K1 - 9.44

Ragabash, it's dead, I can either meet you at Jim's or catch a ride with you from the Gold Coast. Your call. Jim won't be there till 8 or so but he said if we show up early to just come on in, so...^^ up to you what you wanna do.

And I had a beauty of a rant before my computer ate it in a crash, dammit. Notepad Notepad NOTEPAD! *smacking of head*

More later.

3.23.2K1 - 23.31

This just bothers me. I have difficulty wrapping my brain around it, even though it exists. I need sleep. And that's a lot of resin at 1/5 scale, too, over a pound and a half. Should be around...12-13 inches?

Oh, I have a bit of a rant coming tomorrow. I know what post Ragabash refers to in the pissed-off-post it referred to earlier. I'll tear it to shreds later.

Goodnight all. Frank the generally depressed, tired, and stressed out.

3.23.2K1 - 22.06

Okay, backwards blogging today.

Kris, nice layout. I would guess that's Yashiro from Fatal Fury? I'm not going to make Ragabash redo my blog right away, she might kill me. But I did talk to the eggplant about possible changes. I rely on his work, cause I suck. I just rant and build models.

Firefly-chan, EXCELLENT point. If it were donations a la PBS, it's optional. However you have to pay them money for access to their site, and they will be showing a profit, as Alan-kun pointed out. (Sorry, I'm not going to call him Poe-chan. I don't care if you *are* all yaoi fans.) By rights, if you do something for profit, and make money off of it, you have a business. And if it's made up of things people donated to you under the belief it would be provided free, then That. Is. WRONG. And anyone who submitted their work should either a) be compensated with a percentage of the NET since Otakuworld is simply the "gallery", and/or b) have it pulled if requested, which Firefly-chan has done.

Ah, hell. I'm coughing up lungs, I'll do more later on after I can BREATHE again. This sucks.

3.23.2K1 - 21.38

Ragabash, I _MIGHT_ need a ride to Jim's tomorrow. Der Weisspanzer's generator seems to be needing replacement, and I'm not too sure how much more I can squeeze from it. I'll do what I can and let you know tomorrow. Yeah I know it's a tight fit ^^ but you need to get a real car. Damn you short people.

3.23.2K1 - 12.16

From the peanut gallery:

**HANGOVER RATING SYSTEM**

1 star hangover *
No pain. No real feeling of illness.. Your sleep last night was a mere disco nap which is giving you a whole lot of misplaced energy. Be glad that you are able to function relatively well. However, you are still parched. You can drink 10 bottles of water and still feel this way. Even vegetarians are craving a Cheeseburger and a side of fries.

2 star hangover **
Slight headache. Don't feel sick, but something is definitely amiss. You may look okay but you have the attention span and mental capacity of a stapler. The coffee you chug to try and remain focused is only exacerbating your rumbling gut, which is craving a full English breakfast. Last night has wreaked havoc on your bowels and even though you have a nice demeanor about the office, you are costing your employer valuable money because all you really can handle is aimlessly surfing the net and writing junk e-mails.

3 star hangover ***
Definite headache. Stomach feels crappy. You are definitely a space cadet and so not productive. Anytime a girl walks by you gag because her perfume reminds you of the random gin shots you did with your alcoholic friends after the bouncer kicked you out at 1:45 a.m. Life would be better right now if you were in your bed with a dozen donuts and a liter of coke watching Good Morning with Richard and Judy. You've had 4 cups of coffee, a gallon of water, 2 Sausage Rolls and a liter of diet coke - yet you haven't peed once.

4 star hangover ****
Your head is throbbing and you can't speak too quickly or else you might honk. You have lost the will to live. Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and has given you a lecture for reeking of booze. You wore nice clothes, but that can't hide the fact that you missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving, (girls, it looks like you put your make-up on while riding the bumper cars), your teeth have sweaters, your eyes look like one big vein and your hair style makes you look like a reject from the class picture of Moss side secondary school circa 1976. You would give a weeks pay for one the following: 1. Home time, 2. A duvet and somewhere to be alone, or 3. A time machine so you could go back and NOT have gone out the night before.

5 star hangover (aka Dante's 4th Circle of Hell) *****
You have a second heartbeat in your head which is actually scaring the employee who sits next to you. Death seems pretty good right now. You can't focus as your eyes are scrunched up against the overpowering glare from your computer screen Rancid vodka vapour is seeping out of every pore, staining your shirt and making you dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the corners of your mouth, at least you think it's toothpaste crust. You don't give a damn either way. Your body has lost the ability to generate saliva and your tongue is suffocating you. You'd cry but that would take the last of the moisture left in your body. Talking is not an option. Your boss doesn't even get mad at you and your co-workers think that your dog just died because you look so pathetic. You should have called in sick because all you can manage to do is breathe....very gently.

Ragabash, Rebecca's bringing Jubei-chan. I think this just became Bleeding BRAIN night.

3.23.2K1 - 10.07

Baaahaha. The flight stick on the X-MEN jet is a cheesy little video-game joystick.

Hmm. On the topic of Urd, Halle Berry with the same wig would play a remarkably good one. Who else would you cast for a live-action Ah! Megami-sama?

Alan, no. I refuse to consider that prospect. Snape and Lucius Malfoy, maybe. Personally I think Tim Curry would play an awesome Severus Snape.

3.23.2K1 - 9.34

Hmm. Is Washuu a Gallifreyan Time Lord?

3.23.2K1 - 9.17

Kris, I have the open-in-new-window on my blog because I do some referencing, this way you can go see what I'm talking about and then keep reading my blog. Hey, you never know, I might make a reasonable comment sometime in the week. ^^;;; Interesting writeup on unladylike.org, and actually I find sneakers and dresses to be cool in its own way.

X-MEN the movie. Watching it this morning. Interesting, but the pacing is going a little...fast. The "Cerebro" room was pretty cool though, and the set design must have had a SH*TLOAD of bluescreen. Nice effects on the mind-search.

3.22.2K1 - 20.47

Yes I'm feeling better and more upbeat after venting at work. I'll dump a post on school shootings, liberalism, and all kinds of other things after I get a shotgun finished, I'm trying to build one up for a friend's cosplay. it's giving me serious headaches.

Mir is gone.

Ragabash, the Hello Kitty handgun is an airsoft gun by DEN Trinity in Hong Kong. They do custom airsoft guns, and do sell to the US. Good stuff.

Hmm, links from new sites! Firefly-chan with a very cute lead picture and Kris-san. I will go put you up in my blog links later on. Meg, you DO admit that Urd as DatDA professor DOES work, especially with the half-demon thing she has going on. Aa! Potter-sama anyone?

Dora: Damn skippy, kiddo. Why do so many people understand the problem, and know how to deal with it...yet so many more people are so DAMNABLY stupid?! And what is a Rorshach, and what shoes are you talking about?

Sakura: I have one of those trees next to the balcony at my apartment - it's gorgeous, seeing all the little sakura petals sitting there. It's just...nice. I like this apartment.

Katherine, super-spiffy? are you sure you feel okay? And I didn't say it wasn't true. I just thought of the idea of Jet Black starring in Mr. Mom was horribly wrong. (that's what I was alluding to)

Ruby: I call that a FINE example of "Itarian" and "Engrish". *heh* Mandarake is THE SH*T! They get weird stuff that's out of date but AWESOME, like Fushigi no Umi no Nadia artbooks! I was impressed.

Stupid friggin morons. Noone can figure out what all the glowing dots are in the beam from the Luxor. Is it bats? Is it a hologram? Is it aliens from outer space? Sometimes it sucks living here.

Carolyn, if you want something to laugh at, then click here and here.

Alan, yes it is Urd from Ah! My Goddess. And Harry Potter Yaoi, let's PLEASE GOD not go there. One wonders just what Crabbe and Goyle do for Draco when he's not around, anyways.

Hmm - solution for otakuworld. Everything there is DONATED by other people - so get www.otakuland.com (kudos if you get the reference) and put up all their crap. They can't say you're putting up their material - it's all fan-made stuff! I say we go for it. I'll DONATE some cash to get otakuland going. Hell maybe I'll do it myself, once I get Ai-chan upgraded.

Panda, pepto works wonders on the hiccups as well. Go figure. And on your question, not really. Napster in itself IS questionable. Getting the addresses and sending cease-and-desist orders, having THAT much information...that is WRONG. Is it legal? Noone's decided just where the privacy line should be. Here's a thought - why not spread this technology to more seditious activities, like certain IRC rooms (which they claim they can do) that relate to things like freedom, liberty, and anti-government stuff?

When does the crackdown begin? IS this the beginning of the crackdown? Is my country truly as dead as its founders?

3.22.2K1 - 20.28

And the next Defense Against The Dark Arts teacher is Miss Urd!

3.22.2K1 - 18.14

Da svidanya, Mir. Four hours to go till the Orbital Gulag hits hard atmosphere. A lot of research gained up there, a lot of history...the last Russian outpost that was created by the Soviet Union. Ah well. At least this part got to go out in a blaze of glory. As for the real Soviet Union, well, the dumping of around 50 Russian "diplomats" by Bush has (Ras)Putin doing the same thing to the Americans. And they said the Cold War was over. ^_____^v

3.22.2K1 - 15.24

Pulled in to work today, and there's a blue van that's all burned out in the parking lot. Apparently it caught fire around 6am this morning. Dammit, I have to get a mundane schedule, but I like my weekend/night shift.

Hmm, "King Solomon's Grapevine" has tickets to the Dave Matthews Band show, front row down in the floor area. Who of my four or five readers was a Dave Matthews fan again? *evil grin*

Bleeding Gums night at the anime club. Overdosing on all sorts of things like Crack Captor Saccharine, Fushigi Yuugi, Rayearth, and other tooth-shattering sweetness.

Boys and girls, remember what I said about copycats? Shotgun-wielding fuckhead opens fire in El Cajon again, this time at Granite Hills HS. There's only one more HS left in my old hometown. This is really starting to piss me off. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to WHAT YOUR SOCIAL REVOLUTION HAS DONE TO MY COUNTRY. Bullshit on little kids have rights to sue their parents, parents can't discipline children, and BULL SHIT on the idea that schools are a social club.

I'm pissed. I might post later tonight. Maybe.

3.22.2K1 - 10.24

Ragabash, remember that Ruri kit you liked? I found out why it's so expensive: note the bic pen for scale. That's a LOT of resin.

3.22.2K1 - 8.55

And on that last post, if the government loses your paperwork, you're out the 200 bucks when you start all over again. Isn't corruption great?

Alan, I would watch Toonami with that lineup. Dump in Gundam in there somewhere though.

Don't count on much from Ragabash today. That long rant yesterday really tired her out, so you may not hear from him till Friday. Unless it decides to celebrate the great god of fermented grapes, in which case...who knows when. *tee hee, I love playing this game*

3.22.2K1 - 8.24.

Carolyn-san, how about the mental image of Jet Black in a Piyo-Piyo apron? *shudder* You're also starting to scare me.

Current reasons for lack of updates: this, this, this, this, this, and this.

On the gun rights standings, thank god SB2099 is dead. It would have put handguns into the NFA registry. NFA firearms currently cover things like machineguns/full-auto, sound suppressors, short-barreled stuff, and oddities like the .410 shotgun flashlight. To purchase one of these guns, you need to:

• make an application to your chief of police to purchase the firearm, and he personally has to sign off on it.
• send 2 sets of passport photos, fingerprints, and the signed-off registration to the ATF and the FBI so they can look up your record.
• Send in 200 dollars per firearm/device you are transferring.
• Some VERY long time later you might get your papers back from the government with a tax stamp saying that the gun is now yours.
• Or you may not recieve your paperwork at all, because someone in the FBI lost it, however they already cashed your check and can't refund it. Start procedure all over again.

Grr, maybe if I put down the model kits, I'll do a REAL rant on "gun control" with all kinds of things to back it up - but I'll say this much. Your parents and grandparents grew up in a world saturated with guns, and children often carried firearms to school because they would often go hunting or plinking on the way home. You could MAIL-ORDER firearms to your door back then. Never heard of any school shootings back then, no? But ah well, the nuclear family has exploded in the name of "progress", and look where it has us.

3.21.2K1 - 23.14

Okay, blog-run over.

Ragabash, oof. I guess that would suck. I haven't said my piece on cloning, I will some other day when in the proper mood. (probably after looping the Five Reasons For Escaflowne for a while)

Re your article on Windows...hmm, all those acronyms make this Windows Disgust (well what DOES "XP" mean as an emoticon, hmm? Good market research there.) article hard to read. So I'll translate:

WIN-XP: What's Improved: Nothing - eXcept Problems
NTFS: NOT THE F*CKING SERVER!! *screeeeech*
RTM version: Return To Manufacturer version

Meg, are you ever coming back? *L*

Dora, I remember Straczynski talking about that at San Diego. I attended ALL the bab5 panels they had, that was awesome. And Vir was always my favorite guy, he was just...so normal. Trying to do what he thought was right, but mostly just trying to keep his job and keep from getting fired. He peeked through a few times, when he really went off, and it was GREAT. And G'Kar & Londo, those two had just the best story...both of them such wonderfully portrayed tragic characters.

Katherine, sorry! Umm, not much I can do here ^^; gomen. I should probably take some pseudonym, I had one back when. And your Mr. Mom/Jet Black thing is...wrong.

Wow, more bomb/shooting threats against Las Vegas highschools, and the parents whine that their kids shouldn't be punished for it. This is amusing. Whatever happened to things like RESPONSIBILITY?!

And, good grief, I'm not a model of health but said mother's a friggin WHALE! Geez.

Re: Harry Potter Tsukai Tai: Hmm,I just have this horrible mental image of Aburatsubo rubbing up against Draco Malfoy..."Hmm...I like blondes." And Hermione and Akane getting into a huge catfight, since Akane's such a natural and doesn't study at ALL. *L* I think the Ministry of Magic might have something to say about the Bell too.

Panda/Girl Afraid, owwie. You have my sympathies. ^^; That has to suck.

Oh yes, while on my day off yesterday I missed getting to see one of our technicians utterly lose it and destroy his desk, screaming unhappy phrases. Poor guy. Hope he's okay, and enjoys his vacation. Ragabash, you might have heard it yesterday, sometime after 2pm. I'll be taking precautions, just in case. You have an exit door behind you on your side of the building, make sure it stays clear.

3.21.2K1 - 20.22

BAHAHAHAHA!!! If any of you watched 48 hours today, the one with the big eco-challenge race, you might have recognized some of the music - as random background pieces, they were using clips out of the famous gamelan music piece from AKIRA. NO JOKE. To the fanboy working in the postproduction, I do salute you sir.

3.21.2K1 - 8.36

Quick morning spew: Hoof-and-mouth disease in Holland now too.

Tons of goodies at the CeBIT electronics show in Hannover.

Ragabash, will they be handing out little LSD tabs with tickets to that movie?

3.21.2K1 - 0.05

Every time I see Letterman's band leader, I keep looking for red & green sunglasses on him. Transmet The Movie perhaps?

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 - 0.0

*boom*

BWWWOOOOONNNNNGGGG.

EHH?!?! New Babylon 5 movie & TV series?!

Akira to be rereleased apparently. Maybe with subs?

Tenchi Muyo to be edited for TV including removing some violence (?) and adding bathing suits to cover up female flesh. Really. Why do you think it is so popular?

3.20.2K1 - 23.44

Cyberwar in the desert beginning, check out the bottom of the story for more battles. Strange that 4WI (WWWWI, World Wide Web War 1), being fought practically in a new dimension, is being waged in the oldest populated land on Earth.

On that topic...And people say that chat rooms are for kids and/or lonely adults!

3.20.2K1 - 22.47

Taco Bell offers free tacos to everyone in the US. The catch is, a piece of the Mir spacecraft has to hit the big target floating in the South Atlantic. Talk about advertising.

3.20.2K1 - 21.56

Hm. Things to make you go HMM: Flipping on PBS, seeing the words VIEWERS LIKE YOU superimposed over a film clip of the Nazi battleship Bismark cruising past. Hee hee. ^_^

3.20.2K1 - 21.38

re: your 9:18PM: Yes, G'Kar was Sailor Narn. In a fetching green seifuku and short boots, no less.

The Story About The Narns In Heat:

At one of the conventions, Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar) and the actor who plays Londo (I forget his name offhand) were doing the opening of the panel. Then they ran some video clips, and pulled out JMS from a back room to the stage. This happened right after Sheridan "died" on Za'ha'dum, and noone knew if he was alive or not. So, G'Kar and Londo got everyone to have a complete stony expression, no cheers, no boos, no NOTHING. Dead silence, as a practical joke. So JMS comes up after the video clips, and just gets...stone quiet from the audience. Starts talking, but can't get focussed, can't think straight, just FREAKING OUT because noone is saying a THING to him. They let it go on for a full minute before G'Kar and Londo's actors let him in on the joke, and everyone loved it.

MANY months later, they're filming the VERY famous episode between G'Kar and Londo, when truth comes out between them. At the last moment, JMS threw down a last-minute script change that had a huge revelation that in times of need, a Narn can change sex to fulfill certain biological needs, a la the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. So the actors & crew look through it, believe it's legit, and shoot the scene, up to and apparently including a scene where G'Kar-chan and Londo actually kiss. After that he cuts the scene, saves the film, and announces he has had his revenge for what they did to him at the convention.

Moral of the story: NEVER piss off the producer.

Then there was the film clip they took by leaving the camera running while a crewmember, Skip, was enjoying the attention of several young ladies who were celebrating his birthday with him. This clip was shown later at a blooper-reel party. MRS. SKIP was not amused. ^^;;;;;;

3.20.2K1 - 21.26

Dora-san, Babylon Five RULES. There is nothing better currently on American TV. I am getting full cable access pretty much for that show and the History Channel.

3.20.2K1 - 21.10

DAMMIT Ragabash. You would make me think of that.

SCENE: interior elevator, POV from doorway. GARIBALDI moves over as LONDO steps into view, looking excited.
LONDO
Mr. Garibaldi! Why didn't you tell me? I never knew this about your people?

GARIBALDI
(CONFUSED LOOK) Londo, what are you talking about?

LONDO
My friend, I always thought your people were uncultured barbarians with no taste for the finer things, but I find I am wrong, yes? You have this...this...what is it, when you sing to someone you like?

GARIBALDI
Uh, serenade?

LONDO
YES! That's it. (A BEAT, THEN HE SINGS) IF YOU WANT MY BODY, AND YOU THINK I'M SEXY...

3.20.2K1 - 16.51

Hey Dora - SOUL! hahaha :p

3.20.2K1 - 15.40

Sakura-san, glad you're back online, and glad it wasn't just my weird connections. No problem, you're welcome. ^_^ Just keep up the genki, and keep up the blogs.

And I sympathize with you re: low self-esteem, and depression, in the same boat here. And I own all kinds of firearms too. *twitch* Seriously, you might want to see a doctor for a thyroid exam - my problem is due to malfunctioning thyroid dumping all kinds of things into the brain. On meds for it (Levoxyl) and it seems to work, I'm generally happier and more energetic. And there's nothing like good friends to cure low self-esteem. ^_~

3.20.2K1 - 15.11

Today is shaping up to be a fine day. Let's see, got in a whole bunch of model kits today, stuff I've been waiting for for a while, picked up some new custom grips for my Para-Ord pistol, just got word that the Pulse Rifle project is finally under construction, and I come home to find I'm on Yahoo! now. Or I will be after their next update.

Hm. The only thing running through my head right now is a line from that old The Who song...."If I smile, please tell me some bad news, before I laugh and lose control..."

3.20.2K1 - 10.12

Maybe this is why Sakura-san's page is unreachable. Hope so, if not then I'd be worried.

This is good. Earthquake early-warning system being considered. I say go for it. It won't help much at ground zero, but if it gives you even 15 seconds of warning on a MAJOR quake, it'll save a few lives. I say build it, and refine the hardware so that you can set up something like they have for tornados - a warning state that would kick in about 5-10 minutes ahead of time, based on certain effects they've observed in the past (strange flashes in a quake zone, watching animals all go screwy, RF twitches, little mini-tremors along one area, all precursors they've seen before). I remember they mentioned ALL that before the Kobe quake in 1995, and they started wondering about an early-warning then. If things get quiet, then call off the warning. if it snaps, people are a little more alert and can get to where they need to.

And with the electrical situation as it is, it might not take but a wee little tickle to trip the power situation BAD.

3.20.2K1 - 9.38

Katherine-san, Jenny draws fabric folds like there's no tomorrow. She loves them. Masochist. But yeah, if you like that effect, then check out Folken.

Somewhere I still have a Sharon Apple color pic she did, sealed in safe storage.

Sakura-san, what happened to your blog?! Won't connect to server...

Carolyn-san mo...

3.19.2K1 - 23.12

Whee, another chat with Alan-kun. We should have these more often. Hmm, as for today's chat: Cast list for live action Tenchi Muyo.

Tenchi: Nicholas Brendon
Ryoko: Nicole Kidman
Aeka: Alyson Hannigan
Washuu: ?? We're stuck, any suggestions?
Mihoshi: Britney Spears
Sasami: Michelle Trachtenberg
Yosho: Donald Sutherland
Kagato: Christopher Walken

3.19.2K1 - 21.38

I think you're all drooling Card Captor Sakura fans. So I'm just going to post this and hide from the stampede.

3.19.2K1 - 21.21

Dow Jones falls 99.998 percent! Hee hee!

3.19.2K1 - 21.01

Very cool MS Gundam site: The Newtype Asylum. I'll slowly be adding pages I like to my links list, I just haven't done it yet cause I'm busy/lazy.

I have been compared to Bill O'Reilly, Fox News commentator. Yay!

3.19.2K1 - 20.41

Ragabash, what DID I do then? *meeps* Oh God yes, I know the post you're talking about. I put people into physical pain with that. Wonder if I can still find the original post, I'm sure I saved it on the other computer. Along with allllll kinds of other goodies. Should I post it here, and hurt MANY (er, well, a few) people?

Umm, I won't take that bet.

3.19.2K1 - 20.31

Good lord. And I thought _I_ had messed up ideas. Yeah, I've known about TFC and loved it for some time. I just can't look at Key anymore.

3.19.2K1 - 17.45

Alan-kun, a huge gomen nasai. I didn't know you had a cousin in prison...I was simply referring to the quintessential "Dark Family Secret", for Gundam lovers, which G Gundam is. (just click on the Nobel Gundam link and look at some of the other designs, including the Devil Gundam) And I do/did have an uncle in prison too, so ^^; gomen.

Now, your GWing Boys idea scares me. Wu-Fei as Mars, Hiiro as a dysfunctional Moon, Duo as Venus, Quatre as Mercury, and Trowa as Jupiter. By the power of the Gundam, I shall punish you! What's twisted is the fairly accurate portrayal of Zechs as Malachite (not MALAKITE, Ragabash) and Trieze as a short-haired Nephrite perhaps?

3.19.2K1 - 17.15

Ragabash, yay! In about 2-3 weeks Shut Up Hippie will be online. Getting the Big Computer Ugprade in in 2 weeks, and then cable modem sercive the week after that. ^_______^v woohoo!!! If you still wanna host SUH on it, let me know, I'm all for it. Hee hee, this is excellent news.

This is even better: Rolling blackouts in california again. This is early, wasn't expecting this till May or June. Maybe people will be reminded that the problem's NOT over and won't be for a while. And here's the cascade effect beginning:

Another 12,000 megawatts of power had already been cut when power-generating equipment was taken out of service for maintenance, much of which had been delayed by prior emergencies, [ISO Operations President Jim Detmers] said.

It's still up there! Another delay for the Orbital Gulag. And on the chuckles side...well, nothing now. Maybe later.

3.19.2K1 - 15.14

Yay, new gun in collection. ^_^ Spike Spiegel, eat your heart out. :p

3.19.2K1 - 15.06

Yay, model kits are in! Will I have time to blog anymore? aahh. We'll see. :p

Top 5 reasons I love Escaflowne:
Arcadia
Blace
Chain
Epistle
Shadow of Doubt

3.19.2K1 - 14.57

Anime Crossover from Hell: Inspired by a Miyazaki artbook... Graveyard of the Totoros. I can hear the mental clang of both concepts hitting each other from here...but it's not my fault. Go look at the Miyazaki film artbook collections, and GotF and TnT are back to back in the same book.

Music Video idea: Dust in the Wind to Please Save My Earth.

And after being involved on the Mother/Evangelion project, I still want to revisit it with Welcome To The Machine as well. Pink Floyd is God.

All you winamp skin artists out there, I have a request. How about a good Folken skin?

3.19.2K1 - 14.39

One good link deserves another. Girl Afraid has a really big picture to start with, but looks cool and has neat stuff to read. Birthday 2 months? What day? May 11 here. Should I put up a wish list?

3.19.2K1 - 14.11

Katherine, assuming you read this page, go check out my friend Jenny's artwork. Go to the fan art stuff, it's outdated but gorgeous. You can find more things on ebay she does too, fujimiya.aya is the name to look for. The most recent one is this Deedlit piece, she does a lot of Lodoss charas.

3.19.2K1 - 13.46.

Ragabash...um...I'm sorry? *afraid*
P.S. if anyone wonders why Ragabash is annoyed, go to the Reloads section and click on Second Magazine. The post was around 6:30 or so last night, and I blame Alan for it.

Alan-kun, it's been done already. And is canon material. It's called the Noble/Nobel Gundam (translations differ) and it's from that monstrosity G-Gundam. But yes, it exists. Like that evil cousin in prison you have that you don't want to talk about. Or admit they exist.