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[13 Jun 2009|12:41am] |
...Fruit fly just attempted to zip its way up my nose whilst I was drinking a glass of milk.
Chaos ensued.
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[10 Jun 2009|08:25pm] |
DONE, BITCHES
Actually, done last week, but I'm lazy when it comes to finding things off of cameras. Trav (and half of the folk from the CSSS we know) did their ceremony thang the day after - so now we're all respectable Bachelors of Stuff.
Arts, in my case. But linguistics is a science, damnit!
We've also managed to find a place to hold the wedding at, while we've been back home - and consequently a date, since we didn't give a shit about any date in particular. On a related note, why do some brides seem to make such an ordeal out of finding a reception hall or what-not? I spent part of Thursday after my ceremony looking at some information online, part of Saturday out peeking over prospective places with my mother, an hour with Trav and both moms on Tuesday taking an official tour-y type thing with the catering manager - and that was that. Date secured, money put down, bam. Took about six hours, all told, to arrange something. Country club, nice place, pretty garden within, seems like they have a decent menu. Meh?
Although we totally got to laugh at one of Trav's sister's friends - she swore up and down we wouldn't be able to find anything for next June right now. Shit, what, does it take bloody two years to book J Random Date? I can understand the whole 7/7/07 thing, but... Aside from things like that...
And, finally, I managed to complete two more knitting projects, mostly while we were out on the trip.
( вычислите, товарищ )
( Fetching some blue~ )
My next couple of projects have already been all lined up for the trip - a couple of water bottle cozies, a lavender-stuffed dream pillow, a stuffed dragon... Possibly even another pair of the Knucks, this time for me. I picked up some of the tweed yarn recommended in the pattern, and it's a lovely shade of green, so~
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[03 Jun 2009|10:12pm] |
Players and their friends will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey across charming, vibrant worlds full of Square Enix's and Disney's beloved characters.
will join Roxas, his friend Axel and the mysterious fourteenth member of Organization XIII on a journey
MYSTERIOUS FOURTEENTH MEMBER OF ORGANIZATION XIII
Oh, fuck off, Squeenix. When did you guys become goddamn shitty Suetastic fanfic writers? :|
OH WAIT FFX RIGHT
I'd be really angry if it weren't for your After Years thing. Alas, won't get to play it 'til after the next phase of the trip.
In other words, the Penny Arcade strip for today was right on the goddamn money. That trailer is beautiful - only thing I can't figure out is exactly when in the series it happens. I mean, Adam Malkovich. It's gotta be him - any objections, Ladies? So it's somewhere when Samus was working with the Federation, and Adam's still alive and not a computer, so somewhere before Super Metroid and Fusion. But then there's a shot of Mother Brain murdering the poor not-wee baby metroid.
Colour me confused, but still squeetastic.
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[02 Jun 2009|12:57am] |
Reply to this post and I will make you a letter gift. Take the gifted letter to your harddrive and upload five songs. Five shalt be the number you shalt upload, and the number of the uploading shall be five. Six shalt thou not count, neither count thou four, excepting that thou then proceed to five. Seven is right out.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) theguindo first gave me F and then said M, so we'll go with M, I guess!
Hoooly fuck I have too many good songs that start with M.
Maemuki Roketto Dan - Pocket Monsters: Seriously, how is this song not awesome? And I'm not even a huge Team Rocket fan. They're just so goddamn happy even when life is shitting all over them.
Matoya's Cave - The Black Mages: I'm not so fond of the rock segue in the middle of this particular version, but I've always been a fan of the song itself since I was a wee kidlet. When was the first FF released anyways? '90 apparently.
Mining Melancholy - Donkey Kong Country 2: Between this song and Stickerbrush Symphony, DKC2 pretty much had what's got to be the best sound produced on the SNES for a platformer. Atmospheric as all hell; it's lovely.
Mystic Re-Quest Part 1 and Part 2 - FF: Mystic Quest: Does no-one but me remember this game? If not, I'm sure the only reason is because of the music. This wee game did something most games on the SNES didn't - it used honest-to-god bass, and had some pretty rockin' stuff in it because of that.
My Music at Work - The Tragically Hip: I couldn't honestly not put a Hip song on here, and this is one of my favourites of theirs; makes little sense, as usual, but it sounds nice. It also reminds me, I should get their new album.
Runners-up: Magnet Man, Manoria Cathedral, My Girlfriend (Who Lives in Canada), My Best Friends
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[27 May 2009|07:32pm] |
So I was pissed at Nintendo at not having any word of releasing Metroid Prime or Prime 2 on the Wii with the whole New Play Control thing.
And then today I read that they've got a release date in August, both of them - because they're not releasing them seperately, but together, along with Prime 3, on a single disc.
Eeeeee! 3 awesome games for a price cheaper than what the two would have sold for seperately! With the awesome Wii controls! Heeheehee!
I congratulate Nintendo for a sound business decision, even if it means I'll actually have two copies of each game in the trilogy (because of course I will buy it, because I'm totally gay for Samus).
Also interesting is the WiiWare release for next week - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. This game was released episodically for cellphones in Japan a year or so back, but of course, no way we poor tech-deprived folks here in NA could get it. But now they've been nice and formatted it for the Wii to play~
Maybe those two decisions together almost makes up for no EarthBound on the VC. Maybe.
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[22 May 2009|06:23pm] |
Mr. Gary Bettman, why do you hate Canada?
I mean, c'mon. Hating Canada is like hating puppies. Cute little labrador retriever puppies. You don't want to make the puppies cry, do you?
Or, hey, for that spin that even Californians can get around, let's say that we have this cute little adorable seal pup out on the floes off the coast of Newfoundland. Just for fun's sake, let's say his name is Hamilton. He's fluffy and adorable and oh-so-whitely coated, little Hamilton. Unfortunately, at the moment, he's all alone. All his other seal pup friends, y'see, they went to go play hockey out on the nearby ice floe rink, but alas, Hamilton has no stick, so he can't play with them.
You, Mr. Bettman, are sneaking up on this poor unsuspecting seal pup with a stick. You could give the stick to Hamilton so he could go play with his buddies, but oh no. No, instead, you're going to club poor Hamilton to death with it and sell the skin off his body so he can keep some rich European woman's hands warm.
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Well, nevermind that even if you did give Hamilton the stick, the less-inept-than-you Newfies would still get Hamilton and all his buddies besides, and maybe magically the cod stocks would recover. That's beside the point.
There's really no goddamn reason Phoenix should even have a hockey team. I mean, they're how far away from the Mexican border, again? It doesn't get below freezing there except for when hell itself freezes over. You think you're going to convince a bunch of Phoenix-folk to willingly go into a big building where, holy shit, there's ice inside, and it's kind of cold? I mean, ice, what the hell is that shit, anyway? And that's not even counting the fact that they can't follow the puck on the ice so they have no idea what the hell's going on. They lack puck-fu.
Heck, you could even give 'em back to Winnipeg, and then let the Thrashers go to Hamilton. But that'd be making two Canadian cities happy, and we can't have those goddamn Canadians getting ahead of anybody in the good ol' US of A, could we? Nevermind that all your little expansion teams are in places where people just don't appreciate hockey. Hell, even Chicagonians didn't appreciate hockey right until their team made it to the conference finals this year (I should know; I was listening to their radio shows the day after, the jerks), and they're even kind of a northern state. You know how much more revenue those teams would be making in a place where they'd actually get good coverage and, oh, people buying tickets?
Need I remind you who the nation in 'National Hockey League' actually is? Here's a hint: there's no 'U' or even an 'S' in there.
Piss off, stop being an antagonistic prick for no bloody reason, and let the hockey go where it'll actually make you money. We'll all be lots happier.
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| Like a charm. |
[24 Mar 2009|06:20pm] |
So I leave for a little while, travel, and... Today I get the e-mail from my dad that my computer at home seems to have died.
Funny that it always dies on him when I'm not around, eh?
Oh well. Not much I can do about it from Nevada. (Which is where I am; spent the day walking the Las Vegas strip. More updates found on http://downthelongroad.livejournal.com ~)
At least I was smrt and did a backup of the drive before I left, sigh.
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| TRIP BLOG YAY |
[09 Mar 2009|01:23am] |
Now that I have your attention~
As many of you know, Trav and I are leaving for our road trip shortly. Like, ten hours give-or-take shortly. This road trip is going to take us in a ring across the USA and a much, much weirder shape across Canada (turns out the inhabited areas make the road-planning kind of weird), and, yeah. It's going to be long, and arduous, but full of pictures and adventures and a bunch of relaxing (hopefully).
You can read about our exploits over at downthelongroad! Feel free to friend if you wanna stay tuned as to developments, locations, or pics. I'll probably still mention a few things here and there over here, but most things trip-related will just be posted over thataway.
If you want to get in touch with me for whatever reason, drop me an e-mail at moonchaser_of_dragons@yahoo.ca. If you want to plan meetyups or anything, we can discuss through that! Or cell phone as we get closer.
FYI for people right straight south: our first real destination is California. San Fran, then LA, then San Diego, and some stuff in between. Heading through the border tomorrow, probably staying someplace in Washington for the evening, and after that, who knows. Our schedule is not particularly solid.
And now, sleep!
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[05 Mar 2009|12:42pm] |
Am I the only person on the face of the earth that finds Metallica's songs absolutely, goddamn, yawn-inducing boring?
The only reason this comes up is because my radio station of choice has been playing more of their stuff recently to 'celebrate' them getting inducted into that hall of fame thing. It always seems to me that the songs are generally between five and ten minutes long and never go anywhere musically, and this causes me to boggle about what all the fuss is about.
Also, Lars Ulrich is a douche.
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[24 Feb 2009|10:48pm] |
So. Let's take a look at exhibit A, this article.
What do we see wrong with this?
A) Scientists, dears? I know you're excited about discovering new things, but one participant in a 'study' does not a study make. That's a single case.
B) This 'new thing' has been dubbed "PlayStation palmar hidradentitis". (Which actually should be 'hidradenitis', I believe; shoddy work, there, Yahoo reporter.) Its characteristics? "Painful lesions on the palms" or "painful lumps", caused by "tight and continuous grasping of the hand-grips together with repeated pushing of the buttons", and made worse by sweaty palms, which are not unknown to gamers.
Ooookay, so. First up, gal, loosen up. Seriously, you don't have to white-knuckle the controller. Also, WTF were you playing that made you feel the need to hold on for dear life?
Second, those don't sound like "palmar hidradenitis" to me. They sound like blisters on the hands. Repeated motion, rubbing, and sweat do tend to cause blisters on skin. Shocking!
All the articles I can find about hidradenitis seem to point to this variety, which does sound different enough from the described condition. None of the causes listed for hidradenitis suppurativa seem to be related to rubbing or other trauma to the surface of the skin. Sweating, yes, but that can cause a lot of things.
Edit: Also, it looks like HS is related to inflammation of sweat glands near hair follicles, none of which are generally found on the palms of your hands unless you're a circus freak, a suspected werewolf, or you masturbate regularly, according to old Catholic grandmothers. Hidradenitis does seem to just refer to the inflammation of the sweat glands, which could be possible in this girl's case, but I believe blisters are much, much more likely to be the case.
C) For fuck's sake, if you're going to name your palm blisters after the PlayStation, do some goddamn research first. I never got blisters from my years of playing my PSX and PS2. I don't know anyone who has.
However, way back in '99, there was this game released on the Nintendo 64 that did give me some awful blisters on the palms of my hands. Any gamer worth their salt has played the original Mario Party with the original N64 controllers, and knows the pain of which I speak. We didn't go running to the doctors because of it. We knew the reason we had them. We also steadfastly refused to stop doing that which gave us the blisters, because, fuck, let the other kids win 'cause we weren't spinning our joysticks fast enough? Piss on that.
So, finally, scientists, dears, stop catering to the mommies and daddies who swear up and down that video games are bad for you. If you're going to do so, point out the lack of activity most of these kids are getting (until they step on a DDR pad) (say, what would be the fancy name for video game-induced laziness? "Xbox obesity" just doesn't have the right ring to it) or suggest that perhaps they limit the time Junior can spend on the console if they find he/she's getting a wee bit too excited, there.
And goddamnit, get your 'diagnosis' straight. Blisters, or "Nintendo64 palmar vesicles" if you really feel the need to give yourselves a pat on the back.
Kids and doctors these days, I swear...
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[09 Feb 2009|06:35pm] |
Mom just went out to pick up some bacon so she could have a BLT (baconbaconbacon). As she's on her way out, I get a 'ding!' in my head.
Me: Do you want me to make cake?
Mom: No. (She is, of course, dieting.)
Me: Are you utterly opposed to me making cake?
Mom: ...No.
So now she's getting the two things I need for cake. :D Hooray, cake!
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[25 Jan 2009|02:29pm] |
What a treat! This entry has pictures for youuuuu!
Man, I didn't get unbusy from the holiday season for weeks. Everything's pretty much settled back to normal - although now instead of schoolwork, I have looking-for-work. I'm getting just a mite discouraged - no positive bites, only 'sorry, not looking' or 'we were hoping for a little bit longer in terms of temporary'. I can only work until the end of February, y'see; come March, we'll be leaving on the giant road trip of doom. But more on that laterish.
First, I gave Marm a bath a week or two ago. Marm is my rather overweight, grumpy old cat. She's had a dandruff problem lately, and in my search to alleviate her itchy-flakies, I crossed off most of the conventional treatments until I finally got to 'bath'. It was as interesting as it sounds, and she didn't enjoy it much, either. Took both my mom and me to kind of get her soaped up, and she murdered a pair of rubber gloves (that I had been wearing at the time).
( Poor Marm. )
At least now she smells nice, and I don't think her fur's been this soft in years.
I also finally managed to finish the hat I've been working on for months - alas, it got kind of sidetracked in finals/holidays nonsense. It kind of goes along in the same vein as the last few I've done...
( I call it the Piranhat. )
It also finally gave me an excuse to put something up on my DeviantArt page finally, hah.
Next up with yarns is Trav's scarf. Haven't quite decided about after that yet.
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[29 Dec 2008|11:35pm] |
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Oh, but I did forget one little thing.
As of yesterday, I no longer have a boyfriend.
But I do have a fianceé.
<3
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| 2008 DONE |
[29 Dec 2008|11:32pm] |
Mostly, anywhoo.
It has been busy this past month and a bit! Finals threatened to overwhelm me at a couple of points - I had two papers and two written exams due within a week's period. Ended up doing two all-nighters to get the papers done (strangely, the 12-pager turned out to take me more time than the 34-pager), which is something I hope I have never to do again. As can be seen in my previous entry, Nethack makes a wonderful procrastination tool during exam-study period.
Well, actually, something I will never do again, since I passed all my courses and all. I AM DONE WITH THIS UNIVERSITY BUSINESS. (For now. Grad school is still something I might do, eventually.) Convocation won't be until June, but still, the taking classes part is all done with.
Christmas was pretty good. I mostly just got clothes, along with the requisite chocolates and grooming stuffs, but it was all stuff I needed. Some things for the trip, too - a French press so I can have easy coffee on the road, for one. :D I'll eventually be getting Chrono Trigger DS, but alas, Sean had money flow problems so that one will have to wait for a little. At least I've played the game a dozen times already, so it's no biggie to have to wait a little bit longer. XD
My computer finally got itself upgraded to XP (after a long and arduous battle with motherboard drivers), but alas, the bluescreens that I hoped would go away continue. Still trying to pinpoint the problem therein, but Windows error messages barely tell you anything useful. :\
Also, snow! We had a huge dumping of it in the Lower Mainland, better than I've seen in quite some years. Knee deep around my place, at the peak of it. There was much shoveling, and I got pushed into a snowbank at one point (>.>), and all was well. Trav and I went tobboganing yesterday, actually - unfortunately, the snow'd begun to melt, so the run was all icy and packed and bumpy. My bottom has some rather... interesting bruises on it. Did the splits at one point and flew/faceplanted right over the top of the sled. :D The only lasting injury seems to be a strained middle finger. Have to keep it straight lest I pull it further and devolve into curses. Of course, either way, I'm kind of cursing if I make a fist.
Noooow I just have to find a job to tide me over the next couple of months. Come March, Trav and I will likely be heading out on the great road trip of doom, covering the States and Canada. After that, who knows?
It's not been a bad year, all in all. The three terms of school wasn't very cool, especially with the volume of writing courses I took, but it all worked out in the end. It just feels... really weird to be done with it, at the same time it's a relief. I've been at SFU for, proportionally, the most time against any of my schooling. Suddenly, it's just over and done with. Time to put the books away and find a real job. Time to move out and get a place of my own. It's a little scary, but I think it'll all be okay in the end.
New phase of life, indeed.
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| Oh no, it's a YAFAP |
[17 Dec 2008|10:48pm] |
# offer
What do you want to sacrifice? [H or ?*]
You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Anhur...
An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance...
The voice of Anhur booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
"In return for thy service, I grant thee the gift of Immortality!"
You ascend to the status of Demigoddess...
( Do you want your possessions identified? )
( Would you like to see your final attributes? )
( Other crap! )
Goodbye Dragonfire the Demigoddess...
You and Eris and Marmaduke and the guardian Angel of Anhur
went to your reward with 4942011 points,
The Master Key of Thievery (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
Magicbane (worth 3500 zorkmids and 8750 points)
The Eye of the Aethiopica (worth 4000 zorkmids and 10000 points)
The Candelabrum of Invocation (worth 5000 zorkmids and 12500 points)
5 emeralds (worth 12500 zorkmids),
3 amethyst stones (worth 1800 zorkmids),
2 diamonds (worth 8000 zorkmids),
1 black opal (worth 2500 zorkmids),
2 amulets of life saving (worth 300 zorkmids),
1 amulet of magical breathing (worth 150 zorkmids),
and 20771 pieces of gold, after 84380 moves.
You were level 30 with a maximum of 165 hit points when you ascended.
Things actually went right, for once. Usually I end up dying after getting to the Oracle level or when I go deeper in the Gnomish Mines, but everything just clicked for once, and I found myself with some decent equipment and items early on. After the wiz-quest, everything was actually pretty easy, up until the elemental planes. I kinda blew my way through the demons, and nothing could even come close to touching me (not even the hundred soldiers in Fort Ludios) after I had Finger of Death at my disposal.
I'm really rather proud of myself for keeping my pets with me all throughout, even if they both fell victim to polymorph (but dragons, awesome!). Marmaduke actually died once - the elementals on the plane of fire overwhelmed her, but I managed to resurrect her, re-tame, and then booked it to the portal before they could pull the same shit.
I also had a huge stash of stuff back in Sokoban, but trying to take it all with me would've resulted in an not-moving wizard. XD
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32nd hour without sleep today. Yesterday. Whateverthehelldayitis.
Papers are finished. One final left.
More details later. Now I can has nap.
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[21 Nov 2008|04:01pm] |
I think I must be the only person in the world that has my particular complaints when it comes to Splenda. A lot of people complain that it makes things bitter. I've found that in pop and such, it doesn't contribute bitterness at all. In fact, cold drinks with it in is just fine. I can't use it for coffee, though - I'd much rather prefer the saccharine substitutes like Equal or even Sweet-n-Low. Splenda makes foam on the top of the coffee, plus it has a tendency to really oversweeten. (When they say it measures equal for sugar? They lie.) Same thing with baked goods, at least for the oversweetening bit. It makes things really disgustingly sweet if you use the same volume of it as you would in a sugar-based recipe, along with making it not turn out as pretty. :|
I think the worst part, though, is the aftertaste I get from it - still not bitter, but a kind of terrible lingering sweetness that stays in my mouth for hours. My parents apparently don't get this at all. I can thus tell in two ways, immediately after having a bite of a slice of pie, whether or not it was baked with Splenda - and when I frown and comment on it, they ogle at me. "You can tell?" Of course I can tell. Why can't you? D: Maybe their tongues are old.
And the problem, of course, is that the problems don't go away even when you use half sugar and half Splenda. Sigh. I am damned either way if I want brownies that have 2 cups of sugar in them.
(Also? Don't ever try to make chocolate rolled-oat frogs with all Splenda. Bad, bad idea. The shit breaks down into a vile-smelling liquid while cooking, and you can taste nothing but that terrible awful chemical sweetness in them afterwards.)
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| POLITICS |
[10 Nov 2008|11:21am] |
( Quiz stuff )
Funny. That's the farthest left category they even have on that quiz. Guess I'm a communist? :D
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[07 Nov 2008|01:40am] |
So Obama's all about the change, huh?
Maybe this means you guys'll finally get the metric system after all these years. ("UNITS OF TEN? THIS CANNOT BE.")
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| Punkins, punkins~ |
[03 Nov 2008|02:49pm] |
It is tradition for me to do the pumpkins every year - Sean used to do one, too, but he got bored of it years ago and isn't here anymore anyways.
Usually I do a demon or dragon along with something else, just because, but this year I found two patterns that I really liked, so I went with them. Pumpkin-Ridley shall have to wait for another year.
( FLAMING GOURDS )
And I even found a couple of patterns to use next year, too~
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