August 31, 2003
DYLTSIM?
Do you love the SCO information minister? Then show your love with these dandy t-shirts and coffee mugs from the WLTSIM store!
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Mmm, Drugs Chicken
So I went out and got my drugs. I suffer from hayfever - I'm allergic to a bunch of things: dust, pollen, cats, idiots - so every day I have to take a little pink pill. One little pink pill and I'm fine; it takes care of everything (except for the idiots, which I have to deal with in the old-fashioned way). As long as I take my pill, I'm asymptomatic except on the very worst days of pollen season or when I spend the night at my brother's house in the bed the cat sleeps on. (And did I mention the ducks? Remind me to tell you about the ducks.)
So, I make sure that I never ever ever run out of my little pink pills, because the consequences are pretty nasty. After twenty-four to forty-eight hours of no pills, the anti-histamine level in my bloodstream drops below the panic line, and I start to sneeze. And I don't stop until I go out and get some more pills and take one or two and then wait a couple or three hours and maybe get some sleep. So I never run out of pills. I ran out of pills last night. Blershoo! Anyway, I got my pills, and I had some lunch at Oporto (Portugese-style chickeny things), and I took one of the pills (which is just starting to take effect now) and then I went to Kathmandu and bought half a dozen assorted t-shirts with lizards on them because my old Kathmandu t-shirts are starting to look like they have died of mange. And then I went to The Phantom Zone and although they've moved everything around I managed to find volumes six and seven of 3x3 Eyes. 3x3 Eyes is the story of Yakumo, a typical Japanese high-school student working his way through school by waitressing in a TV (and no, I don't mean television) bar, and Pai, a pretty young innocent mysterious ancient evil girl, whose pet demon-bird Takui kills Yakumo in the first chapter of the story. Oops. So Yakumo and Pai head off to Hong Kong (where else?) in search of some means for Yakumo to not be quite so dead anymore and for Pai to be a normal human girl rather than a time-share for the last of the Sanjiyan Unkara. The anime series of this is very good and highly recommended (I mentioned it in my Anime Top 25, but it was at number 25 and I didn't get around to reviewing it at the time). Unfortunately, the anime only runs for seven episodes, in two parts of four and three episodes each, which takes you, if I recall correctly, to about volume four of the 35-volume (and counting) manga series. So if you want to find out what happens after that, you have to read the manga. Which is s-l-o-w-l-y coming out in English from Dark Horse (the good people who bring you Dirty Pair). Blershoo! Damn, I think I'll have to take another pill.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:21 PM | Comments (60) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Maraudering
I am now a Marauding Marsupial!
Yay! I really should write something, but first I have to go out and buy some drugs. Um, anti-histamines. You can say hello to everyone at Munuviana in the meantime.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:42 PM | Comments (59) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
August 30, 2003
Mookie Riffic
It's official: Mookie Riffic has moved from Blogspot to mu.nu!
Hurray!Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:12 PM | Comments (55) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Aproposity
(via Tim)
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Tenshi na Konamaiki
Tenshi na Konamaiki ("Cheeky Angel") is a show about a boy who has turned into a girl, a remarkable concept that has never before appeared in the field of anime.*
* Okay, so Maze was originally a girl, and Hibiki is really just in disguise, and Birdy is really two people in one body. On the other hand, we have Nuriko from Fushigi Yuugi, Yakumo from 3x3 Eyes ("It's just a job!"), Tsubasa from Ranma, Makoto from El Hazard...Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:07 AM | Comments (59) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
August 29, 2003
Ambient Irony
And now, even Ambient Irony has made the leap to mu.nu!
Well, yes, it looks exactly the same. But that's because it is exactly the same. No need to change your links, since everything still works and will keep working.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:23 PM | Comments (59) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Rocket Jones
Rocket Jones is the latest blogger to flee Blogspot and join the growing community at mu.nu.
Yay! He offers these helpful words of advice should you ever find yourself participating in a major armed conflict.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:15 AM | Comments (55) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Animania
I was comparing notes with a couple of friends on how much bandwidth we use each month. I'm on slow-but-steady ADSL; they are on fast-but-limited cable. They boasted of high speeds - 700KB/sec downloads (that's bytes, not bits). I pointed out that I couldn't live with their pathetic monthly download limits.
What do you download?, they asked. Three gig seems plenty to us. I pointed out that I download fan-subbed anime, since this is often the only way to get the less popular or older series - they simply aren't available to buy in English, neither dubbed nor subtitled. And my favourite site for finding new fansubs, AnimeSuki, often lists as much as a gigabyte of new anime a day. Fair enough, they say, knowing well the depths of my addiction. A gigabyte a day. Having said that, I became curious, and went and actually added the numbers up: Sunday was busy - 1.8GB. Lots of fansubbers working on their projects over the weekend, perhaps.Monday - 3.4GB. Yikes! I mean, wow! That's a lot! Presumably just a blip; that doesn't happen every day.
Tuesday - 4.8GB. Holy transatlantic cows, Batman! Where did that come from?
Wednesday - 1.3GB. Ah, a return to normalcy. But shortlived -
Thursday - 7.1GB. Nooo! My line's not fast enough! I can't download that much in a day! Fortunately, people have started to collect the episodes of various series so that you can download four or five or ten episodes at once. Unfortunately, that means that a single click commits you to a twelve hour download. It's like being on dial-up again. Now, you'll have to excuse me, as it's time for Kodocha.* * That's the one with the squirrel, Susie.
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August 28, 2003
Jennifer's History and Stuff
I know that my blogging has been rather on the light side lately, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been involved in any blog-related activities. For example, Jennifer's History and Stuff has...
Moved!
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August 27, 2003
Good Squirrel!
One can only hope that it's potty-trained.Yes, and not only that, but he cleans himself afterwards. As seen here.
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Squirrelly*
** Currently back to watching Kodocha.
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Ojo-sama to Oyobi*
Heh. I caught that! Another hundred years or so of watching anime and I'll actually understand Japanese.
Princess Aeka in Tenchi Muyo! had a song of that name, too. * Roughly translated: Call me Princess!**** Currently watching: Scrapped Princess.
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August 26, 2003
Changes
Back in the misty dawn of time, when I was still at school, I spent two weeks at Hewlett-Packard on a work experience program. (This was when HP was still renowned for their engineering, rather than cursed as a pusher of expensive ink cartridges.)
At the time, HP was having a sale on disk drives. You could buy three 400 meg drives - and these were serious drives, with 14 inch platters stacked into cases as large as washing machines - three of these for just $250,000. "But", said one salescritter to another, "how many customers do we have that need 1.2 gigabytes of disk?" I downloaded 1.4 gigabytes of stuff today. Episodes 17 to 20 of Kodocha, and epsiodes 6 through 9 of Saikano (Saishuuheiki Kanojo). Fortunately, this didn't require me to buy $250,000 worth of disk to store it on. Though I did pick up a couple of DVD-RWs on the way to work. 4.7 gigabytes each. $8 a pop.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:59 PM | Comments (60) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
August 25, 2003
They Do Make Them Like That
So, you need a double-headed 3/8 reciprocating flange valve, and the matching pilfer sprocket, you need it made of phosphor bronze, and you need it Tuesday?
No worries. eMachineShop has you covered. Babbage would have built the Apple ][ a hundred years early with these guys helping. Uh, except that he'd need a Windows PC to run their software. Slight technical hitch there. (via Kean)Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:46 PM | Comments (64) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
M.I.F.
A helpful guide on the correct way to make a cup of tea.
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Imageries
18,000 down, 3,000 to go.
Nearly there...Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:34 AM | Comments (55) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Child's Toy
Currently watching Kodomo no Omocha, also known as Kodocha, also also known as Child's Toy, and there's just one thing I don't understand.
Why does Sana's mother have a squirrel living in her head? Update: In episode 5 the subtitles have been changed, and it appears that the squirrel only lives on rather than in Mrs. Kurata's head. In episode 6, we learn that the squirrel's name is Maro-chan, though what use this information has has* not yet been made clear, *Has has! That's even better than had had! Um, has anyone else here read The Well of Lost Plots?Posted by: Pixy Misa at 01:28 AM | Comments (63) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
August 24, 2003
Imagery
Still working on graphics stuff... Sneak preview:
I'm also making a set of images for those stuck on antiquated equipment; they'll look something like this:
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Daily SCO
SCO has accused IBM of orchestrating a consipiracy [Uh, how do you orchestrate a conspiracy, exactly? — Ed.] against them. This, perhaps, is what inspired someone to create WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.org. So... WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken?
Update: It so happens that yes, WeLoveTheSCOInformationMinister.com was already taken. Must be something in the air...Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:19 AM | Comments (59) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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