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| Monday, February 5th, 2007 | | 7:07 pm |
oshi- internet drama (TV fans can skip)
Well the guys over at Fybertech capped off my mood of disguist at politics and economics today by having a hissyfit over the whole pledge of alligance thing in school or what have you. Mostly it was Rhythm, who's a big of a young spaz with lots of democrat propaganda but no throughs in his actual head, and Doc who doesn't know when to ignore morons sometiems. Fyber already wrote em a much better scathing post than I could manage, so it's over and done with, but it still makes me groan, especially considering I'm in the process of kicking out a 750 word essay on Riis' "How the Other Half Lives" which is more or less the kind of political thing me and Fyber would usually argue about (and did, but as usual we managed to be civil despite having opposing viewpoints on many things.) Giant I don't know on what all this means really, I'm mostly just a hair upset because they managed to harsh Deck out and run him off which is never something we want to see, since he takes many things personally. Oh well, back to TV as soon as I have any news. | | 2:54 am |
TV, the usual
I have been a fan for some time of Disney's animated works too, if I never said anything before. Now I happen to think that the channel is something of a goddamn star mill for tweens, and they crank through the live action comedies at record speed hoping for somebody else to turn into a pop music sensation in the future. Those arn't good, not worth watching. That doesn't mean the animation on the same channel isn't good sometimes. Two shows in particular are currently worth mention. Since, I haven't seen it in a while, this only gets a brief mention. American Dragon: Jake Long is a fun little romp through modern mythology, if a tad underdeveloped at first. It will probably be remembered forever for the godawful overuse of slang in it's first season. In the second season they redesigned most everything to a bit of a slicker or more wirey design that bugged me at first but is all right now, especially considering they fixed a lot of the annoying slang and tightened the writing up some. Seeing as my school won't shill for Disney on the local cable, I can't catch this one very often anymore, but I still happen to think it's predominately at least entertaining if not worth watching. Now the bigger one (and frankly, the one more people are likely to be familiar with,) is Disney's Kim Possible. For those not following the saga however, briefly the notion was that they were going to end the series at the end of it's third season. They decided to end with a 'pull out all the stops' movie, which cheifly among the big events hooked the main characters up. (Giving the shippers what they want? You're supposed to end ambiguously so they'll keep making fanfics and buying merchandise until the end of time, c'mon.) Anyway, the thing was such a rateings hit still that Disney gave the right folks the go ahead to make another season, and they skillfully started plying the craft. However, with a large gap following major changes, the naysayers came out of the woodwork and insisted that the relationship or all sorts of other things were big jump the shark moments for the series. Frankly, they could have been right for all I knew, and I was looking foreward for a while now to see how all this would turn out. Well anyway, last night on 4chan, some nice /co/mrade pointed out that they had finally put S4E01 up on the tv disney website to generate buzz for the four episode premier in a week or whatever, and I eagerly viewed it. Well, putting my fears to rest it was as good if not better than before. The writers here are skilled at striking just the right ballance in showing the new relationship without overdoing it, and at continuing the sort of tongue in cheek humor the series has always had with it's bizzare goings on. It's fresh and I can hopefully find torrents of it upcoming, because I enjoyed what I've seen so far but tv.disney's website is retarded about aqquireing the feeds correctly. Thats all I've got for now, but look for more news on Kim Possible, Avatar, Code Lyoko, and whatever else to be forthcomeing. | | Tuesday, January 9th, 2007 | | 12:50 am |
TV Reviews
I've been looking for a place to give my semi-detailed thoughts on new TV episodes of various shows for some time now, and it wasn't until  suggested that we write more in our LJ's for his ammusement that I put two and two together and came up with the idea of posting my thoughts out here. So what do I watch that somebody else isn't already reviewing better to my knowledge? Mostly: American dramady sitcom - Scrubs American anime style cartoon - Avatar: The Last Airbender French anime style cartoon - Code Lyoko A couple of other cartoons to be named later surely I do so also enjoy House, Heroes, and both Stargate's, but better folks than I are already giving good analysis of those shows so... Anyway, I start today by mentioning the upcoming fourth season of Code Lyoko. This is not a good show, let me say right now to anybody who's an outside viewer. I spend a lot of time with Fyber and Vito who despite being adults basically, still love power rangers. My viewing of CL works on about the same level and we enjoy these shows as inexplicable guilty pleasures. Anyway, I've been watching CL since the stone age of their first season where it was a 26 episode motion capture test experiment with no contiguous plot between episodes. There is an excellent youtube docu-mini-tery by a fellah going by "TB3" who details the history of S1 and S2 but suffice to say as bad as the show is now it used to be worse. Large 'get the ball rolling' events occured in the third season to open up the show and allow some crazier stuff to happen, and there was a recent video preview finally makeing it clear they've really redone quite a large ammount of their 3D animation and intend for season 4 to be quite actionable when it starts in -I think- March. We can only hope that despite the French protests of American distributers keeping them down they managed to put enough of the school issues and interpersonal relationships stuff in it that kept it from getting really old really fast early on. | | Sunday, July 16th, 2006 | | 8:15 am |
Have a spaz woth of quized personal information.
As I said, have a spaz woth of quized personal information: Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)
| ✓ I miss somebody right now. (I always have a hankerin to hang out with folks but just so rarely ever do it.) |
× I don't watch much TV these days. (Most of it is shit, yeah, but there are just so many awesome things too. Cartoons, lots of cartoons.) |
✓ I own lots of books. |
| ✓ I wear glasses or contact lenses. |
✓ I love to play video games. |
× I've tried marijuana. |
| ✓ I've watched porn movies. (we all have, some of us just lie about it.) |
✓ I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship. (learned a valuable lesson about keeping hands to oneself.) |
✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy. (and blunt honesty saves even more time.) |
| ✓ I curse sometimes. (more like all the time) |
✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year. (hello to examination of life goals and philosiphising on the nature of true love a lot.) |
✓ I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me. (box cutter, have to have it for my job) |
( it goes on... ) | | Saturday, May 6th, 2006 | | 5:10 pm |
| | Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 | | 3:32 am |
A new storeeeee~
Eh, nobody read this anyway, and I decided tos tart over, so who really misses anything? Nobody! Hooray~ | | Monday, March 6th, 2006 | | 4:15 am |
Apperently some days back I was hit with this A)Thank the person who tagged you B)Tell 5 random things about yourself C)Tag a few folks to do the same A) Thanks for nothings, MetsB) 1) I have only passed 2 of my 6 college math exams so far. 2) I made a metroid webcomic that achived some margainal popularity before abandoning it outta boredom 3) I have been using Netscape browsers since I started surfing the internet (Technically I use IE as well, but its a secondary) 4) I still have aspirations of founding or being a founding member in some huge, highly popular internet communitiy (Fybertech mab?) 5) I'm a devout Browncoat (the fandom which surrounds Firefly/Serenity) C) Vito, Kabutroid, Fyber, you're up. I also name Mister Deck, but he never answers his livejournal anymore so he probably won't see it. | | Sunday, March 5th, 2006 | | 8:20 pm |
So if anybody reads this that doesn't already read FyberOptic's livejournal, you maybe should. In addition to always having something good to do on about, he's writing a story series called The De Novo Project, which is basically the Fybertech community's defining fiction. Actually, he put De Novo 1-10 in the Fybrary at Fybertech.com recently, if you wanted to read it from the begining easily. For some time now, I've been sorta psudo-working on an RPG. I know roughly all the things I want to do, I've even got some good ideas as such on how to write parts of the C++ code for it, having read some tutorials on isometric games and done quite a bit of structure learning in my C++ class here. (I don't pretend at all that I could actually code the damn thing, I'm just saying parts of it work in my head at least, which is more than ever before.) I've also actually developed quite the flavor from this one, stealing from more than a couple of things I invented earlier! So far I've only been able to develop new bits when bothering Deck about it, but I think I might have a more individual centered way to do it now, inspired partly by Mister Fyber's De Novo. I give you: ( The first couple of pages of the RPG, in story form, if you wanna read it. )Hope that works, like Fyber said it would. (edit: hmmm, livejournal seems to have melted the formatting right off! I can't even manually space in the first paragraph indent. OH WELL.) | | Monday, February 20th, 2006 | | 9:13 pm |
I swear I'm not throwing these.
They just keep pegging me as captains~! Your results: You are Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)| Malcolm Reynolds (Captain) |
| 75% |
| Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic) |
| 60% |
| Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command) |
| 55% |
| Derrial Book (Shepherd) |
| 50% |
| Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic) |
| 45% |
| Jayne Cobb (Mercenary) |
| 30% |
| Inara Serra (Companion) |
| 30% |
| Wash (Ship Pilot) |
| 30% |
| River (Stowaway) |
| 25% |
| Alliance |
| 25% |
| A Reaver (Cannibal) |
| 0% |
|
Honest and a defender of the innocent.
You sometimes make mistakes in judgment
but you are generally good and
would protect your crew from harm.
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Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz... | | 9:08 pm |
Quizes are great~
Your results: You are Jean-Luc Picard| Jean-Luc Picard |
| 70% |
| An Expendable Character (Redshirt) |
| 65% |
| James T. Kirk (Captain) |
| 60% |
| Geordi LaForge |
| 60% |
| Spock |
| 55% |
| Will Riker |
| 55% |
| Chekov |
| 50% |
| Leonard McCoy (Bones) |
| 50% |
| Data |
| 47% |
| Worf |
| 45% |
| Uhura |
| 40% |
| Beverly Crusher |
| 40% |
| Deanna Troi |
| 30% |
| Mr. Sulu |
| 30% |
| Mr. Scott |
| 25% |
|
A lover of Shakespeare and other
fine literature. You have a decisive mind
and a firm hand in dealing with others.
 |
Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Quiz | | Sunday, February 19th, 2006 | | 3:32 am |
My RPG
So I'm making an RPG in my head again. This one has gotten about the farest of any of them though, to the point of me writing three lines of code for it, and talking to Deck about it a ton. Deck is a really nice fellow if I've never stated it in my private ramblings. The worst you could possibly say about him is he should stand up for himself more. You don't even want to know what the worst possible thing you can say about me is..! In other news, hot TV of the season: Scrubs House My Name is Earl Stargate (both flavors) In other news, school is hard and emotionally draining, but I have no spesifics yet, sorry. I need to fail some more tests before it gets to the point of 'Oh lord, I'm not gonna pass.' | | Wednesday, January 18th, 2006 | | 12:44 am |
stuff just seems to take care of itself sometimes. The girl realized what a fake my bro is and dumped him without me having to life a finger. I'm pretty sure she wasn't even listening to my words when we talked, she just wanted somebody familiar to vent to. Its ok. I'm prety sure I won't hear from her again. so here I am in school land again. Already I have a two page paper due in a week, frown. At least I have some friends in my classes this year. I just found out chemistry is a tele-course. I hate telecourses, but it may make my scheudal a little better if I can choose the time of week to watch the lecture. I dunno, I'll have to see whats what. I'll report on my recent television watchings later, I know you were interested. | | Friday, December 23rd, 2005 | | 10:39 pm |
| | Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 | | 12:43 am |
I'm begining to enjoy the fact that most of you guys reading this can't be hurt by it when I start spewing gibberish about whatever latest thing I hate. You're internet dudes, and unless I'm bashing you directly, ya don't care. So I'm having a bit of an issue maybe with something when I get home. This girl I liked and got kinda close to my last summer at home is now my brother's girlfriend. On one level, I have to respect that. My brother has always been pretty good at being smooth as hell around young women, a tallent I'm only just now starting to pick up on. If they're havin a good time its harmless and none of my business. 'Specially you know, cause he's my brother and all. On the other hand, this girl is one of the few people in the wide world I ever felt I could be honest with. I'm pretty sure my brother was playing her in the first place, and now they're openly snapping at eachother (At least from my couple of times in the chat with both of em, as compared to earlier.) Its a delima, and I'll just have to think on it and figure out whats right for me and stick to it despite setbacks. College taught me how to do that.~ I'm totally done with it for this semester though, so you guys probably won't get any rants for a month unless this whole mess I invented gets good. | | Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 | | 1:31 am |
Totally
I seriously just made a B for the course in Physics. This is the class I wanted to qdrop mid semester and I beat it soundly. Now I just have to survive calculus tommorow, and for some reason, nothing can worry me about that test. I'll do how I do, and thats that. Maybe I'm just glad it's all over after that. I'll throw my effort at studying and homework in the morning, and then (praise whatever you belive in) I'm done. A month off just to help out at home (recent major surgery in the family, some aid will be needed.) and slack off. Physical work only, and no work, respectively. A nice long mental vacation. Lordy that does sound nice. Anyway, I'm wound down enough I spose, I just need to go to bed. | | Sunday, December 11th, 2005 | | 8:48 pm |
Its hard to conceive I'll be done with this damn place in 48 hours. Its clear I need to make new years resolutions to be a bit more proactive next semester. Homework assigned? Read and try to get done before its due, so that I can better understand the lectures given in class. Etc. Etc. One of the biggest things I think, is schedueling my time. I can totally work for 50 minute blocks for no problem, but then my 10 minute breaks turn into 3 hour internet fests. I guess I need to feed the dogs a little better and do 30 minutes on, 30 minutes off. I'm totally gonna try that tommorow and then just take one last hour before the test off. Big Physics test tommorow. Need at least 60 points (a 30, percent wise) to make my C for the class, and if I get 150 (75%) I can make a B. This is rather good news, I won't be a huge loser forever, I actually have chances of makinga decent grade. I'm actually less worried about the next math test, but thats maybe just because it isn't looming as close yet. Bleeding off my adrenaline has become my hobby for the next couple of days I guess, but I got through hell week already, so why shouldn't I be able to survive this. Watching all four seasons of Scrubs in like 5 days, I was reminded that I wanted to see my best bud from high school over the break quite a bit. The guy was Mr. all America, and yet we still got along awesome, at least from my prospective. Its odd that his internet presence is so small, considering practically anybody else I graduated with or knew in highschool seems to be out there. Oh well, I've gotten a few mails back and forth, and I'll try a little more proactively to get ahold of him over the holidays to do some shit. There are some other people I want to meet up with again too, I think. Ok, adrenaline again, I totally need to work on writing up my magic-world story that took a back seat for most of this semster, not that I ever told you guys about it. Basically the premise was that all manner of magical creatures still walk to earth, but they can all take on human form at will. The idea is that their kids can do the same, and you follow a young teen group of half-magics dealing with family issues related to that, plus some kind of adventure I hadn't thought up yet. It has potential, I just have to find the six or seven pages I wrote already and take up writing for a while whenever I get to feeling nervous like this. Ok, enough griperin for now. | | Thursday, December 1st, 2005 | | 2:15 pm |
So because I have a free moment and I promised before, I'll tell you guys about Zombie Physics. The idea was, I write a shamless edutainment series of flash games to teach people real honest to god physics like the kind I've been taking. Only instead of learning it just to learn it, you're doing it to smash hordes of zombies with enormous blocks, spheres, and all sorta of other good junk. A nightmareish survival situation where only a firm knowledge of kinematics, newton's laws, work-energy, conservations of various concepts, and rotational equivilents can save you from the hordes of the undead! I thought it was fun (or maybe just funny even) at the time. I dunno, it still seems like a thing I could do, but would I want to invest that much time in it? I could be doing something else like making comics for Fybertech or something instead. Anyway, I still have no definitive knowledge on how I did for the math test, so the jury's still out there. At least I got the applied min/max problem right. I have an ENGR test tonight, but I should get through that all right. And thats enough griping for now. | | Tuesday, November 29th, 2005 | | 5:27 pm |
The thing I wanted to tell you guys about was Zombie physics, and I'll get to that at some point I swear, I'm kinda busy right now. Another one of those big tests is coming up in about two hours. Three (four really, and some time at home) days of solid (and I do mean all day solid, except for the part when I was at home) calculus study and I may, MAY just be ready to take that damn test 3. I'm not hoping for a miracle like that physics test, but passing might be, I dunno, nice. I'll either be here later bitching about having to retake or having conquered again. But thats days away when they actually grade the thing. Mostly I'm just gonna live on adrenaline for the rest of the night. | | Monday, November 28th, 2005 | | 2:49 pm |
hummina hummina
I'm totally doing all right. As promised, I'll open with my physics test grade: A 94. A, probably A+ after the curve. That is the difference I'm hoping tutoring will make for my next math test tommorow. Of course thats not my only problem. The big semester engineering project is coming due. I was on track to finish it all, but I found the paper was due about a week earlier than I'd belived. I was busting myself to correct that before I found my lab parter had already done a large part of the write up, and suddenly my day got a little less mind bendingly difficult. And phyiscs labs, and the list goes on, but I won't bore you with it. I had something else to gripe about, but I only remember school for right now. I'm sure it'll come to me later and I'll bitch to you guys for hours. | | Monday, November 21st, 2005 | | 1:33 am |
Hot off the 'Deck likes quizes' press:  - You Are The Outlaw"Sure, I'll do it. My
way."Just because you do not conform to the same laws and rules as everyone else does not mean that you are a bad guy. You travel your own path, separate from those around you, with your own reasons for doing what you do. Because of this and your own nature, it goes without saying that you are generally misunderstood. That does not matter much, though, as people love you for being who you are. You are pretty well set in your ways and have no real intention of changing. This can come across as a flicker of arrogance if your not careful. You do what is right for you, and God help anyone who stands in your way. Which Classic Story Role Do You Play? brought to you by Quizilla |
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