Ramblings by Boris

oshi- internet drama (TV fans can skip)

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:13:09 GMT

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.

TV, the usual

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:54:34 GMT

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.

TV Reviews

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:06:53 GMT

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.

Have a spaz woth of quized personal information.

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 13:15:17 GMT

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)

* * * * *

× I have broken someone's bones.	✓ I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal. (and thats why I won't reveal it.)	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times. (they're coming.)	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free. (nah, only interested in cosmetic dentistry, sorry)	× I need/want money right now. (I actually have a decent ammount for the first time ever)
× I love sushi. (the seafood part is A+, the rice gunk they wrap it in tastes like shit.)	× I talk really, really fast. (not that fast)	× I have fresh breath in the morning. (More of a night owl actually)
× I have long hair.	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	✓ I have at least one sibling.
× I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	× I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
✓ I like the way that I look. (one little annoyance with my david letterman style teeth gap, but otherwise I'm stylin')	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months. (nothing important, anyway.)	× I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings. (hence not being usually pessimistic, I just swing between 'em.)	✓ I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.	× I enjoy talking on the phone. (yuck, no. I'm almost afraid of the thing.)	× I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.	× I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal. (fail get.)	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone. (but it is used about twice a month.)	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	× I've rejected someone before. (I'm the one getting so.)
× I currently like/love someone. (I dunno, this is always confusing unless the answer is a clear yes.)	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life. (I thought I knew, but now, eh.)	✓ I want to have children in the future.
× I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	✓ I'm not allergic to anything. (not severly anyway, I dunno about minor)
✓ I have a lot to learn. (it started by learning this.)	✓ I am shy around the opposite sex. (fuck, I'm shy around almost anybody.)	✓ I'm online 24/7, even as an away message. (only reason I don't do this at home is because the modem would disconnect after a while anyway.)
✓ I have at least 5 away messages saved. (It was on the order of 10 forAIM before my HDD crashed last time, now its like 5 or 6)	× I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.	× I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal. (failget.)	✓ I enjoy some country music. (very sparsely, but I can stand shitkicker a lot better than rap or hard rock.)
× I would die for my best friends. (God, I don't know. I might, but then I might hide under a table too.)	× I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy. (Well I used to trick or treat anyway.)	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	✓ I am happy at this moment. (content, anyway.)
× I'm obsessed with guys. (male interested in females~)	× Democrat.	✓ Republican. (I vote right, even if I'm a bit more libertarian at heart.)
× I don't even know what I am.	× I am punk rockish. (these people fail.)	× I go for older guys/girls, not younger. (insert 4chan pedo joke.)
✓ I study for tests most of the time. (I do, and yet I still fail.)	× I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met.	× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	× I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.	× I have jumped off a bridge.	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	✓ I plan on achieving a major goal/dream. (Find true love, usually.)	✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument. (I can play the tuba still sorta.)
× I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	× I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	✓ I adore bright colours. (especially in video games. They fucking make everything brown green and grey these days.)	× I usually like covers better than originals. (...wha?)
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays. (C'mon, lets go to taco bell.)	✓ I can pick up things with my toes. (who can't?)	× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse. (one time)	× I still have every journal I've ever written in. (I rather deleted a good number of my oldest posts)	× I talk in my sleep. (now how the hell would I know?)
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century. (Skip forward a few to when we have personably ownable spacecraft.)	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions. (hello cartoons and vid games)	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with. (Rudy 'Redneck Rebellion' 'Rim Job' James. The biggest hick I ever went to school/currently work with. What an ass.)	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	× If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	× I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	× I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	✓ I have terrible teeth. (Maybe If I brushed em a little more + some cosmetic work...)
× I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life. (sad but true)
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	✓ I am extremely flexible. (well, relatively so. In the physical sense, not the mental one.)	× I love hugs more than kisses.
✓ I want to own my own business. (this would sure be nice, I have to get a killer idea first though.)	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else. (the computer is my TV, my gamestation, and whatever else.)
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal. (not that I can recall anyway.)	× Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then. (Nah, I get more a visceral gut reaction to sad moments. Even this is pretty rare.)	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
× I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me. (who likes to be the bad guy?)	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
× I have played strip poker with someone else before.	× I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help.	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal. (I don't belive this shit can be found and filmed by people on the sci-fi network, however.)
✓ I can't stand being alone. (and yet, so often...)	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time. (ATM I've fixed myself on Eureka Seven, I can name any number of things from the past though.)	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again. (not commonly, no)
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment. (I'm cheap, even about what I love.)	✓ I'm a judgmental asshole. (hey, an accurate description)	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen. (I'm male, you ass.)
✓ I have travelled on more than one continent. (Been to Europe)	× I sometimes wish my father would just disappear. (not especially.)	✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am. (I'll never know without comparison.)
✓ I am a Libertarian. (like I said, I vote republican though, I care about money more than social situations.)	× I can speak more than one language.	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be. (Welcom to college)
× I would rather read than watch TV.	× I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do. (Welcom to college)
✓ I have no piercings. (white fairly conservative male.)	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried. (Shit, I've had those dreams about what would happen if I was the other gender, but I've never really been upset about being male, no.)
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night. (no, I have a _functional_ family.)	× There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it. (lol, whine on emo children.)	× I like most animals better than most people. (animals lick themselves or want to be fed too damn much. People can keep the licking noise down and feed themselves.)
✓ I own a collection of retro games consoles. (Better than the modern stuff.)	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver. (I don't fret too much about walking or bike riding.)	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest. (I can choose to be... tactful... when it suits my purposes.)	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	✓ I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers. (Of course, I'm a guy, so who gives a fuck?)
✓ I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex. (why is it 'gender' is bold for the neutral question and 'sex' is bold for the one aimed at men? Anyway, like I said, I've had the daydreams a couple of times, but nothing unhealthy.)	× I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders. (Nah, I only really focus on females.)	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
× I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
✓ I always carry something significant around with me. (I call it my 'wallet')	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	✓ I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others. (and I'm still bad at it.)
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	✓ I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document. (I'm hardcore like that.)	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird. (older or childish games. Fuck the 'HALO, FUCK YEAAAAAHH' guys. They have no appreication for diverse quality in games.)
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time. (I wouldn't know, that entails being rather unconscious.)	✓ Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. (I don't get folks well.)	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
✓ I do not 'get' most comedy acts. (particularly anything with Adam Sandler. HE ISN'T FUNNY PEOPLE, JUST CRUDE.)	× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	× I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car. (I always use the same spot, and I get pissed when that damn green Mazda steals it from me.)	✓ I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years. (I'm a little better now though.)
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	✓ I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly. (World of Warcraft, actually, but the idea is the same.)	✓ I love to sing. (Only when I'm the only one there though.)
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	✓ I have a custom-built computer. (with my own two hands~)	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it. (I'm not really into dreaming about impossible relationships/sex)
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	✓ I've performed in three plays. (Only one of note though, my schools OAP production of Antigone. I was an old man, and people say I just naturally fill those shoes well.)
✓ I enjoy burritos. (foodmeats, yes.)	× I'm Irish and loving it.	✓ I have a thing for redheads. (Particularly the really oarngey ones, they're just hot for some reaon.)
× I am a twin!	× Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes. (then I could stop beating myself up for them)	✓ I sleep more than 12 hours a day. (plenty of times when I can get away with it, yes.)	× I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
× I need more time to myself.	× I wish I was more open-minded.	✓ I hope that I go really prematurely grey. (but it needs the be the classy fadeing grey, not the old man white.)
✓ I download songs from the internet. (who doesn't?)	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend. (que?)	× I say random things to freak people out. (not to freak people out...)
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note. (huh?)	× I love playing Truth or Dare. (no)	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it. (I usually prefer something a little snappy.)
× Music helps me remember that I am not alone. (b-but I'm not alone.)	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems. (I used to get wrapped in soccer, but now, not so much.)	✓ I think this survey is particularly long. (such typings I did do.)
× I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (only because they're my friends on other parts of the net, livejournal for livejournal's sake is a failget.)	× I can only hate someone that I love. (No, I can hate lots of people, its easy.)	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks. (I never drink coffee.)

There is always time for a dumb quiz

Sat, 06 May 2006 22:09:52 GMT

Here you go, latest dumber quiz I found:

Which File Extension are You?

A new storeeeee~

Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:40:05 GMT

Eh, nobody read this anyway, and I decided tos tart over, so who really misses anything? Nobody! Hooray~

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:25:52 GMT

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, Mets

B)
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.

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:33:16 GMT

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 fatigued door practically blasted off its rusted iron hinges. Natural light flooded the dingy little bar; it’s corrugated tin walls showing the haste with which the building had been constructed. Several patrons pulled their coats closer and held their drinks a little tighter. The bartender gripped his broom and hurried to a corner. The two men who had abused the door so heartily stomped their way in. The one with messy brown hair spoke up first, “Listen up, we’re here for a guy. Tell us what we want to know, and nobody gets hurt or arrested.” A thug at the bar decided against offering anything up besides his fists. The thug and his friend rushed at the men, fists flying hoping for a drunken brawl. The brown haired man, in one fluid motion, caught the Thug with his foot and hand, and dropped to the floor, flinging the thug out the open door behind him. The darker haired man dispassionately froze the other thug in his tracks by brandishing a pistol looking weapon, then punching him in the face. Getting up and dusting his t-shirt off, the messy haired man gave a chuckle “Anybody else, or can we get what we came here for.” Three more brawlers at a table in the far corner roused themselves, joining the fray just because there was the opportunity. One promptly received the butt of the auburn-haired man’s rifle. The other two hit each other at high velocity due to a simple dodge by the pistol man. “They never figure it out, King” said the rifle man, returning his weapon to the strap over his back. “They don’t respect the fact that for somebody to hire us to collect a bounty, we’d have to be pretty good at it al-Look out!”
By this point, the angry owner of the bar had come in from its back yard with a shotgun. He wasted no time planting two rounds in the front wall, causing patrons to hit the floor and cover their heads, and the two invaders to dive for cover in the front of the bar and arm themselves. King had his gun at the ready, but hesitated “I’d rather not shoot this guy, Chase! Its legally grey if he isn’t the target.”
“Got another idea!?”
“Just maybe, cover me.”
The bar owner was holding his position in the door at the rear of the building, only a few feet from the bar counter. A sort of stalemate had developed between the two parties. King deftly worked a bar stool loose, and signaled to Chase to help him. On a silent count of three they arced it over the counter, catching the owner off guard with the unusual attack and knocking him down. They jumped the counter and disarmed the man who didn’t feel like offering additional resistance and just pointed toward the back door.
King and Chase stepped through the door back into the cloudy daylight of Boston’s skyline. The fenced area they had walked into appeared to be a small scrap yard. There were tires and bits of metal littering the grounds. An old car sat sadly derelict next to the back fence. Crates towered all over, stacked quite haphazardly.
“Our guy is hanging out here?” King asked, unsurely.
“You think so many folks would defend this ground for nothing? He’s gotta be here, and he’s been supplying them.”
They fanned out and began looking under and behind stacks of scrap. As they approached the back of the yard, the scrap became older and more corroded. King mused on the age of some of this material, wondering if it had been setting here since long before the new age of magic. He wondered how long it would continue to sit here discarded. His thoughts were broken by Chase, who was hollering about a large tower of metal near the rear corner of the lot.
King waved him over “It has a door, has to be our guy’s little hideout. Kinda clever if you ask me.”
“Living in a junkyard behind a bar. If this fellow was stealing to make his life better he sure didn’t plan it out too well.”
“Why don’t we ask him what he was thinking.” Chase threw open the little metal doorframe revealing a hastily hollowed area in the mountain of scrap. The man inside dropped the bowl of noodles he was eating and threw up his hands.
“Guess he knows why were here,” Chase mused “Ok fellow, you just gonna come with us then?”
The thief frowned “No, ya can’t bring me in, I’m just doing this to get real food for my family. You gotta believe me.”
King also frowned “Chase, he’s not lying. He wouldn’t be here if he was stealing for himself.”
Chase looked hard back and forth at the two men. “Got a better suggestion?”
King merely looked down at the ground.
“What he did is against the law, so what we’re gonna do is our jobs. We’re gonnna bring him and get our own pay.”
If anything the thief’s frown got deeper. “I’m not a violent fellah. Dun make me do anything please.”
“Look guy,” said chase “We’ve got you outgunned an in a bad spot. We’re not violent unless somebody else forces us to be either, so just come on back with us.”
King had a better eye for details however. “Chase, remember what this guy stole?”
“Military magic bands or something if I-” and then it dawned on him “Jump!”
The thief had decided to move preemptively and was now generating a steam of flame out the doorway, scorching the area where Chase and King had been moments before. The two men backed away, taking cover behind different hills of scrap as frost and flame arced all around them. Chase began issuing rounds from the rifle, most of them being melted or frozen in the air by the magic, but the odd shot landing close enough to the thief to cause him to take cover as well. King began flanking to the side, running between cover, largely unnoticed. Chase continued to back off, outgunned by the projected flame and spears of ice. The thief slowly advanced in unison, pushing forward between any pile of scrap he could use for cover. Finally, Chase’s back was up to the fence of the yard.
“Tried to warn ya, now didn I?” The thief hollered, “Just trying to improve me and mine’s lot, weren’t hurtin nobody before now.” Angry and desperate, the thief whipped up a fireball, preparing to finish Chase. Unfortunately for him, the mountain of crates he was standing in front of collapsed, as King kicked a supporting column out of the way. The thief was knocked unconscious immediately, and pinned under boxes to boot. King moved in to quickly disarm the man, taking off the magic band he’d been wearing on his wrist. Chase just slumped against the fence, relived to be quite alive.
“Heh, thanks for the save. Twice. Shoulda figured that guy would use some of the bands himself.”
“I do what I can.” King said flatly. “I guess we still have to bring this guy in if we want to get paid.”
“Like the guy said to me, just looking out for me and mine. I believe he honestly meant that, but it doesn’t make what he did right.”
“Yeah, I suppose so.” King said, then added “but does it make what we do right” under his breath.
He helped Chase up, and they picked the thief up and headed for the exit.

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.)

I swear I'm not throwing these.

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:12:03 GMT

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.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

Quizes are great~

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 03:06:58 GMT

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

My RPG

Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:43:58 GMT

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.'

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 07:02:06 GMT

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.

such politics

Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:39:20 GMT

You are a
Social Liberal
(60% permissive)

and an...
Economic Conservative
(73% permissive)

You are best described as a:

Libertarian

Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid
Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:53:36 GMT

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.

Totally

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 07:33:29 GMT

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.

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:11:52 GMT

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.

Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:29:31 GMT

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.

hummina hummina

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:52:12 GMT

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.

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:33:17 GMT

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?
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Mon, 21 Nov 2005 07:15:11 GMT

I really should be the last one to bitch about such things, but I don't share my space all that well. I'm tired of having my roomie's buddy come in and them hootin and hollerin for hours. Now like I said, I'm a pretty crummy roomy myself. I stay up to all hours, I don't clean up very much, I might smell, I ain't checked lately. One thing I do try to do is clear up long before that it's cool to have more folks over. I don't suffer crowding well above all things. As a fun side note, I havn't decided wheather having his buddy or his girl over is worse. At least with the girl, they're quiet, and I can get some nice headphone music goin that'll really drown it out, but it ballances by bein akward as heck.

Oh well, other news.

College has been eating my lunch up until I discovered the tutoring places here recently. They're not what I consider traditional tutoring where one guy teaches another, or maybe a small group. This thing is like another private lecture, but they bring out all the good stuff they wouldn't just EXPLAIN in class. I guess college is about learning to fill in the gaps, and tutoring is just another resource (that a surprising precentage of folks take advantage of,) but I surely wish I were better able to process this stuff myself. Oh well, I'm told the first few sciences and maths are attempts to weed out folks, and it gets a little more direct (but no easier) later.

I'll let you guys know soon if I pass my next test, or am doomed to a future as a scholastic washout.

Fybertech is out on its own since I last posted. For those that don't know the whole story, I present the short version: Fyber finally got mad at getting the runaround from the good old (read: sarcasm) Professor Hazard. So after a nice big explosion over there, he's came home and put a lot of work into Fybertech, and it's slowly turning into exactly what it was before, a mess of content, technology, and interaction with no particular sense of direction. The difference is now we have a fanbase, of mostly ex-Hazlabbers, but a few folks Vito or I have drawn too.

I'm going to make an effort to complain here more, it's come to my attention I'm not griping about things enough.

I've reestablished at least occasional contact with Ragna, the punk kid from up north somewhere that I never can remember. This guy was instrumental in opening my eyes to the fact the internet was full of slightly off colour, but ultimately intersting people. He also was the number one beliver in the PhotonCannon.net era. I just looked at that and remembered how instrumental it was to my past, freaky.

Ok, enough rambling for now, more to come some day.

DVD rippery

Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:20:34 GMT

Don't even get me started on this, I'm already started on this!

I hate copy protected media, it doesn't stop anybody from actually coppying whatever they want. It just makes the process a pain in the ass for both the rippers and the producers of the thing in the first place + everybody who has to write software inbetween.

I ripped a DVD of mine for COMPLETELY PERSONAL PURPOSES (you believe me, right?) and wanted to make a watchable file outta it. Only problem was even with the decoder (extra 2MB download) it came out in a bunch of unreadable files. 2 more programs (2 MB, 600k) later, plus a couple of MB large codec driver plugin things I finally am writing an AVI file.

It turned out pretty good, but really, what a pain. Imagine if I could just write an ISO from Alcohol in 20 minutes or whatever, easier on everybody.

Once again, fyber gave me all infos too, well, him and a pretty good tutorial website.

--

In other less bitter news, if you want to see the familee frindly side of Borz, you can check out my blog:

http://drboris.blogspot.com/

So, Borz out~

the popular thang

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 01:07:58 GMT

I'm so not ripping of Mets. Pentaro took it after him.

Very Well-Rounded

You have:
62% SCIENTIFIC INTUITION and
70% EMOTIONAL INTUITION

The graph on the right represents your place in Intuition 2-Space. As you can see, you scored above average on emotional intuition and above average on scientific intuition. (Weirdly, your emotional and scientific intuitions are equally strong.)

Your Emotional Intuition
score is a measure of how well you understand people, especially their
unspoken needs and sympathies. A high score score usually indicates
social grace and persuasiveness. A low score usually means you're good
at Quake.

Your Scientific Intuition
score tells you how in tune you are with the world around you; how well
you understand your physical and intellectual environment. People with
high scores here are apt to succeed in business and, of course, the
sciences.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on Scientific
You scored higher than 99% on Interpersonal

Link: The 2-Variable Intuition Test written by jason_bateman on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Amazingly my SAT said the same thing about my math/verbal skills which sorta line up here.

I'm moving

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 00:45:53 GMT

I'm moving. Tommorow.

Let that sink in for a moment.

I'm moving to the dorm at my college. Which is pretty cool on the list of places I could potentially be moving to.

I know this because I spent all day today getting things packed and setting up web crap with Fyber so I can still sorta keep doing what I've been doing on the interbutt.

I guess I'll make better status reports when I actually get there.

I rip off Mets some more

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:03:41 GMT

SURVEY TIMES

*TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey*
Name:	Boris Grisenko (REAL NAME LEFT OFF FOR SAFTY)
Birthday:	Nov. 1
Birthplace:	Ft. Worth, Texas
Current Location:	Texas A&M University
Eye Color:	BROWN
Hair Color:	BROWN
Height:	My liscence says 6'0"
Right Handed or Left Handed:	right
Your Heritage:	Norwegian, Irish, English
The Shoes You Wore Today:	WAL MART
Your Weakness:	prone to crushing embarassment
Your Fears:	being surrounded by idiots
Your Perfect Pizza:	pepperoni, black olives, extra cheese
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	PASS COLLEGE
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	STFU
Thoughts First Waking Up:	"I slept till noon again?"
Your Best Physical Feature:	manly jaw~
Your Bedtime:	if the sun isn't up yet, its too early
Your Most Missed Memory:	DOS computer gaming
Pepsi or Coke:	Coke
MacDonalds or Burger King:	Jack in the Box
Single or Group Dates:	Either
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	UNSWEETENED
Chocolate or Vanilla:	vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee:	these mean the same damn thing
Do you Smoke:	second hand, anyway
Do you Swear:	hell yes
Do you Sing:	only to myself
Do you Shower Daily:	usually yes, I go weeks without in the Summertime
Have you Been in Love:	can't rightly say, but I'll be safe and say no
Do you want to go to College:	I'M THERE
Do you want to get Married:	if the right woman comes along mebbe
Do you belive in yourself:	Enough not to be goth or emo or some dumb thing
Do you get Motion Sickness:	while reading in the car
Do you think you are Attractive:	In my own mind I'm god's gift to women~
Are you a Health Freak:	I eat pop tarts + cookies for breakfast
Do you get along with your Parents:	Pretty well, yeah
Do you like Thunderstorms:	winds + lightning across the prarie is cool
Do you play an Instrument:	TUBA
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	nerp
In the past month have you Smoked:	nerp
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	nerp
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	yes, actually
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	that was part of the date
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	nah, I like other cookies better
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	no
In the past month have you been on Stage:	sadly the world is missing my acting tallent~
In the past month have you been Dumped:	gimme a few days, but so far no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	no
Ever been Drunk:	only slightly
Ever been called a Tease:	nobody talks about me period, so no
Ever been Beaten up:	too many times -________________-
Ever Shoplifted:	maybe some gum, unintentionally
How do you want to Die:	Doesn't matter so long as I'm famous for it
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	US President, or at least a senator
What country would you most like to Visit:	New Zealand
*In a Boy/Girl..*
Favourite Eye Color:	not picky
Favourite Hair Color:	red
Short or Long Hair:	long
Height:	average, maybe a hair shorter than me
Weight:	not picky, just no mondo fatso
Best Clothing Style:	whatever they find comfortable
Number of Drugs I have taken:	prescription? a good number, and plenty of Advil
Number of CDs I own:	10 or so
Number of Piercings:	none
Number of Tattoos:	none
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	I lost count
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Ime foulmouth

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:17:11 GMT

so I took the what swear word quiz thing fyber had up. I think my result was pretty good~

Your word is FUCK. You like to come across as rude
and rebellious, and often you do. You also are
intelligent and maybe surprisingly sensitive,
though God help anyone who said that in front
of your friends.

Which Swear (Curse) Word Are You?
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