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[20 Nov 2009|03:29pm] |
I still have my Voyage 200, and since it has a keyboard and a text editor, it serves as a close-enough PDA or at least digital notepad. I now keep it by my bed at night, so if I have an awesome story idea or something and don't want to forget it, I can feed it to that. (Also great for shopping lists, keeping track of where I'm at weightlifting-wise, and basically any situation in which I would ever need to write anything down! But the bedside idea dump is the part that's important to this story.)
Good: This has helped me to capture a lot of inconveniently-timed inspiration that might have otherwise been lost, and whatever projects I may or may not be working on will undoubtedly benefit greatly from having this system now.
Bad: Oh my God, brain, that's the fourth idea I've had to write down tonight, it's been 50 minutes, can I please sleep now.
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[19 Nov 2009|07:53pm] |
Been a while since I've done one of these! I was inspired to make another one because this song is pretty.
( Read more... )
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[17 Nov 2009|11:32pm] |
Guess who just paid his credit card company $700 in one shot? THE ANSWER IS ME
Since all my major utilities/phone/etc. have this habit of letting me know what my bill is going to be literally a month in advance, my one credit card balance is roughly $630-ish right now and will be $830-ish in early December if I don't spend any more money by then (which is somewhat unlikely,) and the other card is currently fully paid off.
The truly sad thing is that this is actually the closest I have been to not having credit card debt in well over a year. Four throws a week is freaking killing me, but the invoices I'm getting from them (especially after just coming off of the slowdown which, if not directly causing this situation in the first place, at least certainly didn't help) are like rain after a drought. If I consistently get this kind of pace for the rest of the year, the fact that December = I get to pay another quarterly estimated tax voucher and Christmas shopping for everyone might not suck.
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[13 Nov 2009|09:17pm] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_Loopy
It appeals to my retro gaming fanaticism and my not-exactly-heterosexual obsession with anything that comes in lilac or lavender. I must have it.
(Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) terryn for pointing this out, even if he did it mostly to make fun of me in a "yeah, I bet you want one of these, too" sort of way. Turns out HE'S RIGHT)
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[06 Nov 2009|01:24pm] |
http://www.pspworld.com/sony-psp/images/lilac_psp.jpg
Now there's a color choice that just screams "ATTENTION WORLD: THE BEARER OF THIS PSP LIKES COCKS."
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I want one. ^;.;^
(Considering that my first thought when I saw this was "hey, that shade almost matches my toenail polish," it's entirely possible that I have nothing left to lose at this point anyway.)
The only problem is that Sony only lets you have different-colored PSPs as part of bundle deals with certain pack-in games (want a blue PSP? You'll be getting it in the form of the Madden Entertainment Pack) and this awesome lilac one is saddled with... well... I can hardly even bring myself to say it.... :(
The truly sad part about this is how much I still want it anyway, despite it being $30 more than standard for the privilege of a game I will obviously never play. And if I do get it and slither finds out, I will never hear the end of it. But...still.
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[01 Nov 2009|01:15am] |
Some time ago, I commissioned AbsintheTheGreedy for some concept sketches of the cast of a story idea I randomly had. I may or may not ever actually do something with it. We'll see. In the mean time, I figured it'd be cool to have concept sketches, especially because they were so cheap for how amazing they are. (Seriously, this artist is a steal, you all should be in on this.)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2889113
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2889144
Of course, I only realized after the fact that I had not one, but two characters belonging to one of those species where you have a couple species that are all similar, and ( now I get to do a bunch of character species brainstorming. )
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[30 Oct 2009|01:23pm] |
I had some story ideas while in bed last night. I didn't want to forget them, but both computers were already off. I guess I could be writing things down with an actual notebook and pencil, but I don't know, I just wanted a cooler electronic solution, like a PDA or something. Then I remembered that I still have my old Voyage 200, which I bought way back in the day for my college Calculus class (and it is actually a bit overkill even for that) and since then has more or less just been used for basic arithmetic when I'm figuring out invoices for work and such. (Geez, Teo. Having a V200 to figure out $70.58 times three is almost as ridiculous as getting a Toshiba Satelite X205 SLi4 for AIM, Firefox, and Tapestries.)
Anyway, something that's back-lit so I could use it at night and maybe had stylus support would still be cool, but for now, the V200 does have a text editor and can at least perform the task at hand. I guess I'm set until I find a way to cheaply turn my DS into a PDA, though the only ways I've seen to do that so far are either homebrew (which I absolutely do not want to do) or... well....
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[23 Oct 2009|01:42pm] |
So I just rediscovered an old PC kids' game involving solving mysteries. It's divided into a stupidly high number of miniature cases in which you gather clues and then figure out who did it. Being a kids' game, it's stupidly easy now, but fun to replay for the sheer nostalgia. I'll probably do a ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) videogame_tales post about it at some point.
ANYWAY
SELECT THE SUSPECT YOU THINK IS BEHIND THIS DASTARDLY CAPER
YOU'LL NEVER GUESS
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[19 Oct 2009|11:54pm] |
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As a power metal fan (my experience with Jørn Lande in particular is limited to Allen/Lande's The Battle, Avantasia's The Scarecrow, and Masterplan's Aeronautics, but I absolutely love all of those) and a hardcore furry, I think I might actually be required by law to get this album at some point.
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[14 Oct 2009|11:31pm] |
I was randomly thinking about this and thought it'd be fun to turn the question back to you guys. Maybe it'll turn into a meme of some sort :D Or not, you could just, you know, tell me directly instead of reposting. That works too I GUESS.
So, try to recall pretty much every user/screen name you've ever had since first discovering this whole "internet" thing. List them all (even the old ancient embarrassing ones from way back in the day when you were MyLittlePonyLuvr11871 or something) and explain the thought process behind all of them. I'll start, as I've had quite a few!
( Won't this be exciting? )
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[05 Oct 2009|02:44pm] |
Oh yeah, I completely forgot to mention that I'm in Santa Fe housesitting for my parents again. Last time was because they were out for my grandfather's (father's father) funeral. This time they're out for my other grandfather's (mother's father) surprise party for his 80th birthday. There's a bit of mood whiplash for you, there.
Regarding my lack of update, though, I think it's because it's getting harder to notice a difference in my daily routine based on location changes. I brought Quicksilver (my laptop) with me, so I'm still online and everything. My sleep status page technically has an option for an "on vacation, will update when I get back" template and screenshot to match, but I never have any need for it, because hey, Quicksilver can update TeoSleep, so I may as well just keep up with the regular standard updates. I'm even still weaving on my mom's loom, so not even the work situation is different. I do have to include feeding the dogs and medicating the cat in the daily routine now, and the lack of a dedicated weight room with machines and stuff like my apartment complex has is throwing my exercise routine off a bit, but eh.
My parents, of course, are going through full-fledged hectic vacation mode and will undoubtedly have a "thank God we're finally home" reaction when they get back. I, on the other hand, pretty much feel like I've been home this whole time. Especially because this house is huge, gorgeous, and I really and truly love it here. I think the only thing keeping me in Albuquerque at this point is that I'd miss the friends and such I have there, but I have to admit that it's hard not to get contemplative about my living situation when I'm here, because man this place is awesome.
Anyway, I just finished tending to the dogs/cat and having breakfast while doing my usual FA/LJ checks and such, so now it's off to work out and then probably weave all day...which is pretty much my life anyway, except adding the dogs/cat to the routine in exchange for getting to have the house instead of my apartment. <3
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[16 Sep 2009|02:08pm] |
And if you don't win that,
Someone explain to me why I haven't played this game yet.
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[09 Sep 2009|06:01pm] |
Tracking weight is hard, because it fluctuates so much throughout the day. I've quite literally gained two pounds just by having dinner, then lost them again by morning. Because of this, there are a few tricks out there for if you're trying to track long-term weight gain/loss, one of them being to only weigh yourself rarely, like once or twice a month or so.
Personally, I go for the opposite approach--weigh myself two or three times a day, and record the highest and lowest numbers from a given week as a range, and then I can track the ranges from week to week.
By that method, how has my whole fitness thing been going?
8/9 - 8/15: 156-158
8/16 - 8/22: 154-156
8/23 - 8/29: 153-156
8/30 - 9/5: 152-154
9/6 - 9/12 (it's only 9/9 as of when I write this, but oh well): 150-153
Well, going by either the high, low, or middle figures, by all measures I seem to have lost roughly 5 more pounds within the last 30 days or so on top of the fairly significant progress I had already made (I was 180-ish before I started working out at all, and somewhere in the low 170s when I actually started keeping track of this sort of thing,) so hey.
The main problem is figuring out where my weight should be stabilizing. I mean, obviously this isn't going to continue to count down all the way to zero, but I have no idea where the line should be. Standard ideal weight calculator tools are largely useless for me, as they are designed for standard bodies and fail to take into account my waifish frame and tiny birdlike skeleton. Common wisdom (including what I frequently get from my parents) usually starts and stops at "(whatever weight I'm currently at) is too low; eat more," but my last doctor's appointment confirmed that I really am just naturally thin. Good and bad news, as I know for a fact that I'm fine for now, but it makes it a bit harder to figure out long-term goals.
I am lifting weights and doing running-type cardio exercise at the same time, and I am getting stronger, but the weight just keeps falling off. I thought I had reached the "yay, I've lost weight and now all that's left to do is build the muscle in return" point when I hit 160...then I thought it again at 155. Because I am a 6'2" male, and I really and truly am getting stronger and that's even visually apparent to some degree (I don't have six-pack abs or anything yet, but I do have biceps now,) and I don't think I'm building magical weightless muscles or anything, surely I can't get below 150...but it hasn't exactly stopped yet and I've been wrong about when it was going to twice before, so who knows!
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[05 Sep 2009|03:27am] |
A glimpse into madness: how to go from a basic idea to a rough flowchart of how to do it in ZZT to the actual ZZT code. Including actual ZZT code, slither!! ^O.O^
( Read more... )
Be careful when staring at that code for too long. They say that if you start to understand any of it, it's already too late.
Anyway, as insane as most of this should look to any normal person, the only part of this that even I would consider ugly is that there's no way in ZZT to lock down the player while things are going on. Just because the idea flowchart calls for where the on-touch event starts and when it officially terminates and waits to be touched again does not mean that nothing else can be going on (including the player himself doing something if he's a jerk who wants to mess with my game >:[) while the event is going on. The best ZZT can do is #lock and #unlock commands that work for the object itself, which are sort of like toggling between "shut up for a second and let me work this out" and "okay, sorry, what were you saying again?" modes, but it doesn't stop the player from wreaking havoc elsewhere on the board with all the other objects.
But hey, it works, mostly. And in ZZT, that's really all you can ask for.
Bonus: All that for just some random little thing like a freaking treasure chest. You should hear me explain how the boss battle engine works.
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[31 Aug 2009|06:42pm] |
In case anyone ever wondered what goes on inside Kjorteo's head.
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[29 Aug 2009|06:32pm] |
This is possibly the nerdiest thing I have ever seen come from the already fantastically nerdy genre that is power metal, and I listen to Rhapsody of Fire. Awesome song, though.
Artist: Blind Guardian
Song: Sacred
Album: Presumably the Sacred 2 OST?
Visuals: Sacred 2 in-game footage
Blind Guardian struck a deal with the guys who made Sacred 2 to be put into the game. Here we see their in-game concert. That's Hansi Kursch dressed like a level 70 wizard complete with some sort of +5 staff straight from World of Warcraft which he uses as a microphone, and I'm pretty sure Andre Olbrich is playing a double-bladed battle axe there. I am not making any of this up. About the only way this could have been any less socially acceptable is if any of the band members had opted to use their fursonas instead of human-looking models or something.
I... I give up.
But it's amazing, somehow.
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