Quotes for posterity, part 1

Tragedy: Not realising that today is a Public Holiday.....
Comedy: ....because every day is a Public Holiday for the unemployed.

And now for stuff that wasn't by me:

"Engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar which any bungler can do with two" -- Arthur M. Wellington

"How is it even remotely possible to make things explode by punching them??"
"You're just jealous that you can't punch something hard enough that it would rather die in a fire than get hit again."

Do not be sad because of people. They will all die.

Well, if you got it, flaunt it, as I always say.....

Therefore, this space shall henceforth be my dumping ground for random snippets of conversation (imaginary or otherwise) and other miscellaneous scraps of writing that I wish to commit to posterity for whatever reason.

So how is this different from the last few times I ressurrected this old blog? I now officially do not care if the post has two line of an imaginary conversation! Imagine the possibilities! I now no longer have to devote precious clock cycles thinking of ways to pad out the post into something long enough to bother posting!

.....Now as long as I don't end up posting everything on Facebook instead......

Feeelthy Pirates!

In light of the recent fiasco currently causing shock waves across the local anime community, a song from a recent movie springs to my mind as being rather apt:

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho,
thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

The king and his men
stole the queen from her bed
and bound her in her Bones.
The seas be ours
and by the powers
where we will we'll roam.

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

Some men have died
and some are alive
and others sail on the sea
– with the keys to the cage...
and the Devil to pay
we lay to Fiddler's Green!

The bell has been raised
from it's watery grave...
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?
We are a call to all,
pay head the squall
and turn your sail toward home!

Yo, ho, haul together,
hoist the colors high.
Heave ho, thieves and beggars,
never shall we die.

Misadventures in the early morn

Wow, has it really been 3 months already? Oh well, better late than never, eh? And it's not like this blog has never been resurrected before XD

So anyway. I was typing a really long rant about the silly Americans opposing stricter gun control laws even in the wake of yet another high school shootout, but it was hardly amusing, barely coherent and I forgot the point I originally wanted to make with it in the first place. Isn't it fun trying to do anything that requires more than two brain cells at 4 am in the morning? There's probably a lesson to be learned in this somewhere, but in the meantime, I'll settle for figuring out how in the nine hells I'm supposed to make things like clothes all nice and shiny in photoshop....

SOS-団 redux

If you're going "Wow, another post already?", then do what I'm doing and blame it on my having my brains scrambled by taking in the Idolm@ster previews and those damned Touhou flash music videos in quick sucession with no recovery period (gee, thanks a lot, K!). Between the sheer 萌え-moe-pawaa of the former and the mind-flaying addictiveness of the latter, it's a wonder I retain enough sanity to understand what's going on while I read the online translations of the Suzumiya Haruhi novels.

Speaking of the novels, I must say that my appreciation of Tsuruya (aka LOLfang-tan the LOLita....well, she's not really much of a loli, actually) has gone way up....along with gaining a certain suspicion of the character. Speculation aside, though, reading the English translations of the novels revealed that there's plenty of material available for a second season already, sequence-breaking and all, so I'm surprised that there hasn't been any word of the commencement of production of new episodes so far. Maybe the director is thinking of how to mess up the episode order even more than (s)he did in the first season (which in turn already messed up the sequence of events that were revealed in the novels), or maybe they just can't decide on what to call the new series XD

Thought for the day: What in the nine hells is UP with the cheap animation budget on the Super Robot Wars Original Generation: Divine Wars series? Here's hoping they take a leaf from Transformers: Galaxy Force and improve the quality of the CG as the series goes on....

Further Misadventures in YouTube Land

Since the 'night of a thousand WTFs' last month, I've been doing more of my television watching on youtube (which doesn't say much since I don't really watch TV anymore). However, during the course of my viewership I have come across a startling fact: The Animaniacs actually speak JAPANESE. Really badly American-accented Japanese, but Japanese all the same.

Let that sink in for a bit.

Now then. I'm betting the cynics out there are going "Oh come now, you cannot POSSIBLY mean to tell me that an old 1995 American cartoon series with American voice actors acknowledged the existence of any other language besides English" or something along those lines. Well, if you search for "The Taming of the Screwy" part 3 and/or "Space-Probed" part 1 on youtube, you'll be able to hear the lines in question as long as you have your speakers turned up high enough for you to hear what they're saying....even if you can't actually understand what they're saying. Unless of course you speak Japanese, but that's a different topic of conversation altogether =P

Of course, if you happen to be one of those narrow-minded people who are going "Aren't you a little too old to be watching cartoons?", you can bugger off and leave me alone while I enjoy a classic series that has infinitely better writing than some of the drivel I see on TV nowadays, so THERE. Lousy closed-minded fools who can't appreciate a good thing even if it comes up and smacks them in the face in a dark alley at night....BAH!...

SMOOOOOOOOKE on da wOOOOOOTTAAAAA!!

Fire in the sky! Channel Newsasia reports that a meteor or fireball of some sort was seen streaking across the sky today. Naturally, the similarity to the "expositionary news clip" cliche seen in many anime did not go by unnoticed, and I'll be looking out for a sudden rise in property damage or reports of kaiju roaming the streets over the next few days. Remember, it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you! XD

WISE FWOM YO GWAVE

The owner of this blog is currently incapacitated following an aborted bid to achieve full lichdom. While approaching the full skeletal decay stage preceding the manufacture of a phylactery to store the spirit, he found himself unemployed and removed from the premises of his former workplace. Thus lacking a conducive environment, the epidermal layer soon began to regenerate and revoked the owner's undead status. The subsequent system shock proved to be too much for his constitution and the owner has since been smote by a malevelont entity only known as the micro-organism "Influenza".

Steps are being taken to repel the invasion of this insidious agent, so the citizenry is urged to remain calm and continue to monitor the situation. Contingency plans and various countermeasures have already been prepared in the unlikely event that the situation should worsen, and a full recovery is expected to be achievable in a matter of days. Should you encounter any individuals proclaiming the death of this blog or its owner, please report their identity and location to the authorities to facilitate extermination.

SOS-団, 万歳！！

Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, a.k.a. The Melencholy of Suzumiya Haruhi, is pretty much the first anime where I had no idea what in the nine hells was going on....mostly because the director of the series decided to play around with the episode order. As such, the first aired episode is actually episode 11, the second one was actually the first episode going by the chronological order of events, etc. Naturally, this made no sense whatsoever until I actually saw the whole series (which I managed to do in a three-day marathon of obtain->watch->burn).

Of course, watching episode 14/6 was a lot like getting the last piece of the puzzle, only to find that you've had the jigsaw upside down the whole time -_-"

Nonetheless, I highly recommend the show to anyone who likes sci-fi stories (don't be fooled by the first 3 episodes; the show is really sci-fi with romance/comedy elements)...Plus, Haruhi herself is pretty darn cute, especially for someone who's totally insane ^_^ Even if you don't intend to watch the series, at least check out the super-happy-cotton-candy ending song (with dance steps included!) on youtube or something; you can't go wrong with cute dancing anime girls, now, can you? XD

More random madness

Apparently, I'm not the only madman out on the internet with strange, ethereal ramblings issuing forth from the space between his ears. Who knew?

"In my personal opinion, Viagra is more of a curse than a blessing. Finally, FINALLY, you are no longer being controlled entirely by the motivation for sex in your old age; that's like the prime stressor in life just POOF! Gone! And you want it back? Are people NUTS?"
-The Yuka Takeuchi Fan, http://yukatakeuchifan.kiwibonga.com/

Forum thread contest from Alien Loves Predator (another oddball webcomic which you should go check out), where the winner would be the one with the best transcript of his/her conversation with a really old conversation program named Eliza, with this being the winning entry:

" >> Hello.
How do you do. Please state your problem.
>> I'm not the one with the problem, you are.
Is it because you are not the one with the problem that you came to me ?
>> yes remember I've been councilling you because you believe you are a therapist
You seem to be quite positive.
>> Well we've made excellent progress
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
>> that would be the haldol
Please go on.
>> it is stopping your delusions temporarily
Why are you concerned over my delusions temporarily ?
>> because you are mentally ill
Is that the real reason ?
>> You are a danger to others. Remember the scalpel incident?
What makes you think I am a danger to others ?
>> The occasion you drove a scalpel three inches into my leg and beat an orderly to death with his own shoes.
Your leg and beat an orderly to death with his own shoes ?
>> It was a dark day
Lets discuss further why your leg and beat an orderly to death with his own shoes .
>> no you are NOT the analyst. I am.
Are you saying no just to be negative?
>> Calm down or we will have to sedate you again
We were discussing you -- not me.
>> I am not the patient
How long have you been not the patient ?
>> I have always been the doctor
Can you think of a specific example ?
>> Right now I am the the doctor and you are the patient
Do you believe it is normal to be the the doctor and I are the patient ?
>> It is how it has been for months
Why do you ask ?
>> I'm not asking I'm telling
Do you enjoy being not asking you are telling ?
>> you really are trapped in your delusions aren't you?
Oh, I really are trapped in my delusions aren't I ?
>> Now don't get agitated
What does that suggest to you ?
>> that you should put down the table!
You're not really talking about me -- are you ?
>> NOOOOO
Do you feel strongly about discussing such things ?
>> HAVE MERCY
I'm not sure I understand you fully.
>> MY BACK
Why do you say your back ?
>> Because you broke it
Don't any other reasons come to mind ?
>> I can't feel my legs
Does that suggest anything else which belongs to you ?
>> HELP ME
Earlier you said your back .
>> (Pounding noises)
But your legs .
>> (sound of door being kicked in)
Please go on.
>> Put it DOWN
What does that suggest to you ?
>> MY EYES
Is it important that your eyes ?
>> WHY IS MY ARM BENDING LIKE THAT
In what way ?
>> NOT MY BALLS
Your balls ?
>> (moaning and the sound of wet footsteps)
But your eyes .
>> (breaking glass)
Lets discuss further why your balls .
>> (sirens)
Do you feel strongly about discussing such things?"
- http://alienlovespredator.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=981

In other news, I don't really want to know the results of the jap test I had because I've been hibernating and have no intention of stopping until the summer is over. Which, admittedly, will probably not happen until the polar ice caps melt and drown us all, but that's a minor technicality ^_^

What's a 7-letter word for "total screwball"?

If, for some reason you've never seen one before in your life, webcomics are basically comics that are hosted on the internet instead of being published in print (ie newspapers, comics, etc). Like published comics, webcomics have a broad spectrum of content and artwork (and thus, appeal). Over time I've picked up a rather large collection of webcomics that I've bookmarked but haven't found the time to actually read on a regular basis (Sinfest is one such casualty; Tatsuya's artwork/inking is impeccable, but I haven't read it in ages). As such, I'd assumed I'd become pretty jaded, since I've seen webcomics about everything from stick figure D&D spoofs (Order of the Stick) to mad scientists in a steampunk setting (Girl Genius).

Today, I discovered Dr McNinja.

The idea is mind-numbingly random. If you haven't already guessed what it's about, then imagine, if you will, a Ninja who moonlights as a Doctor complete with stethescope and white lab coat. And if that wasn't enough, on his very first adventure he takes on Ronald Mcdonald for copyright infringement, the name in question being the Ninja Fart Burger. Digest that for a while.

The really odd thing, though, is that the author actually manages to pull it off, segueing between various pop-and-geek-culture spoofs to chop-socky action culled from 1980's action movies. Then again, maybe I just like the B-movie/spoof appeal....Regardless, it's been...interesting so far despite the not-so-appealing artwork. Just don't read it after something like one of Bleedman's webcomics, or the quality of the art may sear your eyeballs ^_^


In other news, I've started to clear leave! W00tz! Finally, a loooong vacation....I might upload some stuff I've done for class to the gallery over the next few days, depending on whether or not I feel like it, so watch this space for updates~

My favourite colour is....blue! No, yelloooooooow.....

Funny how I know that Monty Python joke without having watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail....I should go get it sometime. Aaaaanyway, I thought the results of this quiz I took was worth the quick copy/paste before I start the last 4 working days of my NS life (yahoo!!!):

Red

Your color is red, the color of racy sportscars, blushing cheeks, and luscious roses. Red symbolizes passion, romance, and love. So, since you're ruled by red, you probably trust your feelings more than your brain and tend to act spontaneously. If you see something you want, you go for it without thinking twice — impulsive is your middle name. You don't wait around for people to make decisions, either; you dive right in. Quite the romantic, you pay close attention to your emotions. In fact, if your heart isn't in what you're doing, you won't be satisfied. Of course, even when you do pour all your energy into the projects you tackle, your impetuous nature means your passions can shift as frequently as the wind. That's why some reds have trouble with commitment. Our advice? Next time you're feeling fickle, think before you act, if possible. You might be surprised at the results. Overall, though, it's great to be red. No one lives life more completely than you do.

Hmmm.

GAH! Damn cliffhangers!!

Transcript of the events of about 10 minutes ago:

Me: "Awright! Time to finish watching Densha!"
*watches Densha Otoko on the camp computers"
Me: "Hmm, that's running kinda late into the show for a conclusion, ainnit?"
*credits roll*
M: " What the.... 'Preview for finale'??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"



*goes to his source to see if he missed the last episode or something*
M: " Lessee......'Densha Otoko 9 + Another Ending'? Hmm-1.6GB?? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHARGHARGHACKCOUGH
OHGEEZARRRRNOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooarharnbkkblonpqoinath.......

Aiyoiyoi....

Woe, is me.
Me, is woe.
Hi woe!


俺わちょっと変な人ですね。。。