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all over the news | all over you
2004-12-02 11:12:12
Work proceeds apace. I've slowed down on distri stuff in order to keep pace with both work and the demands of other activities, and to reflect the fact that my weekends may be occupied by more than just AMVage. The tool is being uncooperative, and late nights and weekends may move towards standard. This would, of course, suck, but if it contributes to success in Germany I will be happy. It'll give me more time to learn Forth.
I'm actually having a positive dialogue with someone who left a fairly rotten opinion; the words are more positive than the scores, even though there's not a whole lot of 'like' for the actual video going on. This is cool, and one of the few bright points of this site's comment system. This place may be saved yet.
offtopic:
Feeling guilty about not doing anything for National Novel Writing Month, I ripped out a short story last night. It may go online in its original form in the near future, possibly after I edit it down under 5000 words to float for publication. My brother submitted something to Analog a couple weeks ago, and as usual we are hyper-competitive about every area our interests overlap in. There's another story on the dock for tonight, but this one is going to be a lot shorter.
#89 will debut next Friday if I'm able to upload it local; if not, as soon thereafter as I can. It's already on my direct server; hit me for the link if you can't wait like a civilized people.
--Kai out
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feel the fear of what's out there
2004-11-29 09:10:53
There are three simple rules:
1. No having sex with the staff. Some of them are underage.
2. Keep your clothes on, or at least stay decent. Most of the time this isn't a problem, but we had a band here that took all their clothes off, covered themselves in peanut butter, and jumped into the crowd.
3. Try not to swear to much, and if you do, make it so nobody can understand you. If it's like 'f-word' every other line, you'll be on your way out.
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If only the folks at the Marblehead Masonic Temple were running everything, the world would be a much simpler and safer place. Well, maybe not, because they're also not smart enough to tell that a guy isn't a girl even when he's got more facial hair than some species of chimpanzee. But they did give the Beverly metal scene a new catch phrase, for at least as long as it lasts.
The Awakening manual is basically/de-facto finished; everything that can need revision is already done. The last RCs of the first batch will go out today, and then I can start making changes. No work was done on the video over break; there was a lot of football and hanging with my brothers kind of preempting things.
--Kai out
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nothing left | here
2004-11-24 16:23:47
Slow day at work today, but I'm still managing to get some stuff done, mostly heading off cross-compilation versioning problems before they happen. And in addition to learning the tool, they want me to do German localization in my Copious Free Time(TM)......
I didn't work on the Bestiary last night; instead, I watched a bunch of stuff recently borrowed or acquired, including DayDream, the continuation of which I am extremely amped about, and Hoi Hoi-san, which may get into a Gravediggaz video with Yakitate in the future. I also ran off like 8 CDs, now that I have the media to do so. Still stuff hanging about.....
I may actually have to go pick up Death Cult Armageddon; I have yet to hear or see anything off it (most recent factor: "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" video) that has been anything but great, even considering my intense prejudice against Dimmu. Of course, the fact that Simen Hestnes, Galder, and Nick Barker (he's got cred, he was in Lock Up as well as Cradle) are all in the band now has drastically changed their songwriting style and attack; there's a lot of Borknagar-style open stretches not being filled/killed by keys, OMC-style attack riffing, and some real heavy death metal rhythms as opposed to just the standard blastbeating. Maybe used....I refuse to directly give money to any band that has intentionally posed a member in a top hat while attempting to look evil and/or scary.
--Kai out
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great day to be alive
2004-11-23 10:30:58
I finished D and E, after a lot of math and virtually giving up on reordering because it didn't match the hierarchy. Angels has a power ladder (cherub-herald-seraph) that fortunately fell in alphabetical order; demons and dragons do not round out as well -- in both cases the biggest and baddest are first in the order. The math was pretty heinous and gave me cause to reconsider my multipliers system; there is a creature in the system that comes in at 1.8 million XP -- and this in an incremental advancement system with [admittedly weak/low-powered] 'levels' set at 3000 XP. Of course, as I wrote in the manual, this is somewhat academic; it's not really possible to defeat the creature in question anyway.
I may be able to do F tonight, even with doing library stuff after work. Or I might cut into the next project -- which is not going to be either Black Heaven or the Kikuko Inoue stuff. There may be a little tuneup stand to get the feel of Magix and any new production stuff beforehand (and because I'm not rich in drivespace at present), but there's a video in the queue that I really want to get done before I leave for Germany. And my brothers are coming home Wednesday night; even if they haven't read everything that's been posted yet, they may still have changes and commentary that'll influence the tail end of the manual, and I don't want to do TWO full revisions of the Bestiary. More stuff to fix....
--Kai out
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the unexpected | i sometimes fear
2004-11-22 13:07:46
I am at my new job, and I am facing the huge task of mastering a new and highly complex system in four months. Further job updates will probably not happen here, as I'm not sure what's company confidential and what is okayed to leave the building.
I ripped the first Black Heaven DVD over the weekend, but haven't actually decrypted it or anything; I'm pretty sure I need a new harddrive first, and also entering into the equation is the desire to beat Undying (fat chance), which I managed to get for four bucks Sunday...not bad for a three-year-old game.
weekend:
Friday: Yakitate delivers incredible amounts of awesomeness. Like with Monster, it's really cool to see something that you had been following as comics come to life as animation, especially on the big club screen. This is marked as 'must buy' in the unlikely event that someone decides to import it. Also, Tokyo Kid's worship of Satan exceeds even my own: 4 tapes for $10.50 (post tax). I didn't really have the money or the carrying capacity, but I bought a bunch of Ping Pong Club anyway. Damn devil-worshippers.
Saturday: The funeral was a very personal, moving service in the closest thing this area has to a Stavkirke. I saw a lot of people that I hadn't seen in a while; when you lose someone, you think more about the people you have left. Later, all the good guys lost: Michigan, Wisconsin, Bama....at least BC won, but they couldn't hardly help that.
Sunday: Instead of watching shitty NFL games (and because I don't have cable and couldn't catch the Pack), I took advantage of CompUSA's please-stop-buying-everything-from-Newegg prices to get some decent speakers and a bunch of CDs, of which I was nearly out. I had also run out of pants (not a good thing when about to start work) and thus had to make a run for the border to secure some legwear and polygonated Clive Barker insanity. I had a chance to pick up the Initial D game but did not: I have streets and a car, and do not need a computer to do streetrace-style driving, thanks very much. I also managed to watch Darkside Blues (very cool, and not quite as confusing as advertised -- people who bitch about it should try Twilight Q2 on for size) and the fourth episodes of both Touch and Ai Baby: Ai Baby because we cut off at the third episode for CJN, and Touch because I never got the second half of it from the site that I found the first half of the ep on way back when I was in undergrad. The things you go through when your viewing habits are dictated by other people's disk quotas.....
I'm into the Bestiary Awakening-wise: I may finish D and E today, but there is a lot of reformatting and even more math associated with this chapter revision, as well as some new content. As far as prospects for a new video anytime soon, this should be considered the equivalent of DSV last year: totally taking top priority over anything not in the primary job.
offtopic:
I ran into Min at the funeral. She's married, working as a high school guidance counselor, and hoping to start a family. And yet she still asks stuff like "have you ever wondered who'd come to your funeral?" -- and I still have considered, conditional answers. Strange people, the whole lot of us......
--Kai out
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