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surely a war no one can win
2004-04-30 10:25:02
Tech writing today, and a steady dose of downers. I should've trucked the Coke along with me this morning, but oh well. Given my partner's inaction and more-or-less lack of attention to detail I'm not surprised that I'm feeling ground down. At least *I*'m not going to fail this class.
And tonight I gotta show a new hire the ropes. I've got some stuff I need to take care of that this will interfere with, but hopefully he will be a yob and I'll be able to make him call me oyabun or aniki. Failing that, he'll be inexperienced at overnighting and not aware of what it takes to stay up and functioning on third shift.
Probably no video work for the next couple days...I'm thoroughly blocked in with work, sleep, and driving. Hopefully this will be a productive summer, and if I don't manage to get a job, I'll at least be able to come back here and finish my degree.
--Kai out
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i didn't choose to be the victim
2004-04-29 13:43:11
I'm feeling much better now that I ever have after 20 hours of continuous operation. It's probably the caffeine; if I continue to do one can every ~90 minutes, I think I can make it through the presentation round.
Of course, it's probably because two of those hours were spent at the bar (which shouldn't really count as operational time) and another hour or so was booked watching vol 5 of Initial D. And because the project's actually coming together; most of the time when I do <10% ratios it's something with an aura of inevitable doom to it. I probably shouldn't have hit into the artificial substances, but this is going to work out as at least a 28-straight, possibly more, and I need to make sure I don't pass out before I hit 28.
More is because as soon as classes are over (presentation done), I'm either going to rip into that AMV, or hit the couch with a boxset. It's hard to practice fiscal responsibility and sane circadians in a world involving both anime and buck-sixty-a-flick kung-fu bundles. As long as I don't start hallucinating before my grade's in, it should be cool.
Offtopic:
I need to pick up Ancient's _Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends_, even though they became on that album (and _Cainan Chronicle_, its predecessor) the worst and cheesiest of the Corpsepaint: The Masquerade bands, because I randomly met the guy who did drums on the CD. It's not every day you suddenly become only two degrees of separation from both King Diamond *and* Billy Corgan.
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i paid the price
2004-04-27 22:32:28
Fact: the slide on an automatic pistol requires approximately 0.1 seconds to cycle and chamber another round (making a lot of stuff in The Matrix look even less realistic).
Fact: We're currently engaged in an experimental investigation of how fast a moderately overclocked human being can cycle without cherrying the barrel.
It's pushing 11 on Tuesday night, so I've got about 40 potential working hours before the presentation's due. If I'm sharp about it, I'll be able to lose no more than 12 of these on travel, sleep, and other activities like bathing and nutrition. If I'm even more fortunate, my partner will actually do something with his end of the project and we'll have some results. If not, I'll just hand in my code and the explanation: they guy I was working with went AWOL, and it was all I could do to get this much in.
In the course of this experiment, I'm also of course dumping all kinds of unnatural chemicals into my body, so I'll probably like, die, or something when I get back home and start eating natural food again. The only thing I wish I had access to is a mild steroid regimen; when I was on roids this summer they kept my histamines banked down and my brain wired, which I could definitely use more of. Faygo Cola doesn't have enough caffeine in it.
Got a new AMV idea screwing around with one of Lags' filters; if I don't totally kill myself on the project, I'll probably spin it up Thursday night and Friday, maybe put it up Saturday if it's done, later, of course, if not. It's nice and simple, 50 minutes of video and 90 seconds of audio. Really easy, but I know I'm gonna go and make it hard.
I've been getting a lot of ideas lately, new story concepts as well as new AMV ideas. I don't know whether I'm honestly getting more creative, or if it's just that I'd rather do anything else than grind on compilers stuff. Whatever; not important. 40 hours and counting.
--Kai out
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the gods | i hail
2004-04-25 12:46:39
Sometimes I really hate this hobby we've gotten ourselves into. There's little to be done about it, though; it's just the way things are.
So I finish scouting out gear to build my new editing/dev workstation, and walk into Best Buy next door to see if they've by some strange chance got _The Arrival_. At the least I figure to pick up _Through The Ashes of Empires_. Then, of course, I make the mistake of going into the anime section. MB. 19 eps. $80.
I know it's about the same price point as normal, but geez, Tokyopop, why don't you just hit me in the balls with a pipe wrench or something and be done with it? It sucks. It hurts. If they'd've done 19 four-ep releases instead of four 19-ep box sets, I could've bought _Tempo of the Damned_, _...Ashes..._, and maybe the new one from The Forsaken in with the first volume, and maybe gotten some work done yesterday instead of just sitting on my couch eating watermelon.
Nine hours. That is good stuff there, but I wish it had come out a week later, so that it didn't steal my cycles NOW. Writing compilers is hard enough without that kind of distraction.
Three working days left...if I don't just go drinking, I may lay some hours in on the video between Thursday night and Saturday/moveout day. After that, drug-test-induced latency will suck, but at the least I'll have plenty to work on. Videos, music, multiple books, and a rehash of my Tools project....wasn't I supposed to just be working 10 hours a day this summer?
--Kai out
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keine gnaden | gezeigt
2004-04-24 03:56:52
If it aint one thing, it's another. I finish off two of my classes and finish scouting for source, thinking that I can just rest tonight, and maybe write some code. Then, of course, there's a potential hazmat leak a couple buildings over that I have to monitor. Not fun.
Never fails.
Offtopic:
Blabbermouth is steadily degenerating into the lamest place on Earth (and yes, I do regularly read Slashdot). Not only are there now two rival forum "clans" (Inner Circle [IC] and More Hard Rockers [M. H. R.]) filling up threads with mindless IM posts, but in a recent article, a member of Throwdown (SXEHC band recently added to Ozzfest second stage) referred to Hatebreed and Slipknot as "the Breed" and "the Knot", respectively.
Jesus H. Christ. What a fucking moron. "The Breed?" "The Knot?" Why don't people realize how stupid these attempts to be hip make them sound BEFORE they leave their mouths? Take a guess:
1) Because they are in a hardcore band
2) Because they are straitedge
3) Because they are in an Ozzfest band
4) All of the above
5) Get stuffed, Kai, there's nothing wrong with playing HC/not drinking/playing shows with Slayer and Judas Priest
Bloody work....may do some video stuff tomorrow, but it's not exceptionally likely. I think I *can* get four minutes of serious action/dark cuts out of 240 minutes of Yaiba, but I don't know when I *will*.
--Kai out
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