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So Tales of Vesperia PS3 came in the mail today! Awesome!!

...I looked at it XD I don't have a PS3 yet. I'll get one after Nanowrimo... I wrote 4 pages yesterday btw.

Also the Umineko anime official site put up character designs for Amakusa Juuza: http://community.livejournal.com/rokkenjima/163352.html#cutid1 I'm very fascinated by his ponytail. This is news. I didn't know he had one!!

Problems I'm glad I don't have: being especially susceptible to disease because I've been in space. Good grief. Before people start boldly going etc., they're going to have to work out some ways to make outer space less inimical to the human race...

Also work decided to block twitter and gmail, so I'm going to be even more incommunicado than before \o/

Now I am going to play some Tales of Phantasia and hopefully recruit Suzu before I faint.

So Episode 18 of the Umineko no naku koro ni ends the third arc AND officially introduces Ange. How awesome is Ange? She made the top 3 of the character popularity poll every time since her appearance, that's how.

Now I will proceed to blather more about Ange's awesomeness under spoiler cut. Because there are spoilers. ( Read more... )

You know, I think procrastination works according to scientific principles. You know how the more you put something off, the scarier it is? This is clearly related to potential energy! According to Hooke's law, the equation for the potential energy of a spring is f=-kx, where k is the spring constant and x is how much you move the spring.

This can be converted to f=-pt, where p (for procrastination, in units of pressure over time) is the stress factor of the thing you are putting off, t (time) is how long you have put it off, and f (for FFFFFFFFFFFFF) is the total nervous load of thinking about whatever it is, expressed in units of pressure (pascals). The minus sign cancels out because anxiety is always a negative emotion.

So for example, let's say you have to make a phone call, but it makes you slightly nervous (x=-0.2) so you put it off for ten minutes (t=600s). You will end up with 120 Pa worth of anxiety, which is manageable, but watch what happens when you put off that phone call for a week:

F = -pt
? Pa = -(-0.2 Pa/s)(604800 s)
= -(-120960 Pa)
= 120.96 kPa

This is more than one atmosphere, therefore, more than enough pressure to lift water by 10 m or 34 ft. Thus, don't put stuff off, your anxiety levels will rise exponentially!!!

...So do you guys want to smack me yet.

Also if I hypothetically did Nanowrimo and hypothetically put the chapters on LJ under lock, would anyone read them?

Last week's news: President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

This week's news: President Obama may approve sending more troops to Afghanistan

I am generally in favor of the coalition effort in Afghanistan (and the Canadian soldiers need some help, seriously). I just think the coincidence is funny. And what are the Nobel committee going to do if they don't approve of Obama's actions from now on? Take the prize away? Eh.

Anyway, I am going to try to make more posts on LJ which are not friends-locked panic attacks from now on. And maybe even draw pictures. Starting tomorrow orz.

Also switched to Basic account since I get enough horrendous weight-loss or teeth-whitening ads from checking wordreference.com at work :/

( Silly blather: )

( To do list )

I am very tired. And I have a cold. Work full time + class one evening a week + Yom Tov on weekends for the next month kind of eats up all my energy. It shouldn't, but I get tired easily.. so this is my lame apology for being mostly absent lately.

Anyway.

( To be continued tomorrow: )

In hiding. Sorry.

( Hopefully I can finish this pic next week. )

Back from Japan :) Still very tired since we arrived late last night and I went to work this morning. I was very glad to go, it was wonderful to visit Maiki (she is even cuter in RL, and very nice too, putting up with two people and all their luggage for two weeks!) and go touring with Feria (I had a good time, hope you did too :D), but I am right now very happy to be home, too.

I took nearly two thousand photos and am trying to find out where I left that free Photoshop Elements installation CD I got years ago with my tablet so I can resize them all. And draw pictures. Incidentally it really sucks that Adobe doesn't sell old versions of their software because right now I have the option of either buying the latest Elements or pirating CS4 and I don't really want to do either. I just want Photoshop 7.. maybe I will buy Sai after all (I have this weird thing where I don't actually like pirating software).

Yeah I know this is an amazingly interesting talk, right? Have a short list of stuff I liked and didn't like on the trip, I'll make a better post later. ;) ( Read more... )

Hello from Japan~~~~

I will write a better entry later but for now it's kind of hard to grab the time to do so. Anyway it is very interesting, I am OK, and here are some stupid photos. Ariella, show this post to mom, ok? ( Read more... )

*Thanks for coming by when you were busy, vureoelt! Good luck at the races this weekend!

*Given that Haruhi is floating in an endless pointless plotless loop, and Umineko is zooming through plot points as fast as it can to occasionally comedic effect, I vote Kyo-ani and Studio Deen switch projects for a more efficient use of resources.

Well, I really just want to see Episode 4's Tea Party animated with the enthusiasm and inventiveness of Nagato vs. Asakura in the original anime series.. Oh well. There are some fantastic artists in the fandom on Pixiv, I guess I should be satisfied with that ^^;

I can't wait for the DVD sales figures for Endless Eight though.

*I reread a bunch of the Violinist of Hameln manga lately since people were talking about the sequel on Twitter. Er. I really like it but the themes of the story bother me a LOT. ( Cut for spoilers for several random series and possible offensiveness. )

So tired. Spent the whole day shopping. I win though, a frying pan and a pot for ten bucks each, go me!

I have a question, O wise people on my flist! I want to pick up a Super Famicom in Japan, do I need any special cables/adapters to use it on a NA TV?

Had an anxiety attack again today. I don't ever want to do that again. Can we agree on that, self?

Clearly I like nothing better than trying to make a good line drawing and then ruining it by turning it into a painting ( Read more... )

I like the music for Ace Combat, I should try the games sometime.

I like going on walks on Shabbat, and now that I have a job (wheeeee!) I started getting off the bus a few blocks early to walk the rest of the way. Sometimes you can see some pretty cool things (well, stuff I find cool, anyway.) Today, there was a snail army on a Long March down the sidewalk. I guess they were all flushed out of the grass by the rain, because there were a ton all going in the same direction (very slowly). I'd say one out of every three had fallen to enemy fire (i.e., been stepped on) but they persevered. Silly snails, there's no food for you on the sidewalk! Go back in the grass! :(

There were also some very energetic crows having an argument:

( Cut for really stupid comic. )

This started out as fanart of Hetalia's Matthew but I actually don't like his design that much. So it's a random person instead in a Habs tshirt on a balcony. Pretend there is jazz music in the air. Also, it's hot. Presto, Canada Day!

There's a spoilery Umineko fanart under the cut. ( Read more... )

Now that this Japan trip thing seems slightly like it's actually going to occur, I started to work on the important part - planning for Comiket.

And as I've done so, a terrible realisation has slowly been dawning. ( Read more... )

I finished the existing 4 Umineko episodes last week, and the anime adaptation starts this July, so I thought I'd write a review. Warning, this contains spoilers for the concept and flow of the story for all four episodes! This is more an in-depth commentary than a spoiler-free introduction; I recommend the Wikipedia entry for that. I'm of the mind that some judicious spoilers can encourage people to get into something, but up to you. ( Read more... )

I finally got around to borrowing the camera to photograph my Kaito Nendoroid... Unfortunately the photos are quite bad and some didn't come through.. and then it ran out of battery power! :( Here they are anyway! ( Read more... )

Something that makes me happy:

Golden Sun is getting a sequel on DS! I really liked the first game but never got around to buying the second one... And I lost the game cartridge ;_; But yay! A new game where you can run around reading peoples' minds and using ESP to save the world <3 I just hope they cut the dialogue. Like, in half. They didn't stop talking in the original.

Yes, that's pretty much the only news I care about from E3 XD;

Happy birthday, peachifruit!

I have a new computer! And it works! I CAN DRAW AGAIN. As well as 日本語で話せます。

So without further ado, ART MEME. raethes has a reserved space since I didn't get around to drawing hers last time.

Tell me a character and an action (like "Date Masamune shouting at the top of his lungs", "Kyon grumbling", etc.) I'll do 10 (+1 for Rae I guess) :)

My sisters & I went to see Star Trek yesterday! I'm not a Star Trek fan and can count on one or two fingers the episodes I have watched (I always liked Star Wars better. C'mon, lightsabers, seriously.) It was GREAT! ( No spoilers - okay, some mild spoilers but just in case. Also, this is fairly long. )

Oh, and:

*I'm looking for a coffee cake recipe that can either be turned into cupcakes or a straight-out cupcake recipe. All the recipes I find are on chic blogs with photos of cute cupcakes with five inches of icing in a clever shape... I'm not making icing, people, it has to be tasty by itself or I won't bother!

Plus they're all milcheg so then I can't eat them after dinner :/ Maybe I should try buying soy milk and see if it works instead of regular milk...