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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
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9:37 pm - the Spanish "lisp"
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I don't know why it's called a lisp. No one's talking like Daffy Duck. And it has nothing to do with an inbred king talking funny and decreeing that the entire kingdom speak like him.
The truth (or at least the generally accepted theory) is more complicated...
In 1400 A.D., Spanish had a wider variety of s-like sounds:
ç - "ts" as in pizza
z - "dz" as in pounds
s - "s" as in Sam, with the front of the tongue flat against the front-roof of your mouth
ss - Sean Connery's "s," said like an "s" but with the tip of the tongue pointed at the front-roof of your mouth
x - "sh" as in shazbot, but with the tongue flat against the roof of your mouth (touching the roof like a third of the way back from your teeth)
j/g - like a French "j", or the s in treasure
That century, Spanish evolved quite a bit, and for languages that usually means simplification. The 'z' (pronounced "dz") started sounding exactly like 'ç' (the "ts" sound). The 's' and 'ss' stayed the same. The 'j'/'g' started sounding just like the 'x' ("sh" sound). The spelling didn't change, but the six sounds had consolidated into four: "ts", "s", "ss", and "sh".
In the 1500s, people started pronouncing the "ts" as if it were just an "s". That left three sounds ("s", "ss", and "sh") that sounded very alike; the only difference is the placement of the tip of the tongue.
That was pretty confusing, so around 1600 people reacted by spreading the sounds apart. The "sh" sound was the one pronounced farthest back (in the middle of the roof of the mouth) and it moved way back down the throat, until becoming a strong "h" (say "ham" like you're drowning - later, in Andalusia and Latin America, it would soften to sound more like in English). That left the "ss" and the "s" up front, with the "s" using the tongue slightly more forward.
(In Mandarin all three sounds are still used, and that's what makes it so hard for people to learn - it has a lot of consonants very close together.)
Anyway, in Castille, the "ss" remained the default s. The "s" moved forward until the tongue was between the teeth - it became like "th" in "think". That's how it remains today... anything written with an 's' is pronounced like Sean Connery's "ss", and the ç lost its tail and nowadays 'c' followed by 'e' or 'i', as well as 'z', are pronounced like "th". In Andalusia (southern Spain) things didn't work out that way. Some of them adopted the "th" but lost the "ss", tho they thay everything like thith. Others didn't adopt the "th" - they left the "s" where it was, and lost the "ss" instead. The Spanish emigrants to the Americans were mostly from those cities, which is why they don't the "th" and don't have Sean Connery "ss"s either.
So basically, the survival of the Sean Connery "ss" in most of Spain forced the weak "s" to become "th".
I've only mentioned Castille (central Spain) and Andalusia (southern Spain) because the other regions had their own languages (albeit very close to Spanish, in most cases). Whenever they had to use Spanish, they spoke whatever the official version was, so they mimicked Castille's changes. Their own languages didn't change though - Catalan and Galician still have most or all of the original sounds I listed above. Languages change faster near capitals or cultural centers - American English is probably closer to what the British spoke in 1600 than modern British English is.
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
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9:44 pm - Acupuncture
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For the last year I've had a chronic stomach problem. With the help of others, I've been able to nail down a description for it: it's like PMS, except year-round. Bloating, pain, cramps, etc., etc., a couple days a week or more.
I've been to doctors. The first didn't find anything, and gave me a prescription to expensive pills that did nothing (prevacid). The last did more tests (like sticking a camera down my throat, and parasite tests), and they revealed that I do not have syphilis. No signs of a cause for the stomachaches. He did find a pill that works pretty well though (zantac). But neither he nor I want me to take it every day for the rest of my life. He was hoping the problem would go away once I took zantac continuously for a month, but it didn't.
So... enough science. A friendly helpfully suggested I eat papaya seeds every day. They taste bad, so they must work! And they did - I went two full weeks without problems until yesterday.
I was at work today (now in SF) and barely able to function. One of my coworkers (no, not Asian) said she gone through an acupuncture regime and it helped with her headaches and stomachaches. Her acupuncturist (not Asian either) had just come back from maternity leave so I should call her! I did, and she doesn't take our insurance anymore. On to plan B.
Plan B is a one man shop in Chinatown, just 10-20 minutes from my office. The guy barely speaks English... between that and my barely-Mandarin, we managed. He did a few checks on me, lay me down, and started with two needles in the legs, then four around my stomach and two on my sides. They don't go in deep at all, so it's just a tiny prick when he pushes them in. But then he hooked electrodes to them! He turned up the juice and they zapped once a second. The ones in the leg made my muscles twitch, but the ones in my stomach felt much sharper, like a static electricity shock. Those hurt a bit. Then he left me there for half an hour, came back and took them out, and gave my stomach a hot herbal compress.
I'm supposed to do it twice a week for several weeks (no, didn't feel any immediate change today). And I'm in no way convinced that I have any qi in me that acupuncture could affect. But I'm that desperate, and it's kind of interesting. I wish I could talk more to the acupuncturist about what's going on. If anyone knows, please tell me.
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| Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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10:17 pm
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Not falling apart like last week anymore, now all I have to deal with is work being hard (boss has sorta gone incommunicado). I can deal with work.
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| Sunday, July 29th, 2007
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5:06 pm
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070729/ap_on_re_us/gang_lawsuits
"Fort Worth and San Francisco are among the latest to file lawsuits against gang members, asking courts for injunctions barring them from hanging out together on street corners, in cars or anywhere else in certain areas.
The injunctions are aimed at disrupting gang activity before it can escalate. They also give police legal reasons to stop and question gang members, who often are found with drugs or weapons, authorities said. In some cases, they don't allow gang members to even talk to people passing in cars or to carry spray paint."
In Spain, during Franco's dictatorship, groups of 3 or more people in the streets were broken up by police, because three people don't talk to one another if not for subversive purposes. It's a good thing things are different here.
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| Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
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6:15 pm
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This weekend I drove an SUV 800km, over roads, rocks, and flowers, intruded into bear territory, set up camp in what was once pristine forest, burned the dessicated remains of a once-proud tree, charred the extremities of a tasty chicken, drank water collected near such terrain that was then bottled and plastic and transported to my grocery store, only to end up back near where it came from, sprayed bugs with poison, and inadvertently gave a vegan serf-grown coffee with condensed milk in it - all to be closer to nature. Yes, camping trip! I went with Evy and her coworkers to Yosemite for the weekend.
I drove the whole way and back, so I can't get away from writing about the SUV. It was a little one, my family's red Honda CR-V, just a wagon's body stuck on a Civic chassis with big tires and a bit of dirt-crawling ability. A little wobbly in the climb to Yosemite (compared to a car, especially to my Miata), but it did great over the rocky paths at the campground. I feel like I've off-roaded! More importantly, it carried four people and our gear with ease (what a lot of gear! does this really count as roughing it?), and it has a picnic table built into the trunk! And I don't know how some of you people manage to ignore their existence, but I found the "Overdrive Off" button and the lower gear selections invaluable for driving in the hills. Automatics are frustrating, but those help in hill/mountain situations.
Since the non-driving parts of our trip were largely in the shade of large trees, my only tans are from driving. My left arm is no longer any recognizable shade of gringo color.
My favorite part - no surprise to those who know me I'm sure - was the night sky. We drove to a meadow and stared up for an hour, and a lot of my constellation knowledge came back to me. Still, I thought they'd be easier to identify when you can actually see all the stars... but it still takes a lot of imagination. And how many years has it been since I've seen the Milky Way without dismissing it as haze?
Our camp neighbors were four cool dudes from SoCal. Tons of fun with them. The hikes, the cooking, the drinking... all great. The high-elevation drop in temperature at night... not so great. I was not ready for that. The end!
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| Friday, July 13th, 2007
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12:25 am
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Just got back from an industry event in Park City, Utah. Nice place, where the '02 Winter Olympics were... nice views all over the place.
I flew in at 2am on Tuesday. The guy next to me on the plane was a 19 year old coal miner. He had left Utah to work in West Virginia, but got hurt skateboarding so he was going back home. His plans were to keep mining coal, or going to work at an oil field. They pay well, but no benefits... and everyone working there expects to get hurt sooner or later, it happens a lot.
I had to wake up at 6:30 this morning. That set the tone for the next two days... tons of caffeine, and after the days' events ended at 5, lots of drinks too. The bars ("private clubs" by UT law, part of an association of which you have to be a card-carrying member to enter, unless they don't care to check) in Park City are excellent. The food too. Lamb burgers, buffalo burgers, pizza... but the locals weren't fat at all, in yet another pleasant surprise. Granted it was a touristy place, but there was nothing weird about that part of Utah.
Then I flew back and just stared at cities at night as we flew over them. I've talked about them before... I could stare at them forever. There's so much to notice.
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| Monday, July 9th, 2007
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10:10 pm
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Today I was stricken (struck? strunk?) with a craving - queso tetilla. That beautifully formed ball of soft white cheese, looking like a cross between a dome and a chocolate chip. But large. Larger than the small pleasures of a single chocolate chip ever could be.
More like boobs. Hence the name, boob cheese. (No, seriously... I'm not making it up.)
But... herein lies the rub. A ball of boob cheese looks 100% like a well augmented boob. Not just in size, but in shape - the resemblance is uncanny. Or so I hear... hypothetically speaking. HOWEVER, the cheese came before the artificially augmented boob - did they name it after normal boobs, not knowing that decades later there would be created boobs that matched the cheese, curve for curve? Do boob augmenters place an untouched (as in not eaten... doubt it's not touched) ball of boob cheese as a model as they perform their craft? How many generations of boobs have been inspired by cheese?
I'm going to go look up pictures of cheese now.
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| Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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9:17 pm
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My coworker is selling his brown/gold 1999 Nissan Altima. 89,000 miles, very well maintained and driven like a granny (but a few hundred in regular maintenance coming up soon). 2.5L inline-4, automatic, leather interior. Nothing great about that year's Altima but nothing bad either. Should be very good for another 7-8 years, then it'll reach the age when automatic transmissions tend to become less reliable. He doesn't have a price yet but they go for something in the five thousands.
Let me know if you're interested.
My dad's Mac continues to be the least reliable computer in the house, but largely because it's the newest and least fixable by me. My brother installed a printer driver and the wireless internet stopped working (mostly - a few websites, like Yahoo but not Google, and one useless Spanish eBay-like website, still work as if nothing were wrong). The problem isn't reproducible at an Apple store. I'm not saying Macs are bad or anything, I just don't get enough time (and don't have enough time to get enough time...).
On the other hand, my computer is finally set up! And Evy, with help from my friends, got me a 20" flat screen monitor! So now my eyes aren't 12" from the screen, despite using a small desk. It's been a productive couple of weeks and I've really become a handyman in the process. I sawed the floorboards for my attic room's bamboo floor and installed them - looks pretty good (and it's a green product!). The same weekend I installed aftermarket coilovers (1-piece shock absorber/spring combination) for my Miata. Two difficult learning experiences with a lot of cuts and bruises on my hands to show for them.
After the Imus controversy in the news, I have a racially insensitive comment of my own to make, that most Chinese American have probably heard from their parents ("Trust me, you don't want to date Korean girls!"): Koreans are especially volatile. Not only do they have a reputation for being short-fused, they seem to make the news often by going to extremes: college student protesters mailing the Japanese prime minister their fresh pinky fingers; people dying of playing video games for 70 hours straight; multiple cases of people setting themselves on fire or drowning in a river "for their World Cup Team;" and being the only group putting up a good self-defense during the Rodney King riots in LA.
I can understand the guy; I've been there (well, not quite!). You get bullied, you see kids who have a lot more with a lot less work. And then you see that they get all the girls. Then you see that they're the ones with the tools to be truly successful in life (initiative, aggressiveness, higher expectations, etc). You know who you are; those who though, upon hearing the Columbine news, "all that time and they only got 15?." Ooh I hope nobody's reading this anymore. Just kidding.
Parijat's right. Mental health services have to improve in scope, exposure, information, and sometimes it just has to be forced upon people.
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| Sunday, March 25th, 2007
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10:51 pm
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I've let this lay fallow for too long. It's probably a forgotten journal by now. But I'm still using the family computer.
I just got back from Seattle; a friend was moving there, by car. I drove up with her yesterday and today and flew back down. We left the plane on one of those ramps they drive up to it and walked to an inflateable terminal twenty feet away. A boy strayed from the path to walk around the airplane and stare at it wide eyed like a little kid. He got shouted at. I was doing the same, and I got shouted at too. As we walked into the terminal he smiled at me.
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| Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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2:18 pm
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On the Spanish news on TV they were showing one of the Carnaval/Mardi Gras festivities in a Galician town. The townspeople collect "furious ants" all year in a box, and on that day they take to the streets and throw them at each other's faces.
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| Sunday, February 11th, 2007
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2:31 pm
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I moved back home and am painting my attic. There's more to it than that, but I haven't been able to set up my own computer yet so I'm barely online, even now.
Question to you Mac users out there... my dad got a MacBook Pro at work (Intel processor) and I've been charged with two tasks:
1) Getting videoconferencing to work in MSN Messenger (or a clone thereof).
2) Getting the streaming radio at www.cadenaser.es to work. (Even in Windows, it doesn't work in Firefox, but IE isn't supported for Mac anymore. Should it work in Safari?)
The last time I was good with Macs was System 7.1. I'm not even clear on where things should go - applications go in Applications, but how is my dad going to find them? Where to plugins go, and do things always download straight to the desktop? I can't even alt-tab between different browser windows unless they're in separate programs. I'm feeling pretty lost.
Any help (or links) would be great, even on basic Mac usage.
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| Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007
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10:22 pm
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POTUS has spoken (President of the US... I love that abbreviation). And he has a plan to save Iraq and cut fuel consumption by 20%! Well no, no plan really, but a desire. I have desires too, and every once in a while they come true...
Webb was great. At first the rebuttal looked like one of those cheap TV ads, but I think he talked about the two things everyone really cares about (Iraq and spending power) and did it well.
I do have an issue with the Democratic position on Iraq. They keep talking about solving it without a troop surge... yeah right. It's fine to argue that we should give up and leave, but don't pretend that we can "win" without going on the offensive. The arguments in favor of leaving are that it's good for our troops, good for our spending ($1.2 trillion already!!), and once we're out of there peace will probably established by someone who's not afraid to massacre entire populations. Oh and the Iraqis would like us to leave. According to Newsweek 74% of them were happy to have us there just after Saddam was deposed, and now it's a number lower than Bush's approval rating - I can see why, because we've totally failed them.
The arguments against leaving are that we got them into the really big mess they're in, and it would be a shame to let things get even worse for the Iraqis. Do we owe them more of our lives? You could say that, I think.
And that 20% less fuel in 10 years thing... that'll be interesting to see. It's likely that we could achieve 20% fewer emissions, but 20% less fuel is hard. The Democrats count on Labor's backing a lot, and lately the focus has been on the loss of our manufacturing jobs, with the auto industry as the big symbol of its decline. The domestic car companies are losing money every year as it is, and the money they do make is from their pickups and large SUVs - they lose money on a lot of their cars and even more on the few hybrids they have (which they sell at a loss to meet certain regulations). So the government will probably tread carefully with fuel economy regulations so it doesn't kill them. No, there's very little reason to respect those companies, but their workers are one of the last bastions of American blue collar workers who are able to attain a high standard of living, something Webb made clear would be on the Democrats' minds.
McCain fell asleep, that was funny.
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| Sunday, January 14th, 2007
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3:49 am
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| Sunday, January 7th, 2007
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2:56 pm
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I've been ill. Caught a normal cold just after Christmas, then last week as it was going away I caught something worse. It's not the bubonic plague or anything; just had to mention it because it's defined my last two weeks. It did require antibiotics and after two days of them I feel much better.
The Christmas highlight was nerf guns! Buy a bunch of cheap ones at Target and enjoy.
New Year's resolution, be more dedicated at work. i.e., regain my ability to really focus, which waned halfway through college. It seems difficult to keep it up an entire lifetime.
During one of the days I was sick during the break, I read an English editorial about motorsports and the environment, stating that motorsports were the only sports incompatible with solutions to global warming. I disagree, I think they're the only sports that have anything to offer to the issue.
First some perspective - powering all 22 cars in all 18-20 Formula 1 races a year takes less fuel than flying one airliner across the Atlantic (planes are as much a problem as cars, unfortunately). The real energy expenditure is in the teams and the fans getting to the venues, which is true for any sport.
But motorsports can do a lot for automotive technology. Not NASCAR - their rules mandate engine technology from the '70s, so you can still complain about them. Hell, they won't even be using unleaded fuel until 2008. The two most influential racing series regarding technology are probably Formula 1 and Le Mans Endurance Races. Outside of the US, they have huge followings that compell auto manufacturers to spend a few hundred million dollars a year trying to look better than the other guy... that's R&D that wouldn't happen if not for sport.
Recently, R&D in Le Mans racing cars has been more relevant to normal cars. Their races are 24 hour races, in which reliability and fewer fuel stops are key. To that effect, Audi came up with the idea of using diesel engines in their car and they ran away with the championship. So now other companies in the same racing series are trying to come up with better diesels of their own, and combined with some help from EU regulations, diesels are advancing artificially quickly in Europe. They've always gotten better mileage than gasoline engines but they've been dirtier - and those emissions issues are finally being solved. The next generation of diesels could compete against hybrids in mileage and CO2 emissions (though they're worse with NOx and particulate emissions).
Honda's engines have benefited a ton from their racing history (e.g. VTEC, which helps as much with efficiency as power), and overall they're the most efficient you can buy. Their influence in Formula 1 is leading to new rules in 2009 which will make energy recovery systems (hybrid systems, like charging batteries from brake heat) a part of the sport. The sad thing is, this will do more for hybrid systems than marketplace competition has.
Oh sure, we all say we'd buy a Prius, but then we see they're selling for an average of $27,000 and buy a $16,000 Corolla instead, or find that the other cars selling for $27,000 are better in other (more tangible) ways. Just look at what people actually end up buying... for all the talk of wanting more efficient cars, people change their priorities when they're spending their money for reals. The result is that only a few companies have bothered selling hybrids and the R&D hasn't been enough to make them all that great. But bring TV ratings into the picture and they'll have more money and more pressure to improve, and some of that should trickle down to us before the ice caps are finished melting.
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| Thursday, December 21st, 2006
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1:08 am
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It's lame that deductions apply to company bonuses. Makes them feel like more salary, not a gift you can have fun with. Or 53% of a gift I could have fun with, in my case.
There's a German U-boat sunken off the Norwegian coast full of mercury. So naturally they're trying to find a way to prevent it from getting out of its storage tanks as the sub disintegrates. This I don't understand:
"After spending three years and about $6.5 million researching the problem, the Norwegian Coastal Administration recommended encasing the submarine with sand to prevent the spread of mercury. The method, it said in a report released Tuesday, had worked 30 times worldwide and was said to be less risky than attempting to lift the 2,400-ton sub."
Now that I think about it, that amount of money makes sense given that employees are billed at high rates that salaries are only a small part of, and they probably did a lot of stuff at sea. But all that, to recommend encasing it with sand? I could've come up with that for $20. I'd design a concrete tomb for $3,800.
Cool story though, it being the sub that was carrying technical documents about the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter, that Japan wanted to copy. A sister sub made it to Japan and led to a Japanese copy of the Me 163 Komet rocket fighter, albeit too late to see combat. If we hadn't dropped the a-bomb and invaded Japan instead, a lot of interesting weaponry would've been thrown at us and model airplane/tank/ship hobbyists would have more cool designs to play with. And it would've been worse, with all civilians between 15 and 60 apparently complying with the order to prepare bamboo spears to fight the invaders on the beaches. The armed forces had been pretty inactive through '45, saving fuel for that fight - the Japanese army would debut the only modern tank it had developed during the war, the Navy was preparing suicide sea-bottom-walkers to blow up landing ships with bombs stuck at the end of 20' poles, and the kamikaze forces had been reduced to using wooden mini-planes that didn't have landing gear.
Japanese culture hadn't been like that before the 1920s; they fought the Russians at the beginning of the century following all the norms of warfare at the time. All it takes is one regime that isn't good at running things any other way... I'd start getting into parallels but it's getting late and I don't know why I'm writing about this anyway. Good night!
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| Wednesday, December 13th, 2006
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2:19 am
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Today we celebrated the return of Edward with two anime episodes (different series) with 172 panty shots between them.
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| Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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2:17 am
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I think I've lost my touch with sidecars. I haven't made one that's come out well in a while.
This week I've been playing Medieval 2: Total War a lot. It's probably my favorite computer game series ever... it's great on strategy (big picture) and tactical (the scale of one battle). The games that go by the name Real Time Strategy are really just build-as-fast-as-you-can competitions. This one has a turn based campaign map that works a lot like the Civilization series, but the battles zoom in to a battlefield that's played out in real time, with large, realistic units of 40-100 men each and lots of flanking. Flanking wins battles. The sieges are awesome too. Unfortunately you need a hell of a computer to run it, so I need to buy new parts.
In my current game as Spain, I'm doing a good job of keeping the pope happy with my kingdom, by going on the crusades he's called and being nice to the other Catholic countries except the ones he's excommunicated. But recently the pope died (of old age) and the newly elected pope is secretly female. Oh and the Moorish prince asked me to kill his dad so he could take over. The pope won't be happy if I become friends with him and stop our war, but what does she know about diplomacy...
After a day I realized that the game's soundtrack was really bland, and it made me miss an old one. I think it's kind of amazing, but I miss Warcraft 2's soundtrack. In its expansion game they got away from the .midi files and had a really good soundtrack that I wish I had, to play Medieval with. I have a copy somewhere... but it's a cassette tape copy, that's how long ago it was.
I miss some of my cassette tapes, but I know I'll never use them again. At home all I do is play mp3's on Winamp - I only use CDs in my car, and soon our cars will have hard drives to play mp3s from them (or a USB plug... that would make more sense I guess).
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| Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
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10:40 pm
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Edward and Diana seem to want me to keep posting here, so here goes...
This weekend, I failed to go Khamly's party in Berkeley because there was a shootout on 880 in Hayward that left a cop injured, a bad guy dead, and a lot of cars full of holes. So the freeway was either shut down or so bottlenecked that it wasn't moving, and I was stuck behind that. Lots of us tried exiting, but that took long enough that by the time I was out I turned back and went home. Blargh.
Earlier that day Sumir, Viktor and I went to the collectibles show in SJ. Lots of old toys, comics, and other junk. A few anime memorabilia stands too. Sumir bought a few 6in-tall Soul Calibur figures, and I got a Rukia figure and a 1:43 1965 Honda F1 car. The one they won their first Formula 1 Grand Prix with, back when no one took them seriously because they were just a small motorcycle manufacturer from a backwater country. We got Justin a couple of Fate Stay Night figures because he had to work that day and he's the one who really needs lives off the stuff.
Today the weather was much better than it has been, so Evy and I drove to Fry's in the Miata, top down, where I resisted the urge to buy Medieval: Total War because Evy said she had a coupon for Best Buy's. And she knew I wouldn't get any sleep tonight if I bought it. Went home to drop off the VCR/DVD player my parents wanted, installed that, we ate dinner, then Evy practiced driving stick. Much, much easier in the Miata than in the Sentra - now she understands why I wanted to buy another so badly. The pedal resistance is so non-linear in that old car, they're impossible to modulate.
After I dropped her off I did my best to get to Best Buy's before it closed, but I was two minutes too late. So no computer games tonight, except for the demo I'm downloading now...
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| Thursday, October 26th, 2006
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| Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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11:58 pm
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I can never convince myself to stop sitting around as if something were going to happen and just go to sleep already.
What am I doing wrong?
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