So in preparation for the longer periods i’ll be spending away from home during the summer (and also a “long-time investment”), i bought an ASUS X201E notebook. It’s not a powerhorse, but it’s cheap and good enough for what i need it for (translating and checking email). It arrived the other day, and i had some fun setting it up.
The charm of code
The past few weeks i’ve had a few chances to look at code. Snippets showing the newest cutting edge features of PHP. A fun online JavaScript console one of my twitter friends made. A multifunctional IRC bot written in Python. Some fun pieces of Ruby code. My own archives from the Java class I took last semester.
Unity again
Remember how I said two years ago that Ubuntu devs should first get Unity to work and then put it in a live release? Well, it all worked quite well… Until the last distro update messed things up again as usual.
Ozzfest 2013 Japan
It was great. (As expected.) There were awesome bands that i’d never heard about before. On the first day I was drenched in sweat (and very grateful that i had about 2000 calories for breakfast) by the fourth artist on stage, and by the end of the day i could hardly turn my head.
Dear music industry,
You’re hilarious. Cheers!
I’m doing a presentation on friday about the reasons, effects and possible countermeasures of piracy, and of course for that i need industry data. Preferably lots of it. Numbers, charts, and from reliable, referable sources too. That of course first led me to RIAA. If you somehow manage to suppress your sudden urge to throw up reading such horribly phrased, blatant propaganda against piracy (i mean, i know that “piracy is a bad thing”, but couldn’t they at least attempt to conceal their philosophy of “if you copy a song you’re a thief and deserve to die”?), it comes to view that most statistics (except for last year US sales) are not free. This is of course to be expected, but i’d rather not pay if there was data available for free as well. Not to mention that since i live and will do my presentation in Japan, i’d prefer global data instead of US-only.
Difficulty in Skyrim
I started a new character in Skyrim a week ago, and for some reason the game set itself to expert difficulty. It’s weird.
Hunting for jobs
Yeah, it’s not fun. Especially now that a certain music label giant’s group thought that my ideas to fight piracy the smart way instead of by brute force were not good enough, I’m not even really motivated.
Local jungle
A while ago i bought a Kindle-only book on the american Amazon. Now that i got a smartphone i thought why not get the Kindle app so that i could read stuff when bored on the train. I did get the app, but for some reason my books wouldn’t show up.
Black Mirror
A while ago I read about Black Mirror on Boing Boing, and even though i have a huge backlog of series i watched before (sitcoms, Misfits etc), i decided to give it a try. You should as well.
Anime
In the past week I think I watched more anime than otherwise in a whole year. I finished Strike Witches, i watched Railgun, Code Geass (both seasons) and Steins;Gate.
As a result, my biorhythm is an ugly mess. I’m actually making some “effort” to sleep at more healthy times for more healthy intervals, but of course that’s easier said than done. Especially when thursday nights i’m translating three shows – it was originally two, but for a few weeks now the translator for Sasami has been busy with school (i think), leaving me in charge of the show.
