I bought Pocky today, a nine-pack again, and i ate five of them after my late lunch. Then as i opened the fridge, the tempter came to me and whispered in my ear: eat all the remaining too!
So far i managed to withstand. I should put on some Neal Morse albums to play to support me.
Well, i would, were i not watching Dr Who. It’s so fifties. Also, makes me realize how i love the british accent. I’m at episode 3 of the first season from 2005, and it’s overloading me.
Closing in on Tokyo with my (not) extremely fast train i spent the last half an hour or so figuring out what i’ll do once i arrive. Ended up having a few beers in a nice english bar in Yokohama with Rado and a bulgarian senpai at whose place i crashed for the night. Next day i headed for Ikebukuro, got my hair cut and partially dyed green, then i walked around town, trying to find a certain russian sushi bar, or just see vending machines flying around, but i didn’t even see anyone wearing yellow scarves. Then i went to Odaiba, where i wanted to check one certain shop i’ve been to once, a long long time ago, but i forgot which station it was at, so i spent two hours walking around pointlessly and without any success. So i decided to head for Musashisakai, where i got enough cheese to (hopefully) last until winter (that Hanamasa is pretty much the only shop in this country where i know i can get reasonable amounts of cheese for a reasonable price), had a menma-don in a Sukiya, then had a coffee in Kichijoji and checked if the Aladdin bars were selling hookah or not (they weren’t), then off to Takadanobaba, where a japanese friend’s band were practicing.
It was strange. I went by normal trains, so it took a while, but i can say i’m kind of used to it… Used to sitting on the train for eight hours, and changing trains in Maibara, Toyohashi and Atami (and usually one more station between the latter two, most often Hamamatsu). What i was not expecting was a very tough headache that started somewhere around Toyohashi that prevented me from reading anything, as i rather closed my eyes and tried to sleep, and a few stations after Atami it got so bad that i had to get off the train at some random station, or else i’d have thrown up in the train.
Luckily a good night’s sleep cured it. Still no idea what caused it…
A whole new GUI, Unity: +1
The total unusability of said GUI: -5
GUI animations in Gnome got very choppy: -3
Firefox 4: +2
Reinstalled all the default Ubuntu apps i removed (like Evolution, Empathy) and set them as default without asking anything: -1
Reset my custom keyboard layout: -2
Aegisub 2.1.8 crashes right after launch: -4
Suffer with building Aegisub from SVN for hours: -3
Actually get it working: +2
Doesn’t recognize a working PPPoE connection: -1
Current total of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal’s puberty points: -14
Do not want.
As i learnt on friday.
We had a club dinner and many of the new first-years were there too. One of them mentioned that he likes L’Arc~en~Ciel and asked me if i knew it. (Yeah, every japanese is surprised when i reveal that i actually do know a bit of the japanese music scene, even if it’s really just a bit. Of course they are first and foremost surprised by the fact that i can communicate in japanese without destroying all cultural conventions. Or at all, for that matter.) I was like, sure, i’ve heard about it, and probably heard a few songs, but i’m not really into visual kei…
I assumed that L’Arc was kind of visual kei from the fact that most of my acquaintances who like the band are into viskei bands a bit too creepy for my tastes.
The face of the first-year in question showed his thoughts. First: “did he really just say that?”, then “did he really intend to say that?”, then “how am i supposed to tell a scary gaijin senpai that he’s stupid?”. Then another guy told me, “L’Arc fans get mad when told that”…
Thus i learnt that L’Arc~en~Ciel is not visual kei. The hard way. Okay.
Didn’t mention it before, but thursday i translated the last two episodes of Madoka. It’s over. You can join the Church if you want, i’ll pass on that.
If you don’t know what this is about, you missed the anime of the winter season or possibly even of the year.
Also, yfw dat end.
A while ago somewhere i read the anime title “Real Drive”, and it sounded interesting, so i checked it out. Let me sum it up in one word: no.
It is exactly what you can see on this picture. Fat girls and old people. Okay, there might be quite long and quite boring dialogs too, and some nice tech ideas, but other than that it’s pretty much unwatchable.
Drop after two episodes. I think this is a new record.
A while ago i saw a certain pic on /a/, one featuring a boy standing in front of a mecha. I liked the art style so i asked, and it turned out to be from Eureka Seven. Then during the netless days of early april, i decided to start watching it, then i just couldn’t stop. Watched the first 25 episodes in a day, then the other 25 in the matter of another few days. Then for days i was rewatching the last few episodes over and over again.
I solved those problems. I was googling hard, i read dozens of bug tickets and launchpad threads, and though i couldn’t really find anything that exactly matched the problems i had, the intersection of the suggestions always included using pppoeconf, so i gave it a try, ran it, then rebooted and now everything works fine and smooth. I still have no idea what the true nature of the problem was, but it’s fixed so i can’t really care anymore.
So, i got my internet connection back up, but however much i’d love to say “all right”, that wouldn’t be true. I have some problems with it. I’ve to note that i didn’t test every possible combination thoroughly.
The problem is: under Ubuntu, some websites time out. They are not related to each other in any way, not geographically nor based on content. Then, some secure websites load without stylesheets and scripts in Chrome, but load all right in Firefox. Some websites load if i proxy through Tor. Also, Filezilla (and gftp too) is unable to transfer files to/from certain ftp hosts – while some other hosts work all right. Again, no geographic or any such relation between the hosts.
The tricky part is, it all works fine on Windows (at least the problems with Chrome and secure websites and ftp transfers do), so i guess it’s some kind of configuration problem, but i tried all i could find and i couldn’t figure what could be causing it.
On Windows (7) i have the default settings with the username and password for the DSL connection (PPoE). On Ubuntu, i also have the default settings, but i tried changing them, because who knows, it might be some cutting edge tech not yet supported by the servers, but to no effect.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
