Tag: english

Emo? Not really…

Now in the evening i’m tired, and just as a baby cries and stuff when he’s sleepy, so i get very easy to get pissed off. And i’ve been listening to Nirvana all afternoon because my files were mistagged and i’ve to get back the play count on last.fm. What i concluded is really simple: emos, you’re doing it wrong.

So many of emos claim that their way of thinking is originated from Kurt Cobain and the grungy lyrics of Nirvana. It’s not. Emo kids were screwed up way before they first heard and could appreciate the greatness of Nirvana. They were mentally damaged by the constant flow of those hideous fantastic sad love songs from the radios in the ’90’s (and any other time as well, but seems Chernobil had its effects worldwide). I heard it too, but i rather had fun listening to kid tapes by the Smurfs.

Kurt Cobain and his pals in Nirvana wrote great songs. The Nevermind album only, not counting all of their other songs (even though i’d feel bad if i didn’t mention Lake of Fire in a post related to Nirvana) is worth more than the whole dozen-disc discographies of other artists. The songs might be depressing for some, not for me though, but still, cutting yourself and looking gay is not the way to express your dissatisfaction and/or sadness. When Kurt Cobain went sad panda, he wrote In Utero, but when that didn’t work, he just put a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. (Disclaimer: i didn’t check what kind of weapon it was or where he was shot, nor do i consider the possibility of Courtney Love or anyone killing him now.) I do suggest that instead of showing off with your scars on your wrists try following that example. (Disclaimer: i do not encourage suicide or suicide attempts or damaging oneself, also any similarity between this post and reality is purely coincidental.)


Trip

Plans are, i’m going to Okinawa (main island) for a week or so in the end of august (0825~0901). If anyone wants to tag along, hurry up because the plane tickets are selling out faster than StarCraft 2 (which i’ll be getting in a matter of days, because due to the exams i couldn’t play for a week now anyway).

Also, just a few days after that, i’m planning to go China, mostly Shanghai. I don’t know if i’ll be able to go to Beijing as well, i hope so. It’ll be decided in a few days anyway… Again, i’m looking for people who want to come along, naturally any chinese language knowledge would be greatly appreciated as i speak totally and absolutely no chinese, though i might be able to figure out the very rough meaning of the half of a written text.

These are my summer plans, for most of it. Maybe also Tokyo for one or two days, so i could buy myself some cheap cheese and meet “old friends”. Also there will be a club trip to somewhere in late september and i’ll be going home for christmas, and also to the school ski trip sometime in february, but that’s still far, far away.


No effect

I realized that tho for a while the Mintia Dry Hard mzs/x senpai suggested worked as expected, by now i pretty much got used to caffeine. That means that if i have one of that candy (?) in hopes of waking my brain up, it has no effect, but when it finally wears out, i fall back down and the sleepiness gets even worse. So i decided to restrict myself to coffee, although coffee hasn’t been able to keep me awake for about a year now, maybe some hidden placebo effect will.

I’ll need it. Six exams in the coming eight days, one of which is a core subject and beside that three more will probably be crazy difficult if not impossible to score well. I’m looking forward to getting over with them.


Community software my ass.

One of the “great advantages” of linux is its supposed community support and that it’s developed by the users and anyone can take part and… Okay, stop there. You can take part in development if you are a crazy programmer and are able to find all the newsgroups and mailing lists and bug report places where some of the actual development is going on. Community support is probably there, just i don’t seem to be able to find it.

I don’t know if linux development is still separated from the web and takes place in other parts of the internet, but whatever the case, usual searches, however i try to refine my queries, don’t really bring the results i look for. And if finally i get bored with googling for hours just to find something that seems at least related to the problem i’m having, but yet provides no help, and i go to ubuntuforums.com and post my supposedly idiotic etc questions, no one gives a fuck to respond. Community support is a really nice concept, but if the whole community is only asking questions and no answers, it’s no point. Also, on that very forum website, apparently necroposting (posting in old topics) is not possible. So even if i found a workaround around a problem googling for which led me to that topic, i can’t post any helpful response there. How clever. On anime fan forums where they are boasting with pride about the number of topics and stuff, banning necroposting is acceptable even if i don’t agree with it. But seriously, on a support forum?

Also it’s funny that i’m every now and then facing problems that looking at forum posts were problems five years ago as well. Here you go, fantastic development of linux! Not able to fix reported bugs in five years? And while it’s really nice if the system natively recognizes the media control buttons of my laptop and i can control my mail led just by echoing 1 into /sys/class/leds/asus ::mail/brightness, not being able to use my wireless, my infrared and my webcam’s permanently flipped upside down, and i have no way to fix it, now that ruins the picture.


I need help

My scholarship arrived yesterday, so now i started planning. I want to build myself a desktop computer, that won’t get terribly old until i graduate, and will be able to run StarCraft 2 on max quality. Also, it would be nice if most of its parts (especially wireless, infrared and audio) would be fully usable with linux. I have a total budget of about 1000 usd for the purpose (with everything included). What i want is a powerful machine in a case as small as possible, and a over-20″ monitor. Of course as high-end as possible out of that money.


Digimon Xros Wars ep 03 eng sub by OD-WPP

This one was messy. We realised that something was amiss when both the ts raw and the subtitle script from that ended in the middle of the episode. Meaning, roughly half of the raw was missing. Nevertheless, i did my translation of that part, then it was just waiting, hoping there was someone else recording too so that there will be a raw, any raw available that we could use. Luckily, there was.

So now both torrent and download of the english fansub of Digimon Xros Wars episode 03 is available at OnlineDigimon. Check it out, it’s worth it. There’s a nice bunch of fighting, my favourite Dorulumon shows up again and MadLeomon makes his return as well. So do the other humans, although i bet Taiki and the others expected some other kind of greeting from the other Generals. Watch it already!


Now’s the time

It’s my first exam today on economic risk, and this is one of the rare times when i could use a slate. We are free to use whatever resources we can on the exam, papers, notes, electronic dictionary, whatever. I was gathering such resources today mostly on Wikipedia and it’s a huge amount. Way too much to print, especially considering that i’d probably never use those papers again, but still i’d need some reference. That’s where a good slate would come in.

Although, roughly 30 open browser tabs could possibly cause problems there as well… Whatever, i don’t have a slate (and except for the current situation, i don’t have problems with that) so i’ll just make some notes. Might also be easier to systematize after writing it down my waaay.


Every time

Every ten minutes inspiration slaps me in the face with a big stinky fish so that i want to rush to the blog admin instantly to write an über-cool post, but then as soon as i open a new browser tab, all the inspiration disappears as if it was never even there to begin with. Whatever.

We had a bit of a problem with subbing the third Digimon Xros Wars. Not really past tense, but it seems we’ll manage to get a low quality english sub out in reasonable time. The problem was that the ElitistFags raw that’s kind of the only available TS raw of the episode, was corrupted and roughly half of it is missing. So we had to work off a low quality stream found on some anime website.

Also, using my extreme high level bookkeeping skills learnt at master Inayama in the Real Life rpg, and some basic Excel (sorry, OO Calc) techniques, i managed to calculate that i don’t need a job this summer after all, i can enjoy my freedom completely.

Tomorrow’s the risk exam, but… well, i might be facing optimism bias, but we can use whatever we want from books to dictionaries and i can write in english as well, so i can’t really help feeling safe. In english i could write the required length even if i had no idea about the topic.


Starbucks Tanzania

Just finished my pack of Starbucks Tanzania, and i have an overall positive opinion of it. It’s a medium body African coffee. The freshly ground coffee has a very organic aroma, with hints of that citric freshness that’s mentioned on the packaging. However later on it’s hardly recognizable. It has something lighter coloured in it as well, i don’t know if that’s something non-coffee in the blend, or just light coloured coffee beans. Also, the steam of the freshly brewed Tanzania coffee doesn’t really have any distinguishable flavours to it, it’s just coffee, but a nice one of that.

The coffee itself tastes fresh, just as the freshly ground beans mentioned above. On the other hand, i couldn’t really find that berry flavour described as the most dominant on the packaging. But because of that nice fresh taste it’s perfect for a light summer coffee, as it doesn’t feel all that hot as one would expect from a cup of hot coffee.

Also, Tanzania is limited edition, but i’ve no idea until when it’s available. It sure was available back in 2007 once already, but i know nothing more about it. Out.


[OD-WPP] Digimon Xros Wars episode 2 english sub

The english subtitled second episode of Digimon Xros Wars is out at OnlineDigimon. I hurried with the translation as much as possible, but with editing and encoding and all the stuff it ended up being released just today. There’s torrent and direct download available as well as a discussion thread at OnlineDigimon.

The title of the episode is “Shoutmon, roar!” (シャウトモン、吠える). It’s really worth checking out, as “ep 02” ended up quite dramatic for a second episode. Watch it and you’ll know!