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Worth sharing, part two

Worth sharing was intended with content that got its place only in this post. I didn’t think i’ll end up writing that much stuff without any particular topic. I wanted to show off a few stuff i stumbled upon in the past few days… But indeed, that feels so empty. Then this post will be empty.

First a drawing of Mickey Mouse and Goofy going punk—too bad tumblr images can’t be easily traced back to the tumblog that posted them, else i’d link there. By the way, i like this version of the characters more, feels closer to me—wonder why. Punk was there at the start of my real musical life, the time i was reborn from the world of Vengaboys and radio pop into what slowly would become what i am now. Actually at first i listened to more punk than metal. It was so long ago, my last.fm couldn’t record it. How could it, last.fm was barely founded then! Looking back, that time i was often playing some war game on my sis’ Win 3.1 computer, i forgot its name… But at least found an online Win 3.1 imitation, it’s funny that a website could act as if… Anyway, since then the hammer-wielding long-haired metal bands won the fight, and then let “equality” rule my music tastes—”equality”, since they would stay the dominant element anyway. The most recent “diplomat” in there is the russian band Слот, the Слот I album of whom i nicked off Olga’s pendrive when i copied the last TBBT (soft kitty…—heh, spoiled) for her. Although i can only read and not understand, that worked (works) well with Ленинград, and works here as well. I understood Хаос (after all, i’m doing a report about it, i mean chaos, just in theeconomy), and it turned out to be a great song

(Not so empty as expected.)


Worth sharing

Lately i had hardly anything to write about. Of course i can go diary or post random deviantArt favourites, but that’s not really the interesting content that i like to write. And this tendency won’t be changing in the coming week, as i have three reports, a presentation and an exam to prepare for, just to be followed by more exams a few days later. It’s plain delightful.

In school time i just leave my computer with torrent on, and turn it off when i get home. This way my downloading doesn’t disturb anyone – most people are in class, and those who are not are so few that my 150k share of the bandwidth doesn’t effect them much (i hope). And i’m in serious need: as written earlier, i caught up to the series that more or less kept me sane the past three months with doses of laugh for lunch- and dinnertime, and i can already feel the withdrawal symptoms.

So i started getting and watching stuff, anime (Digimon Savers, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Samurai Champloo, Cowboy Bebop) and other series (Firefly, as for now, beside How i met your mother, Big Bang Theory and Skins, and planning IT crowd, Weeds and Californication) as well. Lucky Wendy has the space for them.


Try to

Be different by =armene, the next one of the Series, which is nearing it’s end, and actually was inspired by this very photo, if i remember right. I really like the colors… i’m working on a design based on a scheme kuler made out of it, tweaked a bit.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110812164433im_/http://blog.valerauko.net/devfav/Be_different2_by_armene.jpg

Speed of sound

This day seems to be good, but i will be dead and drained in not all that many hours. Reason: i’ve to prepare a presentation out of the outline of my economy report, which will focus on chaos in economics. Luckily, thanks to the great help of Google, i could as for now seem to have been able to collect sufficient resources, printed roughly eighty pages of journal articles, which i will read now. And then write an outline and do some lame powerpoint show for background.

My lunch was yellow, meaning i used a lot of turmeric, ginger and that’s mostly all there was to it, except for some weed i bought yesterday in Hanamasa, which is surprisingly hard even after boiling, but has a really nice taste.

Also, at least a pair of supersonic jets (army, oh sorry, pardon me, self defence force, most probably) is circling around here pretty low, so every fifteen minutes or so i can hear them, even if not see too much because of the dark. I could see them twice when i went to buy milk—and print the last of the economy sources i’ll use, and which i’ll start reading right now…


Sleep

Before going to sleep, i wanted to give this day something cheerful and nice, something that will warm me and you all up, something that could make me smile no matter how brain drained i am. So here comes the “twin picture” of from the white island, Move closer, of course again by ~st3fan3lboby. It’s exactly how it should be. She joins Stripes in the club of photo-perfect girls (meaning perfect among ones i have not met). This photo is teh love.

Move closer

Wendy

Wendy is my new external hard drive. She just arrived this evening, and it was love at first sight. She’s small (roughly the size of my aircon remote) and beautiful and black, with a bright white led showing when she’s paying attention. She’s fast like hell, i think moving my stuff from the internal to her was quicker than moving between internal partitions. Our relationship is just blooming, so i shouldn’t go into intimate details, but i don’t think i’ll ever get enough of her. She might be small on the outside, but she’s 320 gigs inside, and that’s four times the space i lived with the past many years! (Ever since i’ve got my first laptop, because when that broke, i got the old drive in the “new” one.) She’s very quiet, and although looks hot, she doesn’t get a temperature.

I watched the second episode of Skins season four just now (love the way the dad of the twins talks), and there wasn’t a glitch. I also backed out my whole music collection, and it took no longer than reading a page of World Embryo manga (roughly twenty minutes, which might be surprising for a manga page, but it really took that long because the network connection simply stopped functioning after eight pm, all the nice folks running their porn pr0n torrents full speed in peak hours).

But now’s the time to say Wendy good night and go to sleep.


Chaos

Again, i’m taking a dive into chaos theory, for the sake of my economy report. As easy to guess, i’m trying to find an interesting part of economic science where chaos plays a nice part and is not such a hell to describe without going into page-long formulae and alike. So far the most interesting part came up in a presentation by Benoit Mandelbrot, actually one of the main points of it, the usage of price graphs as sounds. Or maybe something else if i can find. But because of that, i mean the Brownian noise mention in there, i was listening to “brown noise” since then.

And while i was typing this post, i decided to have a run at the library and print another paper about chaos theory—i only hope it’ll be useful for the economy part as well. And i asked for suggestions for a good topic from a few friends studying economy for longer, and i repeat that here: if you have a good idea, don’t hesitate.

The other event of the day was that i tried a method for fixing that the hair not in the dreads grows longer and longer, one i’ve seen when i got it fixed in december. It works indeed, but if overdone it hurts like hell, so i’ve got a few sensitive spots on my head right now…


Stripes

Again, this week’s episode of the Series, this time it’s pink and black and toe and as close to perfection as could be, meaning i only know three better from my twenty years of experience. Stripes by ~possession really hits that button with “turn on” written on it.


FCUK

Complementing the earlier rant, here goes a nice photo by *angelreich, of Hong Kong “greeting” people. Certain comments make it even funnier.


Heavy rant

I’m pissed off. Very pissed off. It seems that our asshole dear history teacher has that strange disorder that i already observed multiple times in japanese people: even if you speak to them in japanese, slow and clear japanese just to be sure, they simply won’t understand. Probably they think that it won’t make any sense anyway, or that i stupid foreigner must want to mean something else that i can’t put in words. Last time he announced that we have to write about Fukuzawa Yukichi, who played a huge role in the changing age (menopause?) of the Meiji restoration. But it was unclear (to me) whether we have to write about that beforehand or only in the exam, i asked and “he” told me it was just in the exam. (I always ask at least twice again after the answer, just to make sure.) Now he told us we have to write at least 1000-2000 characters beforehand and the main points of that in the exam. I’m happy i can’t kill with my eyes or i’d be a murderer by now.