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Vexille

January 3, 2009
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Last night i watched a movie my brother suggested, Vexille. It’s a japanese cg movie with great graphics, nice storyline and about two hours of entertainment. It takes place in 2077, ten years after Japan has left the UN and isolated itself with an electromagnetic disruption net that prevents even satellite exploration, but limited trade was still going on. The reason for all this is that the UN banned the production of androids and too advanced robotechnology, of which Japan’s megacorporation Daiwa was a main manufacturer. But “now” in 2077 they want to open even broader trade connections with the US, and the story begins with a meeting of (possibly) head politicians discussing the japanese offers. And as usual from such movies, this meeting ends up a bit different from expected, due to the US’ special force SWORD showing up. They figure out that probably japan has developed very high level androids that could be mistaken for a living human, with even the bio-signature imprinted. They start investigating, and a troop goes to Japan–and that’s not simple with a securely isolated island. But what they find is not exactly what they expected. (Spoilers and personal opinion in the following.)

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Simple

December 30, 2008
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Today my life’s quite simple. In the morning (well, rathermore the hours neighboring noon) with a friend we went shopping important stuff for wednesday’s party of new year’s eve (that means we bought as many cans of beer as we could), left the stuff at the victim house and tested a few important devices (toilet, cooker, heating, electricity). Before and after that i’ve been playing StarCraft with my nephew, until he left to hang out with friends (man, how will i make a real kyub out of him?), since then i’m studying. Subject’s linear algebra, those of you who studied it could understand why i love it so much (not). I’m playing with linear equation systems, trying to solve them using basis transformations (i hope that’s what it’s called in english), with more or less luck. Isn’t really that so-very-joyful work, but has to be done because next wednesday i’m having an exam of it… Don’t have to say, i could live without it.

Glamour Pinball tips and tricks

December 27, 2008
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For about a year now i’ve had a Nokia phone—don’t ask exactly what kind, i don’t know. The most important thing is that it has a game called Glamour Pinball. As the name indicates, it’s a pinball (sometimes called “flipper”), and i really enjoy playing it in my spare time, while travelling or when i couldn’t read a book. I’ve been playing it for a while and time by time i encountered “modes” or extras nowhere documented—you can’t really find any resources on the net about this game, that’s why i decided to write this post. I couldn’t attach any pictures and maybe i’m mistranslating a few names, but i’m playing a localised version of the game, so i don’t know how stuff are called in english.

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Death

December 15, 2008
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Today on the bus on the way back to the capital, after reading about thirty pages of Ulysses, i started to think, and what else would pop in my mind than death? (Probably the strange atmosphere of the book has a part in this too.) I wondered what it would be like if someone close to me died. I was lucky enough in the past nineteen years to meet death only once—in third grade a classmate died—so i couldn’t really imagine it what it’s like. Not as if i’d like to experience it that much…

I rather want to stand prepared when it tries to strike. It’s not a nice idea though to think about the death of family members. I wondered how the others would act, and it’s not a nice thing at all. Mourning is not that pleasant thing you’d like to partake in every now and then. I realised that if somehow my parents died, i could only stay sane if there was someone beside me, alone no way.

But i wouldn’t have written about all this stuff if it wasn’t for the plurk, as there a friend is mourning and some people are just senseless and indifferent towards him. It’s so strange to see people fighting over that how bad it is to joke if someone’s mourning a loss, when i think it’s even worse to dishonour that loss by going on swearing and turning against each other, when it’d be a time to collectively support the stricken one.

I wanted to go on about what i’d do in such times, but i have no real idea, so i rather stay quiet.

In the park

December 14, 2008
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In the garden, in the park, on a bench, I sit.
A newspaper floats on the breeze of this late summer.

The Gathering — Analog Park

This two lines of Analog Park are those which made me “love” this song on last.fm. It’s just… so perfect. Though i should rather write “in my room, all alone, on my chair i sit”, because sadly tonight i’m in no park—on thursday i was, in the city park of Budapest, on the icy night of my university. That means all the students go out there skating and drinking boiled wine (which was sadly not the highest quality there), having fun together on till midnight. Well, i left not long after eleven, because i got tired (skating for about two hours non-stop isn’t that light if it’s the first time that winter), so i said farewell and luckily got on the last bus home.

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Divided

December 11, 2008
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I’m divided too, just as the green liquid on this photo, but not in two halves but between studying and all else. Anyway, if i couldn’t write anything sane, i’ll at least show you a deviation i found not so long ago.

Title: Divided
Creator: `Davenit

Ubuntu

December 5, 2008
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That’s a nice word in some african languages, i think zulu, maybe? It’s a nice idea, anyway about the universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity (now i’m quoting the Wiktionary page of the word). Anyway, i’m not going into linguistics now, rather into the open source community. I’ve installed Ubuntu, and it works fine and well. Tomorrow will be its grand test when at home i’ll try out if that proprietary driver for my wireless card it installed works as it should. I hope it does. I already managed to share the Pidgin and Firefox profiles between Windows and Ubuntu, though making my heart stop for a few minutes. The Pidgin one wasn’t as simple as with Firefox, i had to add a parameter to the shortcut so that it’d launch with the profile files loaded from the Windows version’s folder (mounted under linux too). But i accidentally typed the “and” in “Documents and Settings” with a capital A—and because of that my Windows profile wouldn’t launch and that scared the deep burning hell out of me. But i figured out what the problem was (it was strange there were two “Documents and Settings” folders, and then i just had to find out which one was the original), so it should work all right now (since then i haven’t launched Win, but i hope it’ll work as it should).

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#!/bin/sh

November 30, 2008
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I’m a bit fed up with that lately all i’ve been writing strangely always begins with #!/bin/sh. Those who know what this means are either totally sympathetic or totally confused. Those who don’t: i’ve been bash shell scripting the past day. Rather say the weekend. It was fun… as long as i could find the corresponding manuals without going back to the 179th page of the Google results, and everything worked as it should’ve. It’s not simple if it’s your first time coding shell without any proper education of it before. And somehow when they’d been teaching us that stuff whenever it did something strange, they just looked at it and responded with a shrug. Now that’s not exactly what’s useful when i can’t get a relatively simple script to work, as it turned out, because shell is extra-super sensitive to whitespace. If you want to assign value to a variable, it crashes if there’s any around the equation sign, but on the other hand, if you’re comparing values or variables (eg in an if statement), there have to be spaces around the comparison operators. The single- and double-quotes (‘ and “) also function just as in php: if you try to get the value of a variable inside single quotes, that won’t work as you want, but it will with double quotes. The troublesome with this is that when you’re debugging the string it seems to be inserting the correct values…

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Eventlessness

November 29, 2008
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Today was, well, kind of eventless. I woke up just about an hour later than i wanted to, but i couldn’t make myself crawl out of bed when my phone rang around eight in the morning. Then i hurried to the university and worked until two pm with Ai on our homework for “compintro” (introduction to computer science), which was quite fun (bash (shell) scripting some interesting stuff). Then i had lunch and hurried with packing so that i could catch the 3.30 bus—which naturally i missed. But got on the 4.00 one, so i got home sometime around six, and since then i was translating Bleach subtitles (fansub, you see) for Hidden Leaf Team. I’ve done two and a half now, and will do the other half and one more tomorrow. That leaves two for sunday and one for monday. That’s quite much seeing that the coming three weeks i’ll have tests and exams in all my subjects at the university, so i’m supposed to study all day and all night like hell. Luck i’m writing good summaries so i can quickly understand all that stuff which i couldn’t when i was making notes. The weekend won’t be idle for sure.

Wounded

November 26, 2008
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My knee hurts like hell, and that wound just doesn’t want to heal yet. I don’t want to be complaining, because i knew all too well how it’ll end if i went out playing soccer on ice and snow, but still it hurts. Hope it won’t last long.

But at least i’m more or less done with my “portfolio” website, and i’d be very interested to hear all comments and critiques you have up your sleeve (by the way, that goes to all websites i publish as complete ones). The third one i’ll be doing—beside totally rebuilding the blog—is the photo site, but that’s not anytime near, since i first want to get a proper machine with which i could shoot photos the way i want (i’ve been long planning a specific one with extra-long shutter speed), and i first need to get the money for it, and that’ll take a while for sure.

Now—since i have free time till two pm—i’ll be having fun. Having fun this time means learning spanish and doing the german homework (hopefully learning something then too), and trying to solve the math intro homework problems i couldn’t yet. All this listening to Mägo de Oz and Ska-P—both spanish and sound great. (I’m thinking about integrating a last.fm widget in the blog too.)