Things that Karl as linked me that I find enjoyment in and therefore share:

Protest on Global Warming:



And when this comes into production, I want to buy one for Penny:
http://www.toxel.com/inspiration/2009/02/06/sharky-tea-infuser-by-pablo-matteoda/



I realized this morning that my alarm clock is 12 hours off.

I had a weird nightmare- it started out in like the third story of a huuuuge high school or college, I was in class, and what I thought was the hull (minus wings and tail) of a plane crashed down outside the window. We rushed to look...oddly..at the other side, into the huge stadium in the center of the school, which was wrecked and doomed'd, and oddly, full of large four-lane highway pieces.

So we (the classroom people) and I went out of the classroom to see what happened with the plane thing. At one point, I was trapped at the dead end hall as this large hulky greenblue thing, that seemed docile enough but you just KNEW it was bad, was coming towards me, and I tried to slide away, and discovered that there was actually an elevator there, so I escaped to the ground floor OK.

Oddly, the 'plane' was not on fire, and even more oddly, it turned out to be like a dud nuclear missile that was leaking nasty green gas. STRANGELY ENOUGH, people were starting to turn into monster like things, only I seemed to really be noticing, and I was fleeing through the city trying to avoid the half-human creatures that didn't even seem to realize themselves what they were becoming. (There seemed to be three types, one mostly humanoid but very wrinkly, deeply tanned or burned, and aggressive but still human, and that blue hulking thing with elongated limbs, and another scarier one that I can't recall well.)


Seeing as this city wasn't safe, I went to the exit gate (Apparently, now the city was surrounded in a very high cement wall with select windows and exits.) with the intent to leave.

And, as I looked out, I saw that the rest of the world around us had been decimated- there were no tall buildings, and everything else was buried in ash. Most memorable to me now, being awake, was seeing a schoolbus half-drowned in the brown grey ash. It was at this point that I felt incredibly depressed and not wanting to be here, and thereby forced myself to wake up. (A trick I have seemed to have mastered, now!)

I'unno if this was after or before I decided to wake up at the moment of realizing that the city full of monsters was the only city alive, but at some point, myself and one other person were like..using flying devices..to check out the world- it had become an adventure/FPS type game. We met wolves in the dust-snow. A pack of six wolves, white and grey, and pretty thin were quite happily living it up, and not mutated.

Following that line, later on (or maybe before?), I was apparently part of a large family, the youngest or so, and decided to run off. I was followed by an older brother, who..brought..boots? Because I had neglected to take any shoes with me. I think he could shapeshift into a wolf, or I could, or we both could... I was..going somewhere, dunno, and at some point acquired a car on a snowy hill and couldn't park it. So I was driving up and down hills trying to get it to slow down enough to stop, before I had to ram it between two trees. I dun really remember much beyond that~!




Star Wars Galaxies EMU is close to being complete, they say summer 2009- and it is summer 2009! There is much anticipation in the WH. The Nova Test server is up, which is fun to pal around on, but I don't want to get too much done 'cause the char'd just be wiped for Live. If Penny and Kith have any interest a free SWG MMO (It's Pre-CU, which means, before Sony fucked over a good sandbox MMO) they should pesker me for the files they need~

Summergale~

So, Karl and I did our first game work for the summer! I really enjoyed the brainstorming session, Nick and I are on the same page design-wise, I think, but different enough to make good tweaks.


It's gunna be pretty fun, even with a slightly painful one month two week deadline for two games.



I heard a remake of an apparently old song in a WoW video, I quite like the guy's voice, but the chick's is a bit lacking. The lyric modification was pretty clever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hgcy6bsg4g
I like this version better than the actual song: Timbaland - The Way I Are (Ohgodgrammar.)


In other band news: She Wants Revenge, and Cobra Starship are on my list of interest. Okay, She Wants Revenge is beyond my list of interest, I adore quite a few of their songs. <_<


LoTRO went back and renovated a lot of their lowbie areas- and it's -really- impressive. I'm once again struck by the quality of work Turbine turns out. They might just be the one big game company I'd like to work for. Mebbe followed by Stardock...


So, like, I turn 21 in like four months. I will buy me some Hard Lemonade~! Dunno why that came up.


Karl's house is the Moth Mecca. When we walked out to my car, it was like Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Moths.' There were at least one hundred of them. Karl was joking about bug spray and a lighter. <_< I wish he was impulsive enough to convince that it'd be way more fun than the dangerous idea that it is.


I'm currently running an experiment on a site Karl linked me, at alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve . The computer tries to create an image from randomly generated vectors. It's pretty sweet. I have a pic of Trauma running through it, and it's been 2d 3hrs 30 minutes, and if you saw the picture it was generating from, you could tell what it was...but..otherwise it's pretty abstract. We'll see how long it takes until I accidentally shut down my laptop. (Lappy is running it.)


Got my Terabyte harddrive. Turns out I only have two SATA ports on my mobo. (Even though it has SPOTS for 4, it's a cheaper made, so it only has two implimented.) So I had to buy a PCI thinger that gives me two extra SATA and an IDE port. For now, I'm living without a DVD drive~


Oh, bought Tales of Phantasia for the GBA used~ Ysssss.

Oh what the hell, she says. I just can't win for losing.

Uh, lessee. The final for my interim COMM 344 class is on the 26th. Interim classes are pretty nice, really. Just a few days of bulling through, and it's done quick.

The contract for the project I was supposed to work on this summer finally got approved, so we'll start work on that this upcoming Wednesday, at 15$ an hour.

The cat I'm babysitting got an abscess. Because it happened to Trauma, I recognized what it was. I ended up having to take Mia across town to her vet, since mine was booked- the same services that cost me about 69$ for Trauma cost 105$ for Mia, unfortunately. At least she has parents to pay for it. Annoyingly, the abscess was a weird shape, so it's still kinda filling up with fluid. Since she's already on antibiotics, I figured I could drain it just as well as a vet could, and have been doing so. (I did call and check with the emergency vet (weekend) to ensure that this was Ok, and they said yes.) So now I'm on cat-abscess draining duty. It's gross, and upsets my stomach a little every time I do it, but...well, what else can I do? Anyway, cat leaves July 1st ish.

Ellen officially moved out. Not really..super keen on getting a new roomie. Hopefully this 15$ an hour job can cover utilities...but not if Mother carries through on her threat to make me pay for my tuition. I miss Penny/Kith. They should come room again. <_<

Played four or so hours of Hunter: The Reckoning with Karl and Justin tonight. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it, even as it's an action RPG shooter type and Justin and Karl are way beyond me in skill. We even beat the vampire boss on our second try. My hands hurt. The original Xbox controllers suck.

Been doing a little writing, too. 

Justin gave me a pair of giant sausage things. Apparently he felt bad because I had been whining about money and then my usual sulk about not having any food- and so he shared a stash he picked up for super cheap at a bargain mart. It was amusing and odd. New thing to add to my collection of randomly given food! (Notably: french fries, skittles, and now two giant sausages.)

I have a new song to like: Rob Thomas's 'Her Diamonds.' A recent fave, alongside Hednoize - Loaded Gun, and, oddly enough, Lady Gaga's Poker Face.

Got my hair trimmed~ the stylist did a weird upwards cut thing that makes the hair 'move' or whatever. I was pleased with it. She also indicated that you're supposed to rinse your hair in cold water to make it shiny. So far, personal observation finds this to be truth, but it might be a placebo effect. Regardless, it's a surpringly nice feeling to rinse your hair in cold water just before ending a warm shower.

Still hating g-mail blogger formatting fiasco.

Oh! Penny/Kith! Apparently Amy's preggers. Or, so I assume. Kass sent me an e-mail with the words "Omedetou, Kate-oba-san!" only, which means, "Congratulations/celebratory event, Aunt Kate," roughly. But he didn't reply when I pressed for details. Harass my sister for me.

Kate, over and out. 3:30 am.