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nostalgic| 10:09am 14/04/2005 | ||||
I am sure this was a result of your not having enough coffee before you began the highly technical undertaking of pouring packets of coffee into the big automated machine. Nonetheless, I hope the universe comes back and bites you in the ass, because the should-not-be-caffeinated person in the office next to me will not shut up and thank god for Diet Coke or I'd still be drooling on my keyboard right now. Kthxbye. |
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decaffeinated| 07:13pm 12/04/2005 | |||
I've created a community, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} fiendishglee, in which I'm hoping to get some good conversations going on translation and reversioning, and the challenges behind it.This is also sort of a repository of knowledge and theory for what will one day be a real company, if I have my way about it, for reversioning all kinds of content in multiple languages. If this subject floats your boat, or you're multilingual, I hope you'll consider joining in the discussion (which so far is just me posting articles and rambling..) |
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| Seattle in the spring... | ||||
| 06:16pm 20/03/2005 | ||||
( There be great big images behind here, but they be purty. ) So there's my day at the park. :) |
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| Come on Elise.. | ||||
| 11:29pm 14/03/2005 | ||||
So the kiddo wanted to trade turns with me playing it. We started out with a fresh save game this evening. Six boards? Unlocked. Four new outfits? Unlocked. Seven venues? Unlocked. Rank of Star? Achieved. :wins: |
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vibrating| Happy new year! | ||||
| 11:11pm 31/12/2004 | ||||
Ah, Capitol Hill. My old neighborhood. Ran around, looked for parking, drove past my old apartment buildings (cue Barenaked Ladies!). The only parking lot with spaces open was at Dick's, so we ate gnarly greasy cheeseburgers and handcut fries and drank milkshakes, me in my shiny and the husband in his not-jeans-but-could-not-give-up-the-tenn Stopped by a friend's house to return a movie, where supposedly he was just staying home watching their son, but it turned out the crowd of his wife's friends who were supposed to go clubbing had remained at the house, and so we arrived at an impromptu party. My husband, myself and his friend Tony were the only native-born Americans in the place. A glorious cacaphony of accents and dialects and moments of "do you have this word, [whatever], in your language?" I love talking with people whose frame of reference is alien from my own, when we can talk and not argue. But we intended to get across Lake Washington before the really stupid amateur drunk drivers hit the road, and so we left early. Even at 9:30 pm, we encountered a head-on collision in the middle of downtown, six cops with people out doing field sobriety tests, and two cars driving the wrong way down a one-way street. I may not be grown up, but I am officially too old for that shit. Now I am home, happy and buzzed on freezer-cured Ketel One, taking a moment to wish you happy happy before I go back to playing Tales of Symphonia with my husband. I may be a geek, but damn, it feels good to be one. The new year is not a new beginning; it is only time moving forward and an opportunity to realize in finite space how far you have progressed. Sloppy kisses for it anyway, b-a |
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| 01:33pm 30/12/2004 | ||||
Of course I know this is a system error. But I took a picture, because guh. ( nine BILLION dollars! ) |
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guh| Memmmmmmmm'reeeee... | |||
| 10:29pm 26/12/2004 | |||
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I used the "memories" function. Look! |
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| 09:50am 25/12/2004 | |||
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The husband is assembling slot cars, grumbling to himself about how he now understands why his father used to get up at dark-thirty on Christmas and set their new stuff up in peace. The boy is madly bouncing around the house, pulling things out of the trash bag and throwing his best impishly "why on earth would you be angry at this face?" expression when reprimanded. And examining the box of his new scooter, his new electric scooter, which is the slowest model (a top speed of 10mph) but which I still don't really understand why I agreed to. At least it's still in the box. At least the slot cars are more immediately appealing. Oy vey. But seeing that face when he realized what was in the box made it worth it, even if I have to make excuses from now until he starts second grade about why we haven't taken it out of the box. We tried to have a low-key Christmas this year, and nearly succeeded. My best friend gave me The Pythons Autobiography by the Pythons, which I love and which I hope I will be able to finish reading before the boy goes off to college. The husband paid off my Amazon pre-orders - actually the sweetest thing he could have done, giving me things I really, really want and also extending Christmas all the way out into March. Other than that, quiet. Very quiet. We have dinner with the extended family this evening, but I am looking forward to a day of relative normalcy before we head that way. Wishing you and yours a holiday that feels like a holiday instead of an obligation. b-a |
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| 02:58pm 04/12/2004 | |||
So I ganked this from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} femmelethale who ganked it from someone else whose name you can get in her journal.( My place in hell ) |
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| Finally, a good day. | |||
| 04:45pm 01/12/2004 | |||
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The first day of the month is always good because at midnight on the last day of the month, anything I have not yet gotten finished for work simply can't be finished, and the mantle of miserable accounting responsibility lifts, regardless of whether I will wake up the next day dreading a beat-down from the CFO. To date, I have never failed to complete what needs to be done, but it always comes down to the wire. So, why is this a good day? Because today, after my boss thanked me - something he never does, despite being a really great guy to work for - for getting everything done and making our department look golden as always, he asked me if I was still interested in doing data management. In my line of work, this is a gig where you set up wide-area network connections, perform sysadmin duties on Unix systems, and are generally an IT lackey on remote jobs. Because I am a nerd, this sounds like heaven. I start training in February. I am so excited. I was nearly at the end of my rope; my job is boring and I don't like accounting and I can't keep doing the same thing day after day for years on end. Now there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I had figured that, since no one is cross-trained in what I do, I would never get out. And, my husband, whose contract ends on December 31, got a job offer to work for nearly double the money in another division at the enormous corporate software giant where he's been for two years, so now we are both looking at better jobs. Man, we needed it. To celebrate, here is a geeky pop song by my friends The Cotton Squares. |
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| Pretty little words | ||||
| 12:13am 01/12/2004 | ||||
( Merritt poetry ) It's performed on the 69 Love Songs compilation by Shirley Simms, but I happened to find an MP3 of Stephin Merritt performing it live on my hard drive, so I'm sharing. You need me like the wind needs the trees... |
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| 12:09pm 27/11/2004 | |||
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Oi. What a bizarre Thanksgiving. The FIL never materialized. I don't know if that's because the husband's cell phone was dead, or what, but apparently it wasn't enough that we seemed to have the house to ourselves. Ended up with people coming over at the last minute. Lucky for them I'd already started working on a pot roast to get us through the weekend. I thought I'd share this ridiculously easy recipe that turns out the best pot roast you've ever had in your life... Ingredients: 4-5 pound rump roast or sirloin roast 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped 1 pound red potatoes, preferably small, washed and quartered 6 large carrots, peeled and cut into two-inch-long pieces 2 cans cream of mushroom soup 1 packet Lipton Beefy Onion soup mix 1 packet Lipton herbs & garlic soup mix If your roast is big enough, use two baking dishes instead of one and divide the ingredients evenly. Having a single layer is important to it cooking properly. Slice the roast across the grain into 1.5 inch thick slabs. Salt and pepper to taste (I use coarse kosher salt). Arrange them in an ungreased 11x9x2 or larger baking dish with about an inch of distance between pieces. Spread the cream of mushroom soup evenly over the meat and into the areas between pieces. Place the carrots, onions, and potato quarters (skin side up with the potatoes) in between the pieces of meat. Sprinkle the dry soup mix in half-and-half quantities over the pan(s). Preheat the oven to 350 and bake, uncovered, for around 2 hours or until the gravy is bubbling. During the course of cooking, add up to 1 cup of water to keep the pan from drying out. Check it every 20 minutes or so to see if it needs water. At the end of two hours, you'll have serving-size portions of meat with rich, creamy gravy and perfectly seasoned potatoes and carrots. (Thanks to Bill for the recipe!) |
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| 09:53pm 19/11/2004 | |||
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Ah, geekness. I got jewelry for my birthday - a 512MB USB thumb drive on a lanyard. :) I'm not complaining. It's perfect. I can jam an episode of something I want to watch, a raw, a translated script, and the application to edit the script with all on this little gadget. Happy birthday, vigilante! I'm thirteen years and a day older than you... welcome to legality.Also, I found major pretty smut today. Warning: yaoi. Also warning: I'm generally kind of squickish about One Piece smut, but this is so pretty and the front page image is probably the raciest: On and On (Click the Illustrations link for more prettiness!) People like Aki... I can't decide whether they make me want to get better at drawing, or give it up altogether. |
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The title should tell you something about the degree to which my brain has atrophied in the last couple of months. Let's see. My son turned four. FOUR. Cuatro. As many years as I spent in high school, I have spent raising a child. As with education, still not done. I had a lovely visit with cowgirlnoir when she was in the Evergreen State. Twas lovely. Is always nice to meet efriends. I wish I was important enough to warrant a convention so I could just gather you all in one place and we could rent a movie theater and buy a keg or two.I discovered Full Metal Alchemist just in time to watch all 51 episodes fansubbed (thank you, driftr) before the first dubbed episode ran on Cartoon Network. 51 episodes with no filler (even the stuff that feels like filler isn't filler in hindsight), 51 episodes of beautiful boys and strong-willed women and philosophical quandaries and and and... I love it. Icons receiving radical overhaul soon. Samurai Champloo is on hiatus until January, but we're amusing ourselves with high-definition versions of fansubs. Now's a great time to catch up with the series, if you haven't seen all of it yet. I'm also doing a little editing for Mahou Shoujotai Alice, which is absolutely adorable and not at all childish and very Tim-Burton-esque. So worth the download. Get it from AnimeForever. Ficwriting has been on hiatus. This is not really my choice. If you write, you know this happens sometimes. In the past I have been able to churn out crap for the sake of churning it out, but even that depended on the larger desire to complete a piece of work, and being stopped by only a momentary roadblock. Right now, I am faced with a more existential issue. So sorry for the inconvenience, it will continue when it continues, that's the point of the mailing list, I'm glad that you like it and are reading, and as the cowgirl said over in her LJ, you'll get more when we have more. We have not abandoned it. What else? Not much. Will try to be here more regularly. Will try not to get glassy-eyed thinking about the Fire Alchemist, Roy Mustang. At the moment, I'm going to do the dishes. |
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| 05:56pm 28/09/2004 | |||
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Seen today at 7-11: collection of goth kids - actually, probably in their early 20s. They were all hanging around a girl who was surrounded by garbage bags of clothing and milk crates of assorted stuff. There was also a guy, quite normal looking, standing next to his car with his trunk open. I feel like there's a screenplay here. I wonder what it will turn out to be. |
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| I ask your forgivenness in advance... | ||||
| 12:36pm 27/09/2004 | ||||
But I am here now to rant about some things that must needs live in this most personal of journals, because I would not want to suggest that they reflect the opinions of others with whom I collaborate. Why is it so easy to demand something of a person who does what they do for free? Is it somehow implied that things shared with no strings attached are worthless? This question is pervasive in my daily life. I see it not just with my own efforts, but with the efforts of others. It's the nature of fandom and fan pursuits to be unable to profit from them. Therefore, every contribution to fandom is a labor of love, given freely, shared out of a sense that what one has created has worth that warrants sharing. It isn't an obligation. The bulk of this frustration comes from being on the "back end" of the fansubbing process. It is both the most rewarding and the most frustrating hobby I have ever undertaken. Rewarding for the personal benefits of improved language learning and exposure as an editor; frustrating for how the vast majority of people who download fansubs seem not to care if it's done well. Then there is the resultant frustration with how people seem to think the process of doing it well is easy, and should be top priority in the hobbyists' lives. With that off my chest, I just want to say thank you to all of the writers and artist and community organizers and people who contribute to the larger world of "fandom". And to remind everyone that a little patience and gratitude goes a long way toward making an overtired, overworked participant feel like it's worth continuing to do. |
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frustrated| Where do I begin? | ||||
| 11:55am 18/09/2004 | ||||
Fansubbing is fun. (That is what is known as a gross generalization and colossal understatement.) The people at AnimeForever are awesome and I'm not worthy. It's kind of funny... we had this backlog to get through this week, and now we have only two episodes to go before the hiatus while BS-Fuji catches up. What will I do with myself? On that subject, we released SC 13 (that's the torrent link) and I really hope you'll go download it. 14 will follow soon. I can't make promises that aren't directly dependent on my own actions, so I'll just say "soon". But you see, though I don't want to seem cocky or unappreciative of other fansub groups' efforts, I think you will understand a lot more after seeing AF-F's translation. For which I can take no credit. I'm just the monkey with a typewriter and a dictionary. And maybe, just a little bit, the custodian of the characters' voices. Anyway. There's not much in the way of other news. I have a new laptop and it's not yet up to my specifications; I constantly discover things I am missing, like all of my fonts and the drivers for my Wacom tablet and my precious PowerDVD for screen caps... so my graphics are a little rusty these days. Still, I managed to make an avatar (see above) in celebration of my new favorite anime girl ev-ar, Yatsuha. You'll see her in SC 15. She's a hottie. Back on the bloghorse, b-a |
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complacent| 06:32am 09/09/2004 | |||
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