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[Jun. 8th, 2008|02:13 am] |
From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) angry_american:
You are in a mall when the zombies attack. You have:
1. one weapon.
2. one song blasting on the speakers.
3. one famous person to fight alongside you.
Weapon can be real or fictional, you may assume endless ammo if applicable. Person can be real or fictional.
My choice:
1. Type III phaser rifle, Level 9, wide angle burst.
2. Power, KMFDM. All about excessive force.
3. Jesus. Talk about a high level cleric.
This assumes an endless horde of zombies. Because when you're stressed out, there's nothing like vaporizing zombies while they flee in terror of a turn undead from Jesus Christ Himself, egged on by KMFDM. |
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| Stuff and andlinux |
[Mar. 16th, 2008|10:47 am] |
I couldn't sleep as usual, and ended up randomly stumbling upon andLinux. It's a more or less full install of Ubuntu Linux(Kubuntu, really) that runs inside Windows. It's interesting, because it uses a Windows driver to run all privileged operations for the Linux kernel, meaning it's not emulated, i.e. not too slow. Even more interesting from a usage perspective is that they integrated the Xming X server on the Windows side, and took advantage of X Windows network capability to run Linux GUI applications inside Windows, indistinguishable from normal Windows apps. You can use Synaptic to install any Ubuntu software you can run in a normal Linux install and use it from Windows. Kind of crazy.
Of course, after setting all this up, I have no idea what I'd actually do with it. It basically gives all the usability of Linux with the reliability and performance of Windows, so it's not extremely practical. But man, is it cool.
In less geeky news, I got a really nice little apartment in Belmont that I was really hoping for, so that's nice. It's really pretty and well-designed. I'll have Maria take some pictures when we move in. I also got a raise, which means I might be able to buy furniture. I got the raise because my boss just resigned and we're missing like half the ops department at work right now, though, so work is going to be exciting for a while, I think. We'll see how that goes.
In slightly more geeky news, I got a PSP from work, too, which is really, really cool. I can play Symphony of the Night and Disgaea in my car at lunch now. I haven't even started Final Fantasy Tactics yet. |
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| Important Data |
[Dec. 19th, 2007|02:49 am] |
I Am A: Neutral Good Human Wizard (4th Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-12
Dexterity-13
Constitution-13
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-15
Charisma-13
Alignment:
Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable.
Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.
Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard's strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.
Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)
I didn't think my constitution would be that high. I guess it's an Irish racial bonus or something. Need to be able to keep down my drink. Need to work on my strength a little too. Encumbrance is a bitch. |
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| Terrible news |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|10:24 pm] |
Terry Pratchett has Alzheimer's.
He was talking about having had a stroke the last time I went to see him, and it was worrying, but he said that he didn't seem to have any lasting effects. He's a really laid-back guy and seemed to take a lot of it in stride. It's just a terrible thing to happen though.
I really hope that someone can offer him an effective therapy to hold it off. He's such a clever, insightful person that it must be terrible to face that kind of cognitive impairment. There must be something out there that can help. |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 24th, 2007|12:58 am] |
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While I am loathe to actually post real news on my journal, I should probably mention that I got engaged recently. It feels weird to mention it here, as this has very little to do with Batman or zombies. Though Maria did mention I should have a Batman cake at the wedding. Maybe I'll have him fight zombies. There, now it applies. |
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| One Laptop Per Child |
[Oct. 30th, 2007|09:37 pm] |
We just got a new contractor in at work to help me on a virtualization project, and it turns out he's the president of the Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group. Apparently you get some perks with the title, since he brought an OLPC in to work today. It's really tiny and extremely cool. He was showing off the apps and the programming tools. I was a little surprised to find out you can break past the normal GUI and get into the command line. It's actually running a lot of more or less stock software, which surprised me. I guess Linux is streamlined enough that even the dbus infrastructure and avahi service and other crap I don't need run fine on the thing.
The user interface is really neat, and the screen is a lot nicer than I thought. It runs a custom UI called sugar (written in python of all things) instead of X Windows, but a lot of the programming tools and toys were in squeak, which is based on smalltalk. From what the guy was saying, it sounds like squeak was actually more or less developed under the table to be used for this thing, which is pretty cool and surprising considering how long its been around.
Anyway, they're going to start selling them soon on a buy-2-get-1 deal that purchases one laptop for you and one for a child in a third-world country. I think the thing is worth $399 on its own, and giving one away on the side is a really neat bonus. If I had cash to spare I'd buy one in a minute. |
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| Terrifying |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|12:17 am] |
Jesus Christ!
Now that is a frightening video. |
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| Update |
[Apr. 17th, 2007|01:31 am] |
All continues to be well.
Other than taxes. |
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[Feb. 27th, 2007|08:07 pm] |
So it turns out that rather than sucking, things are pretty frickin' awesome. So yay, that.
Also, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance is great. The only problem I have with it is that now everyone totally loves Deadpool. Man, I liked him before it was cool. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 26th, 2007|12:57 am] |
While I'm guessing things are going to suck for quite some time, there are people out there that really help me feel better about life. I came home smiling to myself this evening.
EDIT: Also, this. |
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| (no subject) |
[Jan. 15th, 2007|03:17 am] |
Today is my birthday. I have a feeling it's going to top my eighteenth birthday. Some of you here remember that one. Yeah.
In other news, I actually had a rather pleasant day on Sunday. I went out with someone, wandered San Jose, and saw "Pursuit of Happyness." It's about how life can really beat you and those you care about down, over and over, but if you jut hold out and keep going you may get through it to a better place. A good movie and good company can do a lot to bring you out of a funk. Let me just make it out of today. |
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| My Erlynn |
[Jan. 12th, 2007|12:05 pm] |
So I've decided that my Erlynn left for the Philippines and never came back. The person now is someone I don't know. I hoped for a while I could find her again, but I figured out it's not going to happen. What's the point of me sharing this overdramatic drivel? I drew a picture:
( My Erlynn )
It's not great, but I was going from memory. I want to capture how she used to look at me. I think I might do a few more while I can still remember. |
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| I don't know. |
[Jan. 7th, 2007|06:13 am] |
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All I want to do now is sleep, but as soon as I lie down I can't stop thinking about the future. Now I see why people are driven to drink. Now I also see why people are driven to write cryptic LJ posts. God I hate everything. </angst> |
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| Note to self: Do not steal elephants. |
[Sep. 17th, 2006|02:42 pm] |
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I saw Tony Jaa's The Protector, an endearing family film about a boy and his elephant. Then gang members kill his dad and kidnap the elephants to Australia and he has to spend the rest of the movie kicking people through things and crushing heads with his knees. And then he gets in a room with like fifty kung fu bad guys in suits and he takes them all out. Not just fists and feet like in your average martial arts flick, either. He takes the time and shows he cares enough to individually break each of their arms and legs with very painful and doesn't-bend-that-way kind of techniques. He also fights a capoeirista in an awesome battle in a pool of blood in a flaming buddhist temple. That's my kind of movie. |
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