Devoid of Anything Useful

The RP (RolePlay, as in RPG that type of RP) going on at fantasia_gensokyo was keeping me busy for the past few days.

Go there if you haven't already done so lol: http://fantasiagensokyo.proboards.com

My character Bio:

Name: fixedName
Age: 15 (his organic portion)
Gender: Male
Species: Integrated Data Entity Interface

Stats: 60 hp 40 mp

Abilities:
Environmental Interaction (Environmental Data Processing) [Level 1]
Environmental Interaction (Data Manipulation) [Level 1]

Appearance:
Looks like a lively, charming young lad. Not too tall or short when he stands beside other people (since he can adjust his shoes slightly anyway), he sports brown hair of colour #663300 and a fringe of which has dye so he can change the colour anytime (luckily, he only adopts HTML web-safe colours). He dislikes putting anything into his eyes, so it is of a natural black/brown combo.

Personality:
Adaptive, Changing to fit crowd. He mingles around for a bit staying silent, taking in verbal and body language from everyone. Then he gets the average and outputs it. Therefore everyone would describe him differently, but most often as a "very likeable" person, and one who is easy to open your heart to (that's how he collects more data)

History:
Attached to a living organism by the Integrated Data Entity because of a need to use its huge amounts of data more effectively than simple SQL statements. There are many others like him all around, but they rarely need to meet as there is an active database for communication (like a message board). They age less quickly compared to humans, and for them "true" ageing is simply the fragmentation of Interface data. Without proper TLC and maintenance, the organic component of the Interface may suffer from wear and tear which will make the it appear to age as quickly as humans. When the life span of the cells in the organic component are nearing their end, the Interface can request for a renewal, and it will be attached to another organic being. The record for the longest life of the organic component was 143 years.

Given the bare minimum amounts of information needed to survive, fixedName lived alone for the first few years of his life. He then moved around and started roaming "through a sudden bout of boredom", and has helped the Entity gather substantial amounts of new data, like who all the bases belong to.

Such wanderlust would certainly lead to something big. Finding the Roundtable was certainly that. Finding it interesting, he stayed there for a while, observing conflicts that happen there frequently.

Others: [TBA]

Changelog:
v0.1 (12/17:20:31) - Added Age, Species, Personality, Abilites and Stats
v0.2 (12/17:21:38) - Added Name, Appearence and Updated Personality
v0.3 (12/17:22:08) - Finetuning (Carillus)
v1.0 (12/18:19:20) - Updated Age, Personality, added History.
v1.1 (12/18:19:43) - Updated History, modded look

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Level 1
EXP to Level 2: 100
EXP: 35

And then the follow up by a skilled RPer

Nagato Yuki type reality warping, huh. Well, what the heck.
At the first level, you can only transform small objects into other objects of similar ability/function. Low level non-contact alchemy, basically. Kitchen knives into daggers, wooden swords into metallic ones, tables into little baby cots, things like that.

Elaboration: When soon-to-be-Ex-President Bush was speaking at an un-announced trip to Iraq, an Iraqi journalist stood up and threw one of his shoes at Bush while calling him "dog" (doesn't Louise do that everytime anyway), and he managed to duck. The journalist threw his other shoe and this time the guy standing beside Bush helped to block the missile.

Lol. In Iraq that is "close to an ultimate insult" (CNN), as it implies that the person is lower than the dirty shoe. As Mr Brown puts it, "Yes, and in other cultures, throwing a shoe is a sign of respect, affection and love." And go see the pics he put up.

"It was a size 10".

I hope this is a temporary solution while I search for a nicer one.

And if the blogroll looks smaller, its because I had to put them back one by one, so don't fret if you don't see yours yet.

Parchment looks so good...

That would probably be one of the most appropriate translations I've ever seen for netspeek.

lol = 乐 (le4 if your chinese really that cmi)

1) It sounds similar
2) It brings similar meaning (happy)
3) It's short and sweet

乐

http://www.zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16162

So I will mod mine somehow...

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...Has passed. Details: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/09dec_fullmoon.htm

I was lucky enough to wake up so early on a Saturday morning. The moon was uber-big, enhanced by the moon illusion itself. Then half an hour after sunrise (not the Gundam and C.G. one), I receive a feed from MAKE:Magazine pointing to the above link.

Sad I didn't take pics. I thought it would automatically happen every 十五 of the month but, no, it had to be a special one. Sian

And in other news, that guy who niao-ed the teacher apparently calmed down and reached an understanding. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/character-assasinations-aint-us.html

And I watched Clannad AS 11 from another fansub (feed from a.scarywater.net). But I will be getting the Eclipse one when it comes out...on Sunday

Yay i fail at drawing


freehand drawn with reference to http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/365564


freehand drawn with reference to http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/365319

And yay there is a visual novel that runs on wine on ubuntu: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=6888

Lol

I have many things that I can say OMT for. This however, deserves the true OMT (at least here).

And this came through via slashdot, which was then from my feed reader, and after finding the source I come to this which gives me another yay feed to add.

One wonders if the OS wars were ever fought...

Snippets:

...observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop. ... The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student ... I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them...

(Ok, maybe not snippets I got lazy after the first 2 cuts).

This brings to light how propaganda is so effective. It is not a question of how the teacher is stupid. She did try Linux before (though when it was highly primitive). However, being brainwashed by higher-ups led her to become one of the many drones that are running classes in US now. I think she would be the exception, actually finding a source to the "problem" and voicing out what her bleached brain was trained to output.

Then of course, "kind" rebuttals (I think of them as hidden niao). By the Helios guy himself:

The fact that you seem to believe that Microsoft is the end all and be-all is actually funny in a sad sort of way.

And from slashdot, some guy mentioned that he was chatting to his old friend. The friend was complaining about expensive antivirus software (ha Windows duh), and he suggested Linux and introduced to him the Free and Open Source Software movement (FOSS). That old friend rejected the idea completely, along the lines of "no such thing as free lunch", "if anything is to good to be true, it is" and "scam, illegal, etc".

I do not think we have that problem here, as the people who fit into the category of old stubborns do not actually like or care about the particular stuff they use, and they just want to manage to teach a decent lesson (the literal meaning intended here) with Microsoft PowerPoint (refering it by its proper name). Think Shiehls and Chiak.

Then the ones who actually care about piracy and stuff do have some knowledge about this matter. The rules added about "copyrighted games" are (I suspect, and most likely anyway) due to the number of people caught playing GTA (wtf I hate GTA. No meaning unless you do the allcarsgoboom thing), NFS (I (or at least my brohter) buy them noob shits) and *gulp* DotA (actually not that I play it often now, seeing my previous screenshot (which was the reason that I gulped actually)).

All this however, could be slowly ruined. Microsoft has extended its grisly arms to education, providing us with the FutureSchools Programme, congratulating us with huge banners on our entry to the gates of Updates and Service Packs (if they even come).

Let us all hold ours heads down in prayer in the name of Haruhi.

EDIT: Then again, doing my usual clicksurfing, I came upon the huge joke of Jerry Lee Cooper. One wonders if he was just joking all along.

I've noticed that my current usage habits are rather...erm...interesting.

Instead of going away from the compy unwilingly every 5 minutes, I sit around for about 10 to 30 mins and then go do something else (like read those new books. Air-Con nation roxx). It feels like the amount of time spent is the same, but overall satisfaction is greater instead of an empty feeling in the past.

Which means of course any chance of gaming is kept to a minimum. DoTA is merely entertaining, VBA is used for Galaxian, Dig-Dug, Pole Position and Pacman; Totally no long run games at all.

I don't know if this is a turn for the better or worse.