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Friday, November 27th, 2009
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5:10 pm
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Today I gave a cookie to a beggar. I think this qualifies as a good day, overall.
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| Monday, November 23rd, 2009
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9:37 am - memories
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I remember, when myself and the rest of the convention committee toured through Kensignton Market. We went into this strange store, housing a variety of artifacts: little wooden cats wearing farming outfits, stitched-up backpacks, a staff adorned with skulls. There was this hat: like a pointed wizards cap, but all one, big loose piece of material, that just hung all around your head, and any image of shape to the hat was just an illusion.
The rest of the committee thought it would make an excellent character hat for me. Fortunately, we don't decide our wardrobes by vote, as I thought it wasn't much of a hat, and I already had enough hats, anyway. So I didn't get it. And that was maybe two months ago.
And I found myself thinking of that experience while in a completely different store last night. And I thought how I should again go to that store with the hat; see if they still had it. And I looked slowly over the store I was in, and I came to the realization that I was standing in the same building, and that a new store had opened here. But it felt so entirely different--even though the shape of the store was the same, and it was the same view out the window--that I felt like I could walk out of this store, and the other store would still be around on the same street somewhere. Even while I was standing inside the new store, the old store still existed in my mental map of the market.
Such a weird experience. Like waking up one day, and across the street, at the corner, a new building has gone up, and is looking like it's always been there, and who are you to say there was ever even a different building there before. It was such a recent memory of being in that store; as if I had just been there the day before. I didn't even realize the change until after being in the new store for several minutes.
What a weird thing to write a post about. I went to that old store at least half a dozen times, and with some ten other people, and none of us ever bought anything there; no wonder the place went bankrupt.
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| Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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2:06 am - Pimp my con
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Hey, I don't do this often, so I am going to do it now.
Please come to my con. If you go to http://www.furnalequinox.com and pre-register, then it's only twenty dollers, until the end of this month. There will be music, games, and some really cool artists, too. So check it out, and brave the icy north of Canada for what will surely be a historic event.
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| Monday, November 9th, 2009
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11:56 pm - If you put Nazi helmets on the enemies, it would be a WWII shooter.
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Played some Modern Warfare 2 tonight. These are my thoughts:
-Did not find the controls intuitive. For a not-insignificant period of time, my biggest threats were my own grenades.
-The enemy AI is quite good. For a brief period of time, I wondered if this was a multiplayer game, and if I was playing against other people. Though real people tend to move around a bit more, and don't consistently move to the exact same defencive positions over and over again--the game must be tagged to tell the computer what points enemies should move to if there aren't already enemies there.
-It is the friggin' Murder Zone. There are fairly consistently guns firing at you from multiple angles. I don't know if the enemies have x-ray goggles, but as soon as one pixel of your character comes into their view, they will dump whole clips of ammo onto that location.
-Graphically, I have to say that I am not impressed. Generally, my view of "high definition" video games, is that the higher processing power to create the larger image, means that there is very little actual improvement in the image the player sees. And while I'm sure that the game is pushing the system to the limit to generate all those debris, and various miscellaneous items strewn about, I have to say that, in a very general sense of what I saw, it looked like it was made for a Gamecube. I'm sorry, that's just my opinion.
-Loading times were pretty good. It did not take very long to get back into the game. Though I will say that I felt disoriented every time I was resurrected.
Hope you people who paid money for this thing enjoy it.
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| Friday, October 30th, 2009
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12:52 pm - Commercial Watch
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I got some free-to-me cable hooked into my room yesterday. I have sixty-five channels, of which I expect I will watch six of them: the Discovery channel, and some five children stations which have all the animated shows that I love to watch. Incidentally, it looks like all animated shows are now made with Flash, something that I really can't say is a good thing.
Today I saw an advertisement for a Barbie doll, which made use of that one song which goes something like "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world," with somewhat changed lyrics. Wait, didn't they sue the makers of that song, because it was offensive to their product? And now they're using it in an advertisement for that same product?
Regardless of if the makers of the original song were paid any money for that, it seems like a really terrible idea to have based a commercial around a song that denounces your product. It's as if the makers of Barbie dolls are outright admitting that their doll is offensive to. . .everybody.
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| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
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12:21 pm - I do still have a dream journal, though it's never updated
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Any dream that has me fighting a squadron of Nazi soldiers while on board a high-speed boat ride is okay by me. There were terminals that could be hacked to provide effects on the boat, such as causing a sandstorm outside to disorient the Nazis. The same terminals also provided some lovely chocolate chip cookies.
My dream also came equipped with a live band, so I have to say that it was a pretty fun time.
I love sleeping.
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| Monday, October 26th, 2009
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2:36 am - Kensington
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Today--er, yesterday--I saw a man with rainbow hair, wearing only some green underwear, balance atop a four meter tall unicycle, and juggle machetes. There was also lots of musicians about, and even a mime. I just went out to get a loaf of bread, and walked right into the scene. There are certainly benefits to living in this area.
The Islington Meet was on Saturday. It was really groovy. I think the furry scene is the best thing going on the whole planet right now; we're way cooler than any other group. And I'm glad that our culture allows for any fur, even if people don't know who they are, to just show up at an event, and be admitted and accepted into the group right away.
And I'm glad it's fall. Fall came, and as soon as it became too cold to wear only a t-shirt, it's as if everyone in the city went "oh, what is it that we do when it's fall, again?" As if we had all forgotten over the course of the year. I guess, once we stop focusing on something, it's instantly forgotten, and only a memory of questionable accuracy remains.
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| Friday, October 23rd, 2009
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6:57 pm - Hooded sweatshirts
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Although I do love hoodies; regardless of how cool your hoodie is, you will look like an idiot if you are wearing it in the rain.
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
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4:59 am - Yesterday
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As part of my job, I have to operate an elevator, and also entertain guests for the 43.4 seconds it takes us to ascend.
Yesterday, a film crew from Much Music filmed all the way up while I was operating the elevator, so they now have video of their fashionably dressed crew--at least one of whom has their own TV show--spouting off various anecdotes on the elevator ride up, along with me giving off facts, and conversing back and forth with them. After everyone had disembarked, one of the staff from my company--who was Much Music's guide--told me that I had done a perfect job in that scenario.
While I am specifically against MTV and their affiliates, I do have to say that it was pretty cool to have been filmed by them. About half an hour later, I got a bit nervous; like butterflies in the stomach, and was all giddy when the realization hit my of "holy cow, I just got filmed by MTV."
It's certainly more interesting than what normally happens on a work day.
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| Friday, October 16th, 2009
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7:39 pm - What is this, a meme, or something?
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So, try to recall pretty much every user/screen name you've ever had since first discovering this whole "internet" thing. List them all (even the old ancient embarrassing ones from way back in the day when you were MyLittlePonyLuvr11871 or something) and explain the thought process behind all of them.
( Mine are not as interesting as some other people's )
anime movie mayhem
for those of you who have
been trying to stalk me
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