Friends LiveJournal for Jon.
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| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
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The function of Spore appears to be the generation of ridiculous Youtube clips like this. After having watched the demo videos of the game itself, though, I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone would play it. But then, The Sims baffled me too, with all of its SimKafka tedium. |
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A laser heats the powdered metal in the exact places that need to be firm. "It's like baking a cake," says Andreas Burblies, spokesman for the Fraunhofer Numerical Simulation of Products, Processes Alliance. Any remaining loose powder is subsequently removed. "The end product is an open-pored element," explains Burblies. "Each point possesses exactly the right density and thus also a certain stability." The method allows the engineers to produce particularly lightweight components that are also extremely robust. |
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
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The museum director from Buenos Aires had something special in her luggage: a copy of a long version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis, including scenes believed lost for almost 80 years. I find Metropolis a hard movie to watch, because just about every frame of it has been imitated so many times that there's nothing left that isn't a cliché today. As history, it's amazing; as a movie, hard to sit through. But, years ago I got to see The Clubfoot Orchestra playing along with it live, and that was amazing. Live music made it a lot more compelling. The anime remake of Metropolis is surprisingly good, by the way. |
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DNA Lounge update, wherein we are burned into a zillion shiny metal discs. |
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 There are a lot of other amazing things on this guy's site too, like the electroshock helmet and whatever the hell this is. |
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| Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpxAzHG Stole my video straight off of animemusicvideos.org(my U/N there is ssj_hellbender), chopped the end credits, uploaded it as his own. Whats worse is this is the second time its happened(that I know of). Nothing quite as irritating as someone stealing your work as their own. |
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I really love my AMH class with Dr. N. and Anastasia ROCKS for sharing her books with me! I'm looking forward to AFH too. My professor is funny and interesting, the books are INTERESTING. And he's agreed to work with me on improving my papers if I finish writing them early. I got to chat with Anastasia after class today. I won't be able to dawdle as much as I did today, but it was definitely nice. Hey, Ducky, we should hang out sometime sans class! I think I've figured out how I can go to work just twice a day and still get 20 hours a week. If I walk to class it's only about 15 minutes, just over. So I can work 7:30-9 (1.5 hrs) then 11-1:30 (2.5 hours) totaling 4 hours a day. Then when there's a holiday like this Friday, I can work for a little after my last class a couple days, and make up for it. That way when I got out of class at 3:15 I'd be done. I could run errands, do homework, or even take a nap if I needed to. Like I may tomorrow. Well, I'm off to sleep. Like, really, I'm exhausted. But the good news is walking to class I think just over half a mile each way, and it's uphill on the way to class. And drinking almost nothing but water. Okay. Really sleep time now. Ciao! |
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When did I become this? Don't flatter yourself. The Shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S. Cocky bitch. And stop justifying. Sort your shit out and get over yourself. Self-centered whore is what you are. You're growing in different directions. LET GO OF PEOPLE. ( But... there is always hope. ) |
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I hate it when I wake up with a song playing in my head and I just have to hear it when I get to work. This morning it was "TotalImmortal" by the punk/hardcore/gothpunk/emopunk/emo band AFI (in chronological categorization, of course). Yes, Davey Havok is a complete Danzig rip-off artist in that song, but damn is that song catchy. Good lyrics. I listened to a few more of their songs. Quite a progression. From teenpunk to hardcore to Samhain/Misfits to a more punk emo to full on whine. But I guess it got them money and fans. I can't really spite their lyrical content, seeing as how I still listen to all the gothly and industrial acts and with a serious stompy-stompy beat behind it, their lyrics probably wouldn't be too out of place at the Castle. Also made me want to get playing music again. I've been playing a lot of acoustic lately, and while I love the intricacies of that stuff, I also miss playing the heavy stuff. I'm only seeing a bunch of "musician wanted" ads online listing influences I've never heard of, seriously indie or full-on emo. Maybe the problem I have is that in a lot of successful bands, the musicians are also friends. Guess I need to brave the cigarette caves once more and start making forays into the music world again. |
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| Monday, June 30th, 2008 |
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Because it was decided that this would be interesting: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have seen. 2) Italicize those you intend to watch. 3) Underline the movies you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ. Why? Because. The AFI 100 years... 100 movies list. 1. Citizen Kane (1941) 2. Casablanca (1942) 3. The Godfather (1972) 4. Gone with the Wind (1939) 5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) 6. The Wizard of Oz (1939) 7. The Graduate (1967) 8. On the Waterfront (1954) 9. Schindler's List (1993) 10. Singin' in the Rain (1952) 11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 12. Sunset Boulevard (1950) 13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) 14. Some Like It Hot (1959) 15. Star Wars (1977) 16. All About Eve (1950) 17. The African Queen (1951) 18. Psycho (1960) 19. Chinatown (1974) 20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940) 22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) 23. The Maltese Falcon (1941) 24. Raging Bull (1980) 25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) 27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 28. Apocalypse Now (1979) 29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) 31. Annie Hall (1977) 32. The Godfather Part II (1974) 33. High Noon (1952) 34. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) 35. It Happened One Night (1934) 36. Midnight Cowboy (1969) 37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 38. Double Indemnity (1944) 39. Doctor Zhivago (1965) 40. North by Northwest (1959) 41. West Side Story (1961) 42. Rear Window (1954) 43. King Kong (1933) 44. The Birth of a Nation (1915) 45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 46. A Clockwork Orange (1971) 47. Taxi Driver (1976) 48. Jaws (1975) 49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) 50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) 51. The Philadelphia Story (1940) 52. From Here to Eternity (1953) 53. Amadeus (1984) 54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) 55. The Sound of Music (1965) 56. MASH (1970) 57. The Third Man (1949) 58. Fantasia (1940) 59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) 60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 61. Vertigo (1958) 62. Tootsie (1982) 63. Stagecoach (1939) 64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 66. Network (1976) 67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) 68. An American in Paris (1951) 69. Shane (1953) 70. The French Connection (1971) 71. Forrest Gump (1994) 72. Ben-Hur (1959) 73. Wuthering Heights (1939) 74. The Gold Rush (1925) 75. Dances with Wolves (1990) 76. City Lights (1931) 77. American Graffiti (1973) 78. Rocky (1976) 79. The Deer Hunter (1978) 80. The Wild Bunch (1969) 81. Modern Times (1936) 82. Giant (1956) 83. Platoon (1986) 84. Fargo (1996) 85. Duck Soup (1933) 86. Mutiny on the Bounty 87. Frankenstein (1931) 88. Easy Rider (1969) 89. Patton (1970) 90. The Jazz Singer (1927) 91. My Fair Lady (1964) 92. A Place in the Sun (1951) 93. The Apartment (1960) 94. Goodfellas (1990) 95. Pulp Fiction (1994) 96. The Searchers (1956) 97. Bringing Up Baby (1938) 98. Unforgiven (1992) 99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) 100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) In my defense ... I DESPISE watching old black and white movies, which this is supremely biased towards. |
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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-) 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52 Dune - Frank Herbert 53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78 Germinal - Emile Zola 79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80 Possession - AS Byatt 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87 Charlotte's Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo |
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| Sunday, June 29th, 2008 |
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I got into FL history! See you in class tomorrow! Today I picked up Sir K. on the way to fighter practice. Just saw him walking and offered him a ride. I did not fight but did some waterbearing instead. I wasn't feeling well, and then the heat got to me and I felt even worse. By the time I got home, I was all but dead. Unfortunately, since I have to get up early tomorrow, I did not nap. So yeah. My schedule for the semester will be a bit nutty. Since I got into that class, I'll be working 7:30-8:30, going to AMH from 9:30-10:45, working 11:45 (hopefully the bus will get me there closer to 11:30)-1, then class from 1-3:15, then work from 4:15 (again, hoping the bus gets me there closer to 4)-5:30ish, or whenever the last person leaves. So 3 hours and 30 minutes of work a day unless the busses get me there earlier, which I think they will, in which case I should get a good 4 hours a day and therefore 20 hours a week. Well, I think I'll go get things together for tomorrow, and go sleep. Hopefully this semester goes better for me than last! Wish me luck folks! Oh, who's up for the challenge? |
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Time to get your goth on! |
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| Saturday, June 28th, 2008 |
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- as much as I vow, I can't listen to Loreena McKennit's "The Highwayman" all the way through without crying. - when determining the cost of driving vs. flying, there will always be more incidentals on the road. - sometimes it's little comfort to be proven right. - incidentally, Rich, you can get a speeding ticket in IL and provide a signature bond and keep your license. It must be a municipal thing. - even for me, 62 degrees is too chilly. -you know you're in New Orleans when there are bead strings in the trees. - I heard an interesting piece on NPR about a zoo walrus that died this weed. Azak? Someone google it and post the link, it's amusing. - Satellite radio is good for keeping NPR with you for 1000 miles. |
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| Friday, June 27th, 2008 |
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I'm so sorry you guys. I'm such a bad mod. I haven't done anything with this in forever. So, 'tis the season for Ren Faires and other fun blade-laden events. Stories are welcome, pictures are awesome, and first-hand accounts are fabulous. I myself am going to the Colorado Ren Faire tomorrow, so I'll hopefully be getting lots of pictures and maybe even a nice blade if I can scrape the money together... ***** In other news, I've not been watching the newer movies much. I'm sure there are new movies to add to the list in the profile of awesome Chicks With Swords. Let me know if there's any worthy of joining the list! ***** I'm finally making an effort to put back together the Chicks With Sword music mix. But I'm debating doing two: one for "mainstream" music (larger distributions/soundtracks, that sort of thing) and one for filk/folk music featuring CWS. Opinions? If I added filk, I'd have way too many good ones to choose from. |
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- Fireflies at dusk are breathtaking, flashing brightly and briefly, then disappearing into the dark. Thousands of tiny little candlelights, or stars against the dimming sky. - I have two power receptacles in my car! I had been trying to plan out letting the GPS and phone alternately charge, but when I was organizing my CDs in the armrest bin, I found a second plug. Woo! - Carbs are poison to me. If I eat them, I am making a choice to negatively affect my health and mood, and I need to take responsibility for it and acknowledge the cause and effect each time I do so. - Fireflies aren't quite so inspiring when their phosphorescent bodies splash across the windshield. - I finished my book in the bath last night. I may have to resort to a New Retail Purchase, something Noel and Rich have completely steered me away from. - The bright lights of the Hampton Inn bathroom emphasized that I haven't colored my hair in a while. The salt-and-pepper is oddly compelling, but I really love my red curls. |
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I finally saw this, and it is even more awesome than I expected. Srsly.
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| Thursday, June 26th, 2008 |
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I walked into this house where everyone was dead.. Everyone except this little boy, who had been wearing headphones at the time it happened. In every room, it was a huge house, I had no idea why those people were there, but in every single room there were at least three people dead, blood leaking out their ears. The little boy was very scared, he had sandy blond hair and he was clinging to me because he didn't know what else to do. He kept asking me questions while I tried to figure out what had killed these people. Are my parents dead? Will you die like everyone else?? Will I die soon too? Why didn't I die the first time? Is this going to happen again? Who would do this? I walked into the dining room, and all the seats were empty, it was this weird surreal memorial to the first sufferers of the attack--slaves, that were used as guinea pigs. It was sound, which was why the boy was still alive. A poem. To read it would mean nothing, but for some reason to hear it would kill you, go straight to the brain and paralyze you. I began to read it, to memorize it, just in case I began to hear it. Just as I was reading the first words, it echoed through the house, deep and resonant. I held my ears, then made sure the little boy held his ears correctly, told him to hum so that we couldn't hear it. And tried to meditate to take me away from it. That was the last thing I remember.. The two of us holding on, and I can't tell who's comforting who. And we sit, and we wait. 
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Sometimes I feel like personal time is a glass mountain. Born way up at the peak where our idea of self is still forming, small and far separated from all other peaks. As we grow, we pick our way down the slopes and the circumference of our knowledge grows. We learn about self, family, friends, with any path down still wide open. We descend through school, college, the first years of independence, our paths becoming more set, our downward momentum growing. We fly through crappy jobs and lack of responsibility until we start to realize mortality and understand the adult and well-trod paths which are more set in stone; as we look back to the earlier times we know we can never go back to, and we slip-slide on down. Our friends took different paths down the mountain, and the distance keeps growing as the girth of the mountain under our feet gets bigger and bigger as we slide into our own crevices, growing harder and harder to climb into any other paths. Just feeling sadly nostalgic today. Thinking of past loves, past friends, past good times that I know can't come again. Rave days, early athletic prowess, the addicting feeling of falling in love for the first time with someone. I suppose the most successful people are those who realize that while they can't go back, they can make the now and future just as good as then. I'm having a hard time actualizing that for myself. |
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| Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 |
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The Fall: Very pretty. Basically the same movie as Pan's Labyrinth (which I hated), but with more interesting and less despicable characters. Prince Caspian: I've already forgotten it. The Incredible Hulk: A lot better than the first one, but it's no Iron Man. Get Smart: Pretty funny. Please keep in mind that the original tv show was much, much worse than you remember, so there was literally nowhere to go but up. War Inc: Deeply weird. It starts off as a political satire, then it takes a sharp left turn into bugfuck-crazytown. Which is not a bad thing. It got nutty enough that it started reminding me of Southland Tales (which I hated), but it was much better. |
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So if I want to convert a video file that is a WMV to either an AVI or an MPEG ... how do I go about doing this? I made a video quite awhile ago in WMM and I have the VIDEO (but not the saved "project") so I would need to convert it w/o creating a new version from the project. Are there any reliable/good programs I can download (even a trial version) that will do this for me? Thanks! |
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Edwin Birdsong was a funk-disco artist who recorded between 72 and 81. Apparently didn't really have any breakout hits, except for a French duo who really really dug him. ( Video goodness within ) |
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nine inch nails - the line begins to blur + Byousoku 5 Centimeter |
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DNA Lounge update, wherein the gallery expands. |
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| Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
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I think this might be the best thing in the history of things. |
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| Monday, June 23rd, 2008 |
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ACM-R5 is equipped with paddles and passive wheels around the body. To generate propulsive force by undulation, the robot need a resistance property as it glides freely in tangential direction but cannot in normal direction. Due to the paddles and passive wheels, ACM-R5 obtains that character both in water and on ground. |
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm more upset that I have to tolerate my brother's presence, or that it's my fault I'm tolerating and not enjoying. I hate myself, I love myself. ( We make it work. ) |
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 |
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"Since the Spore demo's release, it's become a bukkake wave sweeping the web: comedy pornographic images via Spore. Spornography - aka "Sporn". Has it reached a climax yet? We don't know, but we think it's as good a time as any to stop and survey the lie of the land. And, yes, it's sticky." Most of the videos have been deleted already; get them while they're... uh... hot? Also: Reverse Cowgirl brings us Sea Urchin Bukkake for Overwhelming Win. |
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Title: A Raven's Pride Animé: Princess Tutu Artist: Echo Image Song: Need to be Proud Completed: 5/31/08 Premiered: 6/20/08, at AnimeNEXT 2008 (won Drama category, yay!) Spoilers: some, but not huge Links: Aquiline Studios website - A-M-V.org Available for download in MP4 or AVI format. Don't attempt to play the MP4 in QuickTime Player, as it will not work. One free dub outtake with each download! Here's the little drabble-type thingy I wrote to organize my thoughts as I was editing it and to explain some of the story: ( If it would get her her prince back... ) |
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| Friday, June 20th, 2008 |
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So...Yesterday morning my computer wouldn't start. Nor would it start later in the day. After a couple calls to Dell, and some taking apart of my computer (by ME believe it or not) we established that the motherboard was dead. By the way, this was the DAY before finals. Which were today. And all my notes were on my hard drive. Geek Squad (EVIL) were 5 days backed up and would have charged $160. So someone had sent me notes for LAH so I went to the music library an printed those up. Then found out about a computer shop that was open for another hour. They gave me a disc with my notes, and will even buy my old laptop. So today the Dell guy cam to put my new motherboard and modem in. The comp still didn't work. So Monday or Tuesday he'll return with new memory and a new CPU and a couple other things that need to be fixed. Hopefully it will work Monday or Tuesday. Until then, I'm using Britt's comp. So up most of the night last night studying, though not before Brittany made dinner for Matthias, Draco, and myself. Mmm... AMH exam went alright today. LAH may have got been so happy though. We'll see. 1 Anyway. Tired. And I should give Britt her comp back. Ciao! |
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Tonight we head to the sea to scatter the ashes of my big brother. They say the sea has no memory, but it's gonna be damn hard to forget. |
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Friends LiveJournal for Jon.
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Metal Layering Technique Leads to Fine Tuned Implants
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cheerful.
embarrassed.
