Some of the stuff this woman pulled off in translating the Harry Potter books into Japanese is brilliant. You think making puns is tough enough, try translating them.
(Disclaimer: Re-reading this in the morning, this got kind of heavy and ventish. The important bit is - 2013 could have been better, but a happy new year to all.) So 2013 is almost over, huh. I've been reading people's 2013 posts; a lot of people seem to have had a rough year. Or maybe that's not totally accurate - it seems like a lot of people had a really eventful year, and not always in a good way. Looking back at 2013, I see a lot of good things that happened - and I see the bad stuff th
It's been about a month since I last posted on this little bloggy thing, and plenty of stuff's been happening, so I figured it was overdue. So! Work. Microsoft continues to be a pretty sweet gig, if a busy one. And man was E3 awkward around the office. Anyway, I'm usually there from like 9 to 5 or 6 most days, so if you're wondering why I seem to only be around in the evening these days, there's yer answer. Writing-wise! I put some entries in the Flash Fiction Marathon. You should too!
Somehow I actually made 1500 hits on my signature within 24 hours. Looks like I'm going to need to find a different randomizer (or just be boring and stick to one banner, but where's the fun in that?) I am enjoying my new avatar, though. Greg's derp face was nice, but I think young Ray's constant panic better suits my mood around here most days, especially if I've been writing.
So, moderately-known fact: I am a nerd who's been on the Fire Emblem train since FE7 hit America, and I am also a nerd who speaks Japanese and has a 3DS capture card. One thing led to another led to the FE:if LE getting ordered. Since I know there's a decent amount of FE fans here, would there be interest in a stream of the game after it releases? Depending on when my copy actually arrives, the stream would probably be the last weekend in June, bleeding over into July. (There will almost certa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5mS0FnXrB0 ...Than with a new Doctor Who teaser? (PS: Out of town right now, as I have been off-and-on recently; will make a blog post in the near future about all the crazy stuff going on.) (PPS: Happy AMERICA DAY)
Something extremely disturbing happened to a close friend of mine, and I'm still a little shaken. This is going to be a difficult few weeks, but all I can really do is put faith in modern medicine and his/her friends and family. Without going into further details, suffice to say I've learned a rather important lesson about one's lifestyle, and all I can say is I'm thankful I have the personality I do, which should help me avoid ever coming close to something similar. So that this isn't a co
With all the excitement over Bionicle 2015, I really got in the mood to write another story! Something straightforward, in the spirit of things, nothing too complex. So of course I wrote a sequel to my very first fic, which was... a bit timey-wimey, canon-heavy, mind-bending, and generally kind of everything I think people are trying to dodge with Bionicle 2015. And this new story doesn't really break that pattern. But! It's still a good story, or at least I think it is, or at least I hope i
There are two things I took away from my time at Valve: 1. The people who work there are incredibly driven, intelligent, and dedicated to what they do. The work environment they've established for themselves enables them to guarantee that anything that goes out with their name on it is something they are immensely proud of. 2. Their hallway art is way better than ours:
First off: The Chima RPG Collab Contest-esque Thing (Contesque?) is heading into the home stretch (well, more accurately, it tripped over its own feet about a foot away from the home stretch and kind of laid there in the street for a week or so), so if you have any general ideas to input, this is your last chance! A full RPG opener post should be getting cobbled together in the near future. Second off: I'm bluer. Whoops. You won't see me around Q&A or Comics as much anymore (insert "when
The joy of finishing the first draft is surpassed only by the terror of realizing I now have to edit the first draft. (There's probably something ironic about this being the sequel to a short story that wound up being 20,000 words, but mostly my brain just keeps going back to "108,250 words to edit" and seizing up, so I'll get back to you on that later.)
Man, this summer is just flying by, it feels like. Well, three interesting things happened/are happening this week: The good news about an internship: I seem to have landed one with the Epic Critics Club. Ought to be quite fun. The bad news about an internship: turned out yesterday during a team meeting that the method we've been using on my project at work is actually much more limited and less useful than we thought. Going to be fun explaining this to my boss. The other news: hiking (a sm
Not pictured: Shiny new advertising policy which means I can finally say YOUTUBE and TUMBLR The Clikit Supertramps Macklemore Tons of free food The guided tour of the Boeing factories Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies
Today I have Read the Red Wedding in A Storm of Swords Watched the final episodes of Cowboy Bebop Watched "The Angels Take Manhattan" in that order. Shakespeare only wishes he could pack this much tragedy together.
Wisconsin pays little heed to such things as 'continuity of climate'. I support this claim with the evidence of it being 55 on Thursday where I was, and 20 with three inches of snow on Friday. In the James Bond movies, Q is now essentially Otacon, only British and with (presumably) less love of anime. November novels are nice. Writing as you like without making it into a race and juggling it with college is nicer. Jiro Ishii gave Kyugo Shindo a deLorean and his daughter an orange jacket sol
Today is, as you've probably heard, Ninjo day. Ninjo was, for those of you who weren't around way back then, a super nice, helpful staff member here on BZP. The years have dulled my memory of him a bit, but the fact I remember that much just from his username should tell you something about how awesome he was. And then today I found out his name was Matt. It's crazy, you know? The way the universe kind of piles up coincidences. Let me explain. Around the time I left BZP in '04, I joined
So. About three years ago I wrote a story called "The Shadow and the Sea". (If you haven't read it, this parenthetical is the obligatory plug - it's got Hahli and Teridax and Takanuva and quite a lot of emotional pain, which is always a good combo in my book.) I'm still not sure exactly where it came from, but somehow it wound up being long enough that I couldn't in good conscience call it a "short story." And folks seemed to like it! I did too, though of course three years on you look back an
The nice bit about posting an epic you know will only be three parts is that you can make an entry for every chapter without clogging up your blog! In any event, it's over here. Feedback is awesome as always, and fingers crossed the third and final part'll be up rather sooner.
The nice thing about writing a short story that turns into an epic is that you can have a reasonable turn-around time on chapters! Well, a chapter. If you count 'a week' as reasonable. Point is, The Shadow and the Sea is done. Read it! Critique it! Bop it! Point out canon discrepancies that I sort of just looked the other way on... it!
The name's Kyle Hyde. It's been three years since I quit the force and left New York. Now I'm a salesman for this outfit called Red Crown. On the surface, Red Crown's a door-to-door sales firm dealing in household goods. But Ed, the boss, has himself a little business on the side. He finds things that don't always want to be found. Keeps it quiet, too. From time to time, I lend a hand. Ain't the greatest gig in town, but... I got nowhere to be and nothing better to do. You hear me, Bradley? This
Got to see Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (the Rifftrax/MST3K guys) riff a pair of old 70's school-education films live, followed shortly by John Hodgman hitting me in the shoulder with a 5-Hour Energy. Milwaukee, you ain't half bad sometimes. EDIT: ohmygod and new Toonami was on. New Toonami. Actual new skits with Tom. They reviewed Mass Effect 3. Is this real life?
