BZP Muster------------------------------- I was not looking forward to this entry. Mainly, because there is such a furor over certain people who are a part of the Blue that it isn't as neutral a memorial as those for the Red and the White. But it must be done. These are the people we trust to guard our streets, protect the peace of this country from within, and they have one heck of a job to do. These days they walk lines both professional and political, personal and public. These men and
6 hour bus ride to Springdale. All that needs to be said about this stop is that the choir was probably bigger than the audience. Anything good was quickly eclipsed by the bad of day 5. So it was another long ride, though not quite as long, to Wichita. It wasn't a ghastly early morning, but I was tired. Day started by looking at my phone and Skype: neither Otter nor Humva would be able to make it to the concert. Well great. That was supposed to be the highlight of the stop. So I get on the bus
I've given up on using them in my writing system (con-script?) for the most part. Maybe at some point... mayyybeee.... In the process of exploring the idea, though, I came up with several more letterforms I liked and have decided to (instead of using diacritics for vowels) simply revise my script to get rid of the letters that require you to lift the pen more than once. Basically I'm revising for laziness. The only reason I didn't try and make them all letters that don't require any lifts woul
TL;DR version is at the bottom. Since October 2005, the BS01 Wiki has served to recount the history of the BIONICLE Story. The history of the Wiki itself is officially contained on a few scattered pages. The Wiki's About page gives us an overview of the site's history. The Event Log Archive gives us a daily log going back to July 2008. Neither of these pages gives any detail into the events that took place, however. Enter http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/User:Zo;Tomana/Histories. That's r
Today's post brought to you by psychological disturbance. That is, my psychological stability has been slowly chipped back to high school levels. I hate the tour bus =) On the other hand, last night may have been the best concert all tour. And that's all I really got. Home... T^T
My first half-year in the Singing Cadets was miserable. I despised the initiatory process and even into the 2nd half and throughout my four years I resented the older "Old Men" and those younger than me who embraced the system a little too enthusiastically for my taste. Even in my last year, at the height of my seniority and reputation in the group I had plenty of reason to despise some people in the group. Which, of course, has led one friend in particular to keep asking me why I bothered wit
More thoughts came to mind last night as to my hypothetical Zelda game, specifically how to introduce some plot differences between it and the other games that always have Ganon gaining the upper hand before being brought low by Link and Zelda. So... As revealed in Skyward Sword, there is an eternal curse on the Princess and the Hero that the hatred of Demise will revive again and again in an endless cycle. In two of the three timelines Ganon is considered dead, but one of those is simply beca
I really wish the buffo would abandon their current line of "humor" regarding the topic of me. There are several things to make fun of, but they've latched on to a single thing and absolutely ruined the not-funny joke by banging on and on. Originality is not their strong suit, and we would have been told to bar similar things from our jokes by now. I'd also like to see what they would do if we made them remove jokes regarding sexual orientation and related anatomy from their repertoire. So very,
Into the heart of enemy territory, and our--paradoxically--most highly attended concert. Lots of formers came to sing with us on the last song, and I got to see my parents =) Alas, I can't tell you about the bus ride home because of tradition. If any of you come to A&M and join the Singing Cadets I really don't want to spoil the final ride for you. It was good, and I was happy tour was ending. Really needed to get away from the same 60 faces. I'm at home now (that is, home away from colleg
Ever fighting the uphill battle of archiving BS01 History, I have decided that it would be worthwhile to create a file on the BIONICLESector01 Counter Vandalism Unit. A predecessor to the mysterious APO (unexplained, unchronicled, and probably also inactive), the CVU was founded in 2006 in response to a large scale vandal attack on the Wiki. The Unit--founded by Bionus, Utopia, and Bioran--was comprised of both Staff and regular members, and was responsible for the prevention of vandalism and fo
In my last post, I introduced my History page: http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/User:Zo;Tomana/Histories. It all started back in 2008 with the first BS01 Staff April Fool's Day Prank. Known variously as the BS01 Empire or the V Incident, I discovered what was going on behind the prank and began to create a chronicle, a File, on a subpage. This stood for two years as the V File, until the 2010 and April Event, the KS01 Empire. After Lord Nektann began to create his own record of the event, I
This past weekend I volunteered for the fourth time as a medic at the 27th, annual A-Kon anime convention in Dallas, Tx. It was stressful, exhausting, and a ton of fun. Already can't wait to go back next year. I arrived at the Hilton Anatole on Thursday, got checked in with the heads for Med Staff, got my badge, and immediately went to work. Probably one of the biggest things I was involved in was the setting-up and first-year execution of a dispatch position intended to help organize and keep
I haven't really been finding interesting things to put on here lately.... So here's just a general update on life. 1. My nephew took his first steps a week ago :3 2. As I was driving down to College Station to meet up with a friend, with whom I would continue the trip to my hometown for said nephew's birthday, I was suddenly taken aback at all the lights appearing on my car's dashboard and a message on the little display saying "Check VSC System." I pull over and get out the manual and sear
As September 11th nears, I have begun to turn my attention towards what I will be publishing on my BS01 Userpage. I have made one of these speeches once a year for the past four or five years now, as a tribute to 9/11 and to people across the world who have died in various tragedies. This year, I would like to do something different. I would like to find a way to honor the BZPower family specifically in addition to my usual statements. At Texas A&M, my university, we have a yearly tradit
While trying to remove some redlinks from the [http://biosector01.com/wiki/index.php/BIONICLEsector01:Event_Log BS01 Event Log]'s Archive, I found the page to be completely un-editable. Both Swert and I tried editing the page (myself trying both in whole and in section), but we both got fatal errors from it simply taking far too long for the site to execute the edit. Together, we decided that the best option that would preserve the archives was to split them between two pages. Well, I did that,
BZPower Muster ----------------------------------------------------- A few of you know that I am involved in the world of Emergency Medicine, and as a matter of course I interact with other medics, with police officers, and with firefighters. As 9/11 nears, I would like to take a moment each week to recognize these three forces--the Red, the White, and the Blue--which are so integral and important in my life. When I turned 16 I joined my city fire department as a junior volunteer. I still h
My History page started out to record only the April Events of BS01, but - as I've said in my previous posts - it has grown well beyond that now. Today I'm showcasing another retroactive recording. This one started nearly 6 years ago, and effectively ended barely a month later. Folks, I'm talking about the failed Wiki Nui Civil War. The Staff split into three groups and participated in an RPG. The objective? Take control of Wiki Nui, and ease in 2008 with a happy spirit and high morale. This r
This, http://www.bzpower.com/story.php?ID=6179, is the sort of thing someone like me dreads. It is more significant, too, that this announcement was made the day after my post about the BS01 Civil War. My most significant source of information on the event gone for good. This is a very sharp reminder of why I need people, why I need people who remember these kinds of events. But it isn't only events I need memories of. Today's file is something I have a tolerably complete picture of, but it se
I know there are a few in the Austin area, and this is mainly addressed to them because they're likely closest. If you'd like to take a day-trip away from Austin this weekend (or where ever you live if you're able/inclined to travel to Bryan-College Station) and be entertained with holiday music from multiple choirs on a Sunday afternoon, I can hook you up. My college chorus and it's two sister choirs will be putting on a holiday concert at 3pm, and I can promise that you'll enjoy at least MY ch
So my latest thoughts about the hypothetical Zelda game I've been putting together in my head (detailed here and here), are as follows: 1. Dungeons in Hyrule itself don't change layout or puzzle style based on how you treat Labrynna and Holodrum. Instead, they are just flat-out very difficult dungeons that can be completed with merely a sword, shield, and bow (or whatever Zelda's initial loadout is). Have Link start with his bow and go from there. Completion of Holodrum and Labrynna give you i
