I made this in two resolutions this time since I actually plan to use the 1024x768 one on the school computer that I use during programming... at least if I guessed the screen res correctly. My home monitor's res of 1280x1024 was definitely too big when I tried it today, but...
Well, I'll see on Tuesday.
Anyway, thar be spoilers ahead. Fairly be ye warned. Most of the screenshots are from episode 27.
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The three largest images, on the far left, center, and far right
Today in Global Studies we were asked to, in groups, make lists of various countries around the world such as "Top 3 Wealthiest Nations," etc., based on what we knew, and then check our guesses against actual statistics.
Well, we got the wealthiest nations wrong (this I blame on the question; the statistic was listed in per capita GDP, while we were just considering GDP in general) and the question that asked for the country with the 4th highest population (ignoring the first 3, which of cour
I've seen at least four other people with a sig along the same general lines as mine.
Time to figure out what I want to put in the speech bubble and go back to using "Lyg says."
I'd hate to be part of a... *shudder* trend...
That's a college essay.
So about an hour ago I was halfway through an idea I had for my essay and I decided to call it a night and while brushing my teeth an idea struck me so the computer went back on and here I am. There's the original 930 word version, which I heavily cut to a 705 word version, which I'll probably need to go over again to get it closer to the 500 word rule of thumb. But it's a pretty nice story with a good theme and it's my voice and okay. Now I've got something to work wi
They're fascinating, aren't they? Kinda reminds me of what George Orwell pointed out in 1984... that a language can basically shape your way of thinking. Now, granted, he was talking about something far darker than what I'm about to go off on, but it's true: language can be a very interesting window into a culture and the culture's sort of general common ways of thinking.
Now, I believe most of us on this site have English as our native or most fluent language, so that's rather difficult to a
My MP3 player has 30 volume levels. Here's how I use them.
VOL.
1 -
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 -
6 - normal listening
7 -
8 - car ride, quiet road
9 -
10 -
11 - car ride, normal road
12 -
13 - car ride, noisy road
14 -
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17 - school bus
18 -
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29 -
30 - I wonder what this will do to my eardrums? (used only once. Ever)
This year is gonna rock!
I already know two of my teachers, my Latin teacher and my Physics teacher. I sorta know a third teacher, and he's pretty darn cool; I've got him for BOTH Comp Sci AND Stat, which I have first and third period, respectively, on B-Days. My English teacher also seems fun, and I got the reading list... and there's Vonnegut and more Phillip K. Dick and Orwell... and like, this is the only reading list EVER that I've been able to mark off books that I've already read, name
Well, at least I've got all my summer assignments done. But I've gotta pack all my backpack and all that @*&^!!...
Oh yeah and I'm still doin' stuff for the CS2 project... the admin fellow contacted Pixel and apparently he needs to clarify but he thinks the issue is that Pixel doesn't want us using the name "Cave Story 2," because, well, it's fanmade and whatnot... not an official sequel. So people have been tossing around random names and I suggested we come up with a good plot first aft
So on the Cave Story fansite one of the admins decided to start a collaborative effort towards a fan-made sequel to Cave Story. Guess what I immediately volunteered to do?
Uh, a lot of these will have to be links since they're bitmap... It's cuz the original Cave Story engine uses renamed, indexed color bitmaps for its graphics (the indexed color makes the filesize a ton smaller than a normal bitmap) so I've gotten into the habit of saving CS-based graphics as bitmap. Dunno if that's what the
I actually finished it yesterday. At least it wasn't time-consuming. Only six eps.
Where do I even start? Confusing does not even begin to describe this show.
What's funny is, I found the themes and symbolism easier to understand than the superficial plot. XD Coming-of-age, puberty, confusion, certain... er... other *cough* themes... easy enough to spot.
Aliens, MIB-esque agencies, some weird company (that isn't a company?), electric guitars, baseball bats, satellites, absurd style-shi
Okay everyone list whatever random semi-relevant ideas you can think of in the hopes that I can thusly derive inspiration for my college application essay!
Ready... go!
Goodness that was graphic! It's like 300, except in epic poem format. All this brutal stabbing and slashing and killing and maiming... wow.
Vergil coulda directed an action movie. XD
I suppose standards were different back then and having a spear shoved through the back of your throat was seen as perhaps a less gruesome way of dying just because of the way wars were fought in the first place. Or maybe not and Vergil just wanted an epic bloody gory battle scene.
Also, what's with all the
Darnit everything needs to come with a nice big label concerning exactly what category it falls into. Because all these forms are so categorical!
Like one thing that has me stymied now is whether or not to mark Chemistry Olympiad as a state level or national level honor. Like, what qualifies as national level and what qualifies as state level? See, I took two tests, one was regional, if I passed it I got to take the national test. And I passed, and took the national test. And didn't pass. But
My mom made an dry observation that the older you get, the less school supplies you seem to need.
Nobody probably remembers this but I posted a rundown of my sister's kindergarten school supply list last year. What's my school supply list? A couple binders, folders, looseleaf, pencils, pens, a calculator, pencil bags, that's about it. Half of those I already have; I've been reusing the same pencil bags, calculators, pens, and some binders. Which left a couple binders, folders, a ream of loose
I know I'm not going to get any replies in CoT so I'm gonna put a link here anyway but also post the image itself.
Here's the topic.
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Palmer Eldritch from... well, you can read the topic for that.
As I said in the comments to the previous entry I did find the image I was looking for in good quality, as well as a whole BLOG full of good-quality screencaps of Gurren Lagann. So I ended up assembing a wallpaper with that image and several other ones even if I don't inte
I JUST WATCHED ALL 27 EPISODES OF THIS SHOW IN TWO DAYS.
OHGAAAAD I COULDN'T STOP MYSEEEEEELF D:
To describe how awesome this anime was would be beyond the language rules of BZP. So basically. It was awesome.
Unfortunately a lot of this entry's gonna have to be in spoiler tags.
First thing's first. Does anyone know if there's anywhere where I can find this image in wallpaper size, or at least a nice high quality version?
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «
Because th
I'm writing my English summer reading essay, right? Microsoft Word does not agree with me.
Word says that the "who" should be a "whom." I tried restructuring the sentence so I could analyze it...
The ultimate denial of truth (subject) that Palmer Eldritch commits (relative clause) is (linking verb) to literally become someone other than who he really is (???).
Anyone really good at grammar out there (I feel weird asking that on a site like this) who has some thoughts on this?
Anyway,
That. Made. No. Sense.
Well actually it wouldn't have if I hadn't known the basic idea beforehand. I understood what was going on, but man.
They coulda been a bit clearer as to what was going on. Or maybe it was not the best sub, or I'm just bad at absorbing a lot of information quickly. I mean, I watched part 1 and I'm like, "Well that was rather depressing... but it made sense." And I watch this and by one minute in I've already got a ton of questions.
Boy. That was confusing. My brai
Like that one ad just now with this guy on the phone talking about an aniversary or something and then it pans down and you see he's ironing a dress (his wife/girlfriend's?) and then there's romantic music in the background...
... and it's a CAR commercial. What?
I mean, it's memorable, but I don't even remember which car it was advertising in the first place!
On that note, eight gold medals in a single Olympics. Unbelievable. Really lucky number 8 this time.
I swear I need to kick these editors in the head.
This is a COLLEGE LEVEL Physics text (it's for AP Physics actually, but it's still a college text) and they have silly typoes in it.
Like in the introduction to the chapter on Newtonian mechanics, it mentions that "if you stop peddling your bicycle on level ground, you soon come to rest."
PEDDLING your bicycle?
Oy.
Yay actually Bionicle-related arts.
Also, I'm back home. =D
It's so nice to be in my room again...
And NO DOWNLOAD LIMIT! WOOT! I'ma gonna go watch all the videos I want!
It was spectacular. Completely spectacular. I watched the entire thing, missing only one or two minutes of the parade of nations when I went to order food.
Ah it's too bad darned NBC acquired the broadcasting rights for the entire country since now we're watching it twelve hours late but hey, watching it at the same moment as the rest of the nation, well, that's good enough.
The opening show was unbelievable. Unbelievable.
I just want to say that I wish the stupid announcers had left po
So today's my last day here, right? So I was packing.
And I got a call from someone I know in the same program and she's like "hey are you packing?" and I'm like "yeah" and then at some point she mentions the time and I glance at my clock and I'm like "5:40" and then that reminds me of my cell phone (since I'm always checking my phone for the time when I'm out) so I glance at my desk and I'm like "huh, where's my cell phone?"
It doesn't hit me for a FULL MINUTE. I'm like saying out loud "H
