Astray

I also learned that electricity will short circuit across copper pipes, so I need to solder the leads directly to the headers.

eringryffin, and I have always wondered after the design of girl's bicycles, figuring that the design was best suited for men, so as to prevent injury. I however have finally figured out why girl's bicycles have a scoop instead of a backbone!

It all goes back to the days when women weren't allowed to wear pants!

That being said, the male bicycle is still structurally more sound.

Today's XKCD made me think about Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which isn't as awe inspiring now that we do have spectrographical data on ACTUAL exo-planets that we know DO exist.

Someone created a 'Mobile Suit Gundam Battle System' based on the Warhammer 40k rules set. The thing is, since each mobile weapon is an entire unit, even though you have to go out, and buy a dozen GM's or Zaku Models to play the game, it still costs about 1/3 as much as it would to play actual Warhammer. Infact I dare say it may cost as little as 1/4 as much, since you don't need to buy codecs, or extra equipment for your army.

I was trying to figure out how to make the small firearms Hoihoi-san uses, when it occurred to me that "Hoihoi-san wasn't designed to use tiny firearms, she was designed to kill bugs!" You could put a 100mw laser into a pen, which is enough to light a cigarette, among other things, so upping the power of a laser like that wouldn't add very much weight at all! Additionally you wouldn't have to worry about micro air currents, which would have a ridiculously large effect on projectiles of Hoihoi-san's scale.

I just put my space marine mini on my shelf with all my SD Gundam figs, and I realized something. Space marine armor looks a lot like a Zaku!

Have you ever wanted to post a Horrible self insert fic, set in the Simarillion? I mean an absolutely ABOMINABLE fic, only featuring characters so obscure that ever reader would have to keep the LOTR Wiki Open in another tab just to follow it?

...gets hurt when he wears his reading glasses for too long. They are too narrow, or perhaps just the wrong size, so they put pressure on the sides of his head.

Initially I suggested that we could bend the frame in boiling water/under steam the way eringryffin would to straighten her horses' legs. This gave my parents pause, until I explained that they were model horses. Once they understood though it was roundly decided that this was a marvelous idea, and water was put on to boil.

However while we were waiting for it to heat up I thought of another way to fix the problem, in filing the joint on each side so that they would open wider when fully open. I fixed the problem before the water even hit a rolling boil!

I wish I could get a job fixing mechanical problems with spacial reasoning. I think I'm rather good at it.

Now I wonder what should I do with a pot of boiling water?

Actually I'm pretty certain Yamadaya's a he, but the thing is once every 18 months, since 2005, he has, almost single handedly, released a Doujinshi game at Comic Market.

While Soul Saber, his first, was simply technically impressive, ostensibly duplicating the original DOA engine, Combat DX9 - Kinryu vs Xentex is a truly remarkable thing.

Combat DX9 - Kinryu vs Xentex is a doujinshi game based on the Ichigeki Sacchuu!! Hoihoi-san OVA & manga. The game itself looks like a last generation PS One, or first generation PS2 game, AND even has integrated 8 axis controller support. An unfortunate downside to this though is you can't play it without at least a 6 axis controller.

This is a link to the most informative forum entry I can find, and this is a link to the translated game manual at Yamadaya's homepage.

I may have found an applet that will allow me to mirror my entire journal on multiple sights! This in turn means I'll finally be able try out the Scribefire plug in to update each blog simultaneously!

I burned myself cooking tonight. This is probably the first time since I was a kid that this has happened. After dinner, and an hour of keeping my finger in a glass of water a sizable blister welled up, and I decided I needed to do some research.

It takes 10 to 14 days for a blister like mine to recede, but it only takes four to seven days for a laceration to heal shut.

So obviously I took a razor blade, some alcohol, Neosporin, and a band-aid, and cut that bugger open! It stopped hurting almost immediately, and I feel pretty good about my decision. The only problem is, I forgot about the part where bandaged hands make hand washing difficult. ><;;

Oh, and I'm re-watching Escaflowne!

There may be the potability that instrumentality was never necessary. Long had everyone thought that the world wide decline in birthrates was a byproduct of the second impact, however there were other things occurring at the same time that may have hampered Lilith's ability to recycle souls. For one thing, being impaled on the Lance of Logginus may have been impairing Lilith's operation, and on the other end of that equation, Adam's freedom from it may have been causing the problem. There is even the possibility that the cloning of Lilith to make Unit 01, or the clones of Adam, and existence of the other angels was the cause of the problem.

It could very well be that some time after episode 22, or 24 the world's conception rate returned to normal, and no one knew before instrumentality began.

Recently I've been delving back into Eva; Wiki's, Fanfic, the original show, the new manga, ect.

I have however, by an odd turn of events, started associating the characters with pieces of music not associated with the show. I know I'm not the first person to do this, but until just this afternoon, I can't ever remember having done so before. More than that though, I never got into the AMV scene, and didn't particularly appreciate a lot of the music that invariably got used. That being said I am, in spite of myself, still going to post the wonky list of songs, that I can't help thinking about when watching Eva.

Rei's Theme
Theme of Rei X Shinji
Yui's Theme (Unit 01's Theme)
Eva's Theme (Unit 02's Theme)
Asuka's Theme
Asuka's Theme (Breakdown Mix)
Theme of Asuka X Shinji

Odd as it is, I lack a song for Shinji himself, so if anyone can come up with something please suggest something.

You are The High Priestess

Science, Wisdom, Knowledge, Education.

The High Priestess is the card of knowledge, instinctual, supernatural, secret knowledge. She holds scrolls of arcane information that she might, or might not reveal to you. The moon crown on her head as well as the crescent by her foot indicates her willingness to illuminate what you otherwise might not see, reveal the secrets you need to know. The High Priestess is also associated with the moon however and can also indicate change or fluxuation, particularily when it comes to your moods.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

And since these things happen in cycles, here is a quiz that I found last night.

Moor's Law requires that Intel be working on at a scale of 22 nm by 2013, but the company is currently only planning on being at the 30 nm scale by then.

Also Cuteness

The more I find out about exactly how they are rebuilding Evangelion, the worse it sounds. The first movie was basically the same, but in the second they completely overhaul Asuka's character. Now Asuka has a complex where she speaks through a puppet, and then kill her in Eva Unit 03, only she's featured on life support in the trailer of the third movie.

It's like the staff thought that too many people liked Rei in the original series, so they figured, 'if we heap enough misfortune onto Asuka, then of course the audience will love her!'

I'm reminded of a scene in Welcome to the NHK, where the protagonist tries to create the perfect moe blob.

( Perfection )

The more I read up on organic computing, the more it seems the mission statement is drifting towards slavery. For the number of nerds working on how to fix the silicon problem, it seems like not a one of them has ever read any sci-fi that ends with the robots rising up against us.

It's probably just the venture capitalists mucking it all up. Business men, PFFFT. I hope this bunch of mindless jerks wind up being the first against the wall when the revolution comes.

Last night I had a dream, that I owned him.

A lot of this book reads as follows;

The first thing we did was deny reality.
Then we fucked up.
Then we panicked.
When that didn't work we fell back to the basest of human instincts.
'Something' changes?
We Win?!?! YAY!!!

I like the bit where Allen Alda's character champions socialism, but far too much of this has a fascist bent. Iceland is treated as a foofoo state, even though it's one of the only countries with a self sustaining infrastructure. I think they underestimate what limitless geothermal power, an inexhaustible supply of food, and socialized medicine can do for a people.

Canada recently did a study on the treatment of a possible zombie pandemic, and concluded that tactical nuclear strikes against population centers was the only viable medical treatment. Is that the best we've got? Where are the stories of how a moderately progressive state's medical community identified the pathogen, and took the appropriate precautions while handling the patients, and bodies?

Pandemics aren't even dangerous any more. When was the last time that "The (Animal 'X') Flu" had a mortality rate comparable to the infant mortality? You are more likely to die from being born, than you are from having caught Swine Flu.

I think the love of zombies has blinded people to the utility of networked computers. I'm a firm believer in 'The Peter Principle,' and would love to see all the managers, and executives who's 75K annual income effectively prohibits 40% of the workforce from earning a living wage reduced to poverty, or ash. However a morality play which lacks an objective perspective, loses it's utility, and becomes nothing more than a fairytale.