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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

One complaint.

OMG. In the past 24 hours, all three anime series that I've been waiting for releases in have had new subs released. So I watched Naruto 110-111 (double-length episode!) today. Tomorrow holds either Bleach 6 or Gundam SEED Destiny 7, where everything now makes a lot more sense, having watched 20 episodes of the original since i watched episode 6 of it. Tomorrow also holds several pages of rushed writing of my poem explication. Yay.
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If I had one complaint about my life, it would have to be the monotony of it. The daily school routine is pretty boring. Of course, as evidenced by Thanksgiving break, no school is just as bad, if not worse. I think it's pretty telling that the only thing I have to talk about here is new anime episodes...
Which reminds me, the Fullmetal Alchemist movie should be in theaters while I'm on the Japan trip. That's totally awesome.

Monday, November 29, 2004

a short entry

Argh Suprnova.org is down. Not that I wanted to use it for anything illicit...
I finished Gundam SEED. It's quite good. The series starts off pretty slow, but the pace picks up quite a bit in the last half of the series.
It looks as if we won't get to Age of Kings in hsitory... That's too bad. At least I have HISSS.
Chem homework is insanely long. Like hell if I'm gonna cut out 4 pages of that crap.
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Strangely, I seem to have very little to say today.

Sunday, November 28, 2004

little-to-no progress

I updated the thing. You know - that thing.
Luke, magical king of angst, was added (and I changed a little HTML).
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Froogle has Google Account stuff now? Sweet. That totally beats Amazon's wishlists. The privacy implications are significant, but oh well. I'd be sure to lose my Google cookie before doing any searches that I didn't want linked back to me. And I'd do it behind a proxy. But I guess the average Interweb user isn't that knowledgable... Sucks to be them, I guess.
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That brings me to my new favorite Firefox extension - Delicious Delicacies. If you're geeky enough to get it without having to click the link (or even afterwards), then you get a cookie. And it'll track all your Google searches. Oh yes.
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In other news, I somehow managed to not do anything interesting over break or get any work done. Hooray for unproductivity!

Saturday, November 27, 2004

explication and whatnot

That poem explication thing is kinda annoying. Like what appears to be 75% of the rest of the class, I'm doing e.e. cummings' "next to of course god america i. It is, or course, not easy to understand at first. Howeer, I guess that means that its all the easier to find the deeper meaning of the poem. Its still fairly tough to write pages of coherent thoughts on it.
I also found a recording of e.e. cummings reading a few poems (including this one) on Salon.com. It starts about 2:03 into the file.
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Gundam SEED still rules. In fact, I'd say that this week's Gundam SEED is better than the episode of Fullmetal Alchemist showing tonight, since FMA episode 4 is like the worst one in the series. And SEED 33 has that cool song that I posted yesterday. Hooray for Yuki Kaijura.

Friday, November 26, 2004

Post-Thanksgiving Post

No post yesterday thanks to the delicious holiday known as Thanksgiving. I spent most of the day playing Civilization III (no expansion packs here...) and downloading the last half of Gundam SEED (subbed). The video was really high-quality... but the subtitles were in French. So into the Recycle Bin they go. So here I am, STILL downloading SEED. At least this time I know the subtitles are in English. (Even if they are from AnimeJunkies.)
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And here's my gift for the week: Akatsuki no Kuruma.mp3 It's the background song from Gundam SEED episode 33 (airs tonight on CN). Pretty good, should sound familiar to people who watched .Hack//Sign.

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Yay for snow.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

A real half day...

I think everyone knows what tomorrow is - that's right, the last day of school before Thanksgiving break. And if you didn't know, I just told you. So you can go back and read the first sentence and respond yes. And then skip this part. Up to here. Start reading again here. So yay for break. Those 25 minute clss periods are totally worthless... But it means I'll need to use both of my free ones to do math (probably).
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The last line of this made my day worthwhile. Oh, as well as Bill Maher on Larry King. I wish I got HBO. Or that he were still on ABC. That man is better than Jon Stewart.

Monday, November 22, 2004

The Main Stacks are cool.

I think I did alright on my math test (tho prolly not great, I try not to be too confident about stuff like that), and the chem test went particularly well. I didn't really need my notes, and I think I got all the extra credit.
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Hehe, I got to go back in the Main Stacks today. I was looking for books on England's oh-so-cool New Model Army, but since the book pagers are pretty understaffed (being as its Thanksgiving break for the university), my mom used her staff card to go back in the stacks. It was pretty cool. My books were shelved on floor 9.5, since the Main Library is such a mess. And then I pulled out a book from 1822. Since I'm working in the mid-1600's the book was closer in time to the actual events than to the present. And thats just weird. I think I may have gotten too many books, like 8 or something... Oh well, I have all of break to read them.
Anyway, off to finish that crazy chem web assignment.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

I think I'm better. I'd better be.

Man, I miss way too much stuff when I'm sick. Cases in point:
  • Math exam
  • Japanese exam
  • English skit
  • IMEA!
  • Movie w/ Cole & ppl at Savoy 16
  • Unhinged booster draft
  • Movie at Annie's house
But hopefully nothing more, now that I'm feeling better. I do still have to make up the Japanese and algebra tests, as well as the regularly-scheduled chem test this week, so I'm not exactly out of the woods yet.
Stupid UIUC library, being closed today. Well, I guess its open tomorrow, so I'll go bick up my books then. New Model Army, oh yeah!
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Currently listening to:
Shostakovich String Quartets Cover String Quartet No. 7 - Dmitry Shostakovich - Borodin Quartet

Saturday, November 20, 2004

a few things

I didn't go to IMEA and instead went to the swim meet in Bloomington, as I mentioned yesterday.
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I've spent way too much time today playing SSBM. But now I'm back up to speed (more or less) with Mewtwo and Falco. And I hate you if you play Roy or Marth.
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Argh stupid ANBU not having a translator for Bleach. Can't one of the several AKeep translators help out on it for a while? Lunar is up to Episode 7 already... I might just have to start watching their (decidedly inferior) subs.
Gundam SEED and Naruto are both in serious ass-kicking mode right now though.
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Unfortunately, I couldn't/can't make it to the movie tonight (National Treasure) or the Unhinged draft tomorrow with Cole. Hopefully he'll be in town for Betrayers of Kamigawa... :3

Friday, November 19, 2004

still sick

Looks like I won't be going to IMEA tomorrow... On the plus side, it means that I'll be able to swim one event at the meet tomorrow in order to get credit for YMCA championship meets (since I need to make it to 3 Y-sanctioned meets in order to qualify). I still feel kinda bad about skipping IMEA though, since its an honor to be accepted. But I guess it can't really be helped.
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EDIT: It seems I forgot to post this last night. Strangely, Blogger sets the timestamp before you submit the post, so it still shows up as being from Friday.

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Scheduled downtime...

Well, I seem to have lost my post. Not much happening tho - I missed school again today cause I still feel crappy, but I should be there tomorrow so that I can do that English skit thing and so I don't have to make up my chem test. I hope I'm well enough to go to IMEA on Saturday...

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

thinking is hard


I had a bad day today. The math graphing section was especially depressing. For those not so inclined, the parabola is the set of points equidistant from the directrix and the focus.

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

blehy 2max

I'm still sick. I left after history, so I missed chem and math. And since I have IMEA on Saturday, I have to take the PLAN tomorrow morning, killing 1st through 3rd hours. Which means I have to make up a Japanese reading quiz, a Japanese exam, my English play, and the first part of my math test. And of course, I, not being fully sound of mind, totally forgot that I'd be gone tomorrow until I left school today, so Ito Sensei and Mrs. Majerus expect me to be there... Oh well.
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Blah Colin Powell quit. (Yes, I know this was announced yesterday, and yes I know that it'd been expected for a year. It's still bad.) I think that the Daily Show put it best:
With Colin Powell's resignation, the Bush Administration has lost its most influential moderate. Also, its least influential moderate, its tallest moderate, its shortest moderate, its blackest moderate, its whitest moderate...

Its kinda sad that someone who's had such a major role in politics for the past 20 years is leaving. Even if I wouldn't agree with him on everything , Powell still struck me as a reasonable man.
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In case you hadn't noticed, I made a few modifications to the theme. Here's the original theme for comparison. And yes Jake, I really did make the banner myself this time.
Also, Trillian 3 is pretty cool, in case anyone was wondering.
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Currently listening to:
Reason (Single) Cover Reason (Single) - Nami Tamaki

Monday, November 15, 2004

blehy x2

I was sick today and missed school. Very sad. I guess I missed out on a lot too:
[20:09:15] Spectr 060: whatd i miss today?
[20:09:44] icflames8: IMPORTANT STUFF
[20:09:59] Spectr 060: such as?
[20:10:50] icflames8: WORLD WAR II
[20:10:54] icflames8: AND THE CREATION OF...
[20:10:55] icflames8: rabbits
Or maybe I didn't miss out on much. Only homework was to finish math review sheet (argh), read a page of history (lunchtime ^__^), and study for Japanese (which I now have two quizzes in tomorrow). I certainly hope I'll be able to go back to school tomorrow.
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And everyone, turn on Atom syndication for your weblogs. It's really easy. (Image uploaded below.)


Turn on Atom syndication for your blog.

Sunday, November 14, 2004

blehy

I'm kinda sick. I had to go to swim meet tho, since I have to make 3 YMCA-sanctioned meets in order to compete at States. I also had to go to orchestra, since I'd missed 2 of the past 3 rehearsals (and you're only supposed to miss 2 per semester).
Man, I'd forgotten how good episode 2 of Stand Alone Complex was...
And if you think Super Milk-Chan is stupid, then you're stupid.
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Also, if you have WinXP, I'd suggest getting MS's PowerToys, primarily the Virtual Desktop Manager (although it is kinda kludgy).
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Somewhat short entry today, sorry. I guess I haven't done much lately.

Saturday, November 13, 2004

anime stuff

Argh... Writing a template from scratch is a real pain...
Anyway, some bad news for anime fansubbing: Crustol, the king of dubbing shows that I watch, retired from translating. Pretty depressing, since I've watched Fullmetal Alchemist and Naruto with his translations.
In other news, Gundam SEED really owns now. It's become increasingly more engaging since the beginning.
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Currently listening to:
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST Cover Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex OST - Ortiga - Inner Universe (OP)

Friday, November 12, 2004

and tidal waves couldn't save the world...

Well, the half (and by "half" I mean 50 minutes shorter than normal) day was okay. I got back my absolutely dismal chemistry test score... Ugh. I certainly hope I scored better on the history test. I got 5 extra credit points on it, and on a 50 point test, that certainly counts for something. I went to Moonstruck with Tony, Annie, Ford, and Aria after school, where we drank hot chocolate, ate cake, and attempted to play 80 Points, despite the fact that Ford and I had never played before. Oh well. I had to leave at 4 so my mom could pick me up after the teachers' meeting. Of course, she was about 15 minutes late, so I stood out in the cold in front of the Union for 15 minutes that I would much rather have spent playing cards or whatever inside... Oh well. It seems that I've caught my sister's sore throat at least a little, so my apologies if anything I wrote here is completely senseless or badly worded/punctuated...
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This is incredibly depressing. I don't understand why someone in the UN doesn't try to do something about this. The US has something of an excuse in the quagmire we call Iraq, but there are other countries out there with militaries, and I'd say that UN intervention here would be much more appropriate than back in Kosovo (although I was only 8 when that was news).

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Currently listening to:
Californication Cover Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Another boring day...

Not much happened today. I kinda messed up my English speech and the chem test... Oh well.
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It seems that Illwill's (of drocon-yum fame) arrest is getting some significant press coverage. It seems that everyone thinks that he's responsible for the initial theft of the code. I dunno, if he's dumb enough to accidentally try to sell it (for $20?!?) to a government agent...
Anyway, I've got to go study for history. I leave you with this:

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Uni High Blogger Blogring

Ok, it's now up: http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/~rboyce/blog/
Any additions, corrections, etc. should be emailed to me at rboyce+blog@gmail.com.
And yes, Google owns me now.
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Oh, it looks like Yasser Arafat died. Even though I'm not a tremendous fan of the guy, its always kinda sad when people die. I kinda wonder what killed him. I somehow doubt it was poison (of the intentional sort), but the circumstances are a bit odd... I guess he was an old guy, but I don't think it's normal for your platelets to just disappear.
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Anyway, I've got a chem test tomorrow, as well as a few (36) lines of A Midsummer Night's Dream to memorize... Later.
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EDIT: WTF?!? I can't use <hr> tags? Why not?

This is the place...

Well, I just tossed on one of the default templates for now. Now that almost everyone else seems to have migrated, I think I'll set up the Atom feed equivalent of a blogring; basically, a page with links to everyone's blog and the corresponding XML feed. The feeds will be accessible through Firefox's Live Bookmark feature, as well as the usual RSS feed readers.


 
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