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[Apr. 5th, 2009|11:51 pm] |
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Well, it left me so full of rage that I have to say something about it - the ending to Life On Mars US, what the fuck was that about? |
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[Mar. 12th, 2009|01:24 am] |
Currently thinking about having The One Ring as our wedding ring. I suggested it half-jokingly and my GF totally went for it. Reasonably cheap too, which is good - gf isn't interested in a ring that costs x months salary anyway, she'd rather spend my money (:p) on better things.
Also, she was staying with me for the past few days (slowly but surely moving in together) and, when I came in on tuesday, she burst out from where she'd been hiding and gave me a scare - apparently that was an "April Fool!" - the fact that it's still March doesn't seem to have been a problem.
Seeing her again on Saturday, can't wait. |
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[Mar. 10th, 2009|11:24 pm] |
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Oh god there's so much to think about before you get married - at least my gf only wants a simple one |
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[Feb. 9th, 2009|09:54 pm] |
So, I went to Kyoto.
Absolutely not what I was expecting.
My boss forgot an essential piece of gear for debugging, so I took the Shinkansen there, ate, bought a present for my girlfriend, and came straight back.
As a sidenote, well, I guess I have pictures to upload. A bunch of stuff from the past few months. Just need to work up the enthusiasm, haha. |
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[Jan. 19th, 2009|11:45 pm] |
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Hart dead but Harris is alive. Is there no justice? |
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[Jan. 16th, 2009|12:43 am] |
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Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan |
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[Dec. 8th, 2008|01:46 am] |
Just watched "My Name Is Bruce"
What could be a better ending than that? |
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[Nov. 24th, 2008|02:07 am] |
Got Fallout 3 off Steam from Link - his local post office seem to totally fail at sending international money orders.
I still really don't like the idea of getting DRMed games off Steam, purely because it means you have to rely on Valve keeping the service up indefinitely, but hey, I have a legitimate key (the biggest form of Copy protection the game has from my point of view, you need it to register the game into your X-Box Live profile) so I can warez the game if something happens. |
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[Nov. 14th, 2008|06:37 pm] |
One of the unwelcome side effects of working crazy long hours is that I've had no time to watch TV recently.
One of the shows I have ended up really enjoying is a show called "Stitch", a Japanese TV show all about, well, Stitch from Lilo and Stitch - but set in a fictional Okinawan island rather than Hawaii.
Stitch being voiced by the same guy who played Spike in Cowboy Bebop and Briaeros in Appleseed.
oh, and - Americans. I hate you for not watching My Own Worst Enemy. Cancelled after 4 episodes! |
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[Nov. 5th, 2008|03:43 pm] |
Writing this now so that when it happens I can point you to the entry and see "say! I told you so!"
Recently, after it hit the point where it was obvious he'd win, Boris Johnson endorsed Barrack Obama. BoJo is fairly right-wing, though he's been forced to lean rather left thanks to accidentally ending up mayor of London.
Why would he want to do a thing like that?
BoJo, for all his English bluster, is an American, born in New York. I think he's angling for getting the Democrat nomination when Obama is done - 2016 he'll still not be THAT old.
Also gives him 8 years to become leader of the Tories, and get elected Prime Minister of the UK.
That I think is his plan, he wants to be President of the US and British Prime Minister at the same time.
Tell me I'm wrong! Tell me it's impossible! Because as far as I can see there are no legal barriers to it happening, it's just that BoJo is the first person who's been in a position to call it off. I mean, the guy's a unionist, so doing the democratic equivalent to what James VI of Scotland did must appeal to him on some level. |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2008|01:27 am] |
There is a show on Japanese TV called "Zettai Karen Children". (Zettai Karen translates to something like "absolutely lovely")
It airs in the 10am kid's cartoon slot on TV Tokyo, the most conservative channel in Japan.
Don't get me wrong, I love the show, I am just totally blown away by the fact that a show that's so inappropriate for the timeslot has run for over 30 episodes and is going strong (cleavage shots, panty shots, 10 year old girls coming on strong to adults, breast play, huge quantities of English-language swearing whenever a "Komerican" (terrible pun on American) character is in the episode etc etc)
One day a TV Tokyo exec is going to notice what they've been broadcasting and it's going to be bigger than the Brand/Ross scandal.
Speaking of that, now that Brand has quit radio 2, I think that Andrew Sachs should be given his show. So that he can - with a crony, I'm thinking Barry Norman maybe - phone up Brand's phone and sing a little song about how he fucked Brand's grandmother. Turnabout is fair play after all. |
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[Oct. 16th, 2008|11:21 pm] |
Time for an update showing what I got (from one person) and ate for my birthday (2 different days, you can probably split them pretty easy by the lighting)
Going to throw in an LJ-Cut but apparently they don't work any more (?)
( Read more... ) |
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[Oct. 12th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
Went to TGS today.
Even though Kotaku claim that visitor numbers are "in free-fall" all the non-mobile phone games had queues of 90 minutes+ (except for Snoopy DS, at 15 minutes. Not that I played it)
Only actually played Resident Evil 5 (netted an official bandana) and Idolm@ster SP (no freebies, but looks to be a fun little game - weirdly, Miki is now one of the idols at your competitor's management company, not a manageable character) and after waiting over 3 hours for 10 or so minutes on those two games I just couldn't be fucked to wait for another hour plus to play anything else.
When I left there was an hour til closing, and the queues for The Last Remnant and Star Ocean 4 were 1.5 hours and 2 hours respectively, no idea why people at the ends of the queues were still there.
Oh, and in a weird reversal of all that is normal, a boothbabe asked me for my picture.
MS were doing a "boothcam" thing on one of their monitors, showing people's faces as they played the game, so they asked me (only foreigner playing a demo at that point? I guess so) |
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[Oct. 10th, 2008|11:28 pm] |
Today, for lunch, I had the best curry I have yet had in Japan - actually tasted good.
It's in a really easy to find place too, just out of the way compared to where I usually eat. Shall have to add it to my list of places to eat when I can't be fucked to cook I guess. |
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[Sep. 29th, 2008|01:19 am] |
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Less than 100% sure that spending 9 hours in the pub was a good use of time, but it was a FUN use of time! |
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[Sep. 23rd, 2008|08:02 pm] |
My mum is apparently planning on going to Iran next summer - it'll be her first time back since she was 18 or 19 - and is currently going through the fun and games of getting her Iranian passport re-issued.
It's extra fun for her because she has to start off by getting a new birth certificate showing that she was born in the Islamic republic rather than the Empire of Iran.
Well, actually it's extra fun for her because she's forgotten how to read Iranian - the written form omits all vowels so there's a lot of guesswork involved.
Oh, and I've no idea what name she's applying under as her married name is pretty offensive in Farsi. |
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[Sep. 22nd, 2008|02:00 am] |
Well, I'm in the Hello Kitty Online Founder's Beta.
I know you people are all jealous now. |
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[Sep. 20th, 2008|03:10 pm] |
New project has been cancelled by the customer - but we've told the current client I'm off doing something else because I wanted to do something in English for a change.
I'm going to be there for, well, til I'm told what else to do.
No idea what is going on, I never get told anything... |
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[Sep. 11th, 2008|11:59 pm] |
2 weeks with no entry, hah.
Anyway, still dunno when I'm changing project, client is so slow.
Recently I've had fuck-all work to do, 10 or 15 minutes a day, but have still ended up having to stay late-ish just in case I'm needed. Not particularly happy about that, but typical for Japan.
Otomedius' release has been put back indefinately so I cancelled my 27,000 yen preorder of the LE. Think I shall be saving that money to hopefully be spent doing something exciting around New Years (not sure if it's happening or not, hope it is) |
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[Aug. 23rd, 2008|08:13 pm] |
Well, changing projects as of mid-September (not sure what day, have heard the 12th and the 19th, but I need to train up the people taking over from me on what I'm doing now.)
The reason for changing projects? Our partner company is Vietnamese (I think?) and all the docs / source / tech support is in English. I am the only person in the company who speaks English. Hopefully be an interesting challenge, though I guess it depends on how much lee-way I get personally. |
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