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digitalwatches @ 2008-04-27T01:02:00

2008-04-27T08:05:37Z

Okay, what the fuck?

I appear to be burning up. I don't have a temperature, but my face feels hot and I'm sweating more than I should be.

In other news, it's looking like I'll have plenty of money to go to West Toast with. Babysat for winter_in_asia today, and did other stuff too, including probably the most random excursion I've ever been on until 12:45 AM (We should do that ALL THE TIME.)

Watches out.

digitalwatches @ 2008-04-26T11:15:00

2008-04-26T20:15:54Z

This game is fun, so I'll GIVE IT A GO.

1. Pick 20 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

1. Pleasantville (undomhin)
"Everybody really likes you, George."
"Oh. Well..."
"No! They do! And it's not just 'cause you're a good bowler. It's 'cause people respect you!"

2.
"Now what are you saying, the NSA killed Kennedy?"
"No, they shot him but they didn't kill him. He's still alive."

3.
"What Freud said about the Irish is: We're the only people who are impervious to psychoanalysis."

4. The Fifth Element (claidissa )
"We're newlyweds. Just met. You know how it is. We bumped into each other, sparks happen..."
"Mul-ti-pass."
"Yes, she knows it's a multipass. Anyway, we're in love."

5. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (turio)
"Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, 'I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me.' Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus. I'd still have to bum rides off people."

6.
"What was I supposed to do - call him for cheating better than me, in front of the others?"

7. Edward Scissorhands (claidissa)
~~"I can't eat that, he used his hands. I think it's unsanitary."~~

8.
"Listen to me Hillary. I'm not the first guy who fell in love with a woman that he met at a restaurant who turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist only to lose her to her childhood lover who she last saw on a deserted island who then turned out fifteen years later to be the leader of the French underground."
"I know. It all sounds like some bad movie."

9.
"I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven. Can you hear it? It's like when you put your head to the grass and you can hear the growin' and you can hear the insects. Do you like Beethoven?"
"I couldn't really say."

10.
"Are you married?"
"I'm divorced."
"Would you like to talk about that?"
"There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don't. My ex-wife loves him."
"So what you're saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she loves Neil Diamond?"

11. Juno (claidissa)
~~"You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events."~~

12. The Truman Show (undomhin)
~~"It was Dad. I swear! Dressed like a homeless man. And you know what else was strange? A business man and a woman with a little dog came out of nowhere and forced him onto a bus."~~

13. Office Space emiliod
"Hey, he helped Anne lose weight."
"Peter, she's anorexic!"
"Yeah, he's really good."

14.
"She told me about the letters."
"Letters? What letters?"
"The letters. She told me about them. I know all about the letters. How do you think I know? She told me. Thats how I found out."

15. Dogma (claidissa)
"I am to charge you with a holy crusade."
"For the record, I work in an abortion clinic."

16. Bruce Almighty (claidissa)
"Is this heaven?"
"No, this is Mount Everest. You should flip on the Discovery Channel from time to time. But I guess you can't now, being dead and all."

17. Serenity (claidissa)
"It should have been me that got hit."
"The thought... had crossed my mind."

18.
"I'm offering you my body and you're offering me semantics."

19. Children of Men emiliod
~~"Y'know that ringing in your ears? That 'eeeeeeeeee'? That's the sound of the ear cells dying, like their swan song. Once it's gone you'll never hear that frequency again. Enjoy it while it lasts."~~

20.
"Baptism! You two're just dumber'n a bag of hammers."

Warning: This is an actual conversation that happened out loud on the way down the stairs:

2008-02-20T03:46:31Z

Me: I want poptarts.
Me: Me too.
Me: Can I have poptarts?
Me: Don't fucking ask me, I don't even know if we have any.
Me: Well I'd better check then.
Me: Damn right.
Me: Sweet! Three flavors!

And then I toasted the poptarts and am now eating them.

THE END.

digitalwatches @ 2008-02-01T11:25:00

2008-02-01T19:26:20Z

Note to self: Never run all the way to the school, even if I CAN get there in 15 minutes.

digitalwatches @ 2007-10-05T00:06:00

2007-10-05T07:11:40Z

Um. I was bored and on photoshop, so I made a bunch of icons from TTGL.

Yeah. They're just cropped and downsized screencaps, so it's not like I have super-special copyright whatever, so if you like them, use them. Anyone who hasn't seen the show (Gurren Lagann) should, because it's awesome.

Dude!

2007-01-16T15:52:17Z

Schools are closed. The radio said it, and that's good enough for me.

Quite frankly, not closing today just to make up for closing that other time would be ludicrous.

TOO STRONG.

2006-12-12T06:44:03Z

The power of married Yeti love!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, you haven't played enough Twilight Princess. Seriously, why aren't you playing it now?

Anyway, I need to figure out what the hell is going on in school I get this paranoid suspicion that in each of my classes, there is something grade-killing I'm missing. Given that I haven't talked to my teachers for quite a while about this, ostensibly I have no way of reliably knowing. And while I'm usually a proponent of empirical data... I JUST KNOW THAT SOMETHING IS AMISS. I'll probably investigate tomorrow.

Digitalwatches signing out.

Evo reporting and a return to summer-boredom syndrome.

2006-08-23T07:37:36Z

So I got in from Evo last night. It was fun as hell, and included a buncha-muncha-cruncha sleep deprivation. I got to meet and play people from all over the US and Japan (Mostly Guilty Gear and a little Melty Blood.) Not surprisingly, the Japanese players won a lot of the tourneys, or placed high in them (Especially GGXX, where the difference between America's level and Japan's is much greater.)

But the most fun part was the casuals. Just sitting around and playing people was fun. The main regions I got to play against were NYC, MI, and SoCal (And of course three or four Japenese players.) Plus, as a bonus, I got to practice (and get complimented on) my Japanese. All in all very fun, and I'll definitely go again next year (Hopefully by then I'll have a job.)

digitalwatches @ 2006-07-23T03:30:00

2006-07-23T10:31:36Z

After about four hours of lying in bed trying to sleep, two tylenol PMs, and 1.5 hours of womb music set to go off as a last resort at 2, I'm convinced that my brain hates me.

STOP THINKING ABOUT SHIT, BRAIN.

Damn it.

digitalwatches @ 2006-07-22T21:19:00

2006-07-23T04:35:25Z

Bread and butter?

2006-07-22T07:32:56Z

Okay. So I'm getting to see a lot of movies lately apparently. Cool.

In the meantime, I need something to DO during the day. Because today was just ridiculously tedious. Especially with the internet hiccuping like it is. (With my last breath... I curse Comcast!)

In the meantime, hopefully what I've been doing has been helpful for Japanese. I mean, I think it has, but with nonspecific instructions, I get nervous regardless.

Eh. All will become clear tomorrow.

... Stupid people abound.

2006-07-19T22:31:02Z

If there's one thing I hate more than vandalism on Wikipedia, it's revert wars on Wikipedia. That, and people who demand justification even after you've given it, and refuse to provide any of their own.

Both are present here.

Edit: The issue is now resolved. Apparently he doesn't read the comments to edits of articles, but whatever. It's over now, and that's all that matters.

Yay!

2006-07-18T07:42:51Z

I fixed the internet, surprisingly, by changing the wires on the router. Faulty wires. Who knew?

If it goes down one more time this week, I'll personally defenestrate each and every member of Comcast, and eviscerate the CEO.

Aaanyway, too many people are tired of Guilty Gear, but at least I'm getting okay at KoF.

I'm hungry. Time for food. Even though it's like... one.

MASSIVE FUCKING HEADACHE.

2006-07-12T06:22:42Z

Alright, so apparently, there are worse things than migraines. I call it: Supermigraine. Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a freight train, etc. Remind me not to get hit on the head again.

In the meantime, jobsearching goes okay. Regal looks like it might hire me.

I be tired and in serious need of painkillers.

digitalwatches @ 2006-06-02T23:31:00

2006-06-03T06:33:08Z

Okay, so when a medical professional who's been using anaesthetic on their patients for over a decade, I would expect that they'd have a reasonable estimate of how such things work.

So when I hear from my dentist that it's supposed to wear off in an hour and a half, for those of you who didn't know when I left, I'd say that this started around 3:00, generous estimate. So it should have worn off around 4:30, right?

Well now it's fucking eleven thirty, and my tongue is still a bit numb, and the stuff was still at full power around 8. I hate anaesthetic.

Obligatory update. Trying to do it once a week.

2006-05-22T07:04:00Z

Stuff happened. Especially parties. Two of them.

Also: I finally find a God of War speedrun, and it's in a ridiculous amount of segments. Single-session runs are better, damn it!

Anyway, back to English and Japanese homework.

digitalwatches @ 2006-04-25T16:22:00

2006-04-25T23:23:43Z

Watermelons? Why, who is it that writes thusly, good sir? There be no comparison to thine mighty toast. A toast to toast, I say.

Stupid... bloody...

2006-02-03T00:09:44Z

Yep. Finals are over. In other news, migraine.

digitalwatches @ 2006-02-01T22:07:00

2006-02-02T06:14:18Z

Wow. It would seem as though I never really update this thing, huh?

Anyway, this week has been stressful and straining, although believe it or not, it has absolutely nothing to do with the finals which are this week. Finals are a relief. Most of this abnormal stress is sleep loss catching up to me, I think. Although it's difficult to deny that insomnia tends to haunt me, I've never had so much trouble sleeping as the last three months. Even by my standards, the sleep level is low, and this famine of rest is starting to wear down on my nerves and sanity.

Most of the other stuff is background noise. Megagamers was fun today, though I once again got this overwhelming sense that Susannah wasn't exactly having the time of her life. I don't know, maybe I'm paranoid.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND so ends another boring diversion into my real life.

Sincerely, Joe Pseudonym.

I HATE ME WITH A PASSION

2006-01-17T09:48:03Z

I hate myself right now. ALL that work is GONE. PASSIONATE SELF-HATRED. RAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Okay. So here's the comprehensible version of the story. I've been working all night on my chemistry project and Japanese homework (Mostly the former, but also transferring typing up some of the latter and rechecking it all on the document I did the other bit.) But of course, I just had to leave the whole thing on FROM THE TIME I STARTED WORKING ON BOTH, even knowing that my computer has a history of rebooting spontaneously. Long story short, OpenOffice doesn't have such a good recovery feature, and so I either stay up all night (Literally) doing the work over, or I show up to Japanese with only half my homework or so done, and either way, have to do all my chemistry tomorrow night. Unfortunately, even insomnia and masochism can't make up for more lack of sleep than usual over the past week, and caffiene will just screw me up more at this point. I've got to get all the Z's I can get before school tomorrow. Damn it. And it's practically 2 already. Okay, I'll sleep. I'll just have to do what I can and hope winter_in_asia doesn't kill me with a giant spear or something. Maybe I can do some extra sentences at school or something...

RAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! KILL ALL WORK!

Hooray for having a blog to vent in. *Kicks computer*

Okay, you people.

2005-12-18T22:38:36Z

It's NOT snow. It's freezing rain!

(Which is exactly the same thing, except MUCH worse for driving.)

In light of recent events...

2005-12-06T01:53:08Z

ANOTHER COMMUNITY. This one has an actual purpose.

portlandthumbs

Power to the thumbs. I need help though. Anyone wanna be a mod?

Uh. I fear for my life for posting this, but...

2005-12-05T10:03:22Z

Okay. I knew fighting games were weird. Soul Calibur's got odd systems and Guilty Gear's got the most eccentric character designs ever. But what is THIS?

main( ) { printf("Hello, world!");}

2005-12-01T08:14:02Z

(Title is intentional. It's a programming in-joke, as it's the C version of the most basic program shown in many tutorials on the subject.)

Now is a time for working on problems. Some large, some small. Poor study habits, to name and grossly understate one.

Either way, things are going well. For one thing, I'm very glad I was wrong about one issue.

Also: Awesome new music. The band is called Dragonforce, and they're a British speed metal band that started up as recently as 1999. One song of theirs, called "Fury of the Storm," is up on NobleKazoo's music test page.

And now, the abrupt end of the entry.

digitalwatches @ 2005-11-27T22:31:00

2005-11-28T06:32:05Z

Digital Watches says:
Woah.
Digital Watches says:
Weird.
Digital Watches says:
I have here with me a hot drink and a cold drink.
Digital Watches says:
When I drink the hot drink and then the cold drink, the cold drink seems colder.
Digital Watches says:
But when I drink the cold drink and then the hot drink, the hot drink doesn't seem as hot as it would otherwise.
Digital Watches says:
IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Claidi says:
...
Claidi says:
Sure.
Digital Watches says:
But... but...
Digital Watches says:
It... GAH! *Brain snaps*

Will no one help me in my plight!?