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Post # 184 Intellectual property
I'm sorry, but either someone has stolen my awesome idea, or someone is trying to imply that I am Robocop. If it's the latter, I suppose I can't sue.
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Post # 183 AVP Extended Edition Challenge
I got the AVP 2 dvd at the convenience store for 1000 yen, the extended edition with extra disc.
I was actually surprised to find out that the Predator sounds were made by a guy and watching him talk and then just do one of the sounds was really cool.
I imagine if he whips that out during sex one could be really weirded out.
It has two sections where they try to explain the science behind both the Alien and the Predator, which was really interesting.
I had much better answers for pretty much everything they spoke about. Thus I lay a challenge at the internets feet, send me a question about science fiction movie that I cannot answer and I will award a prize to the stumper (he who stumps the best).
I will have to make a one restriction that I have to have seen the movie, or be able to get access to it in a timely manner but I am betting that is still a lot of movies.
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Post # 182 Start Early
Yesterday he found a keyboard function I didn't know about.
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Post # 181 Why I don't fix computers
When I was new in Japan and wanted to help everyone I decided to be very unlike myself and go out of my way to offer my assistance to anyone who might need it. One of my co-workers, someone I was suspicious of at the time, came to me often to tell me my website was down. In most cases I had been looking at it an hour before and knew that everything was fine. Once he told me the internet was broken. I tried to explain to him that maybe it was his computer and not the internet. He claimed this was impossible. The internet could break, his computer was near infallible, mainly because he really knew computers.
About a week later he asked me if I would come over to his house and help him fix his computer. I said I would, god bless me, and pulled out a map on which he was to place a mark. This mark would then indicated, through a graphical representation of the existing world, the location of his house. On the appointed day at the appointed time I made my way to the mark on the map. There was no house there like the one he had described, in fact, none of the local markers he described seemed to exist.
Turns out my new associate didn't know cartography either. So I am walking and walking and he tries to tell me that I made a mistake. Then I pull out the map and show him the relationship of his house to the mark he placed on the map. Then it was time to look at his computer. He has a really old mac, which I don't know much about. When I asked him what kind of computer he had his answer of "awesome" didn't specify ancient macintosh.
I start up his computer and see what happens. It takes an abnormally long time, but he assures me that this is normal. To me this indicates either a large numbers of programs are starting or there have been a large number of somethings installed on the computer, perhaps without the users knowledge.
Once the computer managed to start up, since the problem was previously stated as being an internet related problem, I started up the web browser.
What I got was a sudden rush of window pop-ups. All porn. Mainly large breasted lesbians. I tried closing them but they were opening continuously from the start. I turned and asked
"How many porn sites do you visit?" to which I was informed that he had never, in his life, ever visited a webpage that had illicit material on it. I turned back to my work and kept trying to close windows but they just kept coming and coming. I am guessing that he had multiple pop up programs running directly all the time to make this happen.
Then I started to think. This is always where things go bad. I was touching his mouse and his keyboard. I was sitting in his chair. The same mouse, keyboard and chair combination he used when ogling massive, and I mean it had to be literally massive, amounts of pornography.
I felt very uncomfortable, I claimed with my lack of knowledge of macintosh I would be unable to safely fix his computer, I might even make it worse, and I got the hell out of there.
I showered, but even now, years later, when I think of sitting in the chair I feel gross. Really really gross.
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Scott:I remember when you told me this story after it happened. Oh, back in the day !!! and You fixed the internet!!!!
Post # 180 Not my ad
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Post # 179 Google Browser
The "incognito window" sounds an awful lot like "Freak Porn Window" inside my head when I read the words.
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Peter:I downloaded Chrome since half of my life is logged by Google I figured giving up what little was left wouldn't matter. When I tried to install it I got some sort of exception loop that forced me to restart my computer. Guess I have to wait until it's out of beta to start complaining.
Post # 178 Cosplay Summit
Online Videos by Veoh.com
At HikanNinja I posted about a techno pop band called Perfume which has become really popular of late. I hate their dancing.
I also posted the main idea for my own space battle game.
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Post # 177 Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
The egg. That’s pretty much it for that one. Any high school kids that read please feel free to impress your drunk friends or befuddle your teachers with the following logic.
A chicken must come from a chicken egg. I think that has to be a given. If an alligator comes out of an egg, that is an alligator egg. The terminology of this is that the egg is the possession of the thing that comes out of it, not the thing that laid it.
So you are doing the “Bwah ha ha, then what laid the egg?” in a really dumb voice as if you were smart.
Well, evolution, mutation or an event that effects genetics could mean that an animal produces offspring that is slightly different from itself. This means that a bird relative to a chicken, let’s say a partridge (or more likely a group of partridges) experience something that affects their development. If you don’t believe in evolution, you probably still believe in disease, which can have an effect on offspring. So if these animals experience said disturbing effect they then would produce the new offspring, in this case, chickens.
So, in conclusion, a chicken cannot come from anything other than a chicken egg because of it’s relationship, but an animal can produce offspring different from itself and therefore there is the possibility of a different animal laying a chicken egg.
Since one is absolute and the other isn’t, the reasonable conclusion is that the egg came first.
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Peter:There is another way this could be completed. My inspiration came from dog breeding. If you have two different dogs and you get them to mate you will end up with a new kind of dog. So if you have two different birds, say a Chickpea and a Kraken, and you get them to mate you will end up with a Chicken. There is the chance you will end up with a Krakpea and man, no one wants that.
My actual point is the parent would not be a chicken, but the egg would still be a chicken egg, because that's what came out of it.
Post # 176 The Mechanical Pencil, the final test of intelligence
I have a mechanical pencil with many things you can adjust. One is the amount of lead dispensed with each push of the mechanism that extends said carbon into actual existence. You can make it particularly short so you have to click many times for the visceral satisfaction of thumbular exercise or you can be like me and make an adequate amount of lead extend with each push so that you might revel in efficiency.
This leads to a very interesting psychological experiment when someone borrows my pencil. By habit it seems most people push twice when extending lead. A habit not easily broken, so when I lend my pencil to someone with my personal preference they almost always inadvertantly extend too much lead and after a moment or two of actual writing the lead breaks.
At this point the subject is faced with a decision, should they repeat the process exactly as they had before, or should the modify their behavior immediately. I would not consider those who have broken the lead the first time to be of lower intelligence than anyone else, but if they extend the lead again using another two clicks and then again break the lead I honestly think they should have enough information to realize the waywardness of their behavior.
I have seen people click twice and stop to look at how much lead has been extended. This to me, signifies a high level of awareness and that often leads to intelligent breakthroughs. If these people are not smarter, they probably will end up so.
Then there is the other end of the spectrum, the people who do the same thing over and over again, breaking lead and sometimes getting obviously frustrated with the pencil.
At this time I find myself biting my tongue. It is very difficult to not jump in and suggest to a person that they might consider not pushing out so much lead every time. The longest I have been able to do this is six. Six times I watch a young man click the pencil twice, put lead to paper, after a stroke or two there was that very distinct snap sound and he proceeded to click the pencil twice again. Six times. To me it is astounding that this person is still alive he is so unaware of the results of his own actions.
Upon the sixth time his frustration was beginning to show as he looked at the pencil as if it were mocking him and I said "Perhaps you should click the pencil only once." He stared at me for a while and I honestly think he believed I was trying to deceive him. He clicked the pencil once, looking unsure and disturbed at not having completed a second effort, as if it might attract ghosts if he didn't, put pencil to paper and started writing.
This did nothing to alter his worldview. He did not say anything to me, he did not act as though anything out of place had occured. Then he returned my pencil and left without a word of thanks as if the pleasure had been mine for him to touch my pencil and physicall destroy a length of pencil lead.
I really wish I hadn't said anything at to see just how long this action would have lasted. They should run this test to see if you can get into university.
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Post # 175 Indian Olympics
I don't get really excited about the Olympics. In Japan moreso than in other countries you only see the events that a Japanese player is participating in. I generally want to see the sports I would consider 'unusual', the ones I don't get to see very often. Last night was the trampoline, which is surprisingly cool to watch. I might not want to see it every day, but once every 4 years is good.
I am also rarely interested in the countries that dominate sports. Why do America and China take home so many medals? They have the massive training regimes and focus on winning at the Olympics. Them winning is hardly a surprise. I am more interested in small countries that don't tend to make big events.
This year I was specifically wondering about India. One of the most populace nations on the planet and I don't remember them excelling at any event in the Olympics. Surely through sheer numbers they should have people with inborn talent to take the gold every now and then. Turns out this year was the first individual gold ever for India by Abhinav Bindra who shoots an airgun.
I didn't even know that event existed. I knew they did shooting, but I didn't know how many classes there were.
So this guy must be some kind of hero back home. This was the most interesting story for me at the Olympics this year.
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Post # 174 HN posts
Two new posts of at hikanninja.
One about the current state of the Japanese Olympic Judo Team and another about new contact lenses that make your eyes look like anime characters (as best they can)
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Post # 173 Updates
I just posted a fairly empty entry on female game characters. My main point is that they all seem to be brunette now. Not that it's a bad thing, just interesting.
Also, the World Cosplay Summit was on last week and I have uploaded Eri's pictures, a short commentary and the interview we shot with Team America. I'll be adding more video from the event later in the week.
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Post # 172 New computer
My computer of the last 5 years finally gave it up. I don't know exactly what happened but I know the fan inside was no longer balanced since the thing sounded lit a boeing taxiing it's way along the runway when it started up. The Japanese summer was just a little too much for it and while it would start, a few second after that it would shut down again and reboot.
We went to the same place to get a replacement machine and my only real requirement was that it be quiet. The sales guy looked at me as if he knew exactly what I was talking about and pointed me to a liquid cooled system. Five years ago these would have been priced well above my budget, but at least here in Japan I paid exactly the same as I did for my previous system. An excellent deal and since I had spent so much time hunting down only the programs I actually use my system is about as slim as any I have ever run.
I'm still playing with the rss feed, but I am thinking of giving up since I can't get it to translate the php to xml and have it maintain the tags so line breaks, video and images all get lost. I figure the title and the first 100 characters are enough for you to decide if continuing to read is worth your time.
My son is starting to walk, which means he can reach a lot more stuff than I expected he would be able to. Things like my printer etc are in the danger zone. To honestly keep everything safe (for both parties) I think all my technology has to be moved to a separate room, but I spend so much time on the computer it means I'd be locked away. I am building “baby shields” for buttons and have thus far been successful.
Since I am writing fairly consistently for several sites I have also decided to post links to other articles here since this site gets ignored a lot when I get busy writing other stuff.
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Post # 171 Happy
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Post # 170 Young me
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Eric:Great. Now I'm gonna have nightmares.
Fishbulb:Dude, you shouldn't do that, it is really disturbing.
Post # 169 I think I've found a job that is right for me
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Post # 168 Math joke
If I have to explain it to you, you're sitting at the wrong end of the graph.
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Post # 167 Inhumanoids
Email from Eric: inhumanoids was better than i thought
I'm sorry to have to inform you of this, but the inhumanoids were not better than you thought. After viewing the full 20 minute premiere episode you provided me no expectation of how bad the show could be would actually prepare one for how poorly executed the actual show was. I would like to refer you to the quotes I sent to during last nights chat session, all taken directly from the show as I watched it.
Policeman: Are you nuts?
Guy in Suit: No...Earth Corp
he he he, tuna fish
And as I mentioned: the dinosaur speaks English I'm sorry, that's little unlikely.
For me the real problem was the underlying sexual innuendo. It was almost as if the voice actors were bored and tried to put in as many as possible. Rarely have so many characters been introduced so quickly that a viewer would wish that they would all immediately die. When the 'mutors' popped up in the forest and talked about the guys clean aura I was hoping they were going to trick him into a gang rape.
The biggest problem of all is the fact that the main characters, all 4 of them, are all stock characters, but they don't even like each other. I don't think this was for humour, I think this actually happened. The writer(s) sat down and started making characters that were so crap that they couldn't even pretend that they liked each other.
I leave you with this. A woman grabs onto a ladder extended from helicopter during a giant monster (who speaks English) attack and manages to say to the character Liquidator:
See you later, Liquidator.
he he he, Tuna fish.
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Peter:The episode we were talking about: inhumanoids ep 1
Earth Corp leader:To Bright: Bright, check out the shaft.
Post # 166 Zombie Strippers
Yesterday I watched zombie stripper. It made me realize that you have to make some serious decisions before you want to make a zombie movie and you have to stick to them. You really can't change your mind after you start.
First of all, you have to decide if you want to be funny or serious. This is the basic question that is inherent in the zombie genre. You can't be half assed about it, if you are going to be funny, you have to be all out funny. If you are going to be serious, you have to be really serious. One step from one into the other will pretty much ruin your movie. This leads you to a new subset of decisions you have to make.
If you are going to be funny are you going to be campy , ironic, sarcastic or even goofy. This will dictate how your characters will act, the situations they end up, how they die and how seriously you have to take your representations of death. The same applies for serious zombie films. Zombie strippers started out like a joke. Those "military guys" weren't even trying to look like actual military types. They weren't convincing at all. The dialogue was poor, but cheesy, perhaps on purpose. Then we switch over to the strippers. Seeing Jenna Jameson read a book is funny enough, seeing her read a book on Nietzsche was laughable. At first I thought that was the joke, then the strippers all started spouting lines lifted from "philosophical quotes". Each sort of taking their own little position on the spectrum.
An underlying theme was the power that came with stripping and the desire for acceptance. These were the only moments of dialogue that seemed to come close to working. I guess it's what the director believed in the most. When the zombie girls became the most popular strippers the other girls wanted to become zombies.
So the movie was campy or silly enough to be fun, it wasn't evocative enough to make you think. The climactic cat-fight was goofy when they should have sort of gotten serious, the return of the soldiers was as meaningless as anything else. It just sort of signified the end of the film. To me, the worst part was the lines that I thought were cheesy on purpose may not have been. I couldn't tell, so this was another failure on the part of the writing / acting/ direction of this film. It's too bad, the premise is what brought me in.
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Post # 165 Pepsi Blue
Got on the consumersit again.
My friends at work are making fun of me because I'm so pleased with myself.
Online Videos by Veoh.com
Originally from HikanNinja
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Post # 164 Neurosis
I think I have found myself with my first proper neurosis. I don't know if I should be proud of myself or not, because it's a pretty hideous one. There is a time between walking from the train station to my house where my mind is not really taken up with anything. The thoughts that fill it seem to be recurring in theme, how my son could die.
If you have followed my short history on this you know I have seen a lot of horror movies so the graphic nature of some of these is disturbing, even to me, considering I am the one doing the constructing. The images are generally really gory and worst of all, long lasting.
I know this is a manifestation of my own fears, but it's honestly more than necessary. Car accidents, murder, things that are, statistically impossible, or at least unlikely, are recur again and again.
I'm trying to figure out a way to get this out of my head, but it's there. I guess I have to encase my son in a metal bubble of some sort.
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