Poll Results! (Bitches)
So, in third place with no votes at all:
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
In second place, with two votes:
Left 4 Dead 2
In first place, with 3 votes:
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Fortunately, epic motherly love caused me to be getting both #1 and #2. So hell yeah.
Although that did make this whole poll thing kind of redundant…
Poll Me. NOW!
That update you’ve all been waiting for…
Yeah, I haven’t had much time to write stuff. This should explain most of that.
I need to sleep now, important mock Further Maths exam tomorrow.
Lulz, btw.
Explosions and Feeling Crap
Well, if you’ve been following my Twitter then you’ll know that a few days ago my computer experienced colossal failure. There I was, happily watching some porn (it wasn’t actually porn; I can’t remember what it was) when suddenly BAM! There it is. (The avatar’s foot, that is.)
Anyway, there was a big and scary BSOD with ‘IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL’ – a message which actually means bugger-all. It’s bollocks that roughly translates to ‘Oh noes! Something went wrong!’ and serves no useful purpose at all… especially since from what I’ve seen nothing is wrong with my hardware anyway. So I was fairly phased by this and I went to bed with a heavy heart and heavy(ly swollen) glands – the only thing worse than your computer giving you the finger is your computer giving you the finger and feeling like shit.
School on Friday was a bit suck-tastic; I almost didn’t go in because I felt awful, but decided it would be best became it was the last day before half term and I felt that I should get the chance to wish everyone well over the coming week. Really, I needn’t have bothered. We learned tantamount to nothing in Physics (although we did eat biscuits) then I spent most of Classics not concentrating/sleeping. The afternoon was the worst, however, because I had no Further Maths lesson and so had no choice except to sit in a chair feeling exhausted and watch the seconds tick by. However, all of this time did give me a chance to talk to Peter about how best to tackle my computer problem and even Max showed up for the last two periods to print off some work, so we all had a nice chit-chat.
On the way home on the bus I talked to Oscar and Tanya of whom the former gave me a free packet of Tunes and the latter gave me 60p for a packet of Super Noodles (which were very much appreciated). It’s good when people are nice to me.
Yesterday, upon realising that I really had absolutely nothing better to do without a computer, I started again watching the episodes of Dragon Ball Z Elliot had lent to me. Apart from that I also ordered a new laptop:
XPS M1530
Complete with: 2.0 GHz dual-core processor, 4GB memory, 320GB hard drive, 256MB graphics card and a biometric fingerprint scanner.
So nothing earth-shattering, but it should run Portal okay, and that’ll be one New Year’s resolution down.
Driving Today
One of these days I’ll find a title that isn’t a relevant Yui song, but this is both, so… suck it, biatches.
I’m probably not going to talk about the last three weeks or so as my memory once again fails me (and they weren’t really that interesting to begin with) so I’ll talk about a selection of exciting items that I’ve seen/watched/heard in a vain attempt to interest everybody that will please nobody.
For this reason, you’ll probably want to scroll down and only read the bits (in bold) you care about.
First there was the Wii firmware 4.2 update. This update basically has no purpose except to entirely destroy ANY homebrew apps on a Wii but is also a brash move on Nintendo’s part because they knew when they put it out that it was likely to brick plenty of Wiis to death. The really miserable thing for them is that it was all a waste of time; by the next day the homebrew developers had already broken past the update. Way to cause unnecessary bloodshed, Nintendo.
Next came the behemoth, the giant, the masterpiece that is
Glee.
Yeah, so that’s awesome. I’ve only played Prime 1 so far, which I am nearing the completion of.
At first you find yourself slightly wondering what all the fuss is about, but as you play through and get immersed in the world it really does get hard to try to find fault with this first person adventure. The time when I really knew that I was dealing with something truly awesome was when I got to Magmoor Caverns. “This music is a bit drab,” I mused, “I’ll just press on a bit and see what I find.” Eventually I got to a large fiery cavern and only then did the area introduce itself via the selective camera shots and title. And only then did the music come on properly.
“Holy f***ing s**t this the f***ing Norfair theme! This game is f***ing awesome!”
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Je Ne Suis Pas un Hereux Lapin
Yeah, so it’s been a tough past few days.
Monday was difficult because everything was confusing and hated me. We learned the MOST POINTLESS ALGORITHM EVAR in Further Maths (Shell Sort). Double Classics dragged on a lot and was a bit of a bitch with all the homework, then at lunchtime I was bored and tired. In Physics we measured the breaking something of thread and paper, which was probably the most fun thing all day because it gave Max an excuse to get out his Mac and note everything down in Excel. In Classics again we noted down the differences between Doric and Ionic temples and got even MORE homework.
I went home and found that everyone in my house was arguing and so after dinner I ran away until Waking the Dead came on, which was even more screwed up and strange than usual. After that I caught up on the Mario/Sonic e-mail flamewar I’ve been having with Elliot.
Today was pretty sucky. We basically re-covered everything I thought we’d already done in Ethics (move on already) and made strange notes about everything. General Studies was… complete shit. It really was DULL.
Ancient Greek was pretty fun, as we actually started to do some actual phrases. The problem is that now we also have Dorothy and Ellen L joining in. Dorothy I don’t mind, but Ellen always needs everything repeated nineteen times and with her the group isn’t quite as cool as it was, you know?
That afternoon I would have had double Physics with the Hallster, but he was otherwise predisposed so we just had some sheets to do at our leisure. I went into the common room for a bit but couldn’t concentrate (Lauren watching Twilight on Max’s iPod Touch made me feel a tad queasy) so I went onto the garden where I actually got quite a bit of work done… until Lydia and Tanya (sp?) showed up. I hadn’t yet got to know Tanya despite her being on my bus and in my RS group, so distracted from my Physics I asked her random questions as I do when I meet people. She lost points for not liking Merlin but gained millions for thinking Twilight was crappy and not getting what’s so good about Robert Pattinson. Then a bunch of other people came out, including Dougle who lay down on the grass and dozed off. After while I decided it might be funny to drip a tiny bit of water on his forehead.
So what does he do? Goes apeshit and throws the whole bottle over my nice new shirt. Then Lydia spilled water all over the cover of my Physics book. As in the title, I was not a happy bunny. I stalked off and sat on the bus and ruined people’s fun before coming home and writing an emo blog to make you all depressed too.
After going on the Yui fan site (?) and then going onto a topic about Stereopony I found that there was a lot of talk about another three-piece all-female J-rock band called Chatmonchy. I decided to get one of their albums.
There is also an awesome Stereopony T-shirt that I super-want that will only ship to Japan. Any help would be appreciated.
Oh, I almost forgot. Ned today made a big fuss about this picture, which I shall repost here with its original caption:
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Ned cupping his breast and crotch at the sight of me.
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Ned apparently did not like this. I can’t really see why. I mean, it’s been on here for nearly a year now (reminds me – anniversary of being on WordPress is 14th October) and that particular entry seems to have actually netted me a few unsuspecting victims… I mean readers. Well, it’s going to stay there no matter what Ned does.
Here’s some more awesome music… (>’o')>
Ooh-Ooh, Ooh-Ooh, Yeah
So Friday was a little bit dull. In double Physics that morning I found out (along with most other people, it seems) that I had TOTALLY frocked up my homework. *eats words about it being too easy*
To be fair, most of it was from tiredness and stupid mistakes, not to mention the confusing nature of micro- and nano- thingamajigs and trying to get everything to be in the right form… Well, I get it now… sort of. After that we did some tests of density using a Eureka can and then we tested the breaking stress of Chris’s hair… which wasn’t much. I can’t tell you exactly because I gave up after repeatedly getting ridiculous numbers out of my calculatrice.
Third period I finished my notes on Greek architecture then went outside onto the garden and helped Eliza write her letter from Odysseus to Telemachus, although how much of my input she actually utilised, I have no idea. In Classics we revised the story of the House of Atreus and also did timelines and such about the Greek civilisation, including the Mycenean, Dark, Archaic and Classical ages.
Lunch brought with it more talking to Luke about crazy things and other things, then I had Further Maths… except I didn’t. Mr McWilliams was still absent so we had the lesson off, effectively giving me a double free (something I never have normally) to occupy myself in. I went out onto the field and talked to Rose and Chloé until everyone else arrived, at which time I decided to walk across the field and back with Max. Unfortunately Nico followed us through the secret hole in the hedge, so I was forced to carry him across the field and dump him in a thorny hedge. I played the association word game with Nico, Rose and Adam for a while, but then Rose went away and Penelope was besotted by suitors, so I went and dozed on a bench for a bit, absent-mindedly reading Tom Cook’s discarded timetable that had come to rest in the undergrowth. I got bored of that so I listened to some Yui (I had been listening to it whilst making Classics notes earlier) then got restless, so I got up and went over to Eliza and Rose, who were dosing up on caffeine. I talked to them, then I talked to Tilly, Ellen and Megan for a bit. Then, blissfully, it was time to go home.
*WARNING*
Copious talk about ANIME ahead. Proceed at own risk.
The owner of this blog is not responsible for any injury or difficulty resulting from ignoring this warning.
When I got home, I had a purpose: find Chobits somewhere on the internet. Chobits is a manga (adapted into anime, obviously) made by CLAMP (the same group who did Cardcaptor Sakura) about a world where all computers are actually anthropomorphic and have installed personalities and abilities. The series focuses around the relationships between humans and these ‘Persocons’ and whether a romantic involvement between them is wise, or even possible. Despite these themes, it is a seinen manga (designed for young men). How does it do this without having massive battles with oversized swords and copious gore? Well, there’s quite a bit of near-nudity (but never explicit nudity) and porn is mentioned at least three times every episode. Hell, there’s a whole episode about buying knickers.
