the thoughts and experiences of Heather Meadows
I think it’s funny, so here’s a picture.
You can also see how much longer my hair has gotten in this shot. You see, it needs to be shorter, at least towards the front, because it’s not very voluminous.
Sorry for my horrid complexion. What can I say, it’s hot here, and I don’t do much to take care of my “beauty” ;P
Kevin and Hai have been giving me shit about not watching this series for months now. I’m kind of stuck on the work I was doing for my WordPress template–sometimes you just need to step away for awhile and let the thoughts congeal–and I was considering watching more Kaikan AngstPhrase, but what the hell. Wild Striker it is.
So, I signed up for Audioscrobbler. Now you can see what music I listen to.
When I shift to WordPress (boy, that refrain is getting old) I’ll have some Audioscrobbler data in my About Me page, I think.
Earlier today I took a nap to escape my bad mood. (I do that a lot. In my defense, watching TV wasn’t working, and I couldn’t concentrate on my book.) Towards the end of the nap, I had a rather odd dream.
I was LARPing as Kyou Kara Maou characters, here in our apartment, except we had an upstairs room that I kept forgetting existed. My mom was one of the other LARPers, and I’m pretty sure AJ was one of them too. At one point in the game there was some kind of problem that needed to be solved; I, as Gwendal, called a council so that the Maou could be informed.
“Okay,” I said as I approached the table, “I’m RPing like three different characters, so I’ll just say who I’m playing whenever I talk.” I think I was also playing Wolfram and Celi. But then I started thinking, Who’s playing Yuuri? Do I have to play him too? and realizing that I had way too much control over the game already.
Oh, and yes, I did actually say “Arr Pee-ing”. ;P
I just went to satisfy my craving for fat, and the weather was so nice that I wanted to comment on it.
It’s cooler outside than it is in the apartment, despite our air conditioning and fans. There’s a slight breeze, and rain’s falling in random, medium droplets. There was a loud thunderstorm earlier that actually woke me from my nap, and the resulting cool, breezy humidity made me wish I wasn’t just going down the street, but instead was out on an adventure.
As I drove up to McDonald’s, lightning flashed intermittently, silently. There were no bolts; it was instead like a camera’s flash going off across half the sky. I drove with the windows rolled up to keep the rain out but was not uncomfortable; the air coming through the open vents was cool and refreshing.
It was just nice.
I also want to go get a Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese.
In horrifying news today:
Priest unrepentent after crucifying of nun (via Drudge)
A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because she was “possessed by the devil” and now faces murder charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for his alleged victim.
“God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil,” Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass “for the soul of the deceased”, in the presence of 13 nuns who showed no visible emotion.
He insisted that from the religious point of view, the crucifixion of Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, was “entirely justified”, but admitted that he faced excommunication as well as prosecution, and was seeking a “good lawyer”.
Just…o_o
In the “was that really a good idea” department:
Michael Jackson’s acquittal celebration was attended by one of his jurors! (Also via Drudge.)
Among the approximately 400 people who arrived at the Chumash Indian Casino was juror Pauline Coccoz. When she walked into the casino and heard Jackson’s music playing, Coccoz said, the enormity of what had transpired hit her.
“They were playing ‘Beat It,’ and I almost started to cry,” she said as she waited to enter the showroom.
Uh, yeah. Was that the best thing to say?
In Oops! news:
Plane crashes on California freeway
A small plane crashed onto a heavily traveled freeway, clipping a vehicle and injuring two people aboard the plane, authorities said Saturday.
The 1952 Beech Bonanza V35 had engine failure late Friday due to a fuel problem on its way from Sacramento to Fullerton and crashed onto the Ventura Freeway, fire Capt. Ed Cowan said.
I have it on good authority
In “well, hmm, I could have told you that” news:
Most prefer to watch movies at home
Hollywood is in the midst of its longest box-office slump in 20 years, and 2005 is shaping up as the worst year for movie attendance in nearly a decade, if theater business continues at the same lackluster rate.
While 73 percent said they preferred staying home to watch movies on DVD, videotape or pay-per-view, 22 percent said they would rather see them at a movie theater, according to the poll conducted for The Associated Press and AOL News by Ipsos.
I saw the results of a study earlier today that discovered that larger brains lead to higher intelligence. Modern research is so impressive!
This part of the movie poll article stood out to me, though:
But the poll found that people who use DVDs, watch pay-per-view movies on cable, download movies from the Internet and play computer games actually go to movies in theaters more than people at the same income levels who don’t use those technologies. That suggests the technology may be complementing rather than competing with theatergoing.
Damn straight. I likes that kinda result! :D
Finally, in Star Wars news:
I guess the sextet will be released in 3D in a few years. (WTF?) Also from that article, concerning the TV series,
one of the shows would follow the adventures of a young Luke Skywalker, and reveal how certain characters ended up together.
I wonder if “certain characters” might include Han, Chewie, and/or Lando…
I like how the original article states that its source is “www.www.mainichi-msn.co.jp.com”. That’s, like, a ridiculous URL, that doesn’t even exist. I can only assume they mean www.mainichi-msn.co.jp. (I had no idea, by the way, that Mainichi and MSN had teamed up!) Anyway, I can’t find that article on the site, but that’s probably because 1) their search sucks; 2) my Japanese skills suck. Alas! I did find this article about the Revenge of the Sith premiere (did you know that Star Wars in Japanese is スター・ウォーズ?), and starwars.jp, which is…interesting. Is it official? :>
Oh! I found it! :D スター・ウォーズ：１００時間テレビドラマ化 Funny, that’s a lot shorter than the FlixnJoystix article.
I like how they refer to the new TV series as a “100 hour television drama”. Very precise!
The Cynical Traveller went to Tokyo Disneyland! Oh, the humanity.
Of course Disneyland isn’t just about rides;
unfotunately.
There’s also the chance to take in a choreographed parade, eat an overpriced microwave meal or buy a graven idol of an anthropomorhic mouse.
The picture captions are hi-larious.
I’ve maintained the same weight for over a month now, with no sign of ever losing weight again. Plus, I keep trying to eat healthy, and then pigging out on snacks like Hershey bars. It’s getting ridiculous. I don’t know why I’m in this self-destructive cycle and why I can’t seem to break out of the rut, but I’m tired of looking at my weight every day and seeing that I’m stuck.
I had no idea until Tracy Saylor (another Jessamine County High 1996 grad) emailed me and mentioned she saw him. I haven’t heard from Willie in aeons, so this video was pretty funny. He looks (and sounds) so different!
Here’s the page where I found that video. There’s a picture of Willie there, too, but I don’t know how long it’ll stay there so I’m putting it here:
Willie and I went to the Homecoming dance together our junior year. We’d been friends since middle (elementary?) school, too; he and I and Eddie used to hang out, and I was in a lot of classes with him. We were on the same bus route, when I took the bus to school.
Sure brings back memories.
Bleh, bleh, bleh.
Bleh.
Derik linked to this story in his supplement with the comment, “Two words: Who cares? This is supposed to be CNN.” ;D
I’m interested, of course, because after seeing how great Mari’s PT Cruiser is, I’ve been coveting one for myself. The small changes and various improvements listed in the article sound fine to me.
Now, if only I could get it in pale purple, blue, or pink. Something pretty and pearlescent, like those special Playstations Sean and I saw in Japan…
From Asahi.com:
Washington proposed adding two nations–including Japan–to the permanent membership club of the [United Nations] Security Council. But Japan wants to give priority to a resolution on Security Council expansion drawn up by the Group of Four nations–Japan, Germany, Brazil and India.
The United States supports Japan’s desire to become a permanent member, but it opposes the G-4 proposal because it would add six permanent seats to the council and could dilute U.S. influence in the world body.
With the United States making public its opposition to the G-4’s plan, it will be that much more difficult for the resolution to be adopted at the United Nations.
When asked about U.S. support for Japan’s bid, Koizumi said: “It’s good for Japan, but not for the other nations. We must think about the international community as a whole. I’d like to ask for more understanding from the U.S.”
I have to say, I’m glad Japan isn’t just turning its back on its partner nations so it can get that coveted Security Council seat. That loyalty is really impressive. It makes me wonder if/why the White House thought Japan would go along with it, and how the White House’s stance towards Japan might have changed if Japan had actually taken them up on the offer.
Japan has been asserting its independence from the US for some time now. To back away from an alliance with peer nations and cheerfully accept a handout from the US would undermine everything they’ve accomplished.
From Japan Today:
Japan’s parliament decided Friday to extend the current Diet session by 55 days until Aug 13 to enable the passage of bills to privatize Japan Post.
This is something Koizumi has been working towards for a long time. It’s nice for him that it’s going to happen before he leaves office next year.
Proponents of privatization here in the US argue that it will improve quality and reduce overhead to run the postal service like a regular business–that the postal service will be better able to compete for customers if it isn’t tied to the government and its bureaucracy. I tend to think that the idea makes sense, but you never really know how something will work out until you try it. It will be interesting to see, therefore, how privatization goes for Japan. Will the proposed benefits become reality? What sorts of problems will they encounter? How might we avoid the same problems?
Every now and then I like to check Technorati to see if anyone’s linking to me. Usually I’m disappointed.
Today, though, I discovered that I’m in Japundit‘s blogroll! O_O!!! That is so cool!
From there, I thought I’d just google for “pixelscribbles” and see what happened, and I came up with the following:
NetNewsWire Lite 2.0b37 Change Notes
NetNewsWire no longer refuses to parse Atom feeds with Shift_JIS encoding. (It used to be that Shift-JIS reliably made the XML parser crash, but it doesn’t appear to be the case any more.) For instance, the following feed now works: http://pixelscribbles.com/journal/rss/atom.xml
Wow, I didn’t know that Shift_JIS caused a problem in Atom with NetNewsWire. Though I guess it doesn’t anymore! And I’ve apparently been linked by them since April. Dude!
Also, I seem to be listed by blogdirectory.com and everyfeed.com…whatever those are. In addition, I come up in these weird results of searches on Jennifer Wilbanks ;P
That’s pretty much it for links to me, other than people in my blogroll and the occasional trackback from where I’ve linked to someone else. And really, that’s what I expect–it’s not like I’m writing anything gripping here.
And that is why I’m so psyched to be linked from Japundit!
To tell you the truth, I’ve been thinking about trying to be a contributor over there. I don’t know if I’m really qualified, as I haven’t lived in Japan, but I do spend a lot of time thinking about Japan, don’t I? And if they linked to me…maybe that means they think I say stuff that’s worth saying about Japan.
So…we’ll see.