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    Sunday, July 6th, 2008
    9:04 am
    Amateurs
    This is a short mini-story I wrote based on a scene that popped into my head of the idea of the conquering of a world on credit coming up in casual conversation :)


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    "Bah, amateurs," she said dismissively, stepping over the unconscious body of one of the council of would-be world conquerors.

    "What, professional? You don't mean to tell me you've taken over a world before? And been [i]paid[/i] for it," her companion asked.

    "In fact, I'm on the job right now," she said confidently, arms folded.

    He raised an eyebrow at her.

    "Ok, it's on credit," she dropped her arms to her sides, "but I'm still being paid to hand this world over to certain parties."

    "Color me skeptical. Even if you could do something like that on your own, and don't get me wrong, dealing with that group was pretty impressive, but doing it on credit? I just don- wait, what's that?" the companion raised his head at the sound of a growing roar in the distance.

    "That's the best part," she said with a grin, and grabbed his hand, dragging him down the long hallway of the building, the roar growing louder as they approached.


    When they reached the balcony she motioned with her hand at the huge throng of people representative of all the major populations of the planet, celebrating the removal of another obstacle on the road that would make their own world theirs again.

    "Behold, my clients."


    -ZeroiaSD
    Saturday, July 5th, 2008
    11:59 am
    Jhegaala
    I called the bookstore to see if they had a copy of Steve Brust's latest novel, Jhegaala, but they told me it wasn't out yet.

    Disappointed, I swung by the bookstore anyway and picked up a copy off the shelves.
    Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
    6:04 pm
    Tokyopop axes a lot of English series
    Tokyopop's OEL series

    Ok, for those who don't know, Tokyopop is going under a lot of reorginization and shrinking to about half it's size. There were warning signs and they finally did something about it, but they're losing a lot of titles.

    Amoung those are their english-creator works, which I read a lot of, and looking at the list there of who made it and who didn't... I'm oddly not too disappointed. Most of the ones I really like are either continuing or are finishing with their planned 2 or 3 volume (probably a smart move, going for small first) runs. So while I'm disappointed, it's not as crushing as I thought it'd be.

    The only two I really feel disappointed with are that they're not continuing Dark Moon Diary (which will get one more volume) or Steady Beat (which won't). I wouldn't feel bad if Pantheon High or some of the others continued, but those are the two on the cancelled list I really looked forward to.

    Considering the company's cutting half of everything, that's not too bad.
    12:25 am
    So, cancer
    These people are against it and have a treatment that works 100% of the time on mice and within three months will know if it works on humans.


    Also here's the Discovery channel's Boom De Yada video which I've been watching repeatedly for the last few days.
    Monday, June 30th, 2008
    9:54 pm
    Photo of the turtle
    Unimaginatively titled Turtle power


    You can't tell from the picture but that tail's pretty long, and she/he wasn't a small turtle :)
    Sunday, June 29th, 2008
    3:24 pm
    Turtle rescued!
    In the light of day I got the turtle out of the window-hole. She/he had buried himself a bit and needed that cleared off, then I picked her/him up and carried her/him far away where turtle could go off safely.

    The turtle was about a foot long (not including tail) and quite big, and a snapping turtle. And did some healthy trashing while being carried so seemed to be in good shape. And I took some pictures after release :)
    1:10 am
    There's a turtle clawing at my window!
    Wow, there's a statement I don't get to use often.



    There's a turtle outside the window scratching at the light.
    Saturday, June 28th, 2008
    1:30 am
    Alternate Hulks with Lore


    I love Curious Hulk.
    Thursday, June 26th, 2008
    10:57 pm
    Art tradey thing
    I did a new coloration of an artist's characters and got a piccie of my Zero Consciences in return :D


    Also I drew a guy with no clothes and an excessive censorship blob XD
    Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
    11:29 pm
    Minor annoyance
    Minor annoyance: The comic store is getting in a whole bunch of comics I want (mostly Gold Digger, and the Gold Digger Tiffany and Charlette special).

    But they tend to do comics late on Wednesday so there's no point in going in on that day. And tomorrow I'm going to the dentist in the morning to finish off all the crowns and work they did when they pulled the wisdom teeth last time I was there. And it's the 'stick a needle, give you some sleepy juice, work for a few hours' kind dentist visit so I'll be out of action all day.


    So my opportunity to actually get those comics will be Friday at the earliest, possibly Saturday, and I won't be fully recovered until maybe Monday (mostly due to dehydration- no drinking for a day before plus that's one of the side effects).
    Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
    11:06 pm
    Ugh, sick
    I'm on the tail end of a short, temporarily bad, but otherwise minor cold. The worst is over but the most notiable part is the vast quantities of mucus that collects in my sinus cavaties. It doesn't run too much, it's just every few hours I end up spending about a minute clearing them out at the sink. Which is a disturbing amount of mucus. Ok, now gross stuff over.


    In better news I got a really good haul at a used bookstore. 4 online comic collections- two of Ctrl-Alt-Del and two of Theater Hoppers (which I've never read but seems like fun) and Simpsons season 4 (but they don't let you use book credit for DVDs so I had to pay for it unlike the others ;p Still have $27 left in free books for later).

    I've also started picking up the D&D 4ed core books. I only have the PHB left to go.
    Monday, June 23rd, 2008
    7:34 pm
    Thoughts on thoughts
    It is very hard to tell what another person thinks like and there's little written on the form and flow of normal thoughts flitting through people's heads.

    This despite the fact that it should be information anyone can provide just by talking or thinking exactly (or as close as they can) what they're thinking.


    Just an idle musing.
    Friday, June 20th, 2008
    2:49 pm
    This messed with me so bad


    The first thing I did on reading this was hit Google but I can't find anywhere else that says if it's true or not ;_;

    Alpha Centauri 2 would be so awesome (or heck, 1 with updated graphics)

    Current Mood: crushed
    Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
    8:52 am
    Tree
    I got a cool picture of the tree that fell over tree climin'.


    P.S. I haven't gotten a lot of comments recently. Is everyone out or something?
    Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
    4:45 am
    Tim-ber!
    A tree fell into my backyard from my neighbor's due to yesterday's storm!

    It was surprisingly quiet falling but when I went out to check some of the branches supporting it were still creeking and cracking under the weight. It might've causes some damage to other trees but it's hard to tell.
    Monday, June 16th, 2008
    4:07 pm
    Death Cult dream
    In the dream I have feathered wings, and I'm infiltrating a huge building/series of buildings with odd architecture that are run by a powerful group that is really a death cult of some sort.

    I see some other people with wings, butterfly-ish ones, near an entrance at the bottom of a tower/shaft that rose as a cylander with green walls and strips on the floor and leading up on the inside. They were talking about being selected for some project, and I joined up with them. I talked with them and made some flubs but managed to fast talk cover for them since they were pretty eager to be there and apparently didn't know anything sinister was going on.
    ( Rest of the longish dream to follow behind cut )

    That's around where the dream ended.
    Saturday, June 14th, 2008
    3:41 pm
    Future crime: Short term vs long term
    "In the future we find crime to be little problem due to our focus on the long run. The shorter term plans are easily dealt with by our long-term anti crime strategies. The more they try to force us to make gambles based on the short term to try and put us at a disadvantage use up more resources to do so and burn out after all the fewer attempts when they are thwarted, causing criminals to focus on longer and longer term planning before finally springing their plots until they finally get to a point where predicted success mathmatically ends up occuring after the end of the universe and they throw their hands up and give up on crime entirely.


    Still, some keep trying. There's one impressive group with a fantastic plan to conquer all existance that seems to have a high chance of success when it's finally launched in approximately 17 times the entire length of the universe, counting on the GC's simultanious universe-extension project to be successful. We'd be worried, but we're predicting we'll be able to come up with a counter in six to eight times the length of the universe." -Quote from noted participant in the Galactic Concord Anti-Crime force, year 128,003 of the standard calander.
    Thursday, June 12th, 2008
    12:34 am
    Bees and a Snake
    Pics of Bees

    and a Snake


    Some random encounters in Georgetown I photographed. The bees on one of the streets, the snake was next to the canal- snakey also disappeared into a snake hole right near where his/her head is now in that photo.
    Saturday, June 7th, 2008
    12:13 am
    On Dating
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    Friday, June 6th, 2008
    8:14 pm
    I love Kung Fu
    One thing I haven't talked a lot about here is martial arts, which is odd because it's something I really like.

    When I was young, I did Tae Kwon Do for a little, but didn't do it for all that long. I think I remember a few techniques from it.

    Much later, a few years ago, I studied Kung Fu at an interesting school. Was was unusual about this school (as far as I can tell) is that each level involved learned from an entirely different style. They were all set up so you'd be ready for each by the next one, and there were two per sash level, generally one armed and one not. Plus some stuff before you got to white, 4 at brown, stuff on the side including Hap Ki Do grappling (the Grand Master didn't like Kung Fu Chi'na grappling so he borrowed) and short forms from other styles, etc.. End result? 8 belts, something like 20+ styles in 3 years. Around 1/3rd of them some variety of weapons form in six different weapons.

    Now I'm a walking encyclopedia of martial arts moves. Am I a great fighter? Not really. I can definitely fight but knowning all sorts of moves doesn't actually help per say. In a sparing match I'd pretty much stick to moves from two or three of the more direct ones that I'm best at, like Mantis which is very effective. Mixing it up in styles is for fun, not for effectiveness, and throwing moves from all over the place isn't really different from just using one style.

    Do I care? Nah, that way was great. Now I can watch almost any martial art and either recognize it or be able to figure it out really fast, and from just three years of training. As the teacher said, you didn't learn Kung Fu there to fight, you learned it because you loved Kung Fu, and I did.


    Eventually I quit because my tendons in both knees got damaged, but it was a really fun thing that I really enjoyed doing.
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