Public Enemies was... a bit disappointing. We saw it on Saturday as part of fraddit's birthday event, but though the period parts of the movie were pretty awesome (clothes, speech, cars, etc.) the style of the movie made it kind of like a documentary without the voiceover, which is pretty pointless. There wasn't really enough character development to care a lot about the characters. So I spent a lot of the time being slightly bored and mind-wandering to different topics, like how interestingly poofy/spikey they made Johnny Depp's hair and how cars back then went slow enough you could stand on the sides of them even when they were in a car chase and how John "Red" Hamilton/Jason Clarke reminded me of Ianto Jones/Gareth David-Lloyd, in a strange way.

I have not seen Harry Potter yet and won't until the weekend at least, which is a first since they started coming out that I haven't seen it on opening day. Really I'm not all that disappointed. Despite appearances, I've never actually been an HP fan. I tended to go to the midnight showings with people because I enjoyed the people I was going with (and well, I do like midnight showings when they're not on a Tuesday night and I have work the next day).

Instead I'm kind of having a continuation of the worst work week ever, which will stretch into next week, butting right up against Comic Con. Which had better be worth it, because I will probably be seriously cranky by then. As if I'm not already, right?

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Because my immune system is apparently like paper, I'm sick again. Not nearly as bad as last time, so hopefully it'll go away soon.

My time over the weekend, while my roommate was away, I mostly spent cleaning house and playing Guild Wars again, of all things. I find it hilarious that (on accident) of course I picked one of the hardest classes (Mesmer) as my beginner's class and of course I paired it with one of the most useless secondary classes for that primary (Ranger).

Picked up my violin from the parent's house on Saturday, and tried some simple exercises last night. Task and a half to figure if I even tuned it correctly (I'm still not sure... usually I tuned it with the piano, not just the tuning fork and resonance) and I know I'm playing awfully, but... it's fun. Still my favorite instrument. Maybe because it has kind of a "no pain, no gain" system. You know you're doing something because your fingertips are numb and your arm aches and it doesn't sound good if you don't know what you're doing and that's somehow awesome to me.

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I'm having a horrible time this week with being distracted at work constantly. It's a slow week, which is part of it. Though there's things looming I wish I could get done now rather than having to wait on them to pile all at once. Ahwell. That I really don't have any personal control over.

In anycase, with some prompting from seven (not that I needed much), I've gone and created a general discussion/fanworks community for anything military science fiction: starfighters. I know there's already spaceopera, but I feel like the focus is subtly different enough it's not really an overlap. So anyway, if you like military science fiction, please join and post?

Actually I've been debating whether or not Star Trek and/or Star Wars qualifies. Trek isn't the sort of gritty military feeling the other series/novels I've watched/read tend to give, but technically it's a space fleet with ranks and wars and battles and whatnot, so it is, right? Star Wars just doesn't seem to get listed in lists I've come across, for the most part, and I'm not sure why. I think I'd put it there. It's about a war in space, anyway. Any thoughts from the droll/flist?

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Seems like everything today has just been... slightly off. In that way where I'm sort of cheerful and don't apparently care that much.

I really did mean to go to my work's happy hour thing, but I managed to get so spectacularly lost that by the time I got there and found a place to park, there was ten minutes before it was over. So I said screw it and came home instead.

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Bold each show that you've seen three or more episodes of. Italicize any show that you're sure you've seen every episode of.

Took the first one from boywonder, second one is floating around on my LJ flist.

I've watched a sad amount of crappy CW/WB teen drama shows, I realize. A lot of those that are bolded I watched for a season or more at least.

( The List. )

( Which fantasy writer am I? )

Hm. Been meaning to look at Moorcock. And while I understand why they said I'm like China Mieville, I am sort of annoyed by the idea. I hated Perdido Street Station. But I do like Ursula K. LeGuin (what I've read anyway) so we'll see about Moorcock.

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fraddit and I spend nearly the entire day typing the Gundam Wing cast into Enneagram and MBTI types and finding photographs of people to cast them as if they were real people. In fact, since we couldn't find a suitable young, half-Japanese male, we spent even longer on Morph Thing creating one to our liking.

In the course of this, we came to realize Trowa is an INTP, and this is probably why I love him like a loving thing that loves things.

Less nerdily, Up is amazing. (Wait, is that less nerdy? I'm not sure.) It made me cry at least three times, because oh my lord, it's so adorable. The Princess and the Frog ad almost got me, too, though. That kind of looks amazing. I am so excited for a 2D Disney film again.

Also, everyone is jealous of the subtly Star Trek necklace I now own. And by everyone I mean I would be jealous if I didn't own it already.

I make so little sense sometimes, that I even surprise myself.

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I went to the doctor on Sunday about my cough, because two to three weeks of a sore throat was beginning to worry me and based on my conversation with the doctor, came away with "You have asthma." (Compounded with allergies and the remnants of a cold.)

See now, I've suspected, literally, since I was around age eight or so and knew what asthma was that I had it, but kind of kept getting told I was exaggerating or whatnot. But what I'd kind of forgotten was I'd tried, once, when I was older to ask about it. Must have been fifteen or sixteen by then, but the doctor told me "You just haven't acclimated to the high altitude, that's why you get short of breath."

I mean, yes, I am not a Colorado native. I was born in Massachusetts. But I moved here when I was two-and-a-half years old. It rang as a little suspiciously like being brushed off to me, so I asked about that, but was told some people just never get used to it. Maybe that's true? I don't know. It still sounds a little fishy, like there's probably some common factor in these people who "just never get used to it" that no one's bothered to figure out, given the average person should acclimate in a relatively short amount of time.

But this seems to happen frequently when I ask about health issues I may or may not have, where I get kind of dismissed as worrying too much about it. And then much much later it turns out I wasn't just being paranoid. I'm not really a hypochondriac, I swear. I tend to wait forever before even mentioning I think I have a problem (especially given I'm often shot down about it), and so it's really kind of awesome to get some of these things I've suspected literally forever (15 years or more!) confirmed.

I'm still getting over the cough, so I haven't gotten a chance to try it, but I also got an inhaler that I can use before I try to exercise that might genuinely let me exercise without keeling over dead from lack of oxygen. Ridiculously excited for the last remnants of the cold to go away so I can test this.

paintedkirin posted an entry on Gaius Baltar and being an Ennegram 5(w4), which I may do a similar thing on, to go with the very rambly INTP/5 brief combination overview I already wrote, but that'll come later.

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In case you've ever wondered, I've answered the question of: Can kimchee go bad? Yes. It can.

Unfortunately I forgot that Monday was a holiday, and I took my trash out to the driveway before realizing it's not going to get picked up until tomorrow.

The past couple weeks, I've been alternating my iPod with the radio in the car on the way to work and the unnerving thing is every time I have the radio on, if I flip to 105.1, every time the song Mama Told Me Not To Come has started playing not long after or was playing when I turned to it. I like this song, but it's kind of ridiculous. Why every time?

( In rewatching Gundam Wing in Japanese, I realize a couple things: )

I don't understand why I have this love of space military.

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I'm still not really better, but I'm coughing little enough that I finally managed to straighten up the kitchen a bit more and take the rest of the things I gathered last weekend (the 9th) out of my car. Hopefully I can get rid of this cough faster than another month, because I'd really not like to have had a cough for two months, please. Pretty sure it was the flu, which means I probably got it from fraddit, but she actually came down with it after me because my immune system is like wet paper and hers is not.

fraddit and I are slowly watching through a number of things, but Star Trek: TOS has been added to the list that we're currently sort of alternating with Batman and whatever TV normally throws at us. I have long said I'm a Star Trek: TNG fangirl, and that I didn't like TOS much (I'd only seen a few episodes when I was younger), and was kind of baffled that Netflix thought I'd actually really like TOS. (Alright, well. "Really like" for me. It suggested I'd give it 3.5 stars.) Turns out I really do like TOS, not just because I am illogically in love with the movie which in some ways makes me afraid if I actually sat down and watched Enterprise from the beginning I'd like it too out of some odd sort of Trekkie gene I have that requires me to like everything Trek-related.

( Slight Star Trek movie spoilers/off-topic ramble about the movie. )

Somehow I've gotten myself in that place where I have acres of things to do and seemingly no time to do it. Really, really need to finish up my Network+ course and take the exam. Urgh.

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So I think I got the flu. My guess is regular flu, not swine flu or anything. Yesterday I literally slept from 4pm to 6am with only a few points where I woke up to get water or whatever and all my muscles ached, and I definitely had a fever. Today there's less of a muscle ache, fever seems to be gone, but I've only been up three hours thereabouts and I'm suddenly like, "WTF? I can't stay awake."

I may take my boss up on her offer to send me home. After I finish a few things, argh.

( Star Trek. (Spoilers) )

I'm still not very coherent yet, given I'm struggling to stay upright with my eyes open, so the Star Trek talk probably is a little disjointed.

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My friends and I have tickets to the 10pm IMAX showing of Star Trek. It is 11 hours away and I'm hoping it'll make today worth it.

I've never written documentation before, and I think I'm kind of bad at it. Trying to figure out how to explain my whole provisioning process without making a document that is eighteen pages long, but I keep wanting to explain why I do things particular ways because otherwise people might skip steps out of "Well clearly that is useless to do." But my writing is absurdly verbose even when I try to pare it down. I keep wanting to put in "If you've already completed this task, skip this section and move to section 4. If you need to do this other thing, please check the other document on page 2. .. etc.," because I can't think of better ways to write this.

Also, I am really tired for no apparent reason, and since for whatever reason when I'm tired I actually use more "large words," I fear it'll come out looking like Leviticus crossed with a Choose Your Own Adventure novel.

And it shall be, when the "Approve" link hast been left-clicked and the webpage that is drawn forth through the backend code displays on the backlit screen you call a monitor, that the room will henceforth be provisioned. If you want to send an email, skip to page 5!

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Okay, I finally am setting this post up, so I have ten Dreamwidth codes I'm giving out through here to the first ten people who comment, so leave a comment with your email (they are screened), and I'll send out some codes. Even if you don't know me, go ahead and leave a comment. :)

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If you didn't catch my message in the last post (that I buried in a meme), I mentioned I'll be getting invite codes every so often that I can give out for Dreamwidth. My waiting list is currently pretty small, since I don't know that many people interested in getting in, but my code-garnering is also pretty infrequent at this point in time so it might still take a bit to get a code from me.

That said, synecdochic actually gives out invite codes daily to openID users who've logged in and validated their email through Dreamwidth, and sometimes also posts codes to twitter or people might share via dw_codesharing. If you're really looking for a code, though, logging in with your openID (ie yourusername.livejournal.com) and validating your email might get you one faster than any other method.

You can also jump in and start volunteering, but if you don't have time/don't want to bother with that, it certainly wouldn't hurt to sign up with your openID anyway.

Personally, I jumped in to try my hand at dev, so I'm already over there as binary-- you can subscribe to me using openID if you want. Once everything's set up, I would like to move my main setup over there, but DW's putting in a crossposting feature, so I'll probably crosspost for a while at least. Right now I'm not because I'd have to do it manually and mostly I haven't been posting anything there that is general enough to bother crossposting anyway.

I haven't bothered to write up a "Why Dreamwidth?"/"Come join me!" type post because I figure it's still in beta and will be for a while... if you're interested in that sort of thing you probably already looked it up, and if not, I probably won't be all that convincing.

Suffice to say, I'm half into it because it was a chance for me to get involved in dev on an open source software project on my terms, and I look forward to working on the project and learning about Perl and getting more effective at Linux (especially bash... Ubuntu coddles you in that respect-- I'm always using GUI interfaces instead) and good programming practices through it. And that is probably not a big draw for most people, I imagine. (If you are interested in volunteering, ping me and I can point you to some of the more helpful wiki articles/communities.)

My longest, most content-filled entries are often just me being a nerd about code and not terribly interesting to most people on the flist, I'm sorry guys.

I don't even remember this existing? Which clearly it didn't really, given how awesomely un-updated it was.

Nobody's even going to try guessing this, ahaha. But I wondered if I could pull together twenty.

1. Post a list of up to 20 books/movies/anime/TV shows/video games/etc. that you've had an obsessive fannish love or interest in at some time in your life.
2. Have your f-list guess your favorite character from each item.

I'm sorry, I can't help but cheat on the first two, I can't decide who's my ultimate favorite.

01. Enderverse (There's ... four.)
02. Battlestar Galactica (Three.)
03. FMA
04. Avatar: TLA
05. Stargate: SG-1
06. Star Trek: TNG
07. Harry Potter
08. Narnia
09. Card Captor Sakura
10. Twelve Kingdoms
11. Haibane Renmei
12. Firefly
13. Otherland
14. Earthsea
15. Bones
16. Highlander
17. The Big Bang Theory
18. Hilltooth's Journey (omg, I'm running out of fandoms I know my favorites to so I'm cheating)
19. Unkindness (no seriously, see the cheating?)
20. Tetris (... I'm really reaching, but I do actually have a favorite piece)

Okay, so half of those ended up a bit obscure.

In other news, also leave a comment if you're interested in getting an invite code for Dreamwidth. I don't have any right now, but I'd like to know what the interest level is, because I will have some... by open beta, at least, I assume. (I'm one of the babydevs. Even already had my first committed patch. \o/)

ETA: ... I'm deleting answers for right now for... I dunno people to guess if you haven't already seen me saying what was correct, el oh el. And screening previous comment-answers. I'll put them back up laaaaaater. D:

( !!!SPOILERS WITHIN!!!! Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Thoughts )

It's quite possible I will watch this again (whole series and/or just this episode) and end up with more comments because my love for Battlestar really does kind of rival my love for Ender's Game, and I wrote up/talked about EG a hell of a lot. But it's frakking 2.30am, and I'm supposed to help my mother take my dog in for an appointment tomorrow morning. This morning. Whichever.

02:18PM JC: do you want to do me a favor?
02:19PM Me: I don't know... do I?
02:20PM JC: i think you do

( I'm a Loli Angry Guy. :D )

Me: -stands by CM's desk-
CM: -looks at me- ... No. Purple.
Me: Rubiks.
CM: Albuquerque. Snorkel.
Me: Ahaha. Good movie.
CM: I know, it is!
Both: See, I can do it too!

National Treasure, if you're still like, "WTF?" I have a feeling my boss was still like, "WTF?" but she was laughing anyway and didn't ask.

I forgot how much I loved wearing high heels because they make awesome clicking noises when I walk.

Clearing out papers (because I am a paper whore and save everything from anything, apparently, and it takes me like, seven tries to get rid of half of it, several years after the fact) and I found this recipe. In the interest of throwing away the paper version, I'm archiving it here (I think I got it from my Japanese friend):

Okonomiyaki

• 2 eggs


• 1/2 tablespoon of flour


• 1 pinch of baking powder


• 3 tablespoons dashi


• 1 tablespoon white miso


• 1 small handfull of fresh bean sprouts


• 2 leaves of fresh cabbage


• 2 shiitake mushrooms (steamed & chopped fine)


• 4 snow peas (chopped fine)


• 1/2 small carrot (chopped or grated fine)


• vegetable oil

Directions: Mix eggs, dashi, miso & beat. Add flour & baking powder. Fry veggies (or meat) & pour egg mixture. 2-3 minutes on low; use spatula to flip & fry another minute or two.

( 5 Things )

ETA: Tablespoon? 3 tablespoons of dashi? I wonder if I wrote that down wrong... it sounds like it'd come out a little too much like that failed egg loaf. Though I guess there is cabbage involved.

1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me!"

2. I'll respond by asking you five questions of my choosing.

3. Post the questions and their answers in your journal.

4. Include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else.

5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions. And thus the endless cycle of the meme goes on and on and on and on...

( my answers from jikeidannin )

Bonus silly: I couldn't post this until today, because I realized I made a calendar pattern that would have been ruined had I posted before.

So there were riots in Madagascar earlier this week. My aunt and her family live there... They seem to be okay. So said her email anyway. But it's still kind of odd.

If you're a font nerd... watch this.