I was thinking of typing up a personal ad seeking a goblin shaman or rogue, but wireless is too spotty for online games from my apartment, as there are two exterior walls and a few paces between me and the lounge. My aunt suggested I get a booster for the cell phone. Is there some way I could do that for Internet, too, or should I just buckle ( Read more... )

So, unless arifyn's trip happens to be this month, it's time to mail-order Japanese stuff again. Also, some other things related that I don't get around to posting otherwise ( Read more... )

-AARON SORKIN, screenwriter of The Social Network, acknowledging that the film, which purportedly tells the story of Facebook's founding, is sexist toward women because he was trying to depict a "deeply mysogynistic group of people" (Verbatim in TIME, 2010.11.08 ( Read more... )

Since I'm getting my quarterly meeting with the psychiatrist tomorrow, I thought I might try to organize my ideas about how I seem to function. Specifically, Mother and my social worker suggested that I talk to him about my inability to concentrate, so I'm covering things related to that. (I only see the M.D. for about 60 minutes a year, so I have ( Read more... )

Arrival of the second-quarter comics broke down my momentum on drawing, but I still have some other pages to post. These are the rough layouts for the full length of "Da Bruddas Grim". Typing about this stuff is a lot easier than drawing, and the discussion helps me organise my ideas even if you don't participate. As such, I'm considering not even ( Read more... )

[01] -- Go to IMDB.com and look up 10 of your TV shows.
[02] -- Post three official IMDB "Plot Keywords" for [each of] these picks.
[03] -- Have your friends guess the show names [preferably without looking them up].

It doesn't say what it means by "your TV shows," so I just randomly picked a bunch that I like and that had enough keywords.

1. ( Read more... )

Here are a couple of issues that are crimping my style [hindering my acquisition of Japanese media]:

-Since Tōkyō Toshokan and its RSS feeds seem to have suddenly ceased to exist, I have no way of watching what raws are available in a timely manner. This would be significantly more distressing if I hadn't already had to give up watching full-sized ( Read more... )

As I told ( Read more... )

The other night, I noticed that I had a tennen tate-roll (just one, on the right). This reminded me, I don't know where the stereotype that such a 'do is sported by rich ladies (as exemplified by the source for the subject line, which applies just as well to me as to Ms. Azumano; also includes three-point ellipses, which are somewhat half-assed ( Read more... )

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies [TV shows]
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie [TV show].
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.

I've altered this as little as possible to make it viable; it also includes shows that I used to like, to fill out ( Read more... )