Star Wars fun
Reporting from Beta Blogs.
It should be noted at this juncture that I am, in fact, a long-time Star Wars fan. I have been one for a great deal longer than, say, Catherine has (despite on of her characters being addicted to it. I would worry that he’s me, but frankly, he’s cooler than I am, and if anything, I’m more like Adam than I am anybody else).
On that note, it’s important to realise that I am also a bit of a geek.
no4a2no9 posted a link to this little gem.
Seriously. Tears in my eyes funny.
If you wanna see it without leaving whichever site you’re on, go to the cut at the end of this post.
In other notes, my room is still a bit of a mess, and I have realised that I need to have some way of getting userpics going on this particular blog - I have these things for a reason, you know?
Regarding my room’s messy state, I rather think I’ll be able to clear it quickly. If I could only get out of bed. It’s warm here.
Also, I’m giving serious consideration to getting one of those teeny tiny little laptops, the ones with the ginourmous harddrives, and setting up this one as a desktop-like thing, with all the EXHDD and my little attachments and everything set up permanently in my room. I’m after the portability factor here - while I love this laptop to tiny pieces, and it is light, there are some times when I’d like to be able to have things that I can fit into smaller places, and take anywhere. I can’t do that with this fella.
So, thoughts. Should I spend my money on a smaller laptop with a larger harddrive space, or should I simply stick to what I’ve got going and connect up the 500GBEXHDD a bit more? (Speaking of which, I should clean that up soon. Too many duplicate iTunes files, and yes, you’d keep your music on an EXHDD too if you had the sort of library that completely outstrips your own main harddrive.)
Also, customisation. I need stickers. I’m almost tempted to make some. There’s a good and solid security reason behind customising the outside of a laptop - and yes, it’s another legal thing. The sorta stuff I learn in Police Powers and so forth - also known as ‘why all of my books are completely and utterly un-resellable’. Not that I would resell them (aside from the fact that the Code is not out-of-date, thanks to the recent raising of the legal age of consent in Canada from fourteen to sixteen).
Ooh, yes. Books.
I got books eight through ten of Dragon Voice the other day. This is a series I’ve been collecting for a while. I’m also going to be getting Tactics soon, but that’s entirely aside. Dragon Voice is brilliantly wonderful, and the translators have gone to the trouble of making the fonts fit the scene, something rarely done, even by Tokyopop. This, when the musicians harmonise, they really do harmonise, right on the page. That’s a talent, and one that I often drool over.
Now there are only three more left to go. I honestly and completely hope that they’re going to finish the translation of the series. I don’t want to have to have an unfinished series in my collection, that’s just not how I work. Least of all one that I love so much.
Also in the recent additions to my bookcase, I’ve gotten a copy of a book that one of my teachers actually wrote. It’s freakin’ huge. It used to be a required text, but now it’s out of print. Why? Because in the past seven years, the things we learnt in class has been taken down and taken out and edited, and now we learn less than 10% of what’s in this book. Yes, really. Now, this book has got to be one of the most important books in my bookshelf now. It has information that you need to know if you’re going to be a Police Officer anywhere in the world, written clearly and concisely. It has basic communication, it has simple ways to tell if people are lying, it has things like not using the word ‘don’t’ when asking a person not to do anything - and this is all explained psychologically, too, which is possibly the most impressive part. It’s all very well and good telling a person to not use a word, but sometimes, you want to understand why. In this case, it has to do with the way that the human mind is set up in terms of communication; in order for the phrase “don’t fire the gun” to get through to a person, the person must first imagine firing the gun, and only after that been done does the imagining of the elimination of the act happen. And that’s an incredibly scary concept. And yes, since this book also includes how to arrest a person. My books have handcuffs in them! Also, headlocks and how not to use them. We should be leaning these things, and as recently as seven years ago we would have been. But because some of these might be considered dangerous, I suppose at this point we’re just lucky to be getting lessons on pressure points. Always useful, those.
I’m thinking of suggesting to our class rep that we all find out where he does martial arts (says he’s a sixth dan in ju-jitsu on the back of the book, and yes, that is good) and just taking those classes as well. Wouldn’t be too much more in terms of money, but we’d certainly be covering everything that we don’t learn in class.
Speaking of class, learning how to shoot is also on my agenda for this year. Or rather, learning firearms safety. Shooting is really secondary to learning how to avoid accidents with those things. It’s said that guns don’t kill people, that people kill people - well, let’s try to avoid stupidity and accidents, okay?
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
It should be noted at this juncture that I am, in fact, a long-time Star Wars fan. I have been one for a great deal longer than, say, Catherine has (despite on of her characters being addicted to it. I would worry that he’s me, but frankly, he’s cooler than I am, and if anything, I’m more like Adam than I am anybody else).
On that note, it’s important to realise that I am also a bit of a geek.
no4a2no9 posted a link to this little gem.
Seriously. Tears in my eyes funny.
If you wanna see it without leaving whichever site you’re on, go to the cut at the end of this post.
In other notes, my room is still a bit of a mess, and I have realised that I need to have some way of getting userpics going on this particular blog - I have these things for a reason, you know?
Regarding my room’s messy state, I rather think I’ll be able to clear it quickly. If I could only get out of bed. It’s warm here.
Also, I’m giving serious consideration to getting one of those teeny tiny little laptops, the ones with the ginourmous harddrives, and setting up this one as a desktop-like thing, with all the EXHDD and my little attachments and everything set up permanently in my room. I’m after the portability factor here - while I love this laptop to tiny pieces, and it is light, there are some times when I’d like to be able to have things that I can fit into smaller places, and take anywhere. I can’t do that with this fella.
So, thoughts. Should I spend my money on a smaller laptop with a larger harddrive space, or should I simply stick to what I’ve got going and connect up the 500GBEXHDD a bit more? (Speaking of which, I should clean that up soon. Too many duplicate iTunes files, and yes, you’d keep your music on an EXHDD too if you had the sort of library that completely outstrips your own main harddrive.)
Also, customisation. I need stickers. I’m almost tempted to make some. There’s a good and solid security reason behind customising the outside of a laptop - and yes, it’s another legal thing. The sorta stuff I learn in Police Powers and so forth - also known as ‘why all of my books are completely and utterly un-resellable’. Not that I would resell them (aside from the fact that the Code is not out-of-date, thanks to the recent raising of the legal age of consent in Canada from fourteen to sixteen).
Ooh, yes. Books.
I got books eight through ten of Dragon Voice the other day. This is a series I’ve been collecting for a while. I’m also going to be getting Tactics soon, but that’s entirely aside. Dragon Voice is brilliantly wonderful, and the translators have gone to the trouble of making the fonts fit the scene, something rarely done, even by Tokyopop. This, when the musicians harmonise, they really do harmonise, right on the page. That’s a talent, and one that I often drool over.
Now there are only three more left to go. I honestly and completely hope that they’re going to finish the translation of the series. I don’t want to have to have an unfinished series in my collection, that’s just not how I work. Least of all one that I love so much.
Also in the recent additions to my bookcase, I’ve gotten a copy of a book that one of my teachers actually wrote. It’s freakin’ huge. It used to be a required text, but now it’s out of print. Why? Because in the past seven years, the things we learnt in class has been taken down and taken out and edited, and now we learn less than 10% of what’s in this book. Yes, really. Now, this book has got to be one of the most important books in my bookshelf now. It has information that you need to know if you’re going to be a Police Officer anywhere in the world, written clearly and concisely. It has basic communication, it has simple ways to tell if people are lying, it has things like not using the word ‘don’t’ when asking a person not to do anything - and this is all explained psychologically, too, which is possibly the most impressive part. It’s all very well and good telling a person to not use a word, but sometimes, you want to understand why. In this case, it has to do with the way that the human mind is set up in terms of communication; in order for the phrase “don’t fire the gun” to get through to a person, the person must first imagine firing the gun, and only after that been done does the imagining of the elimination of the act happen. And that’s an incredibly scary concept. And yes, since this book also includes how to arrest a person. My books have handcuffs in them! Also, headlocks and how not to use them. We should be leaning these things, and as recently as seven years ago we would have been. But because some of these might be considered dangerous, I suppose at this point we’re just lucky to be getting lessons on pressure points. Always useful, those.
I’m thinking of suggesting to our class rep that we all find out where he does martial arts (says he’s a sixth dan in ju-jitsu on the back of the book, and yes, that is good) and just taking those classes as well. Wouldn’t be too much more in terms of money, but we’d certainly be covering everything that we don’t learn in class.
Speaking of class, learning how to shoot is also on my agenda for this year. Or rather, learning firearms safety. Shooting is really secondary to learning how to avoid accidents with those things. It’s said that guns don’t kill people, that people kill people - well, let’s try to avoid stupidity and accidents, okay?
See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.