Randomness, and also image hosting.
Out of the night and into the fight, it's Bixby!
(Also, as gwezutlan pointed out, "Chaotic Patriot Steve" sounds like a side character in an anime aimed at middle schoolers. For those wondering what I'm smoking, see this.)
I feel random right now! Yay randomness. Happy Lunar New Year, one day late and all. I had an exceptionally odd dream last night, which I remembered thanks to getting called by ??? at 7:42 AM (around when I'd get normally, actually, except today's a day off, so ugh.) It was some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario, I think with a Revelation / Christian bent to it, though not super-strong. Anyway, Our Hero (who walked around in a proper business suit despite it being the apocalypse and all? he didn't look like me, but he was clearly the perspective character) was in a confused psuedo-love-triangle, I think. But as he was chatting one of them up, the other lady (who I think was a scientist bent) pops on over and chews him out. See, he'd called her up earlier, and caused her hot chocolate to boil over. Why, I'm not sure, but it was definitely intentional. As for who came up with the idea for joint phone / drink maker that would allow callers to set the temperature of the beverage, well, they need to be shot because that's a very bad idea as we found out.
Yeah, figure that one out, Freud.
In other news, one of the little electronic signature thingies at the electronic checkout at Pathmark got replaced recently. This was nice, because normally the sensors are so obscured by whatever it is messing them up (human sweat, I guess, from people not using the stylus) that no matter what you try to draw, it barely registers and comes out incoherent. So I was able to draw my little miniature landscape with the barn and the sun coming up. It's not like they look at these anyway, and if the result is going to be incoherent 95% of the time, I might as well have some fun. Yeah, I'm a rebel now. Or something.
I recently, uh, acquired some various soundtracks, having a bit of a thirst for some new game music lately. This included the Wild Arms V soundtrack and the Wild Arms arranged soundtrack, both of which I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in. WAV at least has an excuse; Michiko Naruke, who composed most of the other series, had to bow out for this one, and her replacement just isn't up to snuff. (Also, the opening vocal is pretty catchy, but that wasn't done by the main composers.) However, the arranged tracks already HAD her (fairly good) music to work with. And despite having the word "rocking" in the album title, I have to say that this is a horrible lie. Most of their remixes do not, in fact, rock. They just kind of... exist. But at least they're not Wrong. You see, Wild Arms music is this quirky old-West / heroic high drama type fusion, and some of the tracks tried to do some kind of weird smooth jazz reinterpretation instead. What. The. Hell.
They got maybe two tracks right out of 17. Luckily, one of the two was the Wild Arms 2 final battle, but "didn't totally screw over" is still damning with faint praise.
One last question. Anyone have any comments or recommendations about image hosting services, especially based off personal experience? Now that I have a digital camera, I can spice up my posts with random "multimedia" just like it's 1993 and I have a CD-ROM to fill. I've avoided the popular press's fawning over Flickr/Imageshack/PhotoBucket/etc. like the plague (and wouldn't trust them much anyway), so I'm a bit unfamiliar here. Obviously, there's Livejournal's Scrapbook, but that means forking over 20 bucks a year for the premium account and possibly losing the modicum of work I stuck into organizing / tagging / etc. if one day I should decide to not use LJ anymore. And no, I don't want the ad-supported version. Still, it seems decent at least and might be a good backup. I'd like to just do this once and not have to move my merry Internet stash about, so I suppose I should "get it right."
(Also, as gwezutlan pointed out, "Chaotic Patriot Steve" sounds like a side character in an anime aimed at middle schoolers. For those wondering what I'm smoking, see this.)
I feel random right now! Yay randomness. Happy Lunar New Year, one day late and all. I had an exceptionally odd dream last night, which I remembered thanks to getting called by ??? at 7:42 AM (around when I'd get normally, actually, except today's a day off, so ugh.) It was some kind of post-apocalyptic scenario, I think with a Revelation / Christian bent to it, though not super-strong. Anyway, Our Hero (who walked around in a proper business suit despite it being the apocalypse and all? he didn't look like me, but he was clearly the perspective character) was in a confused psuedo-love-triangle, I think. But as he was chatting one of them up, the other lady (who I think was a scientist bent) pops on over and chews him out. See, he'd called her up earlier, and caused her hot chocolate to boil over. Why, I'm not sure, but it was definitely intentional. As for who came up with the idea for joint phone / drink maker that would allow callers to set the temperature of the beverage, well, they need to be shot because that's a very bad idea as we found out.
Yeah, figure that one out, Freud.
In other news, one of the little electronic signature thingies at the electronic checkout at Pathmark got replaced recently. This was nice, because normally the sensors are so obscured by whatever it is messing them up (human sweat, I guess, from people not using the stylus) that no matter what you try to draw, it barely registers and comes out incoherent. So I was able to draw my little miniature landscape with the barn and the sun coming up. It's not like they look at these anyway, and if the result is going to be incoherent 95% of the time, I might as well have some fun. Yeah, I'm a rebel now. Or something.
I recently, uh, acquired some various soundtracks, having a bit of a thirst for some new game music lately. This included the Wild Arms V soundtrack and the Wild Arms arranged soundtrack, both of which I have to say I'm pretty disappointed in. WAV at least has an excuse; Michiko Naruke, who composed most of the other series, had to bow out for this one, and her replacement just isn't up to snuff. (Also, the opening vocal is pretty catchy, but that wasn't done by the main composers.) However, the arranged tracks already HAD her (fairly good) music to work with. And despite having the word "rocking" in the album title, I have to say that this is a horrible lie. Most of their remixes do not, in fact, rock. They just kind of... exist. But at least they're not Wrong. You see, Wild Arms music is this quirky old-West / heroic high drama type fusion, and some of the tracks tried to do some kind of weird smooth jazz reinterpretation instead. What. The. Hell.
They got maybe two tracks right out of 17. Luckily, one of the two was the Wild Arms 2 final battle, but "didn't totally screw over" is still damning with faint praise.
One last question. Anyone have any comments or recommendations about image hosting services, especially based off personal experience? Now that I have a digital camera, I can spice up my posts with random "multimedia" just like it's 1993 and I have a CD-ROM to fill. I've avoided the popular press's fawning over Flickr/Imageshack/PhotoBucket/etc. like the plague (and wouldn't trust them much anyway), so I'm a bit unfamiliar here. Obviously, there's Livejournal's Scrapbook, but that means forking over 20 bucks a year for the premium account and possibly losing the modicum of work I stuck into organizing / tagging / etc. if one day I should decide to not use LJ anymore. And no, I don't want the ad-supported version. Still, it seems decent at least and might be a good backup. I'd like to just do this once and not have to move my merry Internet stash about, so I suppose I should "get it right."