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Meh. Waiting for feedback, meetings scheduled for monday and tuesday... which left me strangely unmotivated all weekend, even though the deadlines are looming and there're enough parts I can work on even so. Just, I find it hard to concentrate. Hopefully the meetings will be fruitful and I'll get to be more productive in the course of the week.
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These Japanese smileys which pop up everywhere... ever wondered (as I have) what the hell they mean? Here's a fun thread. Yes, I can smile in Japanese now. ^_^
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aaand, another bit of randomness... what's up with the UK Paramount Comedy Channel's incessant censoring? I can maybe understand if they censor the shows broadcast in the afternoon, but they're [bleep]ing with everything. And since when is [bleep] a nasty word? Or [bleep], or [bleep]? Seriously. Sometimes they're cutting whole lines of dialogue and leaving the viewer to wonder what the audience is laughing about.
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For those who speak German: a friend gave me this link The story of a "hacker" who was apparently so stupid that he hacked his own computer.
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Oh, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak has posted meta on Angel the character. As intriguing as her Connor essay.
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I have Bones withdrawal.
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And finally, the Four Things meme,
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Four jobs I've had
1. packing christmas cookies in a cookie factory. Blech.
2. Data input. Double Blech.
3. internship in a pottery shop. That was cool.
4. architect's office. I still can't believe that with only three semesters of architecture under my belt, they gave me my own projects to work on. Madness. Very cool work, and well paid.
Four movies I've seen more than once
I'll pick the ones I've watched most often
1. Groundhog Day
2. Sleepy Hollow
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Return of the Jedi
Four places I've lived
1. Münster
2. Mülheim
3. Coesfeld (that means cow field. Go figure what it was like.)
4. Rocky Mountain House (justa short time)
Four TV shows I've loved in the past
1. Star Trek TOS (Kirk and Spock, running through maper maché settings. My very first fandom.)
2. Twin Peaks
3. The X-Files
4. Star Trek: DS9
Four TV shows I'm currently watching
1. Bones
2. Lost
3. AtS
4. BtVS
What do you mean, Buffy and Angel, in the past? Lalala, I can't hear you.
Four favorite foods
1. Sushi
2. Oven-baked garlic veggies
3. Thai curry
4. Pumpkin Gnocchi
Four web sites you visit daily
1. LJ
2. BBF
3. Fandom_Wank. Guilty pleasure ;)
Huh. That's it. For daily, anyway.
Four places you'd rather be
1. Honestly, I want to be right where I am now, and finish my damned projects.
Four albums currently on heavy rotation
1. Soundtrack from Rhythm Is It!
2. The Angel Soundtrack
3. Saint-Saëns, Symphony no.3 in c minor, op.78 (organ symphony)
4. The CD with the Buffy sountrack with I totally didn't download from the internet.
Four books you love
1. How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself by Nita Engle
2. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
3. Die Söhne der großen Bärin by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (German series for young adults)
4. How Much For Just The Planet by John M. Ford
These Japanese smileys which pop up everywhere... ever wondered (as I have) what the hell they mean? Here's a fun thread. Yes, I can smile in Japanese now. ^_^
aaand, another bit of randomness... what's up with the UK Paramount Comedy Channel's incessant censoring? I can maybe understand if they censor the shows broadcast in the afternoon, but they're [bleep]ing with everything. And since when is [bleep] a nasty word? Or [bleep], or [bleep]? Seriously. Sometimes they're cutting whole lines of dialogue and leaving the viewer to wonder what the audience is laughing about.
For those who speak German: a friend gave me this link The story of a "hacker" who was apparently so stupid that he hacked his own computer.
Oh, and
selenak has posted meta on Angel the character. As intriguing as her Connor essay.I have Bones withdrawal.
And finally, the Four Things meme,
gakked from
superplinFour jobs I've had
1. packing christmas cookies in a cookie factory. Blech.
2. Data input. Double Blech.
3. internship in a pottery shop. That was cool.
4. architect's office. I still can't believe that with only three semesters of architecture under my belt, they gave me my own projects to work on. Madness. Very cool work, and well paid.
Four movies I've seen more than once
I'll pick the ones I've watched most often
1. Groundhog Day
2. Sleepy Hollow
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. Return of the Jedi
Four places I've lived
1. Münster
2. Mülheim
3. Coesfeld (that means cow field. Go figure what it was like.)
4. Rocky Mountain House (justa short time)
Four TV shows I've loved in the past
1. Star Trek TOS (Kirk and Spock, running through maper maché settings. My very first fandom.)
2. Twin Peaks
3. The X-Files
4. Star Trek: DS9
Four TV shows I'm currently watching
1. Bones
2. Lost
3. AtS
4. BtVS
What do you mean, Buffy and Angel, in the past? Lalala, I can't hear you.
Four favorite foods
1. Sushi
2. Oven-baked garlic veggies
3. Thai curry
4. Pumpkin Gnocchi
Four web sites you visit daily
1. LJ
2. BBF
3. Fandom_Wank. Guilty pleasure ;)
Huh. That's it. For daily, anyway.
Four places you'd rather be
1. Honestly, I want to be right where I am now, and finish my damned projects.
Four albums currently on heavy rotation
1. Soundtrack from Rhythm Is It!
2. The Angel Soundtrack
3. Saint-Saëns, Symphony no.3 in c minor, op.78 (organ symphony)
4. The CD with the Buffy sountrack with I totally didn't download from the internet.
Four books you love
1. How to Make a Watercolor Paint Itself by Nita Engle
2. Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
3. Die Söhne der großen Bärin by Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (German series for young adults)
4. How Much For Just The Planet by John M. Ford
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Also -- I miss Bones, too!
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Same here, except there was never a moment when I didn't love the character... no matter how much he screwed up, or how dorky he got.
Well, except maybe the very first time he shows up, in the Buffy pilot. The character is barely recognizable then. Fortunately he grew pretty quickly into Real Angel. Oh, and there's that last time he showed up in Sunnydale where he for some reason behaves just like the guy from the pilot again - but I blame that bit of OOCness firmly on the Buffy writers and pretend it didn't happen.
Also -- I miss Bones, too!
Such is my withdrawal, that I even go to ffn in search of a fix.
I actually missed that :)
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I didn't know that there was a language-barrier with smileys. Interesting.
I understood about 3/4 of the "hacker story" and that was enough to get a good laugh. The commenter who kept getting his link changed was great too. :-D
In conclusion: Yummy Sushi!
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I think so, too. As far as the English-speaking internet goes, they're mostly used in the Manga/Anime community, I think. But sometimes I see people use them on livejournal or journalfen, and I always wondered what they mean (but felt stupid asking).
Makes sense, too, that the Japanese would have more varied emoticons, considering the language is much more nuanced than English (not to mention German).
I understood about 3/4 of the "hacker story" and that was enough to get a good laugh.
Your German must be seriously good if you understood that much. Because, that was some awful, awful language. Not just colloquial, but grammatically oh so very wrong. And the typos. And the gutterspeak. *shudder*
The commenter who kept getting his link changed was great too. :-D
You mean the guy who kept trying to post http://*SCHNIPPS*? ;o) Priceless.
In conclusion: Yummy Sushi!
Very much so.
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Your German must be seriously good if you understood that much. Because, that was some awful, awful language. Not just colloquial, but grammatically oh so very wrong. And the typos. And the gutterspeak. *shudder*
My German can not be called good by any stretch of the English language. Maybe that is why I understood so much? The typos and grammar-errors would fly right by me. *g*