small fix

I just realized that the image mouseover opacity effect was no longer working in Firefox 3. Guess it's for the better that opacity is used and not -moz-opacity now. Anyway, that's been updated - I'm telling you for no reason at all, really. But maybe if someone has the same problem as me......

Anyway, grades were posted today. Yay for all A's! Makes me happy. Best wishes to all, and maybe next time I'll get around to that post about consciousness. I still haven't organized how I'm going to discuss it. I also don't know if it's worth it, b/c there's no point, really...

Until next time, take care dear readers!

no direction

As the title implies, there is no purpose to this post. However, I feel the need to oblige my lovely readers in a prompt fashion ;). I usually like to have some kind of idea or topic that drives the writing. But as summer classes have ended, so too, it seems, has my brain. Grades come out in two days. Confirmed A in two classes, confirmed pass in the pass/fail class, but 1 class remains. If he curves then I'll have an A for sure. If he doesn't, then I hope he is generous with partial credit cuz i screwwwwwwed the first problem (of 5) over big time.

The end of classes also brings about another change, this one at home. My parents, being the caring and supportive people that they are, usually don't ask much of me during the school terms. However, now that classes have ended. "Oh, well I was waiting for you to have some free time, so go do this, this, this, that, this, and that". I understand it's perfectly normal. I'm just spoiled.

So ends my personal stuff, how about an observation on a few good anime shows. Last season's Higashi no Eden (Eden of the East) was quite a good show - despite them leaving the storyline for two followup movies. One of the last scenes is main character dude shooting down a missile - finger pistol style.

And then just recently I finished watching both seasons of Black Lagoon. As a side note, I highly recommend this show. It's dark, somewhat intellectual, and totally badass. I actually liked it because it's dark and stays so 'til the end. Sure there's tones of redemption or honor; I'm not being cynical either, but do you ever just wish some movies shouldn't have happy endings? Anyway, screenshot from the final moments of Black Lagoon Second Barrage. I'm glad the "new season" coming up will be OVA. I hope it means they can make it super badass with no restrictions that would have come from TV censors.

So now you must be wondering what the point of this is. I'm not quite sure either. But after finishing these two shows in, somewhat, close proximity to each other. I just thought, when's the first time Bang was used in this manner? And all I could think of was:

Anyone know of an older reference? I also found it amusing that three different "Bang"s had three different subtitles. "Bang..." "Bang!" and "Bang." I think that about covers all possible ways of punctuating it, don't you think? Well... maybe there's "Bang?" but that is not the cool way of saying Bang. Anyway, I presented to you three Bangs which were all a part of three highly recommended anime shows. Does that mean the key to success is to end with Bang? Or does it mean that good shows end with a Bang? Ok I've run out of ideas.

Until next time. Keep on Bangin! (ok that came out wrong)

lies, chipsticks, and the light at the end of the tunnel

I'm afraid that my baby was mad at me. What did I do to her, you ask? I'm a guy; guys never know what they did wrong, right? *ahem....uh.. this baby I'm talking about is my desktop computer. But I seem to have gotten lost in the reference. Anyway, that picture is evidence that my baby was mad at me, because she was just straight up lying to me =(. But, after a good night's sleep and a fresh restart on our relationship. I think my baby is happy again.

On to chipsticks! No, chipsticks is not a new brand of fishsticks based on potato chips. That would be disgusting... Then again... french fries are called chips over there on the other side of the ocean. They are also in the shape of sticks. So maybe those are true chipsticks. But that wasn't the point! See recently I've been inundated with schoolwork deadlines and homeworks and exams. Thus, I have been spending much time, uncharacteristically, doing homework and such. (But really, I probably slack of 90% of the time and end up doing nothing except complaining about how much work I have)

In either case, snacks are the lifeblood of homework sessions, are they not? But the predicament is this: I like barbeque flavored chips. Barbeque flavored chips are powdery. Barbeque flavored chips' powder ends up on fingers. Homework requires either utilizing a writing utensil or the keyboard. Writing utilities do not like powdery fingers. THUS!, my solution is to use hardware finger extensions! BAM!

Ok, well *I* thought it was clever. So if you ever walk in on me and see me with some chopsticks eating chips, it is *not* ridiculous. It is a perfectly logical solution. So anyway, I have now adopted the style of eating snacks with chopsticks while studying. You should try it out too! It's positively great.

Ah, O light at the end of mine tunnel. Why must you be so fickle? The flickering is giving me seizures of hope and despair. Only 5 days of class left and 4 final exams. You are so brilliant in this regard. But only 2 weeks of vacation exists between the end of this term and the beginning of the next. Such a fleeting brilliance.

You can ignore that last paragraph. I never typed such a retarded thing, it can't be me blogging; it's my apathetically burned out doppelganger.

Row row, fight the power!