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Really? [May. 14th, 2008|05:42 pm] [ feeling | amused ] Yes, yes, uhh yes, yes, hai... er... yes Also... If you smell what the onigiri is cooking... Link 2 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

[LJ2ME] Birthday! [May. 14th, 2008|07:56 am] Hippo birdy miss e! :) Link skip a stone

猫　=^.^= [Apr. 26th, 2008|09:10 am] [ feeling | groggy ] Yes, I was reading a page of old entries I still had open on my laptop. I stole this link from ardoise_vide: "Ladies and Gentlemen, The Cutest Kitten in the World" めめぼん geek. =^.^= Link skip a stone

A few quick notes from the past two weekends... [Apr. 7th, 2008|10:21 pm] [ feeling | sleepy ] Sunday, March 30th, Peter and I went to the Midwest Gaming Classic. We enjoyed the usual (pinball), and played a bunch of arcades (mostly, various Gauntlet machines). (Local newspaper article, here. This is the first year the Journal-Sentinel covered the event, IIRC.) We also made some purchases, including a duplicate purchase of The Simpson's fifth season. Respond if you would like it for $20 -- slow shipment included for free! :} I took a couple photos, but none with Peter or myself in them. I'll get around to posting those eventually... Saturday, April 5th, Peter/hellsop, Peter's wonderful aunt Cynthia, and myself were accompanied by Michaela/sharkskitten and John/caveshark to the Met's live HD broadcast of La Boheme. (Last year, Peter, Cynthia, and I went to see Puccini's Il Trittico.) It was interesting to see the changes from last year's live broadcast. I had a fantastic time both years, but this year had the added bonus of watching the live broadcast hold up the actual preformance due to a booched interview with the conductor that overlapped with his call to the pit. Hehe. After the performance, Kendra/kendra_manycats and Keith-of-no-LJ joined us for dinner at Yokoso. Cynthia went home after dinner, and the rest of us went back to the duplex to enjoy the first evening of tolerable temperatures with drinks and conversation. :D I would type more, but I need sleep... Peace, geek. ^_^ Link skip a stone

Ignorance truly is bliss... [Mar. 20th, 2008|06:59 pm] [ Tags | cats, photos ] [ feeling | amused ] So... I still get "Meetups in the Making" updates from Meetup.com. I'm not sure why I haven't unsubscribed from this list since the last Goth meetup occurred 3+ years ago, but I guess, my usual 5-second annoyance has been paid off today with a hearty laugh. :D The 'new blood' that sign up with an interest in getting the Goth meetup going again are truly a laugh (obviously I'm jellis :P). In today's update, I spy the following jewel: Same on meetup.com can be seen here. That's quite some jive there, young lady! I vaguely recalled the term "juggahos," and I thought "fams" out ("It *must* be based on the word family"), but "'lettes" had me stumped. Okay, it had to be short for something (hence the apostrophe at the beginning), but what? I knew I needed the assistance of Urban Dictionary. (Oh, dear me!) A few terms: lette fam fams juggalette (Definitely read these definitions! ... and that image! I really enjoyed the quote "We dont care about the rest of the world because we have our own that everyone else is obviously jealous of." :D :D I also was amused at the Scientology video channel ad I saw on the page.) juggaho juggahoe Peter wanted me to upload this image to add to the second juggalette definition. Hee! Our little Nat-lette See? She looks just like the juggalette example: Harr! geek. ^_^ Link 13 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

Sake and a linky... [Mar. 19th, 2008|09:57 pm] [ Tags | sake ] [ feeling | sleepy ] This past Sunday, hellsop and I went to a sake tasting at Nanakusa. We were already familiar with a few of the sakes, but we tried them again, and took notes just the same. The following are my quick notes (err... scribbles) from the tasting. Keep in mind that they are in order of tasting and later tastes may have been influences by previous sakes and well, frankly, being under the influence thereof. ;} Nigori Ozeki (California) Ozeki Sake (U.S.A.) Inc. Handout notes: Typical nigori style, very sweet and flavor of rice My notes: Slightly sweet, low acid, medium to full body, cloudy Kikusakari "Kurashizuku" (Ibaraki) Kiuchi Brewery Handout notes: Chrysanthemum "Brewery dew" -- Light nigori with a hint of effervescence My notes: Intially sweet -> slightly dry tail, slight tart, "clean" Tozai "Voices in the Mist" (Osaka) Daimon Brewery Handout notes: "Voices in the Mist" -- Ginjo quality light nigori sake My notes: Lots of presence. Flowery, slightly sweeter than previous, "clean" Tarusake Kikusakari "Tarusake" (Ibaraki) Kiuchi Brewery Handout notes: "Cask aged" My notes: No scent, very little presence, very slight sweet, reminds me of a taste I can't recall/describe... 'silky'? All Kouji Kikusakari "Zen Kouji" (Ibaraki) Kiuchi Brewery Handout notes: All koji sake, very sweet with a high acidity My notes: Slight "scaley" scent, incredible presence, extremely clean, quite sweet with slight tart Junmai Yamadanishiki (Hyogo) Ozeki Sake (U.S.A.) Inc. Imported Handout notes: Named for the most common sake rice -- Dry style. My notes: Extremely faint rice scent, clean with slight sweet tail, full-bodied/first with 'legs' Otokoyama (Hokkaido) OTOKOYAMA CO.,LTD Handout notes: Man's Mountain - name of mountain in Hokkaido. Brewery established in 1661. My notes: (Kimoto rather than export IIRC) Scent is slightly tangy/slightly clean, dry, kind of earthy, slight bitter, crisp tail Ginjo Momokawa Diamond (Oregon) SakéOne Handout notes: Balanced, mineral elements My notes: Very little scent, much tang, slightly sweet tail -- bonus note as I had a become more influenced... persuaded even: "I like :)" Hananomai (Shizuoka) Hananomai Shuzo Co., Ltd. Handout notes: Dancing Flowers -- Light and floral. Brewed with Mount Fuji spring water. My notes: (Second to bottom on site linked above, or seen on this person's Flickr.) Floral and sweet scent; sweet with quick, clean tail Sawanoi (Tokyo) Sawanoi Brewery (I couldn't find it on the page I expected, but here is another person's experiences with this one.) Handout notes: Spring Creek -- Light, floral, clean. My notes: Rich; sweet, but not overbearing / well-balanced -- bonus note again: "I like :)" Bishonen (Kumanoto) Bishonen Shuzo Co., Ltd. Handout notes: Handsom Lad -- Complex, clean, balanced. My notes: Minor 'maritime' scent, fruity and slightly... ? (something I couldn't explain / "try again with cleaner palette"), clean tail -- one more time: "I like :)" Shirataki "Jozen Mizunogotoshi" (Niigata) Shirataki Shuzo Co., Ltd Handout notes: White Snow -- Slightly dry, long tail. Spoken notes: "One of the best sake-producing areas..." My notes: Slight rice scent, slightly dry, slightly earthy, lingering tail -- last time I wrote this: "I like :)" Daiginjo Kurosawa -- first listed under For U.S.A. (Nagano) Kurosawa Sake Brewery Co. LTD. Handout notes: Black Creek -- Very clean, anise flavor. My notes: Vaguely must (not in a bad way) scent; clean to start, sweet and fungal follows; very earthy presence Wakatake "Onikoroshi" (Shizuoka) Oomuraya Shuzoba Co., Ltd. Handout notes: Young Bamboo "Demon Slayer" -- Dry, full-bodied, earthy. My notes: Slightly floral and slightly earthy scent; sweet and floral with an earthy base (Holy wow, this took a long time to write up! Hours! I hope someone appreciates it...) With dinner tonight I enjoyed Hakutsuru Superior Sake "Junmai Ginjo" (Kobe / Hakutsuru Sake Brewing Co.) It is light-bodied and dry. --- Linky: Video Awareness Test Pirate bakeoff now... then sleep. :D :D Peace, geek. ^_^ Link 5 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

[LJ2ME] 3/14 [Mar. 14th, 2008|07:23 am] [ feeling | pi! pie! woo! ] Happy Pi Day, all! If you were my coworkers, you would be sharing an apple one. :) Also, I'm wearing a shirt with flamingos on it, and it feels strange. :p Peace, geek. ^_^ Link 1 ripple in the pond|skip a stone

The lyre bird, a quick thought on the kanji game... [Mar. 12th, 2008|09:02 pm] [ Tags | ds, japanese ] [ feeling | sleepy ] YOU MUST WATCH! Yoinked a few days ago from the wonderful cavalorn: First ... and then *** Having only played with the kanji game I mentioned yesterday a bit this morning and afternoon during the commute to/from work, here is what I would like to say so far: This game was released in April 5, 2007, the company also released a newer version on November 29, 2007. The most important thing the new version contains, that the version I have does not, is a dictionary from the writing training page. (From what I have read, the newer version also has more kanji.) The version I have only has writing practice and comprehension exercises. Therefore, the user either needs another DS with the dictionary, which I also purchased; a physical dictionary; or needs to be studying meanings and pronounciations seperately from using the software. I have discovered one such site that is useful to study while using the software, because it seperates the kanji into the years it is learned. The game teaches kanji learned in grades 1 through 6. Here is first year kanji on one helpful site: http://learn-japanese.info/firstgradekanji.html. This is useful when working on comprehension quizzes. For example, the first kanji in the quizzes is "子." The game first displays kanji and asks the user to write in the hiragana (e.g. "子犬" is displayed and the user writes "こいぬ"), then it displays the hiragana and the user must use the nice handwriting they worked on to write the kanji. I have a few more thoughts floating around in my brainmeats so far. I may write those up tomorrow -- you could get these thoughts in bits and pieces, or I might write up a full review including the thoughts above, the other thoughts, and future thoughts. *shrugs* At this point, I don't know. I catch up on sleep now (otherwise I would write up those other thoughts now)! Yatta! Peace, geek. ^_^ Link skip a stone

Quickie... [Mar. 8th, 2008|03:14 pm] [ Tags | photos ] [ feeling | drained ] ellykin ~ fix the nekkid squirrel! :p Also, I made ye this icon of the Sugar Bush Squirrel ("Scrapbookin' with Sugar Bush Coming Soon!"): Aaaaaaand... here's a peekture of miss natarii kiii~s beeg mouf: Now to work on something productive... Peace, geek. ^_^ Link 1 ripple in the pond|skip a stone

Donate to the Cedarburg, WI kitties! [Mar. 6th, 2008|08:27 am] [ Tags | donating ] [ feeling | thankful ] Kazuki, Isamu, Katsu, 89 other survivors and counting... Join me in donating to help care for the furry survivors of yet another sad story of living in the house of hoarders. :-\ Every tax-deductable dollar helps! Regardless, give your kitty/ies extra love and treats for making the world a better place. Thanks! Related JS Online story: Cats taken from house now number 111 Peace, geek, friend of kitties =^.^= Link 8 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

Pick me, pick me! [Feb. 23rd, 2008|01:51 pm] [ Tags | games, hkonline, video, y!pp ] [ feeling | accomplished ] [ noise | Deflection! Deflection! (Submission video BG music) ] I just finished my Hello Kitty Online beta application video. :D Previously embedded the sucker, but it wasn't working so well... so view the video here. If they select me, maybe I'll tell them all the sucky bugs I found in their video creator, Dream Studio Beta. ;} Y!PP time! Peace, geek. o_^ Link 4 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

Keith "of-no-LJ"'s blog RSS... [Feb. 10th, 2008|10:16 pm] [ feeling | sleepy ] I have taken the liberty of creating an LJ RSS of Keith's (of K&K / Keith and Kendra / "Keith of-no-LJ" fame) blog. I hope he doesn't mind... RSS: adeptechllc_rss Original site: Adept Technologies blog Add it if you like. :} ... sleep now. Peace, geek. ^_^ Link 2 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

1child 3parents [Feb. 5th, 2008|04:12 pm] [ Tags | poly, weather ] [ where | work ] The First Child to Have Three Genetic Parents In three to five years, a baby will be born with two genetic mothers and one father. This could prove to be a boon for polyamorous families of the future who want to have children with more than two parents. A team of British researchers working with embryos have now perfected the three-parent babymaking technique. More Edited to add... AP Article of above *** ... waiting for Peter to pick me up at work. Japanese class tonight. Drive home will be interesting and challenging. Work will probably be delayed 2-4 hours tomorrow, but I doubt it will be cancelled. :-\ Weather forecast for 53186 Watches, Warnings & Advisories ( Text of above watches and warnings and such ) Peace, geek. ^_^ Link 4 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

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[LJ2ME] Party [Jan. 20th, 2008|02:18 am] [ Tags | party ] Thank you to everyone who showed up! It was fantastic seeing you all... especially Madison folks who I haven't seen in a while. Peter, me, and the kitties will get some sleep now. :) Link 3 ripples in the pond|skip a stone

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