Hey guys, it’s been two months since my last entry. Sorry about that. I’ve been nowhere near the right state of mind to write anything, nor am I right now. I’m not even sure if I should have a blog at all.

This entry is nothing but a filler, to show that I’m still alive. I can barely remember what I wanted to write about before my absence. Here’s a short list:

• Alestorm
• Weekly updates

As it turns out, that’s all I can remember, I might write something a little more philosophical as well, like I used to do. Something about honesty always being the best policy. Just, don’t be surprised if it takes a while.

That’s all guys, ciao.

Hooray! I made myself a Weighted Companion Cube. I was so depressed when GlaDOS made me incinerate my cube when playing Portal… Now I can keep this one as my faithful, inanimate companion forever…

Weighted Companion Cube

This Weighted Companion Cube was made of paper, glue, ink and love… It was based on a net from this place that I found tonight. I also found a wallpaper, I may share that sometime.   I chose not to include all of the extra little raised parts, as they were awful to cut out and fold and stick on. So, I’m keeping my Companion Cube simple. Although it’s called a Weighted Companion Cube, this actually has very little weight, ’cause it’s paper. Though I guess you already know that…

Perhaps this entry needs some quotes added to it now…

GlaDOS: Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman’s terms, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out.

GLaDOS: While it has been a faithful companion, your Companion Cube cannot accompany you through the rest of the test. If it could talk – and the Enrichment Center takes this opportunity to remind you that it cannot – it would tell you to go on without it, because it would rather die in a fire than become a burden to you.

GlaDOS: At the end of the experiment you will be baked, and then there will be cake.

GlaDOS: This is your fault. I’m going to kill you. And all the cake is gone. You don’t even care.

GlaDOS: Remember when the platform was sliding into the fire pit and I said “Goodbye” and you were like

[in a deep male voice]

GlaDOS: “No way!” And then I was all “We pretended we were going to murder you?” That was great!

Curiosity Sphere: Who are you? What is that? Oh, What’s that? What’s THAT? What is THAT?

Curiosity Sphere: Ooooh, that thing has numbers on it.

Curiosity Sphere: Hey, look at that thing. No, that other thing!

Curiosity Sphere: Where are we going? Are you coming back? What’s that noise? Is that a gun? Do you smell something burning? Ooooohh… what’s in heeeere?

GLaDOS: [the character has just destroyed part of GLaDOS] You think you’re doing some damage? Two plus two is…

[sparking and fizzling noise]

I actually tested that last one, and it’s true!

22₄
= 2 x 4¹ + 2 x 4⁰
= 8 + 2
= 10

Therefore, 22₄ = 10₁₀. My number skills are awesome.

Anyway,  who else has played Portal? Did you feel so disheartened having to incinerate your Weighted Companion Cube? Are you still missing your cake? I know I am. You should all tell me how you feel about the Weighted Companion Cubes, cake and the rest of the game.

I think I might go and make some toast before I go to bed. Peanut Butter Toast at 4am FTW!

Ciao.

-Lachy

Hooray, my new anime figures arrived today, that I bought from Ebay about a week ago. They’re a little smaller than I expected, the description said they were 10-12cm in height, but they’re actualy 9-10cm in reality. They’re still awesome though, so it’s all ok.

Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura now lives in my house. Jealous?  Sakura is the greatest, definitely my favourite female anime character. She has rollerblades, and clow cards, and Keroberos! The fact that it’s a shoujo anime means nothing to otaku such as myself, because she is full of win. If any of you haven’t seen Cardcaptor Sakura before, you definitely need to see it! But, keep a few things in mind:

First of all,  it is NOT Cardcaptors, it is infinitely better than the butchered English dub. The US version has no Japanese names, places or cultural references; the characters and their relationships aren’t nearly as deep; and they reduced the number of episodes. I could rant about it all day. The US version “Cardcaptors” is nowhere near as hilarious or interesting as the original Japanese anime.

Also, the show is actually really entertaining, it isn’t incredibly girly, as many fan images would have you believe… It isn’t completely covered in pink or anything, you just need to get past the pink phone, pink staff, and occasional pink battle outfits. It’s just an awesome magical girl series that has everything that is awesome. I’m thinking about getting a Cardcaptor Sakura wallscroll when I go to brisbane as well.

While I’m talking about anime figures, I think it’s time I updated some of you about my others. One of the following figures was actually acquired fairly recently as well. I’m sure Brent will like it. It’s Clare, from the anime Claymore. It also comes with Irene’s right arm (currently attached).

Clare from Claymore

And this next image contains the rest of the figures I haven’t included in previous entries. 

In case you haven’t seen my other two figuresalready, they’re pretty awesome. They should be somewhere under the anime tag. You can expect to see Spike Spiegel and a silver Astro Boy.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for right now.  I uploaded these images tonight using WinSCP, a freeware FTP client. It seems alright so far, I might keep using it for a while, so I don’t need to keep relying on the FlashFXP trial. I didn’t really like Filezilla much…

Ciao friends.

Ahoy!

Now that it’s finally June, an awesome night is now in sight. What could it be you ask? Just ask yourselves, what are the most awesome beings in existance? PIRATES, of course. On June 20 I’ll be going to Brisbane to see Alestorm with some friends, it’ll be awesome. Pirates and power metal are two awesome things combined! Now if I introduce some of my Awesome Fives into the equation… :O

Anyway, I’m anticipating an awesome night filled with pirate metal and Awesome Fives. I’ve been wanting to see Alestorm for a while, and they just happened to come to Australia a few months after Sonata Arctica. Brisbane is actually the last Australian show, unfortunately. There’s chance it could be lowest grade performance, or the best one if they decide to put more effort into it. I’m hoping for the latter. In case you’ve never heard them, here’s one of the few high quality videos I could find.

In case you were wondering about what an “Awesome Five” is, it’s the name I’ve given to my high fiving technique which produces frequent hand injuries for the receiver. The theory behind them is, that I am a pirate. As such, I am filled with awesome, a property that exists within certain entities just because it can. Being filled with this awesome energy means that my everyday activities become awesome, as I transfer my energy towards doing things, high fives included. Seeing as there is additional awesome energy included in my high fives, it has to come out somewhere, as the law of conservation of energy in physics states that energy cannot be lost, created or destroyed. It can only be transferred to another medium in the same form, or converted into another form of energy. In the Awesome Five, the mass of awesome energy  is converted into immense pain, sound and heat upon impact.

Before I leave I have one question. Should I wear my Alestorm shirt, or another power metal shirt? I’m a little bit iffy about wearing the shirts of the band you’re going to see, only to find that most other people are also wearing similar shirts. That’s the reason why I wore my Alestorm shirt to Sonata Arctica. At that time, nobody knew that Alestorm even had shirts, so I was unique. But what about now? What are the chances of others still being completely oblivious, leaving my Alestorm shirt individual and awesome? I suppose it all comes down to whether it’s better to be seen as unique and not just another nameless supporter, or wear their clothing and show your support. What do you guys think? I think I’d most like to wear either my Alestorm shirt, Ensiferum Australian Tour shirt, or a new Sonata Arctica “Flag in the Ground” shirt (with a ship on it! ) if I can order and receive it in time.

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In other news though, not too much has been happening lately, hence my inability to write interesting entries. It mainly depends on how I’m feeling, which has been pretty crap the last few months, though I won’t go into detail. I’m not much of a writing person, or completely confident at the moment, so unless I have something interesting to say, I won’t say anything. Lately I’ve just been trying to keep going with tafe, which has been getting a little more stressful now that the 80 page report is nearing its deadline of the June 18. Lately I’ve just been procrastinating playing GTAIV instead of working on it at home. It’s just hard to find the motivation to work on it. Occupational Health & Safety is boring… *sigh* Disaster Recovery Plans are boring… *sigh sigh* Well, at least I have one thing to look forward to two days after it’s due. I really do hope that positive things start to pick up again  after this. Perhaps I”ll name a few… Alestorm (June 20), followed by more than four friend’s birthday between then and July 1st, including mine. Hopefully something good will happen around then, some sort of combined birthday celebration perhaps.

Well, I believe that’s all for now. I’ve been hashing data for DC++ tonight to prepare for a LAN tomorrow. Even though I’m only taking half of my anime, and some other data I have on my main PC, I’m still sharing 680GB. :O

Well I’m off, night all.

-Lachy

Ahoy, it seems I may have missed last week’s feature, but that’s ok. I’m posting now. This entry’ll be a short one cause I’m not really in the best mood for blogging.

For the last two weeks I have been:

Watching: Full Metal Panic (again), Eden of the East, Baka to Test To Shoukanjuu, Black Lagoon (again), Mythbusters (always good to watch when I’m home at the right time)

Listening to: Sonata Arctica, Alestorm, Rufio, A Perfect Circle, random

Playing: Portal, Plain Sight, Vampire Night (Awesome game)

Reading: Nothing in particular, just the usual web comics and subscriptions.

That’s it for now, I may or may not post something else tonight, depending on how I feel.

Ciao