Parasite Eve

Hideaki Sena

It got up to 8 degrees today, which to this former-Albertan is still pretty amazing in early February. It's the first of a few days off for Jamie, so we decided to go uptown for a coffee. We tend to take a pretty similar route every time, so we pass the library quite often on our way to Tim Hortons or wherever. For some reason this time, Jamie said "hey, wanna get a library card?" and I said "why the heck not?" Jamie's had a card for a while and he occasionally stops on his way home from work so that hasn't been much call for me having my own card yet.

We get me my card, and I didn't really intend to borrow anything right away, but I really dig libraries (I even worked in the library at my high school for work placement credit) and so couldn't resist just wandering around a bit at least. We puttered around in fiction for a bit, and stumbled upon a whole section full of MANGA and GRAPHIC NOVELS! That might not seem odd or special to anybody else, but I've never been in a library that carried either of those things before. I picked up an Oh! My Goddess trade edition (I have a few issues but they're mostly all back in Alberta still), Sandman 1 Preludes and Nocturnes, and The Dark Knight Returns, which was so huge when it came out there was a waiting list at the one comic store in town, and I never did end up getting to so much as read somebody else's copy.

We also picked up Roverandum, a collection of short stories by Tolkien written for his children about a little toy dog they lost at the beach, and the very very best and most EPIC awesome find of all, an English translation of the Japanese novel Parasite Eve!

Yes folks, the Playstation game was based on a NOVEL, more specifically it was a sequel to a film that was based off the novel. I was a big fan of PE back in the day and one of the reasons I tried to teach myself Japanese was so that I could read the book it was based on one day. I'd still love to be able to read it in the original Japanese one day, but at least now I can get the original story in something very close to it's original form.

It seems it was only published in English in 2005 too, so it's pretty recent. I'm positively thrilled to bits. ^_^

They also had one of the better arts and crafts sections I've ever come across. No snobbery about subject matter at all, the books on drawing and writing comics were right next to things like pottery and watercolor painting etc. It was all very diverse and quite up to date. If they allow you to bring a drink in something like a travel mug I'm so hanging out there all the time.

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Leopard Screenshot

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mood: chipper

I don't feel like it's Halloween without candles, so I stepped out to the dollar store and picked up some sturdy tea lights and a couple of holders. Nibblr found them quite fascinating. Don't worry, he was very very supervised the whole time.

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I was a bit concerned about him pawing at the candles, but I figured he'd discover that they were too hot to play with and leave them alone. What actually happened was that he almost immediately figured out how to put them out. ^_^

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My Boys

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I can't believe I never got around to posting the final version, I'm so distracted. :P

Anyhoo, here's the final version of the little WoW music video I did. The 2.2 patch has now gone live so I imagine Jamie and I will be making videos with our actual characters one day soon. I didn't change much in this version, just a few timing and sound tweaks, plus an extra cut away or two to break up a couple of the longer shots. It's also been optimized a bit for youtube posting so it might actually be a bit clearer. It would have been better if I hadn't been so worried about filling up my hard drive too much when I was shooting the individual clips, as I ended up with not really enough to do anything very interesting. I should probably free up a little extra space before the next one.

Iby, the early career of a young Warlock

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Show us a photo that's overexposed or underexposed but you love how it turned out.

I know I posted this just a couple weeks ago, but it's still awesome.

Nibbler Closeup

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I wanted to post sooner but I was waiting until we'd settled on a name for the little guy. I now present to you, the bestest kitty in the universe...Nibbler!

Nibbler Closeup

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I've finished those wedding pendants. ^_^ I threw in an extra green one because I was worried that one might be too dark or the other might be too pale, this way she can just pick whichever one looks appropriate when she has them all in her possession. I was trying to think of a nice freebie and that seemed to be the most useful. :)

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I just finished walking back up the hill to our apartment after visiting the store down at the bottom of the hill (3 or 4 blocks each way) and now I have a sharp piercing pain in my upper left back, right under the shoulder blade. I can't tell if it's a muscle spasm or something in my lung...and I wasn't even carrying anything heavy!

Silly me for wanting a bottle of juice. :(

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Sorry for all these boring posts, but I thought I’d better make note of what I’m doing before I actually do it just in case. The server’s running nice and snappy but notification emails still aren’t being sent by WordPress and they haven’t been for 2 or three versions now. I’m going to do a fresh install just to rule out problems with WordPress itself. If that doesn’t do it then it’s probably something my host can fix. I hate to bug them again but I haven’t been able to get this to work for a couple months now. Wish me luck!

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I’ve been finding the site very sluggish for a while. I’m going to try a couple of things to see if it fixes it. One of these things might involve a fresh install of wordpress. Apologies in advance if everything’s wonky for a bit here.

Edit: It’s fixed! I spoke with my host and they found that mysql just needed rebooting. I will be doing a bit of cleanup around here as well just to make sure it’s all optimized, but it’s not as urgent as I thought it was. Woot!

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Watch this quick before Youtube gets sent a take-down notice. It’s neat to see everything laid out in sequence together like this.

Edit: Forgot to say I found this on Wil Wheaton’s Vox. Doh!

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A lovely little tune to kick off a quiet Saturday morning.

Fun fact: Bob was a huge influence on my becoming interested in Art from an early age, but despite this, I never did get very good at using paints (I’m more of a coloured pencil/graphite girl), and my subjects are almost exclusively people.

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I’m testing a WordPress Dashboard widget so I thought I’d just jot a few things down.

1. On the subject of Dashboards, after a few weeks of seeing multiple duplicate incoming links on my Wordpress Dashboard Technorati seems finally to have gotten smart and truncated the results. It was so bad it actually broke the layout in my Dashboard for a while, the little boxes at the bottom were shifted around kinda funny.

2. We went to Ikea yesterday to pick up replacement parts for our bed-frame that we lost when we moved (and to pick up a box of vitamins my mom shipped out to us from the Greyhound station) and this time we actually took the time to eat in the cafeteria. I have concluded that it is totally worth it to take the confusing train/bus trip just for those lovely Swedish Meatballs with Potatoes. *Mmmm, taters precious* As a side note, we also picked up a $12 pair of new frying pans, a coffee plunger press (to replace our broken coffee maker), 2 large ceramic juice tumblers (for our summer ice tea drinking needs) and the cutest widdle $3 stuffed cat. The cat is just big enough to sit under my non-mousing hand while I’m working and make me feel a bit less lonely for our departed furbabys. It’s Like a stress-ball, but terribly cute.

3. I just wanted to mention that my host had some hardware troubles recently that may have had something to do with some major slowdowns on the site. I couldn’t tell if it was my internet or something on their end, but it was bugging me so much I nearly began the process of moving the site Elsewhere. Glad I waited, moving is a big pain in the butt and I don’t want to do it again for a while.

4. Lastly, I’ve had this idea floating around in my head for a wire wrapping podcast. Nothing special, just maybe a sort of primer for folks starting out. I can think of a few things I can talk about that might fill a few minutes that might otherwise take a long time to put across in writing. I need to do something to learn the software anyway since Jamie and I will be doing podcasts when our joint project is underway. Just audio, I’ve already had a little practice with iMovie and things like that, it’s Garage Band that I need to get the basics down on now. If you can think of any questions that you think I should cover I would really love it if you’d send them in (either by commenting or posting in the forum or something, or email if you prefer) and I will totally give you credit and plug your website. Jamie is doing a big stretch of shifts all in a row next week so I’ll probably do it sometime then. I feel a little funny recording stuff when I’m not home alone for some reason, at least when I’m doing all the talking. It’ll be different when we start doing recordings together.

Cheers!

P.S. I found this picture of Jamie playing World of Warcraft. I think he’s teh cute when he’s all concentrate-y. ^_^

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The activation email problem has been fixed. It was a conflict in the settings (which was of course, probably my fault), but it has been resolved. New sign-ups will now receive an activation email. If you do not get an activation email when you sign up please comment somewhere on the website (like this post for example) or send an email to jenny (at) theweejenny.net.

Cheers.

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The rich text editor in Wordpress is actually working! Can I get a woot! Get your beta copy here. Now I’m off to try it in Windows. Mmmm, multi-platform is one of my favourite flavours. ^_^