Tilly

Making it a list and postdated, so that it HAUNTS ME until I write the things on it. It was originally a text file, but that's easier to ignore.

( However, I hate scrolling. )

THIS ICON IS ONLY PARTIALLY RELEVANT TO THIS LIST and I don't care, because it has Luke and Luke is awesome.

I decided to make one postdated post for this so I don't have to keep it updated across multiple forums. Feel free to prod me on said forums, via e-mail, whatever.

( And so it doesn't take up a lot of space, THE LJ CUT )

Current transaction to-do list
koobine's CP-03 needs burned DVDs added to the box. See how heavy Gojulas is.
Draw Command Wolf for Dano, find Barigator. Progress: Wolf is partially sketched.
Save Zairin figure and HMM Shieldy cockpit
Sort out Mirageythings, save emblem for blue Blade, fix up Salamander bits. For stuff. Yes. Ask about Sieg.
Saly/Gojulas caps, stickers, pilots

Breakfast on Zi, pre-CC era, really hot unpleasant day. What (fairly simple) stuff do you cook?

Camford had an assistant back then, I'm sure, buuut Michelle looks too young to be around in the timeline I'm working with. Perhaps her mother? I wanna go for another Beatles song ref, but Julia and Rita are out for various reasons. UNLESS IT'S O'CONNELL'S MOM INSTEAD?

Stuff that'd be in Camford's office. I'm thinking more the practical here, though I need more idea of decoration and layout...or just general appearance ideas beyond flowered wallpaper (which is rustydragonfly's fault). This is not the fancy "it's not the white house rly" building in CC, so don't worry about that.

A guy is in front of a crowd and annoys them enough to get something thrown at him. I'm going for potentially painful but nonlethal, and findable in a city. The cap to a 1/24 Zoid :p? Rocks are a bit obvious.

I need a name that starts with D, is female, and is possibly a bit related to "Dean". Any variations of "Deanna" are out, because that makes me think of Star Trek. Heck, any female name that starts with D and sounds like something a cranky older lady running a wild Zoid core...breedy...budding...NURSERY THING would have would be fine. Same with one that starts with K, except it'd go with a council member. (German is a plus, umlauts a minus.)


Finally, brief CC continuity check: Does Krueger ever say anything about having/having had a family?

From the department of my brain that brought you JEREMY AND THE WIG CHALLENGE... ( Jeremy and socks )

Really, surveys should know better than to ask me "Please tell us any funny underwear or socks stories that you’d like to share, either about the holidays, or any others". It just demands things like this, and rustydragonfly only encouraged me.

Hello gender angst, how are you today? Making it a pain to write? Oh yes.

I did add images (with slightly pants translations, if you click on the dialogue ones) to my JF article. It seems mostly done-ish, and I suppose that's something. I should finish my walkthrough, mind, because bits of it are kinda...unfun if you don't have kana-fu.

BUT now I want to do Silver Zero, which is so obscure it doesn't even have a Japanese Wiki article. I can hack it together from my section, as I plan to hack my JF section together from the wiki page. WOO CREATIVE COMMONSISH.

Hey, VLC? Please do not be looking like you have closed, but actually be eating 100% CPU, so that I walk away from the computer to sleep thinking the minor fan noise is just the video I was watching because Luke is decently-cooled and takes a bit to go into FANSOFDEATH mode.

Nice to know a Core Duo can survive at 82C for extended periods of time, but STOP TRYING TO KILL MY BABY LAPTOP.

I am mad at myself for not noticing as well, but WHAT.

(Firefox did this to shinybob once. This is how I discovered that a Pentium 4 M CAN run at 96C and remain oddly stable.)

The scenes I am trying to write with both Krüger and Störmer involved are gonna look total umlaut overload when I actually find-replace them in.

Perhaps they should form a band (even if their umlauts are not heavy metal), or else break continuity and fight an umlaut-flavored duel to the death in a König Wolf and Zero Jäger.

There is probably a way to do both at once, but I do not think it would result in quality guitar work.

http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/tags/hd+trek/

Just me having a bit of fun with SMPlayer's screenshot function and an um...obtained-until-I-can-has-blu-ray...copy of the Trek movie. If anyone has requests from bits that aren't Death By Motion Blur (keeping in mind they're 4.4 megs each and thus fiddly to upload), poke me in the head and I'll try my best!

This is not what I'm doing for NaNo, buuut because I wanted to write UK comic things that weren't total crack:

Some drabbles. (Also on FF.net)

No Zoidzilla and a few others on account of them, uh, being dead at the time it's set (and believe me, I have plans for writing Celeste later ;p). The Zoid ones were a pain to write other than Zunder, blaaarg.

What's with Heller both mentioning Chicago and having that hurricane flashback in the Black Zoid arc? I'm gonna say he was just visiting relatives for the hurricane thing and is actually from the Midwest, because dangit, the Midwest is the right place for fluffy-haired overdramatic sci-fi captains.

http://zoids.wikia.com/wiki/Genobreaker%27s_Story

This is what happens when I get sick of referencing the mess that is the list of video games in other articles >_>. I should do one for Silver Zero, too, since it's so obscure there's not even a Japanese Wikipedia article for it.

How did I discover this album only recently...?

The Camford versus Elena name issue isn't going to be much of a problem.

But what the devil do I do with a post-OJR, post-Gilvader Stoermer? Giving him an alias before he shows up is liable to make things confusing, but...I would think the name would be noticeable in a region that has a few ex-Zenebas types.

So do I have Camford give him a temporary one in-story (just for around other people, so as to not make the narrative implode with name-swapping), or do I lampshade it by her pointing out nobody noticed "Louise Elena Camford" after some glasses so he should be fine if he just ditches the purple hair? I don't mind a bit of humor that way :p.

Less important to a rough draft: There a way to say former/old lovers that sounds less...romance novel? Not that I dislike the genre (it's got a lot of crap, but so does any other!), more that I don't want this to sound like a romantic!reunion.

stupid UIM why did you have to eat my compose key'd umlauts

There is this tiny bug* in my room—one of those harmless wingy ones that come inside every fall as it gets cold and I feel bad shooing back outside to freeze. It seems firmly convinced that flying in my face/landing on me repeatedly and being TICKLY is a fun activity.

At least it hasn't attempted to drown in my tea, though I did just spill tea on my pants. Woe.


* For scale, that's the bit of skin between my thumb and index finger, as focused on from a little over a centimeter away with my other hand AND the bug moving >_>.

OER: Had Griff. Was awesome.
OJR: Had...um. Shuu. Was awesome.
/Zero: Had Jamie. Was awesome.
Fuzors: Had Luke. Was awesome.

Conclusion: Zoids continuities with a 14 or 15 year old geek in are superior.

ANYWAY. More way-too-much-pondering time re: this. (I need to update that outline, but yeah.)

( Zi politics in a 'slight bits of realism in my weirdmechafatantasy crap' way )

I also keep getting UK comic plotbunnies (why NOW?), in particular flashbacky bits for each character, including one involving Celeste. She is now a bit of a computer programming dork in my mind, because the rest of the bloody cast are all dorks in their own way and there are not enough female geeks :p.

Argh, my outline. As I organize it, I am finding HOLES. I should also try the NaNo forums, but if anyone wants Way Too Much Plot Rambling:

This is battle story, not long after the "rocks fall, toyline resets" deal that ended the old-school stuff. Camford's just taken over from the past president (he's dead, yo) and is trying to not fail at rebuilding. You don't need to know the continuity or the rest of the plot, I don't think, in fact I kinda need disconnected outside opinion.

( Stuff )

This icon is somewhat inappropriate for this post.

http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001bbp13
http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001bcr9e

CC!Rosa, in the manga, is piloting what looks to be a Battle Rover variant.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, UEYAMA.

(I also hate photographing comics. SO MUCH.)

"You know, Doctor," Tegan said, arms crossed firmly across her chest, "When we first met, I'd have found you suspicious if you claimed there was such a thing as 'the nudity monsters of Nopants Three'. But now? Now, it's just normal weird."

The Doctor was busy having a particularly dorky sulk. "I wish they'd let me keep my celery. It's not like their defabricator rays dissolve plant tissues, that would require entirely different wavelengths..."

"Captured naked. I haven't tried that before. It's...cold," Turlough chimed in. "Ow, Tegan, that wasn't a comment on anything of yours, I meant the cell!"

I got one of these on illidanstr's recommendation, and holy cow, is it nice. Combined with a mouse that's already got Teflon feet it feels like it's just...floating o_o. I'm having to get used to the huge speed increase, but once I do, hooray for less wrist strain. Also hooray at no longer using paper for a mousepad.

They have mildly blemished ones on traditional mousepad foam backing for a whopping five bucks, if you're not sure about such a slippery surface and wanna give one a try on the cheap.

...and thus I couldn't resist a Star 8 filter. It's a bit trickier to use than I expected, buuut it looks like it will be fun to play with. Molga test examples:

http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001b5010
http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001b65r4
http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001b71gh
http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/pic/001b8kb6

Further experiments are in order!

New camera's custom color settings = love. Discovering it has a few stuck and hot pixels and there is nobody local who can remap them = less love D:. My a95 had a couple too, mind, they seem to be quite the bugbear of digital cameras. (And I still need to see about taking the a95 safely apart. Must fix...stuff on sensor issues...)

It appears the A630 is quite RAW-haxable, so I may look into using that and thus removing the stuck/hot pixels batch style as I convert to jpg.

Prooooozen.

I didn't write most of that other than the modelverse personality, but I did edit it, and Prozen is fun. So there.

The anime bits may still have issues since I REALLY don't remember details and mostly just edited for flow, plz fix if you see them.

I dislike the shallow eeeeeevul Zenebas and Prozen thing applied to the modelverse; yes, they were dicks, but they had more complexity than power for power's sake and evil for shits and giggles. Guylos was the more shallow villain, if anyone. I'd probably dislike him if he weren't the only Zoids one to get kidnapping right :p.

1) Someone found my writing site searching "blake/luke fuzors". I win.

2) The search terms list also has "zoids van ran his fingers through rudolp...", with the rest of the sentence cut off. Erm.

3) WHITEHEAD CENTAUR. I've always wanted to do that but never really had the drive to, it's nice to know someone else actually made one!

4) I can't fall asleep, and I swear, if I have another dream involving the UK comic that heads slashy I'm going to something something. The hell, subconscious?

5) This song makes me think of Star Trek. I don't know why, other it's got a flute thing and Picard had one...?

6) Feck it, I'm going to type up some stuff that needs to be typed up, and then I'm going to try again to sleep. WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN WHEN I ACTUALLY HAVE IMPORTANT PLACES TO BE?

1) TOO MUCH SNOT aarrrgh my sinuses.

2) I have beaten the regular game portions of Saga Fuzors and all of Challenge Mode, as mindless exploding of little videogame Zoids is good distraction from epic sick. When I enter the secret codes, however, the Murasame one works but the "unlock crap, fight Alpha, get Fuzors characters" one does not. Dammit.

3) More importantly, my mom's appendix is now forked out. Word from the hospital says things have gone well so far. Good vibes are still welcomed.

"Hey, I'm sorry, Drew, but look at it this way—you've got a right arm that's probably ten times as versatile and reliable as your left."

Oh, Rolo, that sounds bad out of context.

I am sick. Quite sick. My immune system seems to have burned out the worst of the first half this morning via fever (and some really weirdass dreams—in one I was sure I'd found the meaning of the universe amid this gameshow/scavenger hunt thing with stone tiles and math equations, if I could just solve the puzzles, and it all made perfect sense until I woke up), but I still have a killer sore throat and a ragged cough that I'm sure will turn worse later. I'm fending it off with tylenol-codeine and garlic-based snack foods.

At the moment, I expect my breath could slay vampires.

Updated Page of Horrible (Heller/Silverman)

The second half's new. I wrote it—on paper, originally—while trying to stay awake in Heathrow.

So. Post to fanfiction.net or not?


In an attempt to regain my HTML/CSS-fu (out of practice adfsdjfsdlkj), I am messing with my journal layout. I have no idea how S2 works YAY. In short, my journal may go a bit peculiar over the next day or two.

Why is my encoding going so slowly?, I ask myself, staring at bits of animated Trek* going a whopping 6 fps in Handbrake.

And then I realize I've still got Terragen open, and it's flailing at something with complex 3-D clouds.

that is not a hundred percent in total, top


*Mudd's Passion, of course.

I swapped DVD players with my family, since mine's region-free and theirs refused to be—I just watch everything on Luke anyway. I lost a Storch gun somewhere on my floor in the process, and I BLAME SONY. DAMN YOU, SONYYYYY.

More happily, now the rest of my family can watch my imported crap, and is addicted to Life On Mars.

Damn, I forgot how much I love that show. I wish they'd brought it over here directly, the poor doomed US version was caught between being too different for the fans of the original and not omgCSI enough for fans of modern American police shows or sommat. I haven't watched it, mind, as I'm sure it'll mess with my brain to have two versions of a character. Well, more than the original's ending episode already messed with my head.

( Spoilers for UK!Life On Mars ending, DO NOT READ if you're still watching it, certain people THIS MEANS YOU )

Related: my mom got a higher-DPI mouse, and my sister had to test it and is probably gonna kill me for uploading this, but IT'S FUNNY.

GENE SUSPECTS THE COFFEE IS EVIL.

And finally: I will not remove packages without checking what they are, even if their description makes them sound useless. They may, in fact, turn out to be key bits that make the wireless go.