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| Saturday, November 7th, 2009 |
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
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A certain math nerd criticized my previous post for having cheaply-formatted HTML math. Well, that won't do. Let's see some other options. One of the equations we had was: L[q] = (2 I + 1)^q L[0] + (-2 P) ((1 + 2 I)^q - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1)I wrote this in HTML as: L<sub>q</sub> = (2 I + 1)<sup>q</sup> L<sub>0</sub> + (-2 P) ((1 + 2 I)<sup>q</sup> - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1)Lq = (2 I + 1)q L0 + (-2 P) ((1 + 2 I)q - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1)Effectively, I wrote this as flat text, but with the <sup> tag for exponents. This is, admittedly, pretty lame.Ideally, I'd probably want to write this in LaTeX. It's just not terribly compatible with HTML, and I didn't feel like manually embedding a ton of equations.  source: \documentclass{article}To compile: pdflatex latex.texMost of this is boilerplate; LaTeX is, after all, for documents rather than single equations. The only interesting bit is the equation itself. For the most part, this is still readable like the flat text—but note that single letters are recognized and treated as variable names. Fractions are also a real grouping mechanism and are delimited with \frac{numerator}{denominator}.It would be possible to make this all play nicely with HTML, if perhaps I took the resultant PDF and converted it again to SVG, then cropped as appropriate. Barring that, and more appropriately for HTML embedding, we have MathML. There are two flavors of MathML: one which focuses on how the result should display, and one which tries to preserve the meaning of the expression so it can be read in some useful fashion by a computer. The former is shorter, and I usually don't need to preserve semantics, so I usually just use that. Unfortunately, the embedding power is somewhat questionable: (original and source) Even with an explicit width and height for the <object>, I get a massive expanse of whitespace below the equation. Why? Who knows!You can also see for yourself how wordy this is. In the spirit of XML, everything becomes a tag. The digit '2' becomes <mi>2</mi>, and the simple expression 2x becomes <mi>2</mi><mo>⁢</mo><mi>x<. In LaTeX, that's just.. 2x.Finally, the lout who complained in the first place directed me towards jsMath, which looks for LaTeX equation markup in your document and turns it into HTML. I gave this a shot with the above LaTeX. The result: I'm not even going to show the source for this. It's pretty bad. It requires JavaScript, it generates ugly HTML, and the jsMath site is giving me flashbacks to 1994. Still, it's a novel solution, and what comes out the other end at least looks like it's supposed to. I hold that this is all too much effort for what were fairly simple expressions—I mean, christ, I took a screenshot of a PDF to get the PNG version of the LaTeX. |
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From: cairo_verycrazy <cairo_verycrazy@hotmail.com> Date: November 6 2009 4:37pm Subject: But Bessie had told me that she had once worked for a family where the girls went to school I would lie and say I liked you |
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Welp, looks like I'm coming down with a cold or something. My throat is all scratchy and I hardly got any sleep last night because of having to fidgit to find the right position to sleep in so I didn't feel like something was choking me. I'm really, really tired today, but that could also be because of the weather. But it would figure I get sick after ditching class for a bit there. D: Ah well, I'll survive. We have cold medicine in the house, so I think I'll be able to fight it off mostly. [21:32] TJ: http://www.creationent.com/cal/supernat [21:34] Ally: i WOULD SPEND $60 EAHC TO GET jARED AND jENSEN TO SIGN MY TITS [21:34] Ally: IT WOULD BE MONEY WELL SPENT [21:34] TJ: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF [21:34] TJ: I'd want Jensen to sign, like, a bottle of alcohol. Or a flask. [21:34] Ally: YES [21:34] TJ: "From Dean. Drink up!" [21:34] TJ: I'd love the hell out of that flask. [21:35] Ally: Admittedly, aside from the autograph/photo op prices, that's not too bad for a specialty convention. [21:35] TJ: Nah it's not. [21:35] TJ: I was shocked it's so close to us. [21:35] Ally: OBV THEN [21:35] Ally: THE PLAN IS [21:35] itsananimalthing: ... [21:35] Ally: GET A HOTEL ROOM [21:35] TJ: >_> [21:35] Ally: KIDNAP WINCHESTERS [21:35] TJ: Give up AC [21:35] Ally: GO ON ADVENTURE [21:35] TJ: Kidnap [21:35] TJ: Drink until can't see straight [21:35] TJ: end up playing naked twister [21:35] Ally: PASS OUT DRUNK WHEREVER [21:36] Ally: IT'S A NIGHT TO REMEMBER [21:36] TJ: lololol [21:36] TJ: so worth the hangover Why, yes, we have been watching more Supernatural. :3 :3 :3 Admittedly, Sam's been kinda irking me this early in season four, but I'm hoping it just because OMG DEMON BLOOD YOU GUISE I'M TRYING TO COPE. I can understand some things, but I want more wacky adventures mixed with the plot. Black and white episodes are nothing short of amazing. The X-Files taught us this. I've been doing a bad thing and browsing ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} ontd_spnparty because FFFFFFFFFF GIFS YES. I'm only sorta trying to avoid spoilers, but I don't READ a lot of the comments on the party posts and mostly just harvest images/GIFs. :3I really do spend too much time delving into new fandoms. It's only a matter of time until you get how I relate with a certain character (I do, and you might be surprised at who it is). :V Rented the Saw game. It's....okay. Pretty mindless aside from the puzzles. But I enjoy doing puzzles anyhow, so I guess that's good. The combat sucks ass, though. TJ fell asleep already. D: I'm considering it on account of the base of my skull hurting and the aspirin not kicking in yet. |
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| Friday, November 6th, 2009 |
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So I was looking for a way to spruce up my Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. So this is what I added to it: - A handful of shredded, cheddar cheese - A generous amount of grated Parmesan cheese (Kraft brand) - 1/2 a tablespoon of BBQ sauce (Kraft brand) - 1/2 a tablespoon of milk - Salt and pepper to taste I was wondering what else I could add to it. Maybe some more cheese? Sour cream? Ooooh....or maybe those crispy fried onions. Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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I have removed an additional piece of furniture and shrunk my workplace even more. UNTRAMMELED PRODUCTIVITY HERE I COME |
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Pepperoni and sausage Pizza Bites with melted swiss cheese all over the top, dipped in bbq sauce. I called it the Nick Cage cause it was gone in sixty seconds. |
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I really was in the mood for wings, but, didn't feel like going shopping. This was the result  ( Some in progress photos and my finished plate after the cut... ) |
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I guess I never posted a picture of this, but several months ago I was trying to get some work-related business cards printed up in time for a conference I was presenting a poster at. I couldn't find how to get the university printing department to do it as they have two different departments, and I could only find the one that didn't know anything. I emailed the other one and come to think of it, never heard back from them. I brought some of my old grad-school ones with me just in case (lol), but never had reason to hand any out. Anyway I tried to fab up my own version of the official University of Maryland School of Medicine cards online, but didn't have access to high-quality pictures of the logos and such, so the proofs looked like crap. They have very cheap card-printing deals around online though, so I printed up 250 of my own Furry Fandom business cards for just 6 bucks. I've only ever given one of them out though, as I don't present a lot of posters at Anthrocon. It was fun to play with the fabbing software though.  Isn't it so mod? I feel like American Psycho, or I would if the card didn't get all 6-month-old-candy-from-mom's-purse from sitting in my wallet under a fat ass for so long. I got up at 6 today because I thought I was meeting my boss for the first time in almost a month. Boss showed up late and isn't talking to anyone. Guess I should just leave early, since I could probably get away with it...oh wait, I have a conscience. |
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If you hang out on tech sites like Engadget and Gizmodo... or if you tend to frequent Starbucks a lot... it's easy to come to the conclusion that 60% of the computer using population uses Macs. And if you listen to the numbers coming out of Sunnyvale, that suspicion gets reinforced... But... it's not really true. According to Ars Technica, here's the world-wide breakdown by version of OS for October 2009 (note - I'm not exactly sure where they got these numbers... it's not cited in their article). If these are correct, then as I've long suspected, the numbers are about where they've been for a while now. These figures match up my calculations based on the sales numbers reported by Apple and Microsoft.  For more details (and a breakdown of their user base by OS.. which is interesting - shows why Macs seem over-reported and why it more justified than some might think, but still probably not as much as it ends up being)... http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2 |
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I find it strange... Thing is I'm not exactly what you would call confident, in a lot of things, at all. I realize this is not outwardly apparent to most people, but that's because I make an effort never to act on those feelings because nothing progressive comes out of it. Better to continue, even when lacking confidence in the matter, than stopping. And yet at the same time, I'm very strong willed. In the sense that I can't really be swayed from what I am, and that I know what I am (if that makes any sense) Seriously, low self confidence and strong will wtf how does that even work. Speaking of never acting, a friendly piece of advice. Never ever make actions based soly on the impulses of emotions. No matter how angry, sad or hurt you feel, acting on that is usually never the best choice, and you will more than likely regret it eventually. Rant about it personally, or to a few people, scream, just do something to get the emotions out, but just do not make any actions on it. Always give yourself time until your mind has cleared and you can think on things as rationally and objectively as possible before responding on a situation, the results will always be much better this way. And another thought, why are people so afraid of honestly and truth? I will never understand this, especially when people knowingly choose to not to hear the honest response if they have the choice. Sure some truth is not exactly 'nice' and doesn't give you warm fuzzies all the time but isn't better to know things up front and sooner than being dragged on by a lie for several years, or even for shorter lengths of time. But then again, I've always been revolted by the concept of living a lie. (granted that also entails aspects of not being true to yourself, but even so) Oh yeah I did more of these   So at least this entry isn't totally pointless. |
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Well, it's all over. Time for humanity to punch the clock and call it a day. |
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the other night instead of making a chicken salad sandwich, i spooned it onto potato chips instead. it was so fricking good. |
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| Thursday, November 5th, 2009 |
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Experience is rapidly demonstrating that houses are, well, expensive. Mortgage payments make depressingly small dents in the actual amount of the loan, and lately we've been looking for ways to take out bigger chunks faster, as we're currently paying $1000/mo. purely in interest. That's one thousand dollars, every month, to pay for the mere privilege of buying a house. So I thought I'd explain how this nonsense works. Mortgages are amortized. This is a type of payment schedule designed so that you pay the same amount every month, with any rounding error going into or taken out of the final payment. Each of these payments is enough to pay off the interest for that period (which is the interest rate times the remaining principal), and whatever's left over goes against the principal. The sucky part is that the principal is biggest early on, so your early payments mostly pay off interest, which means you're still paying almost as much interest next period. Let's have a look here. L = starting principal (the amount loaned to me), I = interest rate per period, n = number of periods (months) before the loan is paid off, P = the amount of each payment. So I start out with L0. Let's say after one payment, that drops to L1, then L2, until after n payments we're down to Ln = 0. The principal paid off by payment number x is then the payment minus the interest due from the previous principal. So we have: Lx = Lx-1 - (P - Lx-1 * I)Lx = Lx-1 - P + Lx-1 * ILx = Lx-1 + Lx-1 * I - PLx = Lx-1 * (1 + I) - PWhich makes sense; the interest is added to what I owe, and then the payment is taken out of that total. But how do we use this to find the correct amount for the payment? We can find the payment given two consecutive principal amounts, but that's not so helpful alone. Let's take a detour. Take a general expression like the above, but generalized a little more: xn = a xn-1 + b(This x and n aren't the same as the above! This is different.) We're going to need a general form for this. Taking it a little further: xn = a xn-1 + bxn = a (a xn-2 + b) + bxn = a2 xn-2 + a b + bA pattern emerges! Once more: xn = a3 xn-3 + a2 b + a b + bThus it seems we have: xn+m = am xn + b (am + am-1 + ... + a + 1)Thankfully, that last bit can be simplified. Watch this: am + am-1 + ... + a + 1(am + am-1 + ... + a + 1) * (a - 1) / (a - 1)((am+1 + am + ... + a2 + a) - (am + am-1 + ... + a + 1)) / (a - 1)(am+1 + am + ... + a2 + a - am - am-1 - ... - a - 1) / (a - 1)(am+1 - 1) / (a - 1)(Try it, with 34.) Thus: xn+m = am xn + b (am - 1) / (a - 1)Now we can get back to the mortgage. Lx = Lx-1 * (1 + I) - PHere, the multiplication factor (a) is 1 + I, and the addition factor (b) is -P. We also want to use Ln = 0 and L0 = L, which gives the number of intermediate iterations as n, the number of periods. Plugging these in:Ln = (1 + I)n L0 + (-P) ((1 + I)n - 1) / ((1 + I) - 1)0 = (1 + I)n L - P ((1 + I)n - 1) / IP ((1 + I)n - 1) / I = (1 + I)n LP ((1 + I)n - 1) = (1 + I)n L IP = L I (1 + I)n / ((1 + I)n - 1)P = L I (1 + I)n / ((1 + I)n - 1) * (1 + I)-n / (1 + I)-nP = L I ( (1 + I)n * (1 + I)-n ) / ( (1 + I)-n * ((1 + I)n - 1) )P = L I ( 1 ) / ( 1 - (1 + I)-n )P = L I / (1 - (1 + I)-n)Take arbitrary values of a $250,000 loan at 5% for 30 years (or 360 months). 5% annual is approximately (5/12)% monthly, or roughly 0.417%. Thus: P = 250000 * 0.00417 / (1 - 1.00417-360)Spoilers: that's $1342.67. For the first month, the interest is 0.417% * $250,000 = $1042.50. That's more than three quarters of the first payment. Only $300.17 of that quarter million dollars is paid off. The way I've been looking at to alleviate this is to make double payments every month. Not twice the actual payment, but the payment plus an extra principal payment. The last few payments are the biggest, so those might not be so easy to double, but surely we can scrounge up a few hundred bucks extra a month. Let's see how this goes. n is the number of expected periods, so let's call the number of actual periods, um, q. Running out of letters. Lx = Lx-1 - 2 (P - Lx-1 * I)Payment is doubled. Lx = Lx-1 - 2 P + Lx-1 * 2 ILx = Lx-1 (2 I + 1) - 2 Pa is 2 I + 1; b is -2P.Lq = (2 I + 1)q L0 + (-2 P) ((1 + 2 I)q - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1)0 = (2 I + 1)q L - 2 P ((1 + 2 I)q - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1)2 P ((1 + 2 I)q - 1) / ((1 + 2 I) - 1) = (2 I + 1)q L2 P = L (2 I + 1)q / ((1 + 2 I)q - 1) * ((1 + 2 I) - 1)2 P = L 2 I / (1 - (1 + 2 I)-q)P = L I / (1 - (1 + 2 I)-q)This time, though, I know P and want to find q. L I / (1 - (1 + I)-n) = L I / (1 - (1 + 2 I)-q)1 - (1 + I)-n = 1 - (1 + 2 I)-q(1 + I)n = (1 + 2 I)q(1 + I)n = (1 + 2 I)qln (1 + I)n = ln (1 + 2 I)qn ln (1 + I) = q ln (1 + 2 I)q = n ln (1 + I) / ln (1 + 2 I)Kinda gross, but works. Also, interestingly enough, the loan amount is entirely irrelevant. So by doing this, we have: q = 360 * ln (1 + 0.00417) / ln (1 + 2 * 0.00417)Which is—trust me on this—180 months, or 15 years. So, rather intuitively, doubling the amount paid off every month will halve the time it takes to pay off the loan. Granted, the last payment would be approximately twice the monthly payment, which comes to $2600, so this isn't sustainable indefinitely. But you can make a good dent in interest while it is. (How much, exactly, is left as an exercise for the reader.) |
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Take anything you hear about me, no matter who it's from, with a handful of salt. There is a lot of shit flying around. I am not your tabloid. I am not your gossip fodder. Everything you hear is biased. Trust nobody. I am living in Pittsburgh again and my life is greatly improving. I am more confident and okay with the gender I was born into. I still don't always like being called a girl, but I also don't dry heave when I see myself naked. Every inch of my body is scarred in some way, and I'm not ashamed about it. I am what I am. I don't shudder when I hear my given name anymore. I have very promising things on the horizon. I am working as hard as I can to make back more money and pay off the rest of my outstanding commissions. I am saving money for a car and a new apartment. I am not interacting with the furry fandom at all anymore and it feels amazing. My free time is spent making music with my brother and doing constructive things I love and even watching cartoons sometimes. I spend less than an hour a day on the internet and I wouldn't have it any other way. I have at least two people in real life who love me and have my back - one blood brother and one soulmate. No names need to be named because it's none of your business: all you need to know is that they both exist entirely in physical form, not digital. If this is all I ever have in real life, I am okay with that. I do not need to validate my existence to anyone. I feel like I can almost face the rest of the world right now. I am learning that the universe is not as terrifying in real life as it is in my head. I do not fight or argue with anyone except my father, which is an acceptable standard. I haven't raised my voice in over a month. I have no intention of leaving PA again any time soon. I feel like I have stepped through a doorway into the real world and am walking towards a truly adult life. I did not "go crazy and run far far away" or do any of the other things that people are saying. I stepped out of the fantasy world and into the real one. I found a balance. and you know what? I still like robots and goofy animals and weird science and tim and eric and stupid shit, and I still have all my characters and stories and ideas in my head, too. but nothing rules over me anymore - especially not a subculture or a social group, of ANY sort. They're mine, and I'm mine. This life is mine now. |
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So, anyone want to go see Pirate Radio with me on the 13th? It's got Nick Frost and Philip Seymour Hoffman in it, which means it's going to be a wonderful movie. Also, on the 14th I'm going to be meeting Brig and Whitetail in Gettysburg, PA. We are going to do a bit of stuff and non-sense. Anyone want to go with? |
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Chicane - Poppiholla (Radio Mix) (Trance remix of Sigur Rós: 'Hoppípolla') |
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OMG I HAS TAILZ? sorry, that was nerdy. ( hey look it's the last catcow! ) |
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WikiFur's front-end caching service has suddenly decided that it doesn't want to talk to us and is refusing all connections. The Apache server itself is still up, and no data has been lost. We're currently trying to get Squid up and running again so readers and editors can get to it. In the mean time, I encourage you to drop by Wikipedia's furry fandom article, which may soon be resubmitted for "good article" status. Any improvements you could make to it - or to the various articles on furry comics and other furry topics - would be greatly appreciated! Edit: And we're back again! We think we've found the underlying cause - the caching service had opened more files than the system was prepared to handle. We've tweaked that setting, and hopefully this won't happen again. |
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 The empire strikes backIn recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.RSS feeds againIf you're addicted to![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif){kind=small} xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_iIf you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcardsLast week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits. Photos of the weekIf you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy atlj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!( Read more... ) |
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 Available in Blue Raspberry, cola, orange or cherry flavours. I might have to buy some of these for people at Christmas :) |
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 I've been thinking about getting a tattoo for a long time now, and now I think I've finally settled on a design, as you see above. I'm thinking I would get it tattooed wrapped around my right wrist, where my watch is on the other arm. Seems like a combo that would work well, especially since I really don't have a body for tattoos. For those of you who don't know, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, it's a band. It's not really my favorite band (perhaps third?), but it's been the band I've listened to the most in the past 2 years at least. It's rare I would use words such as "satisfying" and "rewarding" about music, but BRMC is just that. It's probably the richer sound that comes from using hollowbody guitars ;) Plus, I have a thing for typography and especially this font (Avant-Garde), so it's just as much because I think the font and text is wicked cool, as it is about me liking the band. It's also one of only 2 fonts I've ever paid money for (the other being Optima), so I might as well get it on my body :P The reason for including an album name as well (Baby 81) is, again, not so much because of the album itself, but the feel and the look of the album. I might later add the broken Gibson ES-355 from the US album cover of Baby 81 further up my lower arm. But that's a big maybe. I don't play guitar, but it's still a very iconic model :) |
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Don't forget November fifth, That whole conspiracy with gunpowder treason I can't figure out why you wouldn't remember that. |
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When working on a set of 20 emote-icons I was commissioned for I got to do two that I really enjoyed doing, so I decided to offer a special. :D  My emote-icons are usually $6 each, but if you want to order just these two (*idea!* and DERP) then you'll get both of them for only $8.50! I'm only taking 5 right now, but if you're interested go ahead and comment here with your ref(s) and once you've paid I can get started! I can do all animals (though horses tend to come out looking funny), birds included. Paypal only, btw. Payment required before I'll start. :) - - - - - - - - - SLOTS: 1. seticat - done2. 3. 4. 5. |
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In 1982 Namco brought us Pole Position. While it wasn't the first rear-view racing game, it was the first to really establish the genre before imitators like Out Run came into being. To promote the game's release on the Atari 5200, a commercial was made. But since this was the early 80s, it was fucking epic! Then in 1984, DIC Entertainment sought to capitalize on the success of the game by creating a Pole Position cartoon. This was not an entirely uncommon idea since these were the days of Saturday Supercade. Only thing was that it had nothing to do with the game it was named after. Instead of a show based around Formula 1 racing, it was about three kids who fought crime driving around in stunt cars that had the ability to talk and transform. So it was kind of like Knight Rider and Speed Racer rolled into one. Oh and there was also this odd raccoon/monkey hybrid pet named Kuma (which is Japanese for bear). Yeah. Not to say that the Pole Position cartoon wasn't without its own epic theme. But seriously, WTF? |
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This morning's gain brings a house omelette with mushrooms from the west, and some edible potatoes if you're willing to dig for them. I also spotted some bacon getting eaten on the east. Fair-Good |
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Friends LiveJournal for Bobby.
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tired.
calm.
thoughtful.
complacent.
amused.