Refraction

Happy New Year, everyone :biggrin: Wishing you all a joyful and fulfilling 2005 :star:

So, to say good-bye to 2004… Again with the songs! I just don’t stop, do I?

Criteria for judging:
– prevalence in MSN names
– appearance of lyrics in diary
– earworm capability

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This is a stupid random post really, but for those of you who haven’t been reading the papers, or hanging around people who like Harry Potter and have been reading the papers, the sixth book (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) is coming out on July 16th! :cheerful:

And, of course, being semi-rabid fan I am, I have placed a hold on it at the library. I’m number 65. Assuming they order about 30 copies, I should get it by early August. If I’m lucky they’ll order more than 65 and I’ll get it a few days after release.

Or, I could read it like I started reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: by reading an electronic copy of someone who probably scanned the entire book. That’s really hard on the eyes, though.

Whoo-hoo! :star:

Oh, forget political correctness. Click for the full-sized image; that WP-generated thumbnail is HIDEOUS.

Enjoy this seasonal drabbble :biggrin:

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Blogging for the sake of blogging. But I feel like asking questions.

1) Am I the only one who laughs at rappers? I mean… listening to them isn’t all that bad, really. I don’t laugh when it’s purely audio. But watching a music video… I watched the PV for “let go” and I couldn’t stop giggling at VERBAL. His movements just seemed so affected. Couldn’t stop smirking at the live performance of “miss you,” either. :biggrin:

2) What in the world is in the hot chocolate at Starbucks? It’s not very good at all v_v;; Not worth the three bucks I didn’t pay for it, anyway.

3) Is it just me, or does Gackt really, really, really look like a woman?

4) *yawns* Why are the holidays always so busy?

5) When Asian artists give their songs odd English titles, do they do it purposely, or is it the same kind of logic behind the random English on Asian stationery? Is there even logic behind those things?

6) Is re-gifting ever acceptable?

7) How much duct tape would it take to tape someone to a wall?

8) Why are busses never on time? Or is it only because spacetime is warped around bus stops?

9) When will Gmail go public? Does it really matter? Will there be another round of invitations?

10) RAWR. No, it’s not really a question, but… meh.

Apparently Gravity, the makers of Ragnarok Online, are making an MMORPG based on Saint-Exupery’s Le petit prince. Absolutely bizarre. Supposedly it’s only loosely based on the prince’s travels to the seven planets.

It’s called R.O.S.E. (Rush on Seven Episodes), and, er… Knowing Gravity, though, it’s sure to become a hit. I just wonder why, of all the things to make an MMORPG about, they picked Le petit prince…

An English page
The offical Korean site
A Japanese fansite
The official Japanese site

Exams are here done with. (This is what happens when you leave a draft lying around for way too long.)

I wrote my English exam first; and well, it could have been worse. Ah well, that’s done with, and I won’t be taking English for another couple of months at least. >_O Pity, I would have liked to take the complement to this course, or maybe that rhetoric course…

Physics next. Let me just say that negative signs are the devil (:devil:) and that … yeah. I’m pinning my hopes on part marks. PART MARKS!

Chem on Saturday. It didn’t seem that bad, but you know, Physics didn’t seem that bad when I was studying… :tensed:

Bio on Friday. I think it went okay. That was the only exam that I left early. In all honesty, it was a fairly straightforward exam. As usual, my only complaints are to do with plants. The cell questions were easy, and the animal ones weren’t that bad. The ecology questions were almost common sense…

Finally, Math last. Remind me never to take the bus to an exam again. I was scared I was going to be late, since the bus was ten minutes late -_-; As for the exam itself… well, it certainly could have been worse. As I handed it in, my prof asked me how I found it, and I kind of shrugged. There were some seriously MESSED UP questions on that exam. Keep reading for subject related quizzes XD

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I’m kind of a fairweather homestarrunner fan. At best. I like the site well enough, but I’ve never found the time to truly explore it (my knowledge is limited mostly to Strong Bad’s emails. *snicker* Strong Bad types with boxing gloves. :cool:)

Anyway, I’m not a big fan of just watching cartoons, so naturally I wandered off to the games section of the website. I found this hilarious text/graphics (Flash) adventure game entitled… “Peasant’s Quest.” The story? You’re Rather Dashing, a young man’s village which has just been BURNINATED by Trogdor. Obviously, you have nothing better to do and swear revenge on the Burninator. So you set off on your little quest.

It’s funnier if you’re aware that it’s (at least partially) a parody of a series of games called “King’s Quest.” After playing Peasant’s Quest, I was feeling a little nostalgic and dug up the King’s Quest V CD I stole from my cousin. I remembered watching him play similar game a long time ago, and I’d always wondered what it was. I loaded it up on the ancient computer downstairs–actually, it’s the same one I was using to make my websites when Reina first offered to host me–and found that I couldn’t. 😡 I fiddled with the settings, gave up, played a shareware version of Diablo, finished it, and tried to re-install KQ5. No luck. Finally, I changed the display settings (256 colours (:shock:) and 640×480 resolution)… At last, I was starting to play the game.

First I sat through a very long and mostly pointless “cartoon” detailing the backstory. Then, to my chagrin, I discovered that audio was absolutely CRITICAL to this game. Some of you might remember those storybook CD-ROMs. The ones where you clicked random things and they reacted? A page would turn, a toaster would pop, a dog would go into hiding… this game was like that. But imagine someone narrating everything. Not only that, I had to deal with an annoying owl and a slow main character. I was impatient so I stopped playing.

In conclusion? Nostalgia only works when you’ve played the game in question. Go play Peasant’s Quest. :tongue: It’s still hilarious even if you don’t get all the jokes.

The spammers have found my Gmail accounts. :notsure: I’m not quite sure whether to be happy or sad about this. On the one hand, I have new mail to look at everyday. On the other, well… it’s spam… It seems to be all coming from the same company, too. You know, I can’t really say that spamming Gmail is the most efficient use of server resources since it’s still techinically only in beta…

The comment spammers (different ones) are back. Again. *le sigh* I think this bumps up my total of deleted spam comments to about 1000. My fault for posting so many pointless entries, I guess.

Classes ended today. It seems weird. The term doesn’t seem long enough. And I think I’m going to lose a lot of the friends I’ve made this term, just because of the nature of classes–we hardly have any together. Ah well, que sera sera. This sounds horrible, but there will be other “semester friends.” :undecided:

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Wait, I forgot the really important part of classes ending… exams starting! *dies* 😥