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Ahhhhhh!
Tuesday, January 30
I'll Remember My Own Head Next
Got about sixty miles out of Melbourne when I realised that I'd forgotten to re-pack my toiletries bag. I'd checked and double-checked the important stuff: wallet, keys, iPod, phone, camera. The laptop is a too big and heavy to easily forget.
So I stopped at the supermarket on the way home and got a hairbrush and a razor; everything else I have spares of.
And then I finally got home and dumped out my backpack and there it was. Okay, I forgot the washcloth, so I'm not totally bewildered, but I somehow remembered everything else despite the best efforts of my two older nephews (three and five; the youngest was blissfully asleep with mummy.)
In a word: Back.
Sleep now.
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Thursday, January 25
Run Away!
I'm heading down to Melbourne for the Australia Day long weekend to visit my family. As usual, I have about three days worth of stuff I need to do before I leave, and I have to catch a train in, oh, five hours.
I expect to sleep most of the way down...
Now where did I put those Sugar DVDs?
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Have a good trip Pixy.
Is it the annual get togther already ? Wow how the time flies.
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, January 25 2007 04:30 PM (81C4m)
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The manic depressive spammer has decided to take advantage of your absence. (What a
weird program.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Friday, January 26 2007 05:19 AM (+rSRq)
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This is an extra trip, since I don't know if I'll be able to take time off for a while once mee.nu is up and running. (That's the new site. There's nothing there yet, but that's what it's called.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 26 2007 09:26 AM (f0Uie)
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"The manic depressive spammer has decided to take advantage of your absence. (What a
weird program.)"
Ok, who programmed Marvin?
Posted by: Nick at Friday, January 26 2007 11:21 AM (lFlQd)
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Sunday, January 21
Lunch
Had lunch today with
Pete Zaitcev, who's been in Sydney the past few days for Linux Conference Australia. (And who I see
made it to a computer before I did. I went grocery shopping on the way home, then my Coca-Cola exploded*, so I was distracted for a bit.)
Pete very generously presented me with a DVD set of Serial Experiments Lain, which I have had on VHS tape since it first came out, but have never watched. Thanks Pete!
Then we hit Kinokuniya, where we wandered over to the Japanese language section. Usually I don't go past the art books, because I can't read a word of Japanese, but since Pete can, over we wandered.
And it's a good thing for my wallet that I can't read Japanese, because they had all 40 volumes of 3x3 Eyes.**
I picked up a couple of things: the latest volume of Battle Club, from the creator of Ikki Tousen, and the Crest/Banner of the Stars manga Pete mentions.
Which look like this:
Is that not how Lafiel normally looks, then?
* It was supercooled - I guess my fridge is turned down a bit too low - so when I opened it about a quarter of it froze instantly and another quarter squirted out all over the kitchen.
** How do you pronounce that, anyway?
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** How do you pronounce that, anyway?
Ever since I ran a comicbook/gaming/anime shop in the mid-90s, I've pronounced it "Three-by-three Eyes."
Which brings to mind an oddly sized piece of lumber, but...
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, January 21 2007 03:32 AM (6YRS5)
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Does your fridge have a portal to outer space in it or something???
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sunday, January 21 2007 03:33 AM (6YRS5)
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Does your fridge have a portal to outer space in it or something???You know, that would explain a lot.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 21 2007 03:35 AM (GaSFI)
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That's no manga. At least I think it isn't. I'll bet it's the translation of the Seikai Novels that Tokyopop has been working on.
I'll be the first to admit that the second cover has an abnormally kawaii Lafiel, but it also looks like Lafiel and Jinto swapped evil sneers between covers ;)
Posted by: Will at Sunday, January 21 2007 09:39 AM (olS40)
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I'm pretty sure it's a manga, what with all the pictures. :)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 21 2007 09:49 AM (GaSFI)
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Is that supposed to be Ikuryua on the second cover? She doesn't look anything like that. For that matter, that's not what Diaho looks like, either.
Who drew those?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Sunday, January 21 2007 03:46 PM (+rSRq)
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There's a naked naugty admiral chick (Bejii Spoor, IIRC) right under the cover of the 2nd volume (the Banner). She only has her sword and the uniform boots. However, she's lying on her belly.
BTW, Internet cafes are amazing. It's the first time I used one.
The airport kiosk sucks though. They use Opera, and it crashes when accessing gmail. I tried to send Pixy a thank-you e-mail. I crashed it 5 or 6 times before I realized that it's not a glitch. Minx seems to work. I'll bitch about it blog later...
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Saturday, January 13
Bleh
I've been down with a cold all week, which is why I've been less active than normal. I'm trying to finish translating Minx from the proof-of-concept model to the production design, but that's hard to do when your head is all squishy.
Worse, I think the cough that took me out for three weeks last October is coming back. Well, it's nothing like as bad yet, but it feels similar. Or maybe it's just a cough; I don't know.
I'd go back to bed except that it's nearly 30 degrees here at Pixy Central even with the air conditioner running non-stop.
I'd eat some ice cream except that seems to aggravate the cough.
I'd drink some of my nice iced tea except I already drank it all.
I'd go to the shop and buy some more except that it's even hotter outside, and as I said, my head is all squishy.
Meanwhile, I was doing some testing, converting all the munu blogs to Minx using my automagical converter program. Two problems cropped up:
First, it took 50 minutes to convert everything, which seemed a bit slow. It's less than 15 seconds per blog, and that involves pulling the data out of the old database as well as putting it into the new one (this is a direct db-to-db transfer rather than an export/import function) - but that's still slower than I'd hoped.
Second, the resulting database was nearly twice the size of the original Movable Type one. I know I have a lot of new fields to account for the extra functionality, but I was very careful about how and when and where they were added, so I was extremely disappointed to see that they caused that much bloat. Essentially, that would mean I'd need twice the memory on the database servers to handle the same number of users, which makes for a lot more expense.
And then I discovered a leetle bug in the conversion program. That caused it to copy each blog twice. Which would account for 50% of the slow and 100% of the bloat.
My head feels a bit better now.
Update: Well, it fixed the size problem. The speed problem, not so much. The code isn't the issue; 45 minute run time vs. 4 minutes CPU. I'll move on to the import routine and see if it's the pull/push nature that's slowing it down.
Update: The dread cough of doom seems to be in hiding. Let's hope it stays that way. It's also set to be a lot cooler the next few days, with predicted maximums of 23 to 23 degrees, where today it was as I said 30 degrees indoors with the air conditioner running...
Now if I could just lose the headache, I'd be almost happy.
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Hope you get better soon. Being sick is a pain.
(At the risk of gloating... I had a cold this week too. I had to clear my throat several times a day, and once I coughed 3 or 4 times! Easily the worst cold I've had in years. Hehe. )
Posted by: TallDave at Saturday, January 13 2007 04:59 PM (odS+4)
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Your headache is probably due to caffeine withdrawal.
If you're using 4 CPU minutes on a 23-minute program run, I would bet it means you're disk-bound. Changing your disk cache settings might improve it considerably.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, January 13 2007 07:03 PM (+rSRq)
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I hadn't really been sick for ages up until October.
And yeah, being sick is a pain. Bad enough when you're sick and working for someone else, but being sick when you're self-employed
really sucks.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 14 2007 11:06 AM (GaSFI)
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Yeah, I found that out myself when I went independent several years ago. There are no sick days working for yourself, just days you didn't make any money. Chronic illness = bankruptcy.
That's about when I started my Vitamin C kick. I can't be sure it's not all in my head, but I feel better. Seem to help along my recovery from laser surgery, too; my body was absorbing a lot more C after the trauma of the surgery, and the doc was surprised how fast I healed.
Of course, it could also be all the green tea exctract or curcumin or the million other things LEF puts in my mix. Hard to do empirical study on one's self.
Ditto on the caffeine withdrawal; the only time I get headaches anymore is when I am inexplicably and onforgivably out of tea.
Posted by: TallDave at Sunday, January 14 2007 06:27 PM (odS+4)
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Wednesday, January 03
I Got Nothin'
You?
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So, what happened to the Dirty Pair downloads? The last I heard, you were talking about the fansub curse... And then they disappeared.
Posted by: Balentius at Wednesday, January 03 2007 09:28 AM (lQRkC)
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Darn it all, I forgot what my opening line was supposed to be:
"Sorry, Venkman, I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. "
Posted by: Balentius at Wednesday, January 03 2007 09:49 AM (lQRkC)
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I was actually wondering the same thing, re DPtv.
If it got eaten by the curse, I will be sad but understanding. I know you've been incredibly busy for the past few months... does that count towards the curse?
Any more furry things in the walls?
Posted by: Wonderduck at Wednesday, January 03 2007 10:05 AM (CJ5+Y)
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If I recall the sequence of events correctly, they were coming along fine, then I found a horrible bug in the BitTorrent tracker I was using, then I discovered a horrible bug in the script editor I was using, then I got dragged into developing a business plan for an ISP that never got off the ground and ran out of time for such fripperies as anime (or life, for that matter), then mu.nu got repeatedly DDoSed and I spent five weeks juggling web sites and servers just trying to keep one step ahead of the fuckers, then the notebook I was using to do the fansubbing died (also repeatedly), then I got dragged into a major legal case as an expert witness and ran out of time for such fripperies as anime (or life, for that matter), then the mu.nu servers melted and I had to move everything in a hurry to new servers which I had already signed up for but hadn't had a chance to actually use, then I fell ill (not seriously, but seriously enough that I was out of commission for three weeks), then the company I was working for got sold and I lost my job, then I got a new job, then I quit that and went to work for myself, then I had to go back to my old job (actually, both old jobs) for a bit because they didn't have anyone to replace me, then it was the holiday season and I didn't get anything done at all, and then it was today, and it's after one o'clock in the morning and if you think I'm going to fansub anything now you've got another think coming!!!!!
....
Uh, what was the question again?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 03 2007 10:12 AM (GaSFI)
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YOU'RE RIGHT!!! IT'S THE CURSE!!!!
I CAN SEE IT ALL SO CLEARLY NOW!!!!!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 03 2007 10:13 AM (GaSFI)
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Actually, I was curious about your final thoughts on Full Moon wo Sagashite.
I finally managed to finish watching the fansubs I grabbed forever ago, and I have to say the show turned out to be much more than I expected. It's nice run across a Japanese show that avoids the open or sad ending and instead opts for "they lived happily ever after." The only person I think got even slightly short-changed was Meroko, and her fate still ended up pretty damn good.
Posted by: Will at Wednesday, January 03 2007 11:21 AM (SOx9v)
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I never watched the last four episodes, because I ran out of hankies at that point.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, January 03 2007 11:34 AM (GaSFI)
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Oh, well, go watch it. They turn that weepy barge around. It just takes a while. It's got a little rudder.
Posted by: Will at Wednesday, January 03 2007 01:36 PM (SOx9v)
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That was last year Pixy.
Imagine what the new year holds !!!
Bwa haaa haaa haaaa haaaa haaa haaaa !!!!!!
Posted by: Andrew at Wednesday, January 03 2007 06:46 PM (t8tOu)
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Actually, if you ever get around to finish FMwoS, I'd be cuious what you think of
my conclusion.
Posted by: Will at Thursday, January 04 2007 11:27 PM (olS40)
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I just took a look - I couldn't remember exactly where I'd got up to, so I backed up to episode 40. Which has a nice cheery intro, but now you
know they're about to drop a house on poor Mitsuki, so it's like
Nooo! I can't watch!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 05 2007 05:06 AM (GaSFI)
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Episode 42: Full Brick Housage. Splat.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, January 05 2007 06:21 AM (GaSFI)
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Yeah, that one hurt to watch. The next ten or so were also painful (but in a good way I guess), but it does a real turn around in the last two episodes.
Posted by: Will at Friday, January 05 2007 10:21 AM (olS40)
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To: Pixy
Fr: W.Duck
Re: DPtv fansubs
Oh. Is that all?
Regards,
-W.Duck, esq.
Seriously, man, good lord... the mind reels (actually, these days the mind CDs) at the past few months of your life! Yeek!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Friday, January 05 2007 08:33 PM (CJ5+Y)
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