Before & After & Inbetween

association meme

2019-07-01T18:56:02Z

words to ponder without much contemplation provided by solo:

winter
too damn short, favorite season, no allergies, running around full of energy without thinking about pollen...
with a little more thought: sadness because the climate crisis expands the antagonist (summer), and the permanent snow and ice spots are getting smaller and smaller. :(

cake
"piece of..." and self-made with trail mix instead of raisins.

giraffe
there's a weird piano called a giraffe. No really, it was featured in a tv show (or some such) a while ago and looked really weird. It stuck in my head because I thought that doesn't really look like a long-necked ruminant.

If you want to play, reply and I'll try to come up with three words for you, too. Feel free to provide me with additional word-triplets in the comments. :)

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Guardian-Detox: Legend of the Galactic Heroes 9-12

2019-04-13T17:29:29Z

Spent the last three hours finally watching the end of "Legend of the Galactic Heroes - The New Thesis" - only complaint: cliffhanger ending & the next season is not yet available *dah sigh*. OTOH, they really followed the books in this - with character designs, plotlines, and styles! So the cliffhanger is bearable. :-)

Of course, now I combine mentally Yoshiki Tanaka's LotGH with the Dixing crash, but *shrug* that's an image I can live with. *eg*

If you are curious, the trailer is on Youtube at https://youtu.be/gZwqJbgb2yw

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Google Now & an unexpected downturn of being a fanfic author

2013-02-03T16:27:20Z

Just thought about the Google Now feature in my Nexus tab. According to Google, it uses my location, calendar, and search history (among other things) to predict the information I might need next and display it without me having to ask for it first.
Nice idea. However, I won't activate it. It's way too dangerous in my case! My location history is empty (I disabled it), my calendar is filled with when to water my plants (mostly), and my search history is story related...

I don't want Google Now to display the flight schedule between Tokyo and Okinawa (I'm nowhere near there), the traffic situation in Ueno - Tokyo, and the "101 ways to entertain your cherry tree" while calling the police to my doorstep because said cherry tree is so well fed. ;)

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Game of Thrones - no spoilers

2012-04-08T09:45:30Z

A couple of posts about the tv series Game of Thrones have sprung up across my friends lists in the last couple of days, probably caused by the dvd release of season 1 in Germany and the airing of season 2 (?).
I've followed the posts closely and - so far - I've come to the conclusion that Game of Thrones is one of those fandoms, which I will avoid because I love the books and the tv show, and find its grisly depictions entirely befitting the source. (I only mourn that the direwolves didn't get as much attention as I'd wished for them).

( continuation of why )

Edit: Not all comments I got here are without spoilers, though. :/

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Nerd Test results

2012-03-08T09:52:32Z

And I didn't even lie about my Windows system...

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FM-PMS (state of the edit)

2012-01-22T19:07:07Z

current frontline: 192/209
within chapter 19

Yes, after all this time there is finally some progress in DeskSex. Unfortunately, its far from done. I'm not satisfied with the results yet. Which is - at least partially - due to the fact that I liked the original version as a scene, even if not as part of the plot. This is not quite a full page and still needs excessive work. But we're getting closer. Definitely. Even though I spend way too much time setting up my GoodReads account. It's so much fun (and such a time hog)! At least, my most recent reviews are finally all up, though the amount of my books entered is still way below 10%. :)

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Fotocommunity account

2011-11-23T13:20:34Z

I have a free account on fotocommunity.de now. While they don't allow a large number of photos online, I very much like their take on quality and copyrights.
The slideshow currently holds only two pictures - to "test the waters". After all, this is a community of (hobby) photographers - and I make my snapshots with a smartphone. ^^;;

fotocommunity

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Meme: fav characters

2011-11-06T18:38:05Z

spotted at rheasilvia:

List fifteen of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, if they're so inclined.

1. Tokyo Babylon (X/1999): Sakurazuka Seishiro
2. Galaxy Rangers: Shane Gooseman
3. Robin of Sherwood: Robin of Loxley
4. StarGate SG-1: Col. Jack O'Neill
5. FAKE: Randy "Ryo" McLean
6. Babylon-5: G'Kar
7. StarTrek DS-9: Gul Dukat (but it's a tie between him and Elim Garak)
8. Yami no Matsuei: Tatsumi Seiichiro
9. C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner: Ilisidi (very close 2nd: Bren Cameron)
10. C.J. Cherryh's Gate Quadrology: Morgaine
11. C.J. Cherryh's The Dreaming Tree: Arafel
12. Ai no Kusabi: Katze
13. Barry Eisler's Rain series: John Rain
14. C. L. Wilson's Tairen Soul series: Steeli
15. Markus Heitz' Die Mächte des Feuers: Silena (tie with Ddraig, actually)

This was fun, though the list of fandoms probably says more about my current (or most recent) reads than about my closest ties. :-)

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Life, Writing, Links...

2011-09-04T07:02:23Z

Life's still busy, but writing - mostly on Mariko and a little on BAU-00, continues. The lack of updates about it is mostly due to the lack of updateworthy details, as in both stories are currently at stages with little to no good quote lines. I hope that changes soon for the better.

In the meantime:

Paper sculptures left anonymously

Hangover Owls kind of like LOLowls. :-)

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Sound figures...

2011-08-19T17:48:09Z

Mobi Technologies Headphones - cute, bigheaded figures for sound on the desk.
This article is in German, but important is the photo series...

I hope I'm not the only one who considers the position of the Sumo wrestler figure's microphone jack ambiguous. *EG*

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41,200 words!

2011-08-02T18:23:50Z

Test your vocab estimates the size of my total vocabulary to be 41,200 words!

for comparison:
Most Native English adult speakers who have taken the test fall in the range 20,000–35,000 words.
And for foreign learners of English, we've found that the most common vocabulary size is from 2,500–9,000 words.
And while I'm an adult, I'm not a native speaker.
Thank you, elbales, solo, and all my readers, commenters, and chat friends. :)

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Puzzle completed

2011-07-26T16:43:02Z

After the small one, I'm back to my normal jigsaw puzzle size:

5146 pieces - painting of a rice field in the mountains
(April - August 2011)

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Nigeria Connection Spam - the Fun

2011-07-26T14:11:52Z

I just received a very polite, very detailed email properly addressed and everything, informing me that I would be the inheritor of a large sum of money from a recently deceased distant relative owning a UK based oil company. The writer of said mail then continued that he'd be an established lawyer and would be searching said inheritors all over the world for the past six months...

...and the email address of this renowned, international lawyer searching for the heirs of the dear 85-year-old oil tycoon was burrito@aol.com!

Totally believable, that one.

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sporfle

2011-07-25T14:18:36Z

Spotted this on shinga's blog recently (ditto for the blogs of rurounitriv and bruinhilda). Go to http://blackacrebrewing.com/home/ . (You might have to temporarily allow the site in NoScript). When the age verification comes up, tell it you're under 21. Make sure you have your sound on.
You know, I did always wonder what the world would be like when my generation was in charge...

...and you probably do not want to sip from your coffee just then (except you have a liquid-proof keyboard)!

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zombie meme

2011-07-09T15:01:21Z

It's solo's fault!

Go look at your blog/journal. Find the last Fandom-related thing you posted. The characters in that post are now your team-mates in the Zombie Apocalypse. How fucked are you?

Depends.
If referring to a possible fandom within a longer, non-fandom-oriented post counts, then it would be Ryoma Sakamoto from Ryomaden, swift-minded, innovative, and very good with swords.
If referring to the first post dedicated to fandom, it would be Seishiro (and Subaru to keep him in check), so *shrug* and...
given that whoever it is, would be teamed up with me:

It's a scientific fact that a killer fungus turns Amazon rainforest ants into zombies (Warning: graphic pictures!). Therefore, zombiism = fungal infection.
Hence, I'd get a family pack of industrial grade fungicide, a spray cannon, a very good breathing filter for chemicals (recommended anyway in case of zombies, because of their *stink*!), ignore environmental protection laws on a widescale basis for at least 30 mins, then cover the de-zombified remains with a fungicidal strain of bacillus subtilis and return to my current projects. *vbeg*

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Google+...

2011-07-05T15:44:34Z

A nice person invited me to Google+, where I now have an account but don't know anybody (yet).
In case you want to spot (what's not there yet), it's at https://plus.google.com/111330460262393235500/posts

:) AKK

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Last week...

2011-07-03T17:40:06Z

Tuesday:
Disputation passed. project doctor rer. nat. finished (discounting formalities)
[yay!... *thud*]

( Wednesday )
spontaneous decision to change the OS of my home system from Vista 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit (as a way to keep me occupied and away from fretting over work/mail). Progress blubbered into the world via Twitter (sorry to all who didn't unfollow me fast enough).

( Thursday )

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( Sunday )

Regarding the stories:

The last few weeks/months have been stressed-out stress, which affected my writing more than I care to admit. I'm rereading 36° now and will then edit Family Matters for the polished pdf/ebook version, which should help keeping things straight for the continuation of Business As Usual. Stay tuned.

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Disney Heroes go Chippendales... probably not entirely save for work.

2011-06-08T17:28:31Z

Israeli artist David Kawena portrayed Tarzan, Aladdin, and therelike in "Chippendale Style"...

Adonis-like Disney heroes (probably not safe for work)!

...however, I'm missing Goliath, the Gargoyle. ;)

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How To Tell If You're A Writer

2011-06-01T16:06:59Z

How To Tell If You're A Writer.

...what can I say?
All true, except the alcohol & the Hemingway plug. (I hate Hemingway, way too lucky at running with bulls!)

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Puzzle completed

2011-03-27T11:46:31Z

This time I did a small one:

3000 pieces - canola field
(January - March 2011)

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OT: Sparkling Medieval Scots??!

2011-02-10T11:23:26Z

Empire Magazine: Twilight Writer to script Highlander!

No. Comment. (aside from the subject)

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Pigeon vs. Dove

2011-02-07T13:17:56Z

solo posed this surprisingly interesting question in an LJ-poll: Is there a difference between pigeons and doves?

The answer apparently depends on perspective:

Taxonomy: the same (more or less)
pigeon and dove are used to describe birds belonging to the columbidae bird family. The nomenclature isn't strict. The common pigeon found in cities is the domestic form of the rock dove, so there...

Linguistics: (probably) different
Pigeon: French
Dove is somewhat similar to the German word for both: "Taube"

Connotation: different
Pigeon is a nuisance,
dove is a symbol of peace.

Personally, I like the practical explanation:

If it shits on your car, it's a pigeon.
If it coos to your declaration of love, it's a dove.
If it shits on your car while cooing to your declaration of love, you're out of luck.
(Is it a doveon or a pigove, then?). ;)

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The Go Bet: results

2010-12-30T14:19:57Z

At the end of 2010, it was MAN AGAINST MACHINE (in Go)...

[add "Terminator" theme here]

...and machine lost! (4:0)

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The Go Bet: man against machine!

2010-12-28T16:58:28Z

I can't help it, the Shodan Go Bet has me at the edge of my seat!
The science geek for the computer,
the scifi geek for the human being.
Whoever wins, it's going to be a fascinating!

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Side effects of Seishiro's more public position...

2010-11-04T19:04:25Z

...there were a few official precautions installed in Ueno Park:

see more Oddly Specific

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Before & After & Inbetween

association meme

Guardian-Detox: Legend of the Galactic Heroes 9-12

Google Now & an unexpected downturn of being a fanfic author

Game of Thrones - no spoilers

Nerd Test results

FM-PMS (state of the edit)

Fotocommunity account

Meme: fav characters

Life, Writing, Links...

Sound figures...

41,200 words!

Puzzle completed

Nigeria Connection Spam - the Fun

*sporfle*

zombie meme

Google+...

Last week...

Disney Heroes go Chippendales... probably not entirely save for work.

How To Tell If You're A Writer

Puzzle completed

OT: Sparkling Medieval Scots??!

Pigeon vs. Dove

The Go Bet: results

The Go Bet: man against machine!

Side effects of Seishiro's more public position...

sporfle