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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Sunday, August 3, 2008
update - saturday
Most everybody is out of town today. Dillon, Steve and Jill were over in Chicago with Kate and Kathy. Jeremy was in Connecticut visiting his parents and doing something with his car. What it all means is I had today aaaaaaaaaaaaall to myself. I can definitely appreciate a good free Saturday. I did a ton of things today including laundry, grocery shopping as well as buying some things in the pharmacy. For the record, I really don't like the fact that there are 2 CVSs (lol I almost called it scv's a la StarCraft) in East 9th street, basically 1 or 2 blocks from each other but about 10 blocks from where I live. Oh well, I didn't really mind a nice walk with some good music. You know, the kind I lip sync to while nobody else can hear it and it makes me look insane, I betcha.
I also did something somewhat adventurous (in a geeky sense). As some of you may know, I use the Dvorak input. Well I touch type so it doesn't tend to be a problem that the keyboard's set up QWERTY style. However, I'd been thinking about changing the keys around into Dvorak input for whatever reason and today I did it. It was pretty friggin scary though because I didn't know exactly how to remove the keys and I was scared to death of defacing my keyboard. Even though it's dirty, having a hole instead of a key somewhere would surely decrease resale value by quite a bit and I do intend to sell this guy around next summer when I go to get a new one to replace ol' faithful here.
Well I decided to test out how to remove keys with the '\' key. That's one I don't use often so I figured if I did break it, I wouldn't miss it as much as, say, the 'a' key. Well I pushed and pulled cautiously though intently until it finally came off with a click. Thankfully I didn't break it but I wasn't sure how I'd gotten it off so I put it right back in to try again so I could see how to best take it off. The second time, I must've done it wrong or something because the little mechanism under the keys that keeps them bouncy came undone, much to my horror. I spent the better part of the following half hour trying to put it back together between thoughts of whether it was futile and trying to figure out exactly how it was that this insane engineering actually happened (I may be giving them too much credit). Well after a while, I was able to put it back together and one good thing that came of having to stare at the contraption so long was thinking of a way to remove the keys more easily. So I tried it on a different key, this time one that I would be moving about for the change into Dvorak and it came off with little to no hassle. *phew* So I got to work removing most of the keys, as 'a' and 'm' are in the same place in both inputs, and after a few minutes I had myself a Dvorak input keyboard :D.
What else, what else? Oh yes, today is the first day of DS∑3713, the Square-Enix event featuring trailers and demos of two of my favorite game series: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Specifically the new games coming out, for the most part, no sooner than march of '09. Darn you Squeenix for making up salivate for months. Oh well, at least by then I'll have finished all my Japanese classes, which only means I'll better be able to understand the dialogue by the time I import those titles XD, coz you know I'm not gonna wait until they localize them. That was a fun parenthesis!
Oh, yes, also today I did a new piece of Japanese calligraphy. It's the character 優, which means a ton of things, but I chose it because when read as 優しい (yasashii), it means 'tender, gentle'. Although to be honest, the fact that it also means 'to excel' when read as 優れる (sugureru) is pretty darn cool. It's like sweetness and pwnage all at once XD. Ah, the story of my life (wait, where'd my modesty go?). Actually, after finishing it once, I realized I'd learned the character the wrong way and had to redo it. Again another thing going wrong in my exploits today, but like the last time, it too had good in it as now I know how to correctly write that character. Although actually, if I remember correctly, this happened before the keyboard event, hehe, but it still holds! And so here it is, for your viewing pleasure~
I must be working in retrospect. The last thing I'm gonna mention is I played a good bit of soul calibur 4 this morning. That was fun but I don't think anybody else cares so I'll leave it there hehe and this has been a pretty long post as it is so it ends now!!! Have a good one y'all.
I also did something somewhat adventurous (in a geeky sense). As some of you may know, I use the Dvorak input. Well I touch type so it doesn't tend to be a problem that the keyboard's set up QWERTY style. However, I'd been thinking about changing the keys around into Dvorak input for whatever reason and today I did it. It was pretty friggin scary though because I didn't know exactly how to remove the keys and I was scared to death of defacing my keyboard. Even though it's dirty, having a hole instead of a key somewhere would surely decrease resale value by quite a bit and I do intend to sell this guy around next summer when I go to get a new one to replace ol' faithful here.
Well I decided to test out how to remove keys with the '\' key. That's one I don't use often so I figured if I did break it, I wouldn't miss it as much as, say, the 'a' key. Well I pushed and pulled cautiously though intently until it finally came off with a click. Thankfully I didn't break it but I wasn't sure how I'd gotten it off so I put it right back in to try again so I could see how to best take it off. The second time, I must've done it wrong or something because the little mechanism under the keys that keeps them bouncy came undone, much to my horror. I spent the better part of the following half hour trying to put it back together between thoughts of whether it was futile and trying to figure out exactly how it was that this insane engineering actually happened (I may be giving them too much credit). Well after a while, I was able to put it back together and one good thing that came of having to stare at the contraption so long was thinking of a way to remove the keys more easily. So I tried it on a different key, this time one that I would be moving about for the change into Dvorak and it came off with little to no hassle. *phew* So I got to work removing most of the keys, as 'a' and 'm' are in the same place in both inputs, and after a few minutes I had myself a Dvorak input keyboard :D.
What else, what else? Oh yes, today is the first day of DS∑3713, the Square-Enix event featuring trailers and demos of two of my favorite game series: Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Specifically the new games coming out, for the most part, no sooner than march of '09. Darn you Squeenix for making up salivate for months. Oh well, at least by then I'll have finished all my Japanese classes, which only means I'll better be able to understand the dialogue by the time I import those titles XD, coz you know I'm not gonna wait until they localize them. That was a fun parenthesis!
Oh, yes, also today I did a new piece of Japanese calligraphy. It's the character 優, which means a ton of things, but I chose it because when read as 優しい (yasashii), it means 'tender, gentle'. Although to be honest, the fact that it also means 'to excel' when read as 優れる (sugureru) is pretty darn cool. It's like sweetness and pwnage all at once XD. Ah, the story of my life (wait, where'd my modesty go?). Actually, after finishing it once, I realized I'd learned the character the wrong way and had to redo it. Again another thing going wrong in my exploits today, but like the last time, it too had good in it as now I know how to correctly write that character. Although actually, if I remember correctly, this happened before the keyboard event, hehe, but it still holds! And so here it is, for your viewing pleasure~
I must be working in retrospect. The last thing I'm gonna mention is I played a good bit of soul calibur 4 this morning. That was fun but I don't think anybody else cares so I'll leave it there hehe and this has been a pretty long post as it is so it ends now!!! Have a good one y'all.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
yet another crazy away message turned poem
I don't think I can say it any better than the title of this post so here you go. For your amusement and bemused wondering:
red roe rubies:
such sweet silliness
that there, though through
unstable, utterly
volatile vixens, visibly vexed
wolves would wildly want.
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
red roe rubies:
such sweet silliness
that there, though through
unstable, utterly
volatile vixens, visibly vexed
wolves would wildly want.
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
the Reals
Hey all! Here's the latest haiku series. You may or may not know but I occasionally will do a series of haiku instead of the usual daily kind. This one was special in that it follows a story rather than a theme. I present you, the tale of numbers.
why would a number
have any reason to fear?
they can be consumed
in the realm of Real
there is a lack of nothing
naught is but a thought
yet the negatives
live a cursed fate and war
bearing the curse-mark
and so they battle
positives and negatives
endlessly dying
until finally
the king of the positives
stepped forth to battle
the legendary
the never-ending ruler
is infinity
but to oppose him
negative infinity
came to decrease all
one by one they ceased
at their own hands or the kings'
only kings remained
a final face down
two endless powers clashing
a new king is born
fear is but a thought
in this world there is Nothing
he is the new king
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Hope it made sense and you all enjoyed it :D Hope I'm not breaking too many haiku rules XD
why would a number
have any reason to fear?
they can be consumed
in the realm of Real
there is a lack of nothing
naught is but a thought
yet the negatives
live a cursed fate and war
bearing the curse-mark
and so they battle
positives and negatives
endlessly dying
until finally
the king of the positives
stepped forth to battle
the legendary
the never-ending ruler
is infinity
but to oppose him
negative infinity
came to decrease all
one by one they ceased
at their own hands or the kings'
only kings remained
a final face down
two endless powers clashing
a new king is born
fear is but a thought
in this world there is Nothing
he is the new king
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Hope it made sense and you all enjoyed it :D Hope I'm not breaking too many haiku rules XD
Sunday, July 20, 2008
You are not safe in the elevator
So, hilarious. Last night I went to Jill's place with a few friends and we hung out and saw Newsies and ate cookies and just had a good time in general. Afterward, Steve dropped me off at my place at around 2:30AM. Well as I was going up the elevator to my 8th floor apartment, it stopped at, I think the 4th floor and a guy and girl come in the elevator. The door is practically opening when the guy gets reeeeally close to me screaming in my face 'nobody loves me!!!' and then goes on a quasi-unintelligible rant about how he went to a gay bar and got no attention. Subsequently asking loudly not only the girl he was with but probably myself too 'do you know what it's like to be gay... in a sea of gays?' Well the girl was rather drunk too (ok that's a soft way of putting it, they were both hammered) and she answers 'not really, no'. But that's all the short trip up to the 6th floor gave us a chance to share. Then as they're stepping off the elevator the girl extends her hand for a hand shake as she wishes me a good night. Of course I oblige and wish her a good night in return. The door closed and my elevator ride continued for two more floors while I laughed in disbelief that what just happened actually happened.
Alternate title for this blog: Drunk Elevator Quotes
Now Listening to: Death And All His Friends
you should watch (or maybe you shouldn't): IOSYS magic
Alternate title for this blog: Drunk Elevator Quotes
Now Listening to: Death And All His Friends
you should watch (or maybe you shouldn't): IOSYS magic
Saturday, July 19, 2008
picnic among other things
Today was the company picnic that I almost melted at. Yeah, that one in particular sans the somewhat bad grammar. It was pretty fun. Went down with most of the people from the team and had a good lunch. Of course since it was an all-you-can-eat, I ate more than I should have but oh well, no problem. I'm sure I sweat half of it off the following hour. I also got some random carnival prizes (without playing carnival games coz apparently people weren't really playing for them or something in that vein. hah. Of note was the diablolo, which works like any plastic, surplus toy would (read: it doesn't). Or maybe I'm just not very good with it. Today was also pretty nice at work coz I actually had things to do for most of the day and then got to leave a half hour early!
So yeah, here's a cool little run down that I'm gonna start doing at the end of blogs (if I remember):
now listening to: Corneria from Star Fox (Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST)
ordering you to view (though in reality this is only for immi lovers like I):
So yeah, here's a cool little run down that I'm gonna start doing at the end of blogs (if I remember):
now listening to: Corneria from Star Fox (Super Smash Bros. Brawl OST)
ordering you to view (though in reality this is only for immi lovers like I):
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Growth Group
I won't go into much detail but growth group was excellent last night. Growth Group is a small group from church I go to and we hang out and study the Bible. Well last night we had a bit of breakthrough, you could say. I really feel as though God spoke to all of us last night. It was truly a life changing experience. I kept praying that we wouldn't just go about our lives the same way after last night. That we internalize and not forget what we learned. To face our lives, to see ourselves in the mirror and step away from what we know isn't how it should be.
In other news, I've decided to blog like a blogger. What I take that to mean is I'm just gonna do posts about whatever more often than before. This isn't a biography and it shouldn't be. If something tickles my fancy, I'll drop a line or two about it. Put a video or a picture up and say something about it. I like that. Let's see if I can actually do it.
In other news, I've decided to blog like a blogger. What I take that to mean is I'm just gonna do posts about whatever more often than before. This isn't a biography and it shouldn't be. If something tickles my fancy, I'll drop a line or two about it. Put a video or a picture up and say something about it. I like that. Let's see if I can actually do it.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
June
As usual it's been a good long while since my last blog actually detailing my life. Even still, I would like to keep this one short and just give a rather quick update of how things are going. I'll assume it's been roughly a month since my last update and since July just started, I'll recap June.
The highlight of June was, of course, my lovely vacations in Puerto Rico. Visiting family and friends is pretty much always a good time. I had a great time, ate a lot, got to see Cris' graduation (which we made a lot of fun of afterward), and had a good weekend in Fajardo (even though we couldn't actually go to Culebra). The rest of June really ain't much a big deal. The co-op's officially over so I've pretty much slipped into a support roll at Sherwin, which is fine by me. I'll still be working there until November, at which point I'll be moving back to Rochester, as most all of you know. I'm pretty excited to go back and finish up and get on with my life, particularly so because it may mean my going to Japan next year and that excites me more than anything right now. I hope I can have Maru-sensei as my prof for Adv Jap 2 as well as 3. She's 最高 (the greatest).
Well now that I've properly digressed, hehe, June, in general was a fun month, also because I was Mr. June at the gym. So amused by that. Speaking of which, my body seems to refuse to go below 170 pounds. Fine enough, so long as I continue to get in better and better shape as I strive for the elusive 6-pack. Yes, that is (shamelessly) my new goal. And with that I leave you my fellow friends, family, bloggers, dreamers and poets.
The highlight of June was, of course, my lovely vacations in Puerto Rico. Visiting family and friends is pretty much always a good time. I had a great time, ate a lot, got to see Cris' graduation (which we made a lot of fun of afterward), and had a good weekend in Fajardo (even though we couldn't actually go to Culebra). The rest of June really ain't much a big deal. The co-op's officially over so I've pretty much slipped into a support roll at Sherwin, which is fine by me. I'll still be working there until November, at which point I'll be moving back to Rochester, as most all of you know. I'm pretty excited to go back and finish up and get on with my life, particularly so because it may mean my going to Japan next year and that excites me more than anything right now. I hope I can have Maru-sensei as my prof for Adv Jap 2 as well as 3. She's 最高 (the greatest).
Well now that I've properly digressed, hehe, June, in general was a fun month, also because I was Mr. June at the gym. So amused by that. Speaking of which, my body seems to refuse to go below 170 pounds. Fine enough, so long as I continue to get in better and better shape as I strive for the elusive 6-pack. Yes, that is (shamelessly) my new goal. And with that I leave you my fellow friends, family, bloggers, dreamers and poets.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Newest Haiku Series
Can you guess what the theme is? Most of the people that read this will already know but whatevs.
quick as silver light
though not cold quite hot its air
hot like blacksmith steel
love, twin of the earth
life devoid the shade doth have
release your arrows
life of the party
the spring of activity
o, busy blue sphere
the flames of war rage
beat the drums that call "BATTLE"
tainted scarlet stone
gargantuan gale
the willow's wisp so crimson
restless maelstrom sky
setting moons all day
and despite the company
she is desolate
dangerous dancer
a clock-work bull's eye turning
child of newer days
seas frozen in time
secrets of the great dark storm
grandiose tempest
the smallest has gone
no longer one of our own
a new family
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
quick as silver light
though not cold quite hot its air
hot like blacksmith steel
love, twin of the earth
life devoid the shade doth have
release your arrows
life of the party
the spring of activity
o, busy blue sphere
the flames of war rage
beat the drums that call "BATTLE"
tainted scarlet stone
gargantuan gale
the willow's wisp so crimson
restless maelstrom sky
setting moons all day
and despite the company
she is desolate
dangerous dancer
a clock-work bull's eye turning
child of newer days
seas frozen in time
secrets of the great dark storm
grandiose tempest
the smallest has gone
no longer one of our own
a new family
© 2008 Emilio Gandara
Friday, June 6, 2008
contrast
I stood in utter darkness. Almost suffocated by the very density of the thick black shroud, I kept my eyes wide open. Then a distant glimmer with no warning and the breaking ocean of night crumbles as the shine washes over me, then through me and blinded by the light...
I sing a new song
I sing a new song
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