http://www.sarahpin.com snarp's blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:38:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NearlyFreeSpeech.net does not get along well with a brand-new Wordpress installation. The Wordpress installation will do stuff like this: http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/07/04/how-to-get-wordpress-working-under-php-safe_mode-on-nearlyfreespeechnet/ My Flickr paid account expired, and it gives me inscrutable errors when I try to renew it. http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/30/yahoo-makes-me-hate-it-twice-today/ If you have any domains registered at Yahoo, you might want to move them - as of tomorrow, they're apparently upping their yearly fee to $35. This is just for a basic .com domain with no special features. And they're being sneaky about it. (I'm really glad now that I invaded ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/30/psa-yahoo-are-jerks/ The term ended Thursday, so the last couple days I've been teaching myself Python. It logically follows. And just now I spent like half an hour creating sort a crappy roguelike with basic collision-detection! It's less than 60 lines, it was totally easy! There aren't any enemies because I couldn't ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/29/no-one-cares-about-this-but-me/ "Well, that looks like the final boss, I guess." "It just looks like yet another giant robot to me... Honestly, it lacks the impact it had before." Given that the "before" was A GIANT PENIS FROM MERCURY Chapter 69 This is what "Kishiro writing himself into a corner" looks like. No, there's a difference! ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/27/yukito-kishiro-why-do-you-hate-me/ I have been trying to catch up on GUNNM: Last Order, but there are chapters missing in the scanlations. I google for it, and find message board people claiming that there aren't any chapters missing, and the fact that it goes from 62 to 66 is due to a numbering ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/27/the-internet-lies-to-me/ Every once in a while I'll have a dream of a type I think of as an Ur-Dream. These are dreams that have a moderately coherent story, are aware that they're dreams, comment on something I've been thinking about or reading, seep into/out of whatever I've been writing recently, and ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/25/the-dream-city/ As opposed to select areas of the mansion being tainted with E. coli. Mainlined the second half of Count Cain/Godchild. I'd been putting it off because I wasn't feeling sufficiently Kaori Yuki. Now my head feels all funny. I worry that parasites are about to burst out of it for the ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/23/earl-the-entire-mansion-is-tainted-with-evil/ (Note: Having finished writing this, I remembered that Matt Thorn wrote an essay on this issue, and googled it, and, uh. It looks like a lot of what I've said is just regurgitating stuff he said. Sorry, Mr. Thorn! Here, go read that.) Most manga set up one or more "default ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/21/pondering-representation-of-race-in-manga/ I've been doing some Idiotic Cooking Experiments in the rice cooker. Notable episodes in the saga included Idiotic Cajun Rice and Idiotic Garlic-Salmon Rice Pilaf. We will not discuss these dishes further. Today it was Idiotic Chocolate Rice Pudding. Which... actually turned out really well. It's much better than my usual ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/19/i-made-rice-pudding/ I am going to drop dead if I don't get more episodes of Avatar right now. (Nickelodeon has not generally been one of the companies it occurs to me to despise - I mean, it's no Eli Lilly, or Sony. But now, knowing nothing more about its business practices than It ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/19/622/ Sensu-sensei is secretly a twelve-year-old boy. She drew boobs on my homework. The rationale for this was that I had used the wrong word for "milk" - I'd used the one meaning "breast milk/baby formula" rather than the one meaning "cow's milk." I am, however, fairly certain that there exist ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/18/todays-destructive-force-mushrooms/ Today I was wandering vaguely around the Seiyu, and encountered a mirror larger than those common to my daily experience. I now know why all my pants are falling off. Apparently I've been eating even less than I thought. This also explains the back pains and the (spoilers for my life!) late ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/14/620/ I keep being annoyed this morning that there's no way to google what day it was I last took a shower. http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/14/this-is-how-we-will-destroy-western-civilization/ We had spoken tests today. There was an earthquake right in the middle of mine, and I had to start over, and still messed up the sentence with all the "te"'s and "tte"'s. I practiced that forever. Evidently I'm much less amused by earthquakes when I'm not in my room. ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/13/mata-jishin/ I'm going to make a crime drama where they go to a furry convention every episode, and it's always the same dead Hispanic woman. http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/12/plan/ Spoilers: http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/11/avatar-312-315/ Spoilers: http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/08/avatar-301-308/ Man, Zuko. Will you cut that shit out. I like how, though I originally had something specific in mind for that statement, it could be referring to absolutely anything. Good lines: "Now comes the part where I double-cross you." "Just take the bear." http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/07/avatar-217-220/ 1) I love Toph so much. But she needs to beat up more actual living things soon. As opposed to like buildings and stuff. 2) Azula's henchmen are also awesome. 3) Zuko's voice actor is okay with Wounded And Vulnerable, but not so much with the Angry And Wants To Kill You. ... http://www.sarahpin.com/2008/06/06/avatar-up-to-ep-216/