Monday, March 19, 2001

[reads Meg-chan's blog] Er...

SailorM: Well you did ask.

No, I... well, sorta, but... ooookay.

SailorM: You're hopeless. Now then, what about the comic thing?

Well, we've got a choice between... uh... blood&dark stuff, other blood&dark stuff, more blood&dark stuff, or yaoi.

SailorM: It *is* Meg we're talking about.

Um... none of the above? Seriously, whichever of those comics you post, I'll most likely read an ep or two and then drop it. Not my cup 'o tea, and 'sides, I haven't got too much webtime.

SailorM: Yes folks, this is Poland, where two things soar really high, ski jumpers and Net charges. Of course, if you dropped the freakin' newsgroups already...

I'm quitting tomorrow, honest!
Somebody needs to know the time: 6:30 PM glad that I'm here

Sunday, March 18, 2001

A few thoughts for Meg-chan...

Been reading your blog, and the drinking game... @_@ something tells me I shouldn't have seen that.

I only recently noticed that Ben Carter's best friend was named Orion. Up to now, I've been reading it as Onion. ^_^'

Why does Cam have to be an angsty Angel Hunter demon with world-destroying tendencies? I mean, he could be a usual, clichee human hero saving the world time and time again from an incredibly incompetent villain (kind of like Harry Potter), right? He's got a good name for it. Bennet. It would sound nice, at the end of every episode, "I'll get you yet, Bennet!!!" from the shadowy malevolent dude. Just a thought.

On a completely unrelated, there's this funky quiz on the Help! movie thing. Found it thanks to you, on Quizbox.com under "quick search". Thanks!
Somebody needs to know the time: 10:59 AM glad that I'm here

Friday, March 16, 2001

This weekend there's been a con, the Pyrkon. ("pyra" is Poznan slang name for "potato").

[As an aside, in the polish version of the X-'99 manga Osaka slang is translated into Poznan slang... tey, that was a riot! - "tey" 's something like "no da", only at the beginning of a sentence.]

Well the con was a combined Anime/Fantasy/Star Wars one. I saw a guy there that I liked, until Magnesse pointed out he was most likely younger than us! [I feel stupid...] Well he was rather my type, but honestly, I don't feel like a pedophile... ^_^' Anyways I watched Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the SW room and finally made some use of some SW jokes...

[scene: Meagen picks up a cardboard-and-wood-bazzoka-ish-looking thingie. Pretends to read off the bottom:] Empire standart issue no. 1234. Instructions: hold firmly while charging into room. Get shot by Skywalker or Solo. Throw aside dramatically as you fall.

...also read a french translation of Detective Conan (no money to buy it, though...) and seen Pantom Quest Corp. (Ayaka Kisaragi in action is a lot like Sailor Andromeda, what with that lightsabre lipstick of hers...) Had to leave running to get to Terry Pratchett trivia quiz in time. Won three completely useless fantasy books by totally obscure authors.

There was also the "Boba Fett was a woman!" gig done with some poor LARPer's gear, but it's kinda obscure. The movie's called Seksmisja, no it's not porn, it's by the director Machulski that some readers of this blog might have heard of.

Back to Detective Conan for a while. It's a really cool manga about a teen genius of a detective who gets changed into a five-year old, thankfully not losing any of his brains. His girlfriend takes care of him, not knowing who he really is. The artist is a fan of Sherlock Holmes (Conan is named after Arthur Conan Doyle!), and it shows. I gotta get me that thing sometime.

And now for something completely different, a bit of philosophy (or not) from sci.skeptic:

 Pedro Miranda wrote:
> 
> If God exists as a supreme omnipotent being them he can do anything.
> He could make a rock so big appear that even him could not lift it?
> 
 There's no such thing as a rock which cannot be lifted. "Lifting"
in everyday terms refers to applying a force to an object to move it
in the direction opposite to Earth's gravity. All rocks on Earth
are "liftable" in the sense that you can move them away from Earth's
gravity with enough strenght.
 Indeed, if someone detonated a huge nuclear bomb in the Earth's
core, all the rocks big and small, right up to the entire Himalayas,
would go flying in different direction - and without any divine
intervention, no less!
 And on the cosmic scale? Without a reference point, you'd have
enough trouble deciding if a rock is moving or not (or is that the
whole universe spinning?), much less if it is being "lifted". 
 Besides, when you are lying on your deathbed with cancer/five
bullets/plain old age finally catching up to you, you'll find you
are much less interested in God's landscape creating/transporting
capabilities than you are in his actual existance.
Meagen
-- 
 IT'S QUITE THE NEW THING. IT'S BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE.
 "What's that?"
 I'M NOT SURE.
 - Death and Sam Vimes, "The Fifth Elephant" by Terry Pratchett

ACK!!! Evil Usernet! EVIL!!! I swear I'm dropping this thing completely, I'm not posting another thing again.
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...starting tomorrow. No, really.
Somebody needs to know the time: 8:48 PM glad that I'm here

Wednesday, March 07, 2001

Snow! And a lot of it, too. As March was approaching it looked like spring was just around the corner, and suddenly there's tons of snow falling down. It's 2 degrees Celcius above zero, though, so once it stops falling it'll most likely all melt away. A pity - I like snow a lot. Especially fresh snow, it's all white and fluffy and you can leave footprints in it, and you can walk in a circle playing "Tracking two people, no wait, three people, no, four people...". I like those winter days when it's cold but sunny and the snow's so white it's almost blindning.

I like those days of autumn and spring when it's a bit chilly, just enough to feel it when you go outside. And just a few fluffy clouds and the sun up in the sky. I like spring when I'm just counting days till the holidays and ride my bike a lot. And I like summer, too - when it's really hot and there's no school and me an' mum drive out to lakes and I can swim and then lay in the sun. And there's the beginning of autumn, when I'm getting warmed up in school and the leaves are all yellow and red and brown and it's still quite warm - the golden autumn, we call it.

Well that was a pointless meteorological digression. The snow's already melted though, so it's out of date anyway. Spring's coming! Just a few more days and out goes the bike!

Uh, Firefly, the post wasn't inspired by anything you recently posted... it was just something I've been meaning to say since I've read those entries about going off meds and starving yourself and stuff. [Suddenly feels very, very silly...]

You know, I've been meaning to let OW have SailorM and even keep on sending the next chapters (okay, I admit it, I need the publicity). But now that they're trying to guilt trip people into staying, well, that just does it. I'm writing to them to take down the (single) chapter they have. They'll be less one story by a relatively obscure author. That should teach them.
Somebody needs to know the time: 3:54 PM glad that I'm here

Saturday, March 03, 2001

Usenet's been a real pain, sucking up all my webtime and them some. I really should give it a few day's rest, to scan in all that fanart, rate some stories and stuff.

First order of buisness! Meg-chan! No, you can't say you know how I feel, because you also have a lot of talent. Remeber that Kami I asked help for? You sent me some pics from the then-yet-unreleased WT Saga 1 to show what your art looks like. They were, I believe, pure CG, and quite crappy compared to your present style, but they were still great. They spelled T-A-L-E-N-T miles away. And when you got a new scanner and a better paint program for WT 3, I promptly declared you one of the two best artists on the Kami Forum. (The other one was WarpZone.) Now I guess you'd still be holding this title, sharing it with Rikki. (Only if I said "Meg-chan and Rikki are the best artists of Kamishibai" everyone else could feel offended.)

The new layout in your blog only proves it. I like it, of course, and I'll be happy to look at it for some time, but I'm really waiting for the Lucas one. And no polkadot - It's pure 100% blue hair that I want! [starts writing out "this site under martial law" signs, just in case]

Anyway, thank you once again for the wonderful fanart. You probably don't imagine how much this means to me - I mean, you are the author of the manga I base my fanfic on. It's like getting fanart from Naoko Takeuchi or Rumiko Takashi or another famous artist. And I don't care about people who say only the Japanease can draw real manga. To me, you'll always be the no. 1 author, simply because I know you personally. (And as an aside, I think I'd take celebrity within a circle of friends rather than what poor Mrs. Rowling has to go through, anytime.)

On to the next point... Firefly! Haven't written anything to you yet, even though I meant to for a long time. You're ill, Firefly, very seriously ill. There's a campaign on that out in Poland right now - depression is a sickness, not just someone's whim or fancy. But the thing the people doing this find alarming is that most people say they'd just try to heal by themselves. Curing depression is like a kidney transplant, they say, you need a doctor for it. And untreated, it usually leads to suicide. I really do hope you manage to fight through.

They also say that no-one who hasn't suffered from depression can't really understand it, and I think it's true enough. I sometimes get into a bad mood, but that's only when I'm sleepy. And I've really got way too much self-preservation to become suicidal - I can't even bring myself to draw blood from my finger with a pin. (And it's not even that I'm that freaked out by blood. Whenever I cut myself by accident, I just say "ouch" and put a ban-aid on it.)
I'm glad that I didn't have to go through anything really bad yet, but I only feel the more sorry about people who did. So, Firefly, my most sincere sympathy. Please, be brave.

Frecklegirl. You can't imagine how embarassed I feel for not having reviewed Mythology yet... I've tried time and time again to get it from Alex's storehouse, but it just won't work. I guess you'll have to send it to me part-by-part.

But you know, I think I've been a bit recultant to rate it because of the GS buisness. Right now I'm almost sure you won't do anything like that again, but at the time it did make me feeling a bit uneasy.

Alex-chan, Chris-kun. I really feel I should say something to each of you two, but I've no idea what. Next time, maybe.
Somebody needs to know the time: 12:41 PM glad that I'm here
Watching the skirts you start to flirt now you're in gear
Go to a show you hope she goes
I've got nothing to say but it's okay

Good morning, Good morning...