The Randomness Of A Guy

So, I Went To AX For The First Time

2009-07-11T16:42:00.001-07:00

IMG_2424, originally uploaded by KuroHisho.

Day 1:

Woke up early since I was giving Thomas a ride over. I didn't have any cash on me so he paid for parking and we separated shortly after entering since he had to work a booth.
Got to the badge pickup line around 9. Somewhere around the middle I got a call from Conch asking if I could help them move hotels. Made me have a confused face for a moment since I wasn't expecting that call until Sunday.
Got my badge around 30 minutes later and headed to where Conch and the girls were staying.
Sometime around here I got a ticket. And everyone would think it'd be speeding or something of the sort but no. Street Sweeping.
Of all the times I park in a loading zone when I'm actually loading something, it's street sweeping day orz
So yeah, it took two trips to move everything and everyone, and Ivy gave me the 4-day hotel parking pass since none of them brought a car :D
And for the remainder of daylight, I proceeded to sew. And sew and sew...
Took a break around 7 to go eat with the girls and the Hetalia group. Went back to sewing and then went home...

Day 2: Woke up early and kept sewing. I surprisingly finished it enough to make it wearable although it was missing tons of details.
Drove over, parked and put everything on.
Looked for the Touhou gathering which had apparently started as soon as a few of them had gotten near each other near the bag check. Was received warmly with a "KAGUYA! WHERE'S YOUR TRUCK?!"
We then moved over to the spot next to the doors.
One of the guys from ShrineMaiden.org was nice enough to give me an Eirin pin.
Spent the rest of the day wandering around with Michel and I was actually stopped by some for a photo op.
Went home almost dead although I scared the crap out of Thomas by driving quickly. Then again, any sudden movement in a car scares Thomas :3

Day 3: Dressed up in my getup again and wandered around. Went to the Evangelion premiere thinking it was subbed. Boy was I surprised!
The dub didn't suck. Well, it didn't suck badly. It was only the pacing for Ritsuko and the lines at the beginning for Misato that sucked, everything else was alright.

Went to the Kuroshitsuji gathering. Pictures ensued.

Went to the J-list booth to buy the Yukkuri shirt and got a freebie which is still unopened sitting underneath the plush crab. Then again, I'm not done with the pictures either and I've decided to take a break from any camera activities for a week due to me just not caring.2

Went to the Vocaloid panel after eating at Denny's hoping I'd see Jill there since I heard her Gakupo outfit was awesome and had a sword that lit up.
Turns out she didn't go due to another thing she went to XD
The Vocaloid panel was nice although it didn't start that well due to the idiots behind me but since the videos they started with were slow and/or sad, the /b/-tards left. Well, the loud obnoxious /b/-tards anyway. Much laughter was had when the Miku yukkuri vid made an appearance.

Followed after Nika and Conch on rumors of a party. Seriously, if I'd known it was Masa's party we wouldn't have wasted two hours getting to the place.
That's what I get for thinking Masa's party was a small get-together...

Ah well. It was fun regardless. But next year's is going to be better planned out... I hope ;_;

AX Was Tiring..

2009-07-05T15:16:00.001-07:00

_DSC7517, originally uploaded by moondabor.

And also really fun!

I'll post more pics up later.

Project 365 - Part 4

2009-05-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

On the way back from dropping off a friend, caught this...

Friend show off his most detested character in P3FES

And here's a pic from inside the Union towards the Sbarro's

Decaf?! WTF?

It's not all that rare for me to spot a Masseratti, but one that's fixed up? *snap*

Poster for ECST Dean's forum. It was the only pic I took that day so I used that.

Soymilk tastes like oatmeal to me.

Went to Costco and saw this outside. Turns out they caught a couple shoplifting.. or something.. not too sure. All I know is that they were in handcuffs.

Trying to fix the XP partition since the HD died... tried transfering.. tried installing... In the end, I dumped Ubuntu on the 300gb Sata.

Bought Sbarro's for the first time in a decade. It was actually quite good.

Galletas Maria a scrumptious. Especially with milk.

Mahjong hand... one of mine... one that I won with...

Friend drew this after a conversation about how as kids we're told to eat everything.

I'm REALLY tempted to take this.

I fixed it but it broke again...

Here's a shot of the Ubuntu loading screen.

Automata notes

University Police car.

I was really amused by this shot since it reminded me of a certain meme.

Screwing around during a mahjong game.

Project 365 - Part 3

2009-05-05T20:42:00.000-07:00

Noodle Square has decent presentation for their tea.

Finally got around to ~~playing~~ reading Umineko. It's really interesting.

Friend of mine finally came back from the boonies of CSU Bakersfield and she mentioned she'd never gone to Shaka's.

Dad finally got new rims for his car.

I like this picture. The flare from the light was unintentional though so I can't take credit for that.

One of many Asuka figures.

Went over to Em's place after a particularly crappy day. It cheered me up.

Genki Living is one of my favorite haunts. But I can't call it a haunt since i don't frequent it as much to qualify it as a haunt.

Do you... want some?

Spaghetti Factory's bread. It was delicious.

365: Part Deux

2009-05-01T21:01:00.000-07:00

Good ol' Apple Keyboard. So slim. So quiet. So attracting lint.
Issokay, I has spare :D

Went out with the weaboos to Shinano since we went to bug Tom at his job and waited for him to get out from work to go eat.
So delicious...

Santa Anita Mall. At a kiosk.
Me: *shaking blind boxes of Eva Portrait figures*
Tom: So which one is Rei?
Me: This one. *hands Tom box* (this wound up being Kaoru... orz)
Tom: What about the Asuka one you've been looking for? Is it in one of those?
Me: I'm not sure but I think it's one of these three.
Tom: So which one are you gonna pick?
Me: *to kiosk attendant* How much are these again?
Attendant: $7
Me: *looks at boxes* *thinks for a bit*
Tom: So which one are you going to pick?
Me: I'll take the four you have.
Tom: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Me: No way! They actually have a cart! WTF?

Michel had an interview that day... he also cut his hair. Ronald fawned over him.

Bought a neat little program by Sailing Media that lets me synchronize my iTunes playlist to my Sony Ericsson 760a that I bought. Still need to write up the instructions to re-flash and add Japanese language support for the music tags.

And it all started with me wanting to read more often...

I'll hold off for the cigar version.

Went to Chin-Ma-Ya of Tokyo one night and found their food delicious but needing an extra helping of rice. Not all that spicy since Tom quickly devoured the extra bowl I couldn't finish.

Letting Nika do this to my hair was a big mistake... turns out my hair didn't like it and I've barely discovered how to get it back to its usual silkiness. Using repair complex meant for split ends and using a moisture mask well past the recommended sit-in time.

Guess I'll Start Posting My 365 Collection

2009-04-26T12:56:00.001-07:00

Yeah, and I'll add some explanation to it!

I'll make this a series until I'm caught up, then I'll start posting ~~a daily~~ an explanation with the daily picture.
Cause I'm keeping up with that.
No, really. It's simple for me since when I don't have my camera, I have my phone although flickr doesn't register it as a camera yet *sadness!*

This is my cellphone strap at the moment. An image of Fujiwara no Mokou from Touhou Imperishable Night.

Went bowling as part of the homecoming ceremonies for school. This was the results at the end of the second game.

Bought a Haruhi blind box at Tom's shop and got Mikuru Maid version.

Parental Units got this as part of many an anniversary present and I just couldn't resist doing this shot.

Friend bought a large Asahi when we went to Orochon.
And yes, they poured it in a Kirin glass D:

I am of the firm belief that the New Kids On The Block do not deserve to use a Reservoir Dogs motif.

The identifying label of the cart I drive around at work.

Father received a birthday cake from his coworkers. And since he's a christian, they stabbed in a cross.

Why yes, my camera does suck for low light pictures.

Constance cosplaying as Lavi from D.GrayMan...

I Am Aware, Thanks!

2009-04-26T12:21:00.001-07:00

Day 43, originally uploaded by KuroHisho.

I should really get around to posting updates as to how I've been but I haven't been all that motivated to write anything other than short blurbs and even then the twitter feed hasn't been updated all that often -_-'

Other than joining another club nothing all that major has happened.

OH! I've decided to get rid of my car since I discovered that the alignment is off not because of the settings but because it has a hit on the front right.
And if I want my car to be completely straight, it causes the car to veer to the right, and if I compensate for that, the tire wear on that side is rather ridiculous.
So yeah, if anyone has any leads on a sixth generation white, stick-shift Corolla sedan, preferably fuel injected, let me know.

Obligatory Last Post Of The Year

2008-12-31T21:16:00.001-08:00

Picture 17, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Ah, yes. The end of the year.

Thought it'd be appropriate to post something since the only thing here that's moved is the Twitter feed.

So.. what have I done in the past year? Do I have anything to reflect? Regret?
Uh.. no, not really unless you count the realization that putting tuition on credit cards is a Bad Idea.
Other than that I don't think there's anything I can say that I haven't said before.

Looking at my Last.fm account, my musics tastes have changed heavily going from Metal and guitar based music to J-Core, Trance and anime music. I don't really know what to say to that other than it's not that bad of a change although I've listen to quite an amount of crap due to the gigantic amount of stuff available in J-Core alone.

Game-wise: I've pretty much neglected San Andreas and Audiosurf in favor of certain text heavy "games" that have been recently translated.
And Touhou. Ah, Touhou. Specifically speaking Imperishable Night. I like that one and I've managed to not suck. I can usually clear the first four levels without major incident on Normal and Hard. Lunatic mode though, I'm lucky if I pass the first level. I've also developed a liking for the characters and have kinda jumped into the fandom. And boy is that fandom huge. Not only that, the amount of stuff that's managed to hit the intertubes from C75 over the weekend is jaw-dropping. Then again, it's to be expected since Touhou now covers well over a third of Comiket.

Picture 21, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Melty Blood has also been a focus of mine since I started to develop combos for Miyako. Then it occurred to me to look online and, well, they're there with minor modifications adding a couple more hits.

Picture 20, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Finally got a PS2 which was a gift. It's a used 71000 model and was given along with the gift receipt so I'll exchange it later for the 79000 model which eliminates the power brick. But that also means paying the price difference which I'm willing to do. The power brick takes up space and I intend to lug the PS2 to school.
Oh, I've yet to play Fate/Unlimited Codes since Tom hasn't called me over to play since he's switching between that and Persona 4. He lent me Arcana Heart though so I've been playing that for about 3 hours at a time. I've gotten better as proven by the screen shot of Saki's line after beating Arcade Mode. Boy does she have boring lines.
Hopefully by the time I beat the game I can move on the the walled garden of Guilty Gear since that thing is a pain to play at the moment since I haven't learn how their special system works. But then again, that's cause I haven't really played it.

Well, here's to a new year full of adventures, games, finished responsibilities and friendship.

And to hoping my girlfriend will no longer be imaginary (¯°3°)

ハーピバースーデートーミー

2008-11-25T18:26:00.001-08:00

Sacchin's B-day, originally uploaded by thecat16.

ハーピ　バースーデー　トー　ミー
ハーピ　バースーデー　トー　ミー

What. Did. You. Say?!

2008-10-30T00:51:00.001-07:00

P1220549, originally uploaded by thecat16.

And so I sit here in front of the comp writing this after noticing there is no way for me to finish my homework for CS320.

Kinda hard to write code when I can't wrap my head around the logic. Well, it's sorta there but it's still not really there.

No, don't get me wrong. The logic itself is already understood. It's putting it in code that I still haven't figured it out. Semantics and all that.
I can only blame myself for this, since I've had many an opportunity to work on it properly and I kept on putting it off. Not that I'm leaving it until last minute, mind you. I did sit down and code what I understood last Friday. And as far as I know, that works. Minor bug, but it works.

It's just getting the stuff to display that's my problem. I can't seem to get the pages to present properly. Neither in JSP or in EL... stupid beans.

+++++

Had the first official Anime and Japan Club meeting on Monday and it was rather fun.
We started a bit late due to us being one of the first clubs in those rooms so stuffs wasn't exactly prepared before hand.
Projector had to be rolled out and time was lost waiting for a suitable audio cable. But it all works now :D

We killed some time by having people introduce themselves.
I though this was a good idea since it attached a name to the face and hopefully get people to come back since we don't exactly have a good retention record.
That went on for a while until Pearl showed up and started her intro and explained what we were there for.

By this point, I had xPad up and running on the projector and was writing things to get people to laugh. Really stream-of-conscious kind of crap. Snide comments and remarks. Crap like that.
This was really fun for me since I kept on making fun of people's taste in things, but bloody Tom had to take it a bit further by accusing one of the new guys of reading yaoi... *facepalm*
Seriously, that crap shouldn't be pulled on someone unless you know them and Tom had the audacity to blame me for writing it...

*RAGE*

++++++

Had my first midterm that night... all I can say is that I'm dropping that class.

I went about studying for this class all wrong. I though reading the book and putting effort and reading others' questions on the forum would be enough. But no. It wasn't.
I didn't push myself like I did for the data structures classes. Those classes were enjoyable in the sense that everything was fun, and stuff ran with minor bugs if there were any.
But this class, none of that. Can't get the logic coded. And the code isn't exactly straightforward. I mean, when a simple thing like forgetting to upload a build without updating the xml file causes the server to lose it, it kind of delays stuff since it's no longer testable. Not to mention there was no note about this until a couple days later.
There was the lack of source code for the first homework. Gave me a zero on that even though the builds were on the server and it worked. Well, save for the text validation.
I also keep doing non-standard code and I feel that this is going to hurt me way too much academically so I'm just going to take a W instead of an F. Can't afford anymore Fs. Don't want to get Fs. I just made some up, I don't want to go down that road again...

I've gone through a rough series of days mulling over my actions and Monday night pissed me off quite a bit and I kind of just kept on throwing stuff around when I got home.
This was enough that my dad wondered just was pissing me off so much.
Well, he asked this the next day. He was concerned for me. But damn, he just made things worse.
I have the impression that he's not finding the words to explain himself cause I know my grasp of Spanish isn't crap and all I heard was stuff he'd already told me since I was very young.
Not only that, I do take his advice seriously, but when I'm told advice as if I've never taken it really irritates me.
Like the whole "Try your best!" bit. It gets tiring really quickly because after a while, I feel worse than a failure. Since you know, I failed even while doing my best.

I didn't exactly leave on that good of a note but I hope he understood he ruined the rest of my day.
I wasn't rude to him. Far from it. I just hanged on to what little sanity I had left and waited for him to sorta pause so I could leave.

*sigh*

Many would say that I need a stiff drink, but that desire really doesn't come to me. I actually like drinking for the flavor, not for the psychological effects. I have other crap for that but sadly, I'm always on the receiving end of a disparaging comment.

Elote! Be Jealous!

2008-10-12T22:20:00.001-07:00

DSC00046, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So it turns out that this year I was due for a cold. Lucky for me it started during the first week of school when I have nothing going on.
Oh, and as it turns out, I was let into that Monday class I was trying to add.

So I got that going for me.

The Friday class is nice. Even though I've missed the second class. I'm supposedly project leader on a 'web-based file management system' and the reason I put it in quotes is because it sounds a lot more fancy than it is. It's just you're basic directory structure except it's online. And we have to make it. In Javascript.

Well, we're not relegated to just Javascript but I'd like to keep things simple since PHP has to get thrown in there anyway...
I like the group that we are. Three nerds, a jaded program developer, and the hard working dude. And the cutes girl in the class is part of our group. And is one of the nerds :P
We also sorta decided to start holding our meetings out in different eateries and it's either In-N-Out up next or Roscoe's.
The program itself has been going on fine. Since the class is mostly on how to write the docs, we've been mostly screwing around but it's all done. At least up to date as we can be.

All in all, work has been swell. Boss is being more boss like and less secretarial although she still has her moments. Daily schedules are still failing as usual specially with the first week rush which, oddly enough, is a lot less rushed this year than last's.
And last week one of my coworkers was sent to the hospital. For what, none of us know but my money is on appendicitis... or she ate some pork.

OH! Right! Parent's are back from their month long excursion to the hometown and I took the liberty of acting like I lived alone. So I took a roommate :P

I also discovered that I have a liking for sake, and Yaegaki's Dry stuff in their blue bottle smells awesome and the aftertaste is just as swell.
I still don't like beer although I find Sapporo drinkable. I still won't drink it if I have the option which means I'm relegated to my pitcher of water with lemon slices, which isn't bad since I like water :P

What do you mean 'Smoking Propaganda'?

2008-08-24T19:44:00.001-07:00

IMG_1381, originally uploaded by thecat16.

There are times when I think random thoughts influenced by what I've watched.
Depending of the topic I can go from extremely giddy to melancholic.

I had heard quite a bit of a series named Detroit Metal City and I've grown to like it quite a bit, and after watching the anime that was recently released, it's become one of my favorites.

Then there's one called Eve no Jikan. Story setting is your usual fare of 'what if androids were real and the only difference is the ring floating above their heads?' along with the public backlash of 'eww, creepy, it's a machine you dolt!'.

That got me thinking about how a person being engrossed with their androids is treated as such and figured that I'd probably be the same.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not about to become obsessed with dollfies and the like.
I only did it to draw comparisons from the way I treat my stuff now.

According to that future, androids aren't much more than appliances and people treat them as such and that made me all melancholic in the sense that most people I've observed don't care for their stuff. If it breaks, oh well, go get another one. They don't try to fix it or pass it off to someone who can. They don't care what it goes through, how it works, what its limits are, they just use it until they bore or find something shinier.

I see this quite often with cars to the point where I voice my complaints and distaste to the owner if I know them.

I care for my computers the same way. Same goes for my car. Same goes for all the other crap I own.

I still have a large amount of the electronics I've ever bought, and all of them, save for a small handful that have burned out, still work just fine and get used from time to time. Like my MD player >.<

Now thinking about people who don't care for such small things having control over androids, who for the lack of anything else are nothing other than a mechanized slave, that just makes me sad. Sad for the androids for having POS masters...

Reminds me of an old saying.

"There are no bad kids, only bad parents"

So Much For A Road Trip

2008-07-24T00:35:00.001-07:00

IMG_1178, originally uploaded by thecat16.

And here I though I was gonna head to Comic-Con this weekend and partake in many an event, including the game demos for the fighting games that are coming out soon -_-'
But alas, car stuffies take priority and some parts had to be bought. And since I'm not made of money, sacrifices had to be made.

At least I can get a refund on the ticket.

And if you're wondering what car stuffies I am referring to...
-Front suspension springs and struts, both heavy duty.
-Two tires to replace the ones damaged by the worn front suspension (one was completely bald and didn't have any grip)
-Distributor since it had oil and was a affecting timing
-Distributor cap, ditto
-Spark plug cables. #3 had a leak around the middle and #2 was dead so the car was working on only 2 cylinders

I still need to time the engine properly along with adjust the fuel mix which means the purchase of the bloody timing light I've been meaning to buy for the past year.
Then there's the problem of an air leak in one of the vacuum lines. As much as I hate to admit it, I may have to take it to a shop in order to find which one it is.

But that won't happen until I've exhausted every single option at my disposal :D

Oh, then there's insurance and registration to pay.

And then there's the time limit of me properly stabilizing it... the smog check.

Wahhhhhh?

2008-06-23T00:53:00.000-07:00

Nothing makes me feel older than the death of the people I grew up watching

Geez...

Stupid Apache2 on Leopard!

2008-06-20T00:19:00.001-07:00

IMG_1157, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I finally got my dev server up and running....

I'm writing this because nobody had anything remotely helpful...

Turns out what I was doing wrong is not adding my external IP address to the apache httpd.conf file -_-;

Just adding ServerName "myIpAddressNotYours" got the IP to show the page in my Sites folder...

Oh and adding

'<'Directory "/Users/Cesar/Sites">'
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
'<'/Directory">"

'<'VirtualHost *:80'>'
DocumentRoot "/Users/Cesar/Sites"
ServerName localhost
'<'/VirtualHost'>'

to the *.conf file got everything to run smoothly...

Just in case anyone out there runs into the problem of Leopard only giving you the Apache welcome page for your IP and the User welcome page for the user...

No really, just edit the httpd.conf in the apache2 directory and the and your user conf file in the users folder of the apache2 directory and it should work.

Oh, and don't forger to set up the port forwarding on your router :3

There's A Reason Arcana Heart Is The Titular Character

2008-06-15T20:34:00.001-07:00

Picture 2, originally uploaded by thecat16.

"Sometimes I wonder just what I should write in this thing." is what I've been thinking every time I started to think of a topic to write about.
Due to this, and finals, I slacked off and read some manga.

There's this series called Genshiken that tells the story of a club not really focused on anything in particular but at the same time dedicated to what should be called Modern Visual Culture. This of course means an extreme interest in anything that would get one labeled a weeaboo 'round these parts. Save for the video game aspect.

Near the end of the series, when discussing the possibility of Ogiue-san releasing a Yaoi Dojinshi, she asks " Do I really want to show the world all my sick and twisted fantasies?"

That line made me pause and think.
Not so much as in 'how much of an innuendo does this project' but more of 'what kind of message does this convey about me?'

This brought back the memories of my parents asking me what was up the characters on my folder, or why it was called Hotmail or what did the character in the background image represent. Since my room doesn't have a door, it's hard to keep things out in the open without being questioned about them. Like getting a package in the mail (so much for surprise mother's day gift), or holding a conversation over SMS ("Oh, someone is highly sought after today!"). Hell, I can't even type without raising some kind of concern ("Oh, who are you chatting with?").

I guess this is one of the reasons why I never learned to draw properly. Can't really shut myself up in my room and draw all day if I don't have a door now, can I?

Guess instead of expecting to hearing praise, all I expect to hear is ridicule.

*sigh*

Some times I wonder if that fear is what holds me back of my more creative projects.

Then again, I'm rather grateful since it's helped me avoid being mistaken for a tasteless anime fanboy >.<

As for opening up in regards to hobbies, I'm not sure I can that so freely. I mean, the anime and manga consumption is really due to their entertainment value in terms of how situations play out. Like listening to two storytellers tell the same story. It will come out differently. I like to learn from stuff like that.

And as for the whole thing with Mai, I don't care what any y'all say. She's the best fighter in KOF and if only Capcom vs. SNK 2 wasn't broken, everyone would know that, AND IT'S NOT THE BOOBS, SO DROP THAT ACCUSATION!!

I AM BOSS

2008-04-25T14:07:00.001-07:00

Photo 9.jpg, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Been a while since I've written in this thing and I've been a bit happier since. Sadly, I'm in need of rest that I don't get since I'm usually up until 2am reading -_-'
I really should sleep earlier but all of you that know me well enough know I don't put down a story until I finish it or I pass out :P
Same thing happens with coding projects >.<

School wise I've been getting better. My Unix class has been more than I could ask for in how fun it's been. The group I'm in has been consistently getting over 90/100 points on our weekly assignments and the running gag that we're composed of Awk guy, Sed guy and Hot Project Manager keeps us in good spirits.
Matrix theory is getting to be a bit more fun. Especially since the prof gives a quiz every Monday so it pushes me to study over the weekend and it points out where I'm lacking in my studies. I'm not perfect but at least this way I'm not completely incompetent.
But my Pols 250 class that deals with politics at a somewhat global level has me a bit tuckered out. It's at ten in the morn and with me staying up late reading, I either get there late or not at all. Yeah, yeah, I should be whacked upside the head for doing crap like that but on the bright side the midterm, final and all the assignments are written assignments that only require me to be there if I can't answer the guiding questions on the syllabus.

Work... well, work is work. I'll leave it at that.

Been teaching Danny how to drive stick shift and that's been an adventure all on its own. Especially since it's been a whole two months and he still doesn't have it down -_-'
What makes matters worse is that he's proud to be the most incompetent student I've had.

Went out with Vy the other day and in the confusion of who was going where and at what time I went to Ranch Market to check if the Hello Boss was on sale since I needed drinks with which to stuff the mini-fridge in the youth room and, well, the cans were on sale at 5 for $2 so I picked up three cases :X
I mentioned this to Vy who didn't really care since she started work as a barista as had been force to drink coffee all day. This amused me since coffee has the opposite effect on her so poking and prodding was employed in the attempt to wake her up. That didn't help much since I found out she's not ticklish... so it's like "crap, I have a weakness she doesn't"

I really have to find something to annoy her with cause so far she's winning >.<

It's all YOUR fault Mr. Martin!!!

2008-03-30T18:18:00.001-07:00

IMG_0950.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I managed to get a copy of the NNWKA program err... application from Em by pointing out that having a pop-up file chooser is possible in around 8 or 10 lines, depending on where you put the curly braces.

Anyway, I started to look at where I would put the code (somewhere in one of the custom FileReader files) and, well... I think I was going through that code at around 30 WTF/min :P

So I asked him if I could rewrite it since, well, the code just bothered me and it seemed well within my abilities.

And so I trudged. Two weeks later and I only have two bugs to fix. One being a "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space" and the other with exporting the contents of the HashMap to a readable (sort of :P) CSV in a timely manner (read: FAST).

The first one is easily fixed, conceptually anyway, by increasing the buffer size. But that will only let you get away with so much so the real solution would be to make it a loop in order to handle the amount of data...

The second one though.... I dunno. I've been at it for the past 4 days with no solution to the bottleneck.
Seriously, that's the only different between his code and mine. The speed.

And it's driving me nuts.

If it wasn't for the fact that this needs to be closed source I'd write it in PERL!!! YOU HEAR ME MARTIN?!!! PERL!!!

On the bright side, the code looks like code now, and acts like Object Oriented code should. Which means I ran into the problem of Generics. I really though I'd never have this problem up until I had to rearrange how stuff was getting read off the HashMap which mind you, is getting read out 3 objects deep ~\(-_-).

So yeah, my first productive contribution to a program not developed for a class -no class I'm in anyway- and I feel a bit happy about that. Just the notion that yes, I CAN code albeit in just one language, but it's the logic that counts.

I really like the concept that Em thought up for this and its purpose so I'm gonna develop this app for the time being. It'd be easier to know which way it was going if I had the dev notes that Em though up so I would know what to plan ahead for, or at least start working on. He was supposed to gimme a copy of it last week or so but he's been busy making the new PSA for HNAP along with the presence at ITP's Winter Show

I think the next part that I'll edit, once it's up and running properly, is to change the way stuff if being read in. ByteBuffer is nice and all, but Scanner is all the rage these days and ever so useful for adding in stuff from files. But then again, I've never dealt with having to read in data in these large quantities.

But yeah... I'm gonna write a Perl version.

Then a GUI for it.

Then a C++ version of just for kicks :D

Yes, I Would Open An Account...

2008-02-29T00:16:00.001-08:00

DSC00015.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

If only it wasn't with Bank of America.

Bigger, Faster, Stronger

2008-02-29T00:07:00.001-08:00

IMG_0938.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I put in a new drive into Aya-chan in order to replace the 80GB Seagate that had failure reports.

Wound up splitting it into two partitions. One with OSX Leo-pard and the other with XP.

The restore went rather well, I was up and running in around 4 hours times due to having to re-format the bloody drive twice.

Anyway, the old drive went into an enclosure and following my naming guidelines is now named Shinobu.

Also, I swapped the 300GB SATA I had lying around in the house into the tower so I could bring home the other 250GB PATA that was in the tower at church. Filled it up with the stuff in the SATA and brought it home.

I Need to Detox... So I'm Gonna Go Play Melty Blood

2008-01-29T00:33:00.001-08:00

WoW Cancel, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I decided to cancel my account since I'm not on much during the school year and I'd just be hemorrhaging money so I'm gonna buy cards for when I want to play...

Or should I say when I'm not in school :P

Anyway, I'm not off of it completely cause I still would like to occasionally play with my friends and what not but I feel that the money I would spend on it would be better suited elsewhere... like buying the 360 I want so much..

Or at least a PS2

It's new, but old.... Old new...

2008-01-01T18:33:00.001-08:00

IMG_0853.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Yeah, new year...

Here's to hoping it's way more productive

MORE POWER! AHR AHR AHR!

2007-11-30T22:49:00.001-08:00

IMG_0683.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Hehe, I managed to catch a cold and would up with a fever sunday night :P

Well, finals are next week and I have all three of the on monday so... yeah

Why yes Mr. Martin...

2007-10-21T17:06:00.001-07:00

DSC00036.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I am aware that your workload is that of a jewish slave :P

The Legend Of Ceesa-ru: Keeping The Blog Updated

2007-10-21T16:47:00.001-07:00

IMG_0317.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Yeah yeah, I know I said I'd post like weekly or something but this damn school work is keeping me not only from posting but from playing Zelda. Which is all I really want to do for the weekend but alas, no. The weekend must be taken up not only by two variations of math (and a hefty amount of each) but also by servlet coding.

Oddly enough, I like to code. But I'm like, 4 days behind schedule with CSNS already locked.
That's what's brought me down this past week. Knowing what to do project-wise, but not enough time to do it in cause it took me 3 days longer than what I expected to get out of my Summertime Schedule of eating, sleeping and working on leveling up my rogue :P

As for leveling my rogue, I haven't played WoW in about 2 months now, I got a bit of Zelda in on the drive up to Cerritos with my folks but as for playing Zelda, uh, not much. I think 2 weeks passed before I got back to that dungeon -_-;

As you can tell from my music list, I've been sticking to the programming mix... Sad part about that is since I do enjoy fast playing music, I can also sleep while it plays... you can see where I'm going with this. I'm not really wasting time in front of the screen, it's just that I'm working rather slowly :P

*sigh* I wish I could just reboot CS320.

First homework, HW Zero, I got a zero on because I completely forgot to turn in the text file with the unix commands to do basic crap I know. Second homework, that got delayed until last wednesday due to a stupid error in my for-loop (it's NOT more than) and the third one was DUE wednesday but it's still in my head and not in code form.

Yeah, this quarter's been crap. And if I don't recover from this I'll be two quarters behind from graduating. And that's bad.

Read a Book, Nigga!

2007-09-12T23:38:00.000-07:00

Just For You, Mr. Martin!

2007-09-08T01:23:00.000-07:00

OMG! FOOD!

2007-08-17T23:14:00.001-07:00

IMG_0147.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Looking at digg I always wonder why it is that I keep going back to that cesspool of blogs and rehashed comics. Seriously, I'm tired of looking at the same comics I've seen years ago...

Another thought occurred to me and that was why do I keep this blog? I mean, is it really worth it to have an online presence that might be looked at negatively in someone's eyes?

The best answer I have is that I don't mind keeping this blog. I don't care who sees it because I don't do it for them. I do this not only for myself as a pseudo diary kinda thing, but also for my friends who might be curious as to what I write in regards to things that happen around me whether or not it affects or involves them.. plus, it gives me a place to vent. (-_-)/~

Another reason I keep this out is due to that whole christian thing about being an open book... people know me for being straightforward to a fault. Not that I lack tact but it's just that I say what I think with little to no sugar coating. And this blog is an extension of me albeit in a more organized and legible way that makes more sense that what I say... that's what I hope for at least :P

About that christian thing, you know, the one about "keeping your testimony" and all that jazz. I'm a firm believer that it is also a way of ministering to people mainly because I'm not the kind to approach people for any reason, let alone to tell them about Christ @.@ especially since I have a rather liberal approach to a variety of things...

Like I was once asked my feelings/point of view towards the whole gay marriage issue with the whole gay thing intrinsically included.

I said that I don't mind gays, as long as they do not develop romantic feelings for me since no matter how non-straight I may seem, I don't swing that way. Oh, and I dislike flamers with an ironic burning passion due to the airheadedness they display and the stupid way of speaking they share. It gets on my nerves. Not that it's entirely their fault. I just can't stand it.

Gay marriage... what's the point? That kind of stuff is easily done through the clever use of lawyers, power of attorney and wills. Seriously.

Don't. Be. Lazy.

If all of you of the gay persuasion want to have the same kind of rights as those that get married then find ways to do it other than pushing the gay marriage agenda. I find it kinda like that last couple showing up at city hall to get their marriage license two minutes before they close without their paperwork filled out and asking someone to break a $20 for the meter...

And all you hardcore christians that have gotten flustered all I have to say is this.
We are not the judge.

So STFU and GBTW.

I NO HAS FLAVOR!

2007-07-23T00:00:00.001-07:00

IMG_1114.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

In preparation to setting up my desk with my Powerbook, I've seen the need to acquire external drives. This idea first came from the question of what was I going to do with the drives in my tower. One is a PATA and the other's a SATA. So I thought about getting enclosures and figured I might as well get SATA II enclosures with Firewire 800 ports since that's the only port on my Powerbook that would go unused.

First option, is this one since it has both FW and USB. but at $140, it made me look for something cheaper since I'd still need to get the drives and I'm aiming for either 500GB or 750GB drives.

Second option, this one , does the same thing as the first one except that it's FW800 only and it's $130.

Then there's the third option and that's to just buy a LaCie....

Wider Is Better!

2007-07-21T12:30:00.001-07:00

IMG_1100.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

It's currently hooked up to my tower running XP Pro (yes, it's legit), but since it has both a VGA plug and a DVI one, the DVI is hooked up to my Powerbook. And I can switch between them at the push of a button :D

And now for specs: 22" Widescreen 1680x1050, 700:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time, viewing angles comparable to my Powerbook, and a dinky little 1.3 megapixel webcam on the bezel, like a Macbook :P

Overall, I'm rather happy with it, although sometimes I feel my Powerbook feels taxed by running both it and the Viewsonic....

Well, we'll see how it fares when it becomes a permanent part of the Powerbook when I get a MacBook Pro in the next refresh.

Wait.. What happened?

2007-07-13T19:31:00.001-07:00

IMG_1066.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I seem to have a flickr Pro account now...

I haven't the slightest clue as to how this happened but I am thankful for it...

Actually, I do have a clue as to how this happened. Apparently Yahoo! Photos is shutting down and anyone with a Yahoo email account - mine is a SBC account - is getting 3 months of pro as a way of encouraging the transition to flickr...

Here's a press release

I'm kinda thinking of paying for it once it runs out. Flickr's been good to me although I don't use it to it's full extent...

The Price Is WRONG, Bitch!

2007-06-06T13:13:00.000-07:00

Turns out today was the last day to attend a taping of The Price Is Right with Bob Barker hosting the show...

Well, there's another thing that I've been wanting to do since I was 8 that won't happen.

Ye shall die by the poisons in me fruity spade!

2007-05-24T23:56:00.001-07:00

IMG_1026.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I've been playing WoW for the past two months as a rouge and I can't see myself playing anything other than a rouge. Hell, even before I bought the game it was already decided that I would choose a rouge.

I like being able to sneak around without being detected and, save for two, I've soloed all my quests.

The other day I got asked what did I see in the Rouge archetype. I responded with the idea that the Rouge is the one with the most pirate characteristics out all of them. Then I got asked as to why it wasn't considered more of a ninja since it can sneak up on you and kill your character before you notice what hit you.

Simple. A Rouge is a Ninja Pirate. A Rouge embodies all the stealth and lethalness of a ninja with the adventurous nature of the Pirate.

I'll revisit the whole pirate topic later on, just thought I'd throw this out there before it get's taken by someone else.

I was gonna win the war, but then I got high....

2007-05-14T12:22:00.001-07:00

Where's Lillith? You know she'd kick Eve's ass!

2007-05-07T12:37:00.001-07:00

evewins.jpg, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I have so many things running through my head but the lack of proper words that enables me to form cohesive sentences prevents me from doing so.

That's what Kidgen is for! So here is a couple thoughts. Note: the sentences may or may not be related to each other.

I has a sadness.

I can't has cheeseburger.

I can't has find happy.

ROFLMAO!

2007-04-27T11:31:00.000-07:00

They What?!

2007-04-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

I'm angered over this recent post by one of the TV Guide people.

Stupid Fox. When will they learn that some shows, although a bit on the cheesy side, will get a following if it's interesting?

I was actually looking forward to watching this every week and figured I'd get the box set if it ever came out, but noooo.... bloody Fox.

Seriously. They did this with Firefly, which I still haven't gotten around to watching, they also did it to The Tick, which I can somewhat understand why it would get canceled, but a show with the potential to appeal to all kinds of viewers like Drive?

And then people wonder why I spend most of my time watching anime...

---

I starter to read the review that the Hollywood Reporter had on Drive and I do agree with it in that some people would be ashamed of admitting they like it. Now why would people be ashamed of watching this particular show? Cause Nathan Fillion's character, Alex Tully, has lines that are peppered with the cheesiness. That and he, well, I'm not really sure if it's Fillion or the writing (or both!) don't really seem to fit in with the atmosphere of the series.

According to the review it's one of those series where you'd have to "check your disbelief at the door" to which I would say "Uhm, it's fiction. Isn't that a given?"

*sigh*

Slowing down your browser one post at a time

2007-04-22T18:36:00.000-07:00

...Wait, What?

2007-04-18T00:35:00.001-07:00

IMG_0768.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I had this whole long diatribe to post about the recent event at VT but after mulling it over, I'd figured there's enough people out there saying the same thing.

On the one side, you got the media being as ready to sell out the victims for ratings, the politicians for votes, and Jack Thompson going on again about the violence of video games.

Then on the other you got people posting blogs, comments and LiveJournals sending out their condolences to the families of the victims.

Then you have the uninformed masses that think it's a good idea to build a fence around the campus.

Seriously, if it can keep stuff out, it can keep stuff in. It's bad enough that the high schools in LA already look like prisons all in the name of security.

I also heard about the parents of one girl attending VT wanting the directors head on a pike due to how badly this incident was handled...

That pissed me off even more. A school is a place of learning, of course it's not gonna be a suitable place to plan a lock down, it's not friggin' Neo-Tokyo 3! And with a campus that large, of course the cops are gonna take some time in getting to the other side. The cops are there just to maintain the peace and keep an eye out for stuff like pranks. Shootings are not part of a university's daily agenda and we all know that the dorms act as a seperate part of the university so locking down the entire school for an incident at the dorms would have been ridiculous since it's bad enough to coordinate the instructors to go to their respective rooms while getting keys/combinations let alone have them shift everything at the last minute.

Teachers, much like many of the students, don't check their school email, so how was this info supposed to get to them?

....

Oh, looks like I did write something after all :P

Connection Speed

2007-04-13T22:08:00.001-07:00

Connection Speed, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Well, there you have it. Apparently I only needed to wait...

I'm still trying to find info on how to make the 2Wire work only as a modem but the only thing that I thought could make it so was disabling everything except the connection so the next logical step would be figuring out how to disable the DHCP on it...

Wonder if I'll be able to -_-;

Is it edible?

2007-04-12T02:45:00.001-07:00

IMG_0758.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Yay, we got dsl at church now!

Of course I was delegated to set it up and lock it down. Which is fine by me since I'm the only one with the knowledge to block out Myspace at the router level.

The 2Wire modem/router is a piece of crap. I mean, I opened the port for Azureus and Azureus still said that the port was closed and since there was no problem at home it led me to believe that the 2Wire router's firewall is along the lines of "all or nothing". And that's bad.

Plus I can't do selective blocking of websites like I've been screwing around with at home with my WRT54GL DD-WRT v23. Which brings me to another point. It seems like mine only blocks it on the Windows box while my PowerBook seems oblivious to the rules, even though I specified both of their IPs.

I've done the quick and the not-so-quick google search and found out that if I specify the IP it'll do it on the Windows box, but if I specify a range, it won't work.

Haven't tried specifying the MAC address so I guess I'll do that later. Especially since I'm still waiting to get the DSL modem off ebay although trying the 2Wire router to work solely as a modem would be something to try.

Plus, it'll knock off ~$40 from the cost of the set up (-_-)/~

Then there's the problem of the DSL only providing the minimum that it can give (384kbps) rather than the full which is rather annoying since even though it's the same service that I have at home, it's a third of the speed.

Gonna have to call SBC and find out if something can be done...

Hey Nostra-dumbass. Did the rapture come?

2007-04-12T02:31:00.001-07:00

IMG_0753.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Sitting at the table with my head down last Friday while waiting for my father to give the signal that we were leaving, I was listening on one of the brothers go on about something he had learned that week that had touched him. He was talking about how in Deuteronomy 28:1 it states "If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth.".

To me, due to that topic being preached for a good solid 6 months, that was a conclusion that seemed obvious. Like do you want your cape in blue or red, Captain Obvious?

It's not that I'm trying to put myself on a pedestal or thinking myself morally better, smarter or wiser than my peers. But one of the things that's been bugging the crap out of me for the past couple of years is that the realization of some of the most obvious (well, to me) and cornerstone arguments and conclusions comes so late to some people.

And that makes me sad.

Like for example, once the pastor's wife said something along the lines of Jesus loves us.
I, being my snarky bored self, responded "What, you barely found out?"

I started to reflect on this a couple of months later with a concrete example.
My mother had compared me to one of my then friends by saying to me "Why aren't you more like so-and-so? She's so devoted and sensible to God's spirit!" Me being the one to remember the old saying that stated "Llama que arde, pronto se apaga" which she then made me explain how that saying applied to that situation. I told her that I'd rather be constantly, if small, burning flame rather than one who could light the world but burn out the next day. She apologized for comparing me to someone else.
I was later validated when said friend, one who was a borderline Jesus Freak™, left the church using the first reprimand she could use as an excuse.

Validated but definitely saddened by the situation.

Much like the present day...

The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall

2007-03-31T19:39:00.001-07:00

IMG_0734.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

In my defense, it was only $2...

And from the looks of it, next time I head to Fry's, I'll pick up The Burning Crusade if only to play as a Blood Elf.

Just Put Your Lips Together And Blow

2007-03-28T15:18:00.001-07:00

IMG_0695.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I fried one of the small little cables that is used to turn on my tower.

...

Due to this, it was decided a new box was in order.
So on monday before I headed off to work I went to Fry's and picked up a box along with the WRT54GL v1.0 since they didn't have a v4 WRT54GS.

I started at around 11-ish after I got home from work and started to build it.

It's a nice box. What I like about it is that I can reach the CMOS button on the mobo without having to remove the tower from its space. Just open the front panel, reach in, and push.

Although it only has 3 3.5" drive bays, they have a nice large 90mm fan facing the front sucking air in to cool my 3 drives.

We'll see how long the tower last. The other one has lasted since 2002 and was awkwardly carried from Burbank by public trasit.

Madness? THIS IS SPARTAAAAA!!!!!

2007-03-28T15:13:00.001-07:00

IMG_0686.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I went to Fry's on Saturday to grab a hard drive since I've filled the one's in the tower along with the one I usually cary and I thought I'd get a router while I was at it.

I forgot the serial number ranges of the appropriate WRT54GS...

So I wandered about thinking about what I'd get and wound up picking up Cooking Mama and Harvest Moon DS along with some screen protectors and a surge protector.

Why the surge protector?

Cause all the one's I have in the house are the old traditional "6 plugs facing down" that is fine for all things except for the AC adapters that take up the space of at least 3 spots.

So I figured I'd plug in the AC adapters to the four available spots and plug in the rest as neatly as I could.

I know that I'll be using one less adapter since I ordered the USB charger cable for my DS but it's gonna be replaced by the little USB hub that I got that needs external power (Horray, impulse buy!)

pics or it didnt happen!!!1!

2007-03-24T23:33:00.001-07:00

IMG_0682.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I got my mommy an apron and decided to see if it would fit me.

It's really tight. As in, I had trouble getting out of it.

But since in the picture it looks like it fits, then I can say it does indeed fit me <(^.^<)

A Yellow Crab and Mario Kart DS

2007-03-06T22:35:00.001-08:00

IMG_0406.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I've been playing Mario Kar for the past week and I only need 6 of the cups in the 150cc Mirror Mode to finish off the game...

Yeah... one would think I put off studying but actually I did most of it on friday. Not alot of people were passing by let alone coming into the office and there really wasn't anything to do so I started playing. And today in the morning I finished off the 150cc...

Overall, it's a great game and boy is it pissing me off...

So now I've been looking for a new game to play. Of course Advance Wars DS is coming in sometime within this week, but I've been yearning for a game that uses the stylus.

Cooking Mama has been on my list since before I wanted a DS Lite...

Elite Beat Agents seemed like a viable choice, but then I saw the song selection and all my hopes went down the drain. But then I found out that EBA is a sequel to Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! and the selection is a lot better.

Well, I'm also rather partial to J-pop...

Oh, and there's also a game coming out called Housewife Superstar which, if you couldn't tell by the title, is a rather misogynistic in that it's targeted a young girls... yet it atracted the attention of me -_-;

Gosh, I'd really hope they release more cooking games since it would prove to be an easy way to memorize how to make dishes and as proven by this post the recipies are real and can provide an interactive cookbook for those of us without a cookbook.

The Upside of a Teacher Strike

2007-03-05T23:03:00.001-08:00

IMG_0410.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

It's not the Eyewitness News Van, it's the Eyewitness News TRUCK!

P-i-n-k Is How You Spell Fun!~

2007-03-03T00:39:00.001-08:00

IMG_0410.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I went to dry clothes.

I checked Circuit City's online stock and found they had some.

Figured if I could go to CC, grab the DS, and make it back before the clothes finished drying, I'd keep it.

The next day I went back and got the ArmoLite case and Mario Kart DS.

Stupid Muse...

2007-02-17T00:51:00.000-08:00

IMG_0139.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

I seem to be having trouble making a post that I'd be content with...

So here's a picture of my favorite brand of instant noodle ~\(-_-)

The Double Entendre ~Pervyless Version~

2007-02-10T23:58:00.000-08:00

IMG_0183.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I wound up reading this one manga series called "Girlfriend" and it got me thinking...

See the thing is that in that series, since it's a bunch of individual stories with a common theme (i.e. girlfriend), the story would be done from the point of the view of the guy and the relationship he had with a girl. But in the section aptly named 'Boyfriend' it's told from the point of view of the girl. The girl in this story is the pretty, cute, popular girl in the class who winds up going out with the nerd of the class. She's head over heels for him and even though she's been dumped, by the nerd no less, twice even, she discovers just why he did so and why he took her back after he dumped her when she demanded an answer as to why he hadn't slept with her...

"No one has any idea what's going on in the characters' heads. The reader kept on tenterhooks until the last page. The whole situation is packed with nail-bitting suspense. The tention build up is superb" she said as she was packing up Silence Of The Lambs along with the rest of the stuff she had borrowed from him.

"If we skip to the end abruptly, there won't be any tension buildup. Things won't be exiting, right?"

With this he took her back.

And the other stories also got me thinking...

The girl who only wants to kiss...
The girl who's a nympho...
The girl who doesn't want a relationship but only sex...

Considering the stories one might not expect the author to be female and a recently married one at that. -_-;

At the end of reading all the chapters that were available I wound up asking myself...

Do I really want a girlfriend?
Or am I just longing for the affection?

...

Or maybe I'm just naive?

Uhh... This Is Mii?

2007-01-31T00:04:00.000-08:00

Uhh... This Is Mii?, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Danny P. and his Wii decided to make a Mii avatar of me....

Not much else to say...

Oh, but I did best his mother at Wii Bowling which, according to Danny, his little brother AND his sister is quite an achivement.

But now Danny is worried his mother will hog the Wii in attempts to prepare for the next time I go over...

So yeah... I'm quite satisfied -_-;

Nazi tomatoe or West Coast Chopatoe?

2007-01-16T20:27:00.000-08:00

08-19-05_1601, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Drying of the Clothes

2007-01-14T22:30:00.000-08:00

IMG_0064.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

And So, Once Again, It Begins

2007-01-01T23:51:00.000-08:00

DSC00437, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Happy New Year to all of you'se and i hope you all are approaching it without any expectations so that every good thing will be a suprise and not a trifle afterthought on a list.

A Now For Something Completely Different

2006-12-25T16:26:00.000-08:00

DSC00435, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So my friend called me up and said that he was formating his new 500GB LaCie drive on a mac and wasn't sure how long it would take so he was asking me.

I misheard him and told him to unplug it.

Then I told him to come over.

He did and the process was started. We left it do it's thing and went to get some food.

When we came back, we saw my father had purchased a new television.

A small dinky 15" LCD Magnavox.

Not much attention was paid to it since we had more pressing matters at the moment.

But later on when my friend left, and my parents arrived, I started installing it where the old telelvision used to be at which point I noticed that it had a VGA plug.
At tthis point so did my mom and loudly exclaimed we could use it as a monitor.
My father said to do it since the old CRT hurt my mothers eyes when she used it. But alas, the joy was shattered when it was discovered I didn't own a VGA to VGA cable. So back it went to functioning as a television.

My father then offered to get another one to use as a monitor.

So I went to Fry's the next day and got the cable need and when I arrived home, there was another one sitting on the floor.

I like having a desk now.

A More Recent Uptime - Now With Weather! -

2006-11-10T21:30:00.000-08:00

A More Recent Uptime - Now With Weather! -, originally uploaded by thecat16.

...and yes, Mr. Martin. It does run better now that I've restarted.

You'd better not start with the bloody 'I told you!'s cause I dun't wanna hear 'em.

Bicycle

2006-11-09T22:44:00.000-08:00

Bicycle, originally uploaded by thecat16.

探し物。。。

俺の大切っ探し物は。。。

a nobel spirit.

Name? What's In A Name?

2006-10-13T22:43:00.000-07:00

DSC00239, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I got to thinking and I thought to myself in between being told to stay awake during one of the youth meetings, "What is a church anyway".

Well, the common and most popular definition these days is that it's a place where you come and worship the Lord. Kind of simple, right? Specifically because of that one line in the bible where Jesus states 'My house will be a place of worship'

But another part of the bible says differently, it speaks of the church not as somewhere to do things but as a place where believers go to not only find refuge from the oppressing world, but also to encourage and alleviate the pain caused by it.

And that lead to more thinking...

The next day, I started observing. Well, more like confirming a hypothesis of mine. Just how many people around were actually learning something in order to apply it? I mean, content aside, just how many were actually absorbing the message?

The reason why I wanted to check the answer was because I though about all the times the Pastor's wife asks the congregation on Friday's study service about the title of the previous week's topic.

It made me sad to think about this, mainly because it reminded me of some of my classes when I was younger.

What is the purpose of having only one person spout the teachings? I know there's the obvious answer of keeping control of the class, but what about when a person has a question? In a sermon, you're kinda screwed, specifically because you cannot voice your opinion or comment that may need correction or may actually be correcting the subject on hand.

I mean, isn't the point of studying the bible is to be a better person? To become someone who sprouts all the fruits of the Spirit? Hell, isn't that the point of living the Christian life?

I'm not sure where I'm going with this.

I'm not sure if it's an intelligent post or just me venting.

I'm kinda tired of basically being told during the church classes to 'sit down and shut up' just for asking questions about the topic.

Is that so wrong?

I mean, I just want to learn.

I'm tired of going through the basic lessons over and over.
I've been through those classes since I was about 7 or so and every time I ask about the necessity of having to repeat such topic is that 'we must study it just in case we weren't listening to it last time and also because we might find something new in it'.

On the one hand, that makes perfect sense.

But it's only good up until about the 4th time one is told that.

Kinda reminds me of another example, how can you keep feeding an 8 year-old milk when his body is clearly demanding solids?

Just a thought....

Last Odometer Reading

2006-08-02T19:57:00.000-07:00

Last Odometer Reading, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Note: The Following post was typed up about 2-4 days after the accident.

___________

If you're wondering how it happened, well, going up Corporate Center Dr. on my way home from school last tuesday ~1:30pm, as I approached the middle of the first corner, my tail slid out causing me to not only loose control, but caused the car to massively oversteer. No amount of counter-steering would've been enough to correct it.

So I headed for the curb nearly perpendiculat to it. My front-left tire (driver side) was the one to hit the curb. It popped. Amusingly though, the rim suffered no damage other than the obvious mud on it.

I then bounced off a tree with the front bumper which ripped off my front license plate (I recovered it, btw), smothered the radiator fan into the radiator, broke the clutch cable, and snapped the front right side of the chassis from the bumber. The headlights and right corner light shattered from having the top of the bumper section smashing upwards into them.
Oh, and it seems one of the motor mounts are still good...

Then my car proceeded to straighten out and run over a 'No Parking' sign finally resting about a meter past the sign with the three good tires in the brush on the curb and the other one on the street. And if it wasn't for the sign the MPKPD wouldn't've had to fill out a report and subsequently issue a Notice To Appear for 'Unsafe Speed' and 'Uninsured Motorist'.

He was nice and all but never got out of his patrol car. He told me that I would be getting a letter in the mail explaining the procedure. He also gave me the report number and the yellow copy of the Notice To Appear. Not only that he told me another thing. A very important thing.

Worst case scenario: License suspension for 6 months

*sigh*

Because of the damage to the transmission I've decided not to fix it since it wouldn't be worth it but rather sell the car and use the money as a down payment on another car. Prefferably a GTS coupe of the same year. Oh, and insurance. Definetly gonna spring for that next time.

In case anybody wonders if a car like that is sellable, yes. Yes it is. Me pop has already mentioned two potential buyers for it. Eventhough they only want it for the engine :P
But for the moment, the car is sitting outside my place of residence if you feel any desires to quench the rubbernecker in you.

Because of this, I can't really make it to BCPC in the morning and I've already let Harris know that I'm gonna drop the class. I mean, I can get there early, just not before eight. It's more along the lines of like 8:15-8:55.

I've also broken down and decided that the influx of money is more important that my obstinate desire to not work in a job that has anything to do with food. If all goes well, I'll be working in the Carl's Jr. at school, as a cook so you guys can't see me :P

RIP - El Conejo

2006-04-05T00:43:00.000-07:00

DSC00020, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Post with explanation soon to follow!

I'm okay btw.

4A-F Without A Cam Cover

2006-01-06T02:48:00.000-08:00

4A-F Without A Cam Cover, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I got my car back the Sunday before I had to go in for Jury Duty.

...

I'm gonna leave my opinions out of this post in regards to the condition in which it was in. I'm just gonna post what we (me pop and I) fixed.

After I got out Jury Duty (early, btw), I looked at my car and just.. I grabbed a rag and started to take off what I could of the dust that has begun to turn into crust. I also cleaned the rims. Not only that I popped the hood and also dusted what I could of the engine, filled the radiator with water and then turned the car on to try to figure out when it had begun to leak from.

Water pump was damaged. Not to mention the Power Steering pump was also dying.

So I made my way over to my dad's and parked it in the S&R area and me pop and I started to work on it. Well, after it cooled off a bit. My dad checked on the condition of the water pump while I was screwing around with the spark plug wires. I pulled out the #4 and lo and behold, it was flooded with oil. Luckly the other three were fine which meant no damage to the head.

Rag was put in to begin getting any oil that was in there.

So the oil filter was taken out, as was the oil.

That slowly dripped into the oil pan as my dad took off the cam cover in order to replace the seal. He changed all four at which point I took this picture.

After the cover was back on, the oil was put in, the spark plugs, the oil filter, the air filter, one of the gas filters (it has two, my dad added another one to it) were replaced. The breaks in the back were tightened and as I rolled out, it was discovered the right drum had crystalized. So now when I hit the brakes, it annoyingly squeeks.

And so we made plans for the rest of the car.

I was to takeout the PowerSteering pump while the WaterPump was to be left to my dad to be done on Saturday the 24th along with changing the axle on Moses' Civic.

I couldn't get the stupid hose out. My dad came home during his lunch break in order to get it out and he took it in order to get it cleaned and rebuilt. Not only that but he also took out the PS hose that I couldn't even reach.

At the end of the day, I wound up cleaning my car with a rag and a little spray bottle. Turns out the rag had wax on it. My hands turned white after about 2 hours of constant scrubbing. Save for the bottom section of the side panels, I finished cleaning the entire car (including vaccuming it) the next day. Took me about 6 hours total to get it back to something I could remotely call 'clean'.

And so I kept it clean, then it rained and I took the opportunity and scrubbed it with the squeegee I have and dried it. Sure it got wet again, but I got most of whatever dirt I hadn't gotten before. And yea, I did dry it again.

And now that school has once again started for me, I am constantly cleaning it and keeping it in as dirt-free as possible.

Oh, and it also needs a new clutch. Me father plans to have the original clutch that it had on rebuilt since it's supposedly better than what ever it has in it at the moment.

The drums were spray painted white when they were purchased.

...they're no longer white.

Sigh

2006-01-06T02:06:00.000-08:00

The Sleeper, originally uploaded by thecat16.

"You're a dumbass, you know that?" said the smirking neighbor sitting next to to her during class.

"Wha? Why?!"

Shaking his head and returning to his note-taking was his only response.

Puzzled by this, she desired to investigate but was suddenly interrupted by the professor announcing that class had finished causing the entire room to become too loud to ask for any explanation.

"*sigh* I haven't done anything lately to deserve that kind of commentary from him! Jeez!" she thought to herself as she hurried to gather her stuff and follow her neighbor.

"Great. I forgot my umbrella." She thought out loud as she saw the view outside.

"That's why I said you're a dumbass" said her neighbor while pulling out an umbrella suitable for two.

Left without much of a choice, let alone a response, she walked alongside in defeat.

A Fleeting Vision

2005-12-15T09:41:00.000-08:00

Toujou Aya in a wedding dress..., originally uploaded by thecat16.

As I sat there in the dark staring at what was the ending of Ichigo 100%, a sense of dread and disillusion came over me. So much that I started tearing up. As I looked at the last pic in the zip file, which is the one currently up, one word came to my mind. 無理. Thing is, this word isn't just any word. It's used to imply many things such as 'can't do it', 'impossible' and 'hopeless'.

I really feel like I'm at the end of my rope.

On the one side I got school. Of which I'm not sure for how long I'll have it reason being my financial aid will most likely be cut due to my poor performance. There's a good chance I didn't pass my Data Structures final and I wasn't doing too well in that class to begin with. Then there's the Calculus final to which I attended with a fever. Eventhough I studied and crammed I still didn't feel ready for that test. And I was right. I'm not sure if it was the fever to blame or my own stupidity but when I started to do the test I went blank.

Nothing came to me.

Even the problems I had done before and had gotten full credit for on past exams...

Nothing.

Then there's the fact that I'm still unemployed. It's like the more applications I turn in, the more worthless I feel. I really don't want to work in a fast-food resturant and not because I feel I'm better than that or anything but because of my own mental torture that would go through my mind. "Look at what you've become", "So much for that idea", "Oh? And who said they'd never work in a fast-food place?"

That kind of stuff keeps me from turning in an application. Not to mention what I'd feel like if they also wouldn't call back...

Then there's the matter of my car.

At the moment. My friend Emery has my car. This was due to me lending it to him while his gets repaired.

...

It was a good idea when I though of it but these days I'm not so sure it was one.
Every time his car is brought to my mind I replay this one scene over and over in my head.

"Cut your losses. Sell the MR2 and use what money you get out of it to buy a running car."

Which is then followed by many a thing that my mind believes that he'd say.

Some of them aren't pretty.

Then there's the part of me that wants to ask for my car back and the other part that tells it to refrain from doing so because, well, what kind of friend would I be then?

Do I really want to burn a bridge?

For a car?

.......

And the more I think about it, the more insecure I become. I don't know where I'm going. I don't know what I want. I don't know what direction in life I want to take.

The harshness of this reality hit me quite hard yesterday. Enough to leave me hyperventilating.

It seems the more I go through life the more the impossibility of me seeing a scene like the above increases.

Maybe I should take a year off from school. But, what then?

Hotter Than Usual

2005-10-25T16:05:00.000-07:00

Hotter Than Usual, originally uploaded by thecat16.

俺の友達が怒っていると思う。。。

俺が友達の車を小悪いる　俺のせいからと思う。

So I went for Dim Sum...

2005-09-30T16:22:00.000-07:00

DIM SUM, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Another year is upon me forcing me to once more reflect where I stand, what I've done and what I plan to do.

After having my appeal for Financial Aid reinstituted, I feel glad to be where I'm at. But it also forced me to look back and seriously keep the commitments that I've planned.

Like my classes.

This year I shall embark on a journey, in a more deliniated way. i.e I'm gonna stop screwing around and get some work done.

I'm no longer taking Japanese.

I've planned study time.

I've got the resources necessary to stay on top.

And most of my friends time consuming friends have left to pursue other ventures.

Agh, who am I kidding. One person was who took most of my time. I'd like that time back.

But since it's not possible, I'll move on. Why? Cause I have a bright future ahead of me and if I let myself be reminded of all the crap I've been through, I'll go nuts! Not to mention I'm hard pressed to find anything positive out that experience other that I'll be careful next time around...

But anyway. I hope I can go for dim sum with my friends again like I did last time :D

I really liked the little fried shrimp dumplings XD

Not to mentioned I liked not being chastized for my random character. Specially when that part of my character was exacerbated by my friend Vy who is the most random person I've met.

To describe that morning I'll quote my friend Em, "When you guys get together, all hell breaks loose"

Summer Slacking

2005-06-29T14:26:00.000-07:00

IMG_0911.JPG, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Gosh, I'm so bored...

I'm still waiting on those jobs to call back.

*sigh*

I really want to work. And at this point I'll take anything except a fast food gig or my last job.

But on the bright side, at least I have time to help out in the church projects!
On, saturday and monday we went to the Westin hotel in Pasadena to pull up their old carpet, which is still in rather good condition. And on tuesday I helped Em check out this MR2 that has a second generation 4A-GZE... I so want that engine

Anyway, still got to go friday to get the car.

High Rolla

2005-06-14T21:33:00.000-07:00

High Rolla, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I quit my job about a week and a half ago...

Oh, and I'm also out of school...

So, I have no job and nothing to do...

So I guess I'll look for a job...

I hope Fry's calls back soon...

Holy $EXPLATIVE, Batman!

2005-05-24T23:12:00.000-07:00

05-08-05_1541, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Guess I'm gonna do a somewhat weekly update from now on since it seems that's the only kind of schedule I can sorta keep. Well, being that I'm still in school at the moment.

Last Wensday I gave my Two-Weeks Notice. Note the dash, that means that it is not necesarily two weeks long.
It's actually more like three weeks.
So to give a more defined date, June 4th would be my last day.

On Sunday afternoon I went to turn in my application to Fry's, and when I got to church (~30 minutes later), I realized that I had forgotten to include what I wished my hours to be.

Luckly I rest my faith in God.

He's never failed me.

No, seriously.

Oh, and as for the pic, I just dream of the day that it becomes reality.

Subway Detour

2005-05-15T00:13:00.000-07:00

So I got sent on a subway run by the parental units.

Like always, there was a line.

Anyway, as I neered the end of the creation procedured of the two footlongs and I hear the voice of the person next in line.

At that point I'm thinking "That voice sounds familiar"

Sure enough it was the Homecoming Queen herself, Nicole.

Anyway, about an hour or so later (dunno if it was an hour and honestly, I could've cared less) my dad shows up across the parking lot and grabs my attention with a yell.

Talk about an interuption.

But to his defense, it was my fault. It was supposed to be a quick run.

But then again, I hadn't seen her in over a year.
Plus, I really do enjoy her company.

Best part is that she's just as boring as me and she still values my friendship.

...good friends make life tolerable. Especially when they're also cute. And hopefully she won't ask me to take this pic down like Buchannan did. =^.^=

SeaView - Tsukasa

2005-05-11T22:02:00.000-07:00

SeaView - Tsukasa, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Nothing much happening these days other than being completely immersed in studying calc and working on my CS projects... and scoring 66 out of 96 due to stupid mistakes on my SQL midterm. Mistakes which were mostly due to queries that returned incomplete information. I really wanted to ditch for a day and not tell anyone and head to the beach. I find it relaxing to just stare out in to the ocean.

Luckly, what dampened the blow was getting a 92/100 on my CS Midterm and being told that my code was very clean. Also, having my code being used as an example cheered me up quite a bit.

Now if only I could raise my GPA above 3.0 so I could apply to the JPL internships...

Meh, guess I'll have to stick to the plan to join the Incompetent Tie Brigade that is Fry's Electronics during the summer.

It's a funny thing that no matter where I go (well, almost wherever) is that I'll get paid more than my current pay.

It's also facilitates my resignation.

05-02-05_1907 ~Death To Birdie

2005-05-02T23:39:00.000-07:00

05-02-05_1907 ~Death To Birdie, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Today is a sad day. After finding a parking citation for not having put my parking permit up, I get home to discover that the first bird I caught, a blue Love Bird, is now no longer living. It died sometime between 3:00PM PST and 6:00PM PST.

The landlord was notified when he arrived.

He placed the blame on the green one since a peach-colored Love Bird was supposedly killed by him 4 years ago.

So yeah. First one of the four that have been captured is now the last one to have died.

04-24-05_1637 - Lots-o-Miles

2005-04-29T19:32:00.000-07:00

04-24-05_1637 - Lots-o-Miles, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Well, it's been a while since I last wrote somehting. And this is after saying that I was gonna write something everyday.... which turned into every other day... which turned into every week.. and here we are. Over two weeks and here's a post!
Not much of interest has happened. Other than oficially registering my car under my name, getting the tires rotated, buying more manga, failing a calc test, being praised for having rather clean code, and realizing that the plans for swapping the engine in my car, currently a 4A-F, with a somewhat similar one, the 4A-GZE, are rather primitive an not as throught out as I thought.
The one I want to put in is the second generation of the engine found in the Toyota MR2 here in the States. It is supercharged, puts out about 170hp, and 155 lbs of torque.

So, yeah.
Imagining being able to keep up if not pass Civic SIs makes me giggle.

But such power doesn't come without a price.

I've read up on it and the swap has not been done cheaper than US$3,000. Not including the engine.

Not to mention I'll loose the AC and the power steering. Well, I could do without the power steering but not the AC so I'll have to look into doing this correctly.

I mean, I can wait. I'm not gonna get rid of the car. How many people like to get rid of their first car? I mean people that got attached to their first car, not the ones that don't give a rat's ass about them.

T-Mobile, Motorola And BlueTooth

2005-03-27T17:32:00.000-08:00

03-21-05_1911, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Well, I came home last Monday round ten-ish. So I figure I'd transfer the pics I took during the day and write a short blog. Well, to my suprise, my phone kept saying "Service Not Supported".

I called T-Mobile immediately and talked to a Rep named 'Shane', who couldn't do squat so then I was transferred over a level up.

Next guy was named Preston. He put me on hold.

Preston then proceeded to give me Motorola's CS number and claimed they were open 24hrs since no closing time was annotated on the Phone Number Sheet. Motorola is open 8AM-10PM Central Time mind you.

So I called T-Mobile back and asked for Preston. I was told I would be transferred to his department but not directly to Preston.

After about 15-20 minutes (watching anime while I waited), I find out I reached the Data somethingorthudder Center.

Rep's number was 2744615. He seemed rather irritaded that I was calling. I calmed him down and told him my only reason for calling was so they could write down the times for Motorola's Live Customer Service.

-=The Next Day=-

I called Motorola at 2:33pm PST
Wait Time: ~2 minutes

Got a rep named Cecilia #351035. Talked with an Indian accent.

She transferred me to the Tech Department.

Rep Name: Aida
Rep Number: 4737

Reffered me to a place nearby that could help me out.

Place was called Cell-U-Phone. Their number is 323.727.9131.

Called them up and was told by them that they no longer do the Level 3 Tech Support for Motorola. The Tech then proceeded to advise me to call Motorola back and ask for the Level 3 Tech Support up in Sacramento.

Called Motorola again,
Rep name: Marcelo
Rep #: 351176

I BSed for a bit and he sent me over to Data Support.

I got disconnected at 3:12

3:14 I was back on queue

3:23 still on queue

3:24 they picked up
Rep Name: [did not catch name]
Rep #: 4725

Halfway through, at 3:28 I got hanged up on again. At this point I began to think it was the phone. I was using my mom's.

I called back.
Rep Name: Mary
Rep #: 351190

She was nice. She got me numbers

#1. 916 441 4668 Radio Shack
#2. 922 9347 Changed 916 928
6111 another radio shack
#3. 363 2300 Racho Cordba's Wireless Toys. Nice guy
#4. 649 9900 Circuit City...
#5. 922 4703 radio shack..

3:47 back to dealing with motorola
3:49 on queue

3:50 called back, I went for a different menu option.

3:53
Rep Name: Victoria
Rep #: 351140

3:55 Transfered to Software Support
expected wait time 8 minutes

Rep Name:Christian
Rep #:1026

He was nice. Slight tang of spanish accent in his voice

He gave me his direct line incase I got disconected.
877 331 6456
x2237

He advised reflashing the phone and then gave me the numbers to two places. One of which I already had.

Cellular Phone Reaper (repair?) Services
626 796 6446

I called them up and got their address.

150 E. Colorado Blvd #101
Pasadena, California.

--Today--
I decided to so the Security Updates and I saw that one had a BT update.

So I tried transferring a pic.

It worked.

I wasted 2 hours of my life. But then again, this could help someone else. So far noone has had this problem. I though it might have been T-Mobile's fault since they rolled out a voicemail update over the weekend and thought maybe that could have had something to do with it.

Meh, so I made a mistake.

HD?!? - I'm Not Talking About Video

2005-03-19T23:09:00.000-08:00

*Click-whirr*

That's how my session in front of Neko-kun, my XP-Pro powered tower, started off.

Gah.

I never thought that would happen to me.

I really didn't imagine it ever happening at all.

My 8GB HD, the original HD from my Pac-Bell tower I scrapped a few years back, chugged along for 4.5 years before I stopped using it everyday. Not to mention the fact that it is currently loaded with Red Hat 9 and sitting unplugged in one of Neko-kun's drive bays as a somewhat failed server side-project. It still works.

Well, the drive I had named Otohime, after the sea princess in the Japanese folktale of Urashima Taro died after three days of hearing the *click*whirr*. I played a slight word game with the name. At first though, the Love Hina character Otohime Mutsumi comes to mind, since she is one of my favorite characters, whose last name is written 乙姫. But since I used it to store my music, among other things, I wrote it 音姫, i.e. "sound-princess"

But yeah. I will name its successor the same. I plan to buy a SATA drive. Preferably one over 200GB like my 250GB SATA named Urashima since I like the smallness of the cables. So much easier to handle than the IDEs.

Funny thing is that I had bought Otohime to temporarily replace my current main system drive (20GB) that had suffered a freak accident and locked the system out. I lost all of my high school work due to my idiot-ness of not being able to get the stuff decrypted. So it got reformated and its now my system drive.

But first I have to buy new tires. With this sudden rainy weather, I find that my tires do not have the grip necessary for taking the turns I normally take. My current tires are 14" Falken Ziex 512s. Mighty good tires I might add, but I've worn the outer section down to the point of no grip.

I was considering buying Kumhos maybe the ECSTA 711. Oh well. Only time will tell.

03-15-05_1615 - So Clean

2005-03-15T16:32:00.000-08:00

03-15-05_1615 - So Clean, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I decided to clean my room after I kept getting invaded by ants.

Well, I was reorganizing the plugs for the different devices that I have when I decided to see how it would look if I only had my PowerBook Nami.

I have an Apple keyboard that I use for my tower and plugged that in along with my Logitech mouse (really should get a new one), and here is the result.

*Sigh*

Saddly I'll have to put the CRT back in its place since I can't place it in any other place or position. And I can't afford a new monitor at the moment.

Em just got a 17" Apple FlatScreen on the cheap. Maybe if I save up my money and ask real nice he can hook me up.

It should hold me until I have enough to buy the 23" Apple Cinema Display I've been wanting for the past year.

But then again, I really need new tires.

03-02-05_1508 - StÃ¼ssy

2005-03-13T23:33:00.000-08:00

03-02-05_1508, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Saw this as I was walking to lunch after dropping some books into my car.

Em, this one's for you.

On a side note, I went to go pick up my sweater that I left at Em's the night of the photoshoot. Well, John showed up. A conversation was had. We parted ways. And as soon as I got home I remebered that I had left my sweater at Em's again. Well, at least I left it on a different couch this time.

Tired~

2005-03-06T21:59:00.000-08:00

Gosh, I'm just so tired. Tired of all the work I have to do. Tired of the stuff I don't.

I can't even get a decent night's rest, let alone a decent hour of sleep.

I really dislike headaches. Especially the ones that cause the front side of your head to hurt when you read.

On a side note, Underpowered did a little something in response to Something Positive's post about cat-girls in webcomics.

02-27-05_2236 - The Trump

2005-03-01T22:24:00.000-08:00

02-27-05_2236, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Pic of The Trump.

Damn Sociology paper has me by the ringer, therefore no long update tonight.

Oh, and to whoever cares, should I adjust the levels of the pics before I post them?

Kinda want to know before I start putting time into it.

"You Can Avoid Being Fired... For A Price~"

2005-02-28T16:02:00.000-08:00

"You Can Avoid Being Fired... For A Price~", originally uploaded by thecat16.

Here is the Portrait. Em scanned it and I cleaned it up a bit.

His scanner has some dust on the glass...

02-27-05_2255 - "You can avoid being fired... for a price~"

2005-02-28T00:41:00.000-08:00

02-27-05_2255, originally uploaded by thecat16.

So I get a call from Em asking if I wanted to be in a photo shoot. Namely one of John's homework assignments. I asked what time and arrangements were made for me to show up around 9-ish at night.

So I do.

So I camly park my car and what do I see parked behind me? A nicely fixed up Corolla GT-S.

Anyway, I go inside, greetings are exchanged and the shoot starts.

Near the end of the shoot. Em brings down The Trump since it was brought up in conversation and eventually the conversation turned to taking a picture with The Trump.

I was next to be taken a polaroid of so Em situated The Trump on my shoulder and I looked at The Trump. The gang laughed since it looked like The Trump was stroking my hair. So I took a pic with the timer on my phone. That pic sucked so John asked if I wanted him to take it for me.

I agreed.

And this is the result.

The polaroid is better though. I have a more terrorized look.

02-24-05_1903 - "Let's See Here..."

2005-02-26T15:07:00.000-08:00

02-24-05_1903 - "Let's See Here...", originally uploaded by thecat16.

Another pic. Found it amusing.

A rather amusing casemod found while I was looking for raw anime.

Well, I'm off to fix my Corolla's A/C, heater, air... as in, the blower thingy...
Seriously! No air!
My paternal unit and I managed to trace it to one of the sensors after fiddling around with the fuses. Oh, and one of the relays is somewhat not made anymore. Luckly me father found one that he had aquired from somewhere (I think the dealer) with number 90987-04002.

Meh...see how it goes.

-=Update=-
Pic Removed Cause She Claimed Ugly-ness. I said they weren't. She didn't agree and claimed non-consent.

02-24-05_1905 - "Hey~"

2005-02-24T22:48:00.000-08:00

02-24-05_1905 - "Hey~", originally uploaded by thecat16.

Well, Buchanan came over today to drop off a Cal Grant app that I asked her to bring me... along with a buch of cds she wanted me to make a mix out of. Meh, small price to pay for not having to go get one. Plus, she did the work.

I started taking pics of her randomly. Check out the set on my flickr site, the blurry one looks like she's flipping off the camera but in reality I told her to pose, look at the camera in a somewhat seductive manner, and to put her index finger on her lip.

She did.

She felt embarresed.

She put her arm down just when I took the pic.

And it was such a nice photo-op too!

Well, at least I managed to get this pic after telling her for 5 minutes to leave the bang alone. It looked nice.

...I'm a sucker for bangs.

-=Update=-
Pic Removed Cause She Claimed Ugly-ness. I said they weren't. She didn't agree and claimed non-consent.

02-21-05_2057 - Cayenne S

2005-02-22T23:49:00.000-08:00

02-21-05_2057 - Cayenne S, originally uploaded by thecat16.

It's rather hard to believe the choices some people make when it comes to choosing what to drive. While I may be content driving a small sedan, some people have to go all out and buy 450hp SUVs...

Does not make me feel safe at all. Damn SUVs kill more people than they protect!

12-21-04_1411 - Keggie

2005-02-21T10:34:00.000-08:00

12-21-04_1411 - Keggie, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Took this pic back in December. This thing was rather interesting by the fact that it was there and out of place. Costco is usually organized so when things are out of their place, they're rather noticeable. So yeah, pic of a keggie. A small keg. Brought to you by Beck's.

12-24-04_1740 - Giftwrap-Pimpin' Em

2005-02-20T22:56:00.000-08:00

12-24-04_1740 - Giftwrap-Pimpin' Em, originally uploaded by thecat16.

This is Em. He saw shiny gift wrap. He put it on as a cape. He pimpin' now. Go, Em! Slap dem (ho)^3's!

01-04-05_1912 - Buchanan

2005-02-20T22:52:00.000-08:00

01-04-05_1912 - Buchanan, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Its rather disturbing the poses a person can do when they think the pic is gonna be trashed...

02-14-05_0911 - Big Ass Truck

2005-02-19T18:35:00.000-08:00

02-14-05_0911, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Took a pic of this truck when I was getting home on Monday at the corner of Atlantic and Riggin in Monterey Park. It was a big truck. Really big. Too big.

Don't like these things on the street. Out on the farm, yes. Here, no.

2005.02.16---Uptime

2005-02-18T00:00:00.000-08:00

2005.02.16---Uptime, originally uploaded by thecat16.

Pic of my uptime...
Wouldn't say I'm proud of it since it'll make it seem like I have small man syndrome (yeah, thanks Em).
But I'll post it anyway.

A Hill Named Suicide

2005-02-17T23:07:00.000-08:00

So our instructor decided to add a new part to our alread strenous rutine. As if an "8 flights of stairs" code named 'Cardiac Hill' weren't enough, the infamnous and relatively unknown 'Suicide Hill' was added to the mix. Luckily, this one is a hill unlike Cardiac which is steps, stairs, and and somewhat flat inclines all made of concrete.

We ran up Cardiac Hill. Then ran down it. Then ran up Suicide Hill. The ran down Cardiac and back up Suicide since the first time around was 'Unsatisfacory!"

All in all it was a fun run. The incline in the parking lot leading to Suicide considerably slowed down a third of the class.

And here I though I was gonna miss not having O-Course today...

01-28-05_2241

2005-02-16T09:49:00.000-08:00

01-28-05_2241, originally uploaded by thecat16.

This is my car. It is a white 1989 Toyota Corolla DX sedan which has upwards of 146k on its original engine. And it can still do over 100mph...

Hajimaruzo

2005-02-15T23:47:00.000-08:00

I've always wanted to have a blog. I kept trying to keep stuff like a journal but never kept them. Meh, guess it was because I had no pictures. Oh well, I have a camera phone now so that'll have to do until I get a real camera. It's a Motorola V600 and with the Bluetooth on my PowerBook, I'll never worry about the charges. Mua-ha-ha!