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| 2009-12-14 11:26 |
Resistors Are Fissile: Meme C/O ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thejim |
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Leave me a comment saying "Cripes A'Mighty."
• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions
[thejim's Questions:] 1) Favourite Mecha and why?
Probably the Aestivalis from Nadesico. Granted, it's not that big and it's not that powerful, but it's quick, it's tough, it looks cool, and can be adapted dozens of ways depending on the mission.
2) Favourite Mecha-centric series and why?
Right now it's a bizarre even split between Zeta Gundam and The Big O. Zeta Gundam because I identify a lot with Camille Vidan and how, as a misfit, he'd get himself in trouble every so often. The Big O because of its psychology and how it works in spite of its juxtaposition of police/private eye procedural and giant superhero robot elements.
3) Aviation Management...what is it? What got you interested in it?
The economic science and practices behind the running of an aviation-related business: airlines, airports, aircraft factories, flight schools, crop dusting, air taxi and so on. This was a compromise because my folks didn't have the funds for me to concentrate strictly on a Professional Pilot program (which is aimed at making the student Airline Captain material).
4) What got you interested in Mecha in the first place?
I'd been a fan of Japanese science-fiction cartoons since childhood, specifically Speed Racer, Battle of the Planets and Star Blazers...so when Robotech came along at the time I left High School, I was pretty receptive to it.
5) What is the air-speed velocity of an unladen GRF-5K Griffin? Alternately, what is the level-ground maximum speed of a Scopedog? Why did you know either of those?
The -5K variant is new to me. I only have handy information on the earlier models...although, if the Griffin were fitted with the disposable wing system its anime Soltic Roundfacer inspiration could use, then it could easily exceed the 15 meters per second "book figures". As for the Scopedog, the Roller Dash system redlines at 108 kilometers per hour. This isn't spelled out in the VOTOMS RPG rulebook, but can be easily calculated. PS: Just saw on SARNA.net that the -5K Griffin can do 24 meters per second airborne.
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| 2009-12-09 18:57 |
| Full Frontal Nerdity |
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( The Gun Pr0n Genre Begins To Reach Its Logical Extreme? )
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| 2009-12-06 00:01 |
| I'm Bord! I'm BORD! I'm Chairman Of The...BORD. |
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( Border Break! )
A new Japanese arcade video game that looks very MMO-ish. With the current state of console games these days, is a MMO like this possible now?
SEGA!
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DISK 1
1) Opening Theme: Sea of the Stars
2) Modest Mussorgsky's Night On Bald Mountain, 1st Movement
3) Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, 9th Movement
4) Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, 1st Movement
5) Anton Bruckner's 1st Symphony, 1st Movement
6) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 41st Symphony Jupiter, 2nd Movement
7) Ludwig Van Beethoven's 5th Symphony, 4th Movement
8) Beethoven's 4th Symphony, 2nd Movement
DISK 2
1) Franz Schubert's 4th Symphony Tragic, 1st Movement
2) Piotr Tchaikovsky's 6th Symphony Pathetique, 1st Movement
3) Dmitry Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, 3rd Movement
4) Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, 4th Movement
5) Mozart's 19th Symphony, 2nd Movement
DISK 3
1) Shostakovich's 8th Symphony, 3rd Movement
2) Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, 2nd Movement
3) Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, 4th Movement
4) Antonin Dvorak's 5th Symphony, 2nd Movement
5) Johannes Brahms' 3rd Symphony, 4th Movement
6) Brahms' 3rd Symphony, 3rd Movement
7) Closing Theme: Song of Well Wishes (歓送の歌)
The liner notes specify which music was in which episode (scene-by-scene!), but I suppose that some of the content was collected in the other sets. Other composers mentioned in the selections for this series include Bach, Mahler, Handel, Grieg, Chopin, Haydn, Wagner, Rachmaninoff, Mendelsohn, Berlioz, Stravinsky, and Schumann.
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Hunted down all the tracks for the Legends of Galactic Heroes soundtrack. I don't know if it was the data on the disks themselves or Gracenote that had the problem, but when I ripped the disks to Winamp the titles didn't all match what was on the liner notes. The liner notes were right tho'.
Dunno if there are any fan sites that keep track of this sort of thing that are current. I may just put my track listing up here if anybody is really interested.
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| 2009-11-28 15:36 |
| I Went There To Sell-- |
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--And wound up buying. I suppose that means the economy might actually rebound.
THERE is a stall at the Kodak Flea Market, one that trades in comic books, action figures and other such memorabilia. What I brought to sell is unimportant.
What I bought is two anime soundtrack CDs: Idol Defense Force Hummingbird and the third part of Legends of the Galactic Heroes TV series. In the process of uploading the content to my computer. It'll take a while; the LOGH soundtrack set is three disks!
The seller has a couple milk crates worth of anime CDs for cheap. Initial D, Ex-Driver, Urusei*Yatsura, Orange Road, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, game soundtracks...
And they're cheap because, as I noticed when I opened the packaging, they're Taiwanese bootlegs. I suppose I get what I pay for.
FP
PS: On the LOGH content...as those of you who are hard-core otaku may know, the overwhelming majority of the music for the show is symphonic classical, which means my decades of listening to local NPR stations' afternoon programs is "paying off"--somewhat. (What do you mean we don't have any Shostakovich in our CD collection?--Guess I have to look it up in the Encyclopedia if I have any hope of spelling that correctly.) I can read kana...but figuring out classical catalog notion when it's rendered in kanji is a challenge. At least all the numbers are "Arabic" Numerals.
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Sempai Mike called last night. I asked him my question about what actor they'd cast in the role of Khan in Star Trek. He said Cheech Marin.
What a goofball.
I bet he thinks the same thing about me, though.
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Last week news broke that Khan was going to show up soon in the Star Trek movies, and I think it would be a good idea to brainstorm actors we might want to see in the role.
Viggo Mortensen?
Johnny Depp?
Sean Bean?
Antonio Banderas?
Who acting today can carry off the combination of menace, panache and (let's be honest here) studliness that Ricardo Montalban had in the role? Your thoughts.
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| 2009-11-06 17:05 |
| Stuff I Find When I Seek Elsethings |
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( Industrial Divinities )
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...Tho' I'd probably have to ask Paul Francis and Steve Johnson about that.
The Quest For Apocalypse
Somebody in the present day receives time-travellers from the far future. Turns out they were hoping to see the end of the world as it allegedly happened in their falsified history books. The future leaders had gotten to power under the lie that they had regenerated civilization after dark ages that started sometime in the Twentieth Century...a lie that they had manufactured using disaster movies from our current era. The host feels duty bound to tag along with the travelers, not only to keep them out of trouble but to prevent them from causing the events that would lead to the dark ages. Luckily, the time travelers realize what the dark age really is, and go back to their own time to bring about a different kind of Apocalypse.
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| 2009-10-03 12:14 |
| Dreams I Shouldn't Have, But Do |
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Remember my post about Sparkplugs: The Swindle? Had another one of the dreams last night. Same filmmakers. They made a parody prequel of Spaceballs titled Spaceballs - (Minus) : The Menace Attacks Revenge...basically doing the lampoon job Spaceballs did on the initial Star Wars movies for the prequel trilogy.
It was about the child who would grow up to become Dark Helmet, of course. The main sequence in the first reel was a demolition derby, and Dark Helmet was sore that as the only surviving driver, he wasn't declared the winner...only problem was that all the officials, most of the spectators, all of the media and all of the citizens of the spaceport hosting the event were killed off in the derby's collateral damage. I gave up on watching the rest because 1) I never SAW Spaceballs; 2) I haven't seen most of the Star Wars prequels.
PS: In my travels today I went to a flea-market I know. At the zone that sells action figures, old video game cartridges and comic books, they had a replica of the Assault Rifle/pegleg from Grindhouse. As bizarre as I thought it was I thought "I bet my Facebook buddy Paul already has one."
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| 2009-10-03 00:34 |
| More Than Meets The Eye |
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( Nationalists Wage Their Battle To Destroy The Evil Forces Of...The Maoists! )
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| 2009-10-02 14:22 |
| Writer's Block: Life is a masquerade |
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There's hardly any point for me. I live in the boonies, nobody invites me to parties (and justifiably, if I have to say so) and I don't have an obligation to dress up through work or school. I've done the cosplay thing at one sci-fi convention, and it was a mediocre experience that I don't care to repeat. My sempai in Florida is a huge fan of cosplay and sends me disks with hundreds of pictures of other fans in costume...and I'm too old and too poor and too lacking in talent to pull that level of stagecraft off.
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Went to the Ross discount store in Morristown tonight because I had, on previous visits, seen Mechwarrior Solaris VII "Clicky" box sets on sale. Found three (two Heavy and a Light) and bought them all. So it came out to a dollar a Mech. Dunno if other Ross stores have them.
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