It Is A Mystery…

Haruhi Figurines! Hooray Merchandising!

400 yen a piece.

Finally, a week without much homework… After a month of almost working solid. Well-earned I think…

I might be able to get something useful done and earn some money for once too.

Also something cool I just learned: The venerable xscreensaver has a native Mac OS X port. Now I can have GLMatrix again! (Poor Windows doesn’t get it, and XGL doesn’t like displaying OpenGL in its windows)

We’ll see how it turns out.

What’s interesting to note is that it’s going to be raining over at least half the day in a good portion of the ‘bellweather’ states for the Republicans. That supposedly means good news for them, but that may not in fact be true, especially with the large discontent with the Neo-cons.

It’ll be interesting to watch…

EVERYONE knows when I’m being sarcastic~ But seriously, while reading online lately, I came across a proposal for the “snark”, a punctuation mark meant to convey sarcasm. While normally this would be a variation of the period-tilde, another page linked from there had proposed merely the tilde. Furthermore, considering EVERYONE wants to type two characters, there will be no reason at all to switch to ~ as a shorthand~ Which is to say that I suspect tilde would become the shorthand anyway. Besides, no one ever uses the tilde normally anyways (save UNIX users and Japanese song titles, and even then those are special cases), so why not just shortcut to the more logical tilde? It makes sense, is easier to write, and then NO ONE will EVER mistake my sarcasm for a blanket statement EVER AGAIN~

Join me and spread the goodness of the sarcasm mark!

Even though I can’t vote this year, being stuck in the middle of a move between two states, here are my predictions for this year’s elections (as motivated by a little raffle if you can correctly guess the numbers):

House:

R: 213
D: 221
I: 1

Senate:

R: 52
D: 46
I: 2 (caucusing with Dems)

NY State Gubernatorial Turnout: 9.43 million

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Between a bunch of things I never felt like writing about, like helping to decrypt the sprites in Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, watching some anime, playing some games, coping with server instability, and the ubiquitous “tons of school,” there hasn’t been much to report. Sorry I’m not more interesting and don’t have more free time…

Oh, I’ve been working a little on the side-project, but it’s on hold until I finish Pokemon Emerald, and still has a long way to go besides.

This week is not fun, and I’m just making it worse by playing it… *sigh*

Eventually I’ll get back to it and finishing Disgaea…