Happy Thursday! The Anime Expo is tomorrow! I've been so busy with school and stuff that it totally snuck up on me and I'm not sure that I actually realize that THE AX IS TOMORROW. I am completely mentally unprepared.
Mostly physically prepared. Laundry's still going, but my costume gone finished about an hour ago. 90% iron-on, 10% glue, 10% sewed. Wait. Whatever. I don't care, I wasn't brought into this world to do math.
I'll just take pictures so you can see what I mean, but lord knows I can't describe it. My own personal cosplay is a mix of no less than five things. It should be pretty awesome.
Um at school today I started the exercises for the next section, which is about running two Server 2003 machines in the same domain with one as the domain controller. I plugged in Linkin Park and chunked through 8 of 11 pages, no prob. It was a great day.
The other kid comes up near the end. He's been here who knows how long, and now I've caught up, right? So we've both just started this section. He's like, "I had trouble promoting my domain controller." And I was all.....you just... you just click on it..... and it goes...
Also, that step was step 6 at the bottom of page one.
Sometimes I feel like a fancy chefs knife kept in a wood block.
But speaking of Linkin Park, I had crazy crazy mixed feelings about the new album (came out day before last but I pre-ordered it so it came in the mail the day BEFORE THAT) it for the first dozen listens, but now I'm sort of hooked. I knew it was going to be different because "different" is their new style, but even so it threw me for a while.
The biggest problem was that the last one, A Thousand Suns, was DIFFERENT in a way that changed my life. It wasn't different so much as perfect. So I was hoping for more of that, but what I got was just a cd. It's fun, and funky, and I like a lot of the new sound and I'm really quite amazed at the level of songmanship on most of the tracks, but it didn't change my life. Which is alright! I put all their stuff on shuffle today, and it was a very pleasant.
I would recommend you to check out "Roads Untraveled," I'm sure it's out on the internet somewhere already. That and "I'll Be Gone" are my two faves, although I actually like "Lies Greed Misery" second best. But for your listening entertainment, I might not point you to that particular one right out of the box.
Alright, homies, I gotta go to sleep so I can be a huge nerd later.
-Steph
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Visitor
Happy Thursday! We have a visitor this week who is my niece Ainsley! What a fun time we're going to have once I get out of school for the weekend!
I don't know... what happened this week? I feel like it's all gone by so quickly. Last week I had off, right? So probably what it is is I got back to class and then forgot about what it was like to do anything else.
School's good, though! When I got there I was like "oh yeah I don't know any of this," but a few days later now I'm all supa pro at this section and feelin pretty good about it. Reading the manual actually helps a lot, too.
Wow, what an update. But I don't know what else to say and I should be getting to sleep, so catch ya later!
OH no, also, one night we made fish tacos, which were the best. I'll make them for you.
-Steph
Oh yeah, and we rode bikes on a newish bike trail in Santa Paula on Father's Day, and went to the barn museum that was there and looked at all the old tractors.
I don't know... what happened this week? I feel like it's all gone by so quickly. Last week I had off, right? So probably what it is is I got back to class and then forgot about what it was like to do anything else.
School's good, though! When I got there I was like "oh yeah I don't know any of this," but a few days later now I'm all supa pro at this section and feelin pretty good about it. Reading the manual actually helps a lot, too.
Wow, what an update. But I don't know what else to say and I should be getting to sleep, so catch ya later!
OH no, also, one night we made fish tacos, which were the best. I'll make them for you.
-Steph
Oh yeah, and we rode bikes on a newish bike trail in Santa Paula on Father's Day, and went to the barn museum that was there and looked at all the old tractors.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Summer Vacation
Happy Thursday! How have your summers been? Mine's been a bit overcast, but on the other hand I've had all day every day to enjoy it, so it kind of evens out. Back to school on Monday, though.
This week has been all video games and sleeping, not gonna lie. Spent allllll weekend watching the Major League Gaming League of Legends tournament live stream. What a weekend.
Now I'm watching the Justice League and building a tower defense adventure map in Minecraft. Because I dreamed it! It'll be an open-ended fully customizable objective-based map you can play with friends. Competitive mode would be a capture the flag type team battle, where you raid the other towers and try to destroy their flags and put them up at your tower. Cooperative mode would be a creative "build your own castle" adventure with additional goals like finding specific areas and rebuilding certain structures. The world that I finally settled on spawned some pretty cool mountains and stuff, and there's sooo much ocean in every direction. I think it'd be pretty fun to play when I finish setting it all up.
Most adventure maps for Minecraft are all jumping puzzles and awkward stories related through in-game signs or text files. And they usually have "don't break any blocks" rules to force you through the map in the right order and so you don't bust up any wiring behind the scenes. My map would be Minecraft at its most basic, where anything goes. If you can tunnel through a wall to achieve your goal, by all means go ahead and tunnel. It'll be like a sandbox map within a sandbox game. Mineception.
Saw the Avengers again with Carolyn, and worked some more on our cosplays. By worked I mean I watched Doctor Who and Carolyn worked on our cosplays. Avengers was still pretty good second time, not as outrageously funny because the surprise element was gone. Thor was my favorite.
That about sums up my week!
-Steph
This week has been all video games and sleeping, not gonna lie. Spent allllll weekend watching the Major League Gaming League of Legends tournament live stream. What a weekend.
Now I'm watching the Justice League and building a tower defense adventure map in Minecraft. Because I dreamed it! It'll be an open-ended fully customizable objective-based map you can play with friends. Competitive mode would be a capture the flag type team battle, where you raid the other towers and try to destroy their flags and put them up at your tower. Cooperative mode would be a creative "build your own castle" adventure with additional goals like finding specific areas and rebuilding certain structures. The world that I finally settled on spawned some pretty cool mountains and stuff, and there's sooo much ocean in every direction. I think it'd be pretty fun to play when I finish setting it all up.
Most adventure maps for Minecraft are all jumping puzzles and awkward stories related through in-game signs or text files. And they usually have "don't break any blocks" rules to force you through the map in the right order and so you don't bust up any wiring behind the scenes. My map would be Minecraft at its most basic, where anything goes. If you can tunnel through a wall to achieve your goal, by all means go ahead and tunnel. It'll be like a sandbox map within a sandbox game. Mineception.
Saw the Avengers again with Carolyn, and worked some more on our cosplays. By worked I mean I watched Doctor Who and Carolyn worked on our cosplays. Avengers was still pretty good second time, not as outrageously funny because the surprise element was gone. Thor was my favorite.
That about sums up my week!
-Steph
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Out and About
Happy Thursday! What a cool week I've been having. Cool as in, incredibly warm out. The internet tells me I can look forward to this summery weather for at least a little while longer. I can't imagine living in a place where I could count on summer weather all summer long. That's a dream I will continue to chase.
Got another chunk of The Man's monies comin my way, so watch out baby, Imma buy me a tank 'o gas. Bwahahaha. Actually, I want to be more environmentally aware. Any ideas? I already recycle cardboard boxes and Dr Pepper cans.
All this week I seem to have been out having adventures. Dawn to dusk out of the house, kinda different. The other day me and Carolyn and Jacqi and Alex went hiking up at Arroyo Verde. It could have been better planned, but impromptu things always come across that way. But we got to the top of the hill and it was just so magical. Like two hours before sunset, all this wavy golden grass and the shine of the sun just sitting a little farther up on the ridge, everyone in front and above me just mysterious silhouetted pathfinders.
It was a very "why don't we do this every day??" moment.
We were going to go again but we didn't. I need better shoes for it, anyway. And some new pants, I broke a pair. :/ Maybe gas can wait.
But me and Carolyn got started on our AX costumes, which are a secret. I can tell you we're going from video games. And it's going to be so so cute. I have ALL NEXT WEEK OFF so probably try to get it done then, you know, before the day before comes and it's not done. O-ho-ho what wacky dreams I have.
Yeah, so between school, Carolyn's house, Green Forest, Carolyn's house, Starbucks, and the park, and shopping for the AX I feel like I've hardly been home. I just sleep here. And play video games. OH ACTUALLY.
All Sunday I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIQiCAvnko&feature=plcp which is a Minecraft map designed to be played as a team deathmatch in the manner of the Hunger Games. I mean, the video is of the Yogscast hosting said deathmatch on this map that somebody else made. But the magical part is that each team has their own video of events (since everyone pretty much split up at the word Go in order to not be instantly slaughtered by a rival team) and you can watch them also on Youtube. And each time through you learn something different about reality, but it's a totally organic, non-scripted adventure. I'd recommend it just as a psychological experiment, really.
(One of the underlying themes is that of paranoia. Of course everyone knows this is a team deathmatch and that anybody you come across is likely to want to kill you. So the perception is that everyone else, out of sight, is constantly and aggressively plotting your destruction. Only the thing is, that's what every single player is perceiving, meaning that every single player is, in fact, not plotting anybody's destruction. Rather, they are just running fearfully away from anybody else.)
The other great thing about is is the chat in Minecraft automatically logs such information as player name and manner of death, so if you're watching Simon and Lewis play first, at some point you see "hybridpanda45 hit the ground too hard." And then when you finally get around to HybridPanda's video of the event, and he starts climbing up the side of the tallest building on the map....it almost feels like dramatic irony. Totally fun. Intense map, too, must have taken ages to design and construct. Check out the video just for that, if you have to.
On the other end of the visual media spectrum (the humdrum side) we also saw Snow White and the Huntsman. That's all.
-Steph
Got another chunk of The Man's monies comin my way, so watch out baby, Imma buy me a tank 'o gas. Bwahahaha. Actually, I want to be more environmentally aware. Any ideas? I already recycle cardboard boxes and Dr Pepper cans.
All this week I seem to have been out having adventures. Dawn to dusk out of the house, kinda different. The other day me and Carolyn and Jacqi and Alex went hiking up at Arroyo Verde. It could have been better planned, but impromptu things always come across that way. But we got to the top of the hill and it was just so magical. Like two hours before sunset, all this wavy golden grass and the shine of the sun just sitting a little farther up on the ridge, everyone in front and above me just mysterious silhouetted pathfinders.
It was a very "why don't we do this every day??" moment.
We were going to go again but we didn't. I need better shoes for it, anyway. And some new pants, I broke a pair. :/ Maybe gas can wait.
But me and Carolyn got started on our AX costumes, which are a secret. I can tell you we're going from video games. And it's going to be so so cute. I have ALL NEXT WEEK OFF so probably try to get it done then, you know, before the day before comes and it's not done. O-ho-ho what wacky dreams I have.
Yeah, so between school, Carolyn's house, Green Forest, Carolyn's house, Starbucks, and the park, and shopping for the AX I feel like I've hardly been home. I just sleep here. And play video games. OH ACTUALLY.
All Sunday I watched this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxIQiCAvnko&feature=plcp which is a Minecraft map designed to be played as a team deathmatch in the manner of the Hunger Games. I mean, the video is of the Yogscast hosting said deathmatch on this map that somebody else made. But the magical part is that each team has their own video of events (since everyone pretty much split up at the word Go in order to not be instantly slaughtered by a rival team) and you can watch them also on Youtube. And each time through you learn something different about reality, but it's a totally organic, non-scripted adventure. I'd recommend it just as a psychological experiment, really.
(One of the underlying themes is that of paranoia. Of course everyone knows this is a team deathmatch and that anybody you come across is likely to want to kill you. So the perception is that everyone else, out of sight, is constantly and aggressively plotting your destruction. Only the thing is, that's what every single player is perceiving, meaning that every single player is, in fact, not plotting anybody's destruction. Rather, they are just running fearfully away from anybody else.)
The other great thing about is is the chat in Minecraft automatically logs such information as player name and manner of death, so if you're watching Simon and Lewis play first, at some point you see "hybridpanda45 hit the ground too hard." And then when you finally get around to HybridPanda's video of the event, and he starts climbing up the side of the tallest building on the map....it almost feels like dramatic irony. Totally fun. Intense map, too, must have taken ages to design and construct. Check out the video just for that, if you have to.
On the other end of the visual media spectrum (the humdrum side) we also saw Snow White and the Huntsman. That's all.
-Steph
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