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Entries for July, 2004

July 3rd, 2004

*kicks symantec*

Symantec makes Norton antivirus, etc, for those of you who haven't had it beaten into your heads by two days and one night of fuckin' troubleshooting.

Norton Internet Security opens for two seconds before shutting itself off, or dissapearing, or whatever it is it's doing when it blinks off my screen. All I know is, its not doing what its supposed to be doing, the free tech support is running me in links circles, which open up pages and pages of stuff before it all hangs.

Which leaves me with: *sobs*

If I didn't have so much, er, alternative fiction and art on my HD I could take it in to have the bugs shaken, beaten or kicked out of it by someone who isn't stumped by the words "msfxx.exe" or "webrb".

They take my money, they make things worse . . . they want 30 bucks for un-automated help.

Fuckers.

rurounibug ; 09:18 PM|fine, ignore me

July 24th, 2004

not dead

At least ephi wondered where I was.

*kick mashi* Ngaku2, tapi sama skali ga nyariin. XP XP *bleeh*

Its been a busy couple of weeks. Busy enough that I couldn't be bothered with the yuck-ness of my computer's . . . uh . . . functioning. If it can be called that. Because it really isnt. T.T

I did, however have time to teach Martin-guki to play frisbee. He's got the chasing, fetching thing down. The letting go bit not so much:

B: leggo!
M-guki: Grrrrrr . . . .
B: Drop!
M-guki: Grrrrrrrrr . . . .
B: DROP!
M-guki: Grrrrrauuuu *chomp* GUKGUKGUK!!!
B: . . . ow . . . .

And he wonders why his dinner is always late. >_<

The other thing I've been busy with is Neal Gaiman & Terry Prathett's "Good Omens". I'll rant about it in due time, but it's about the end of the world, where a demon and an angel decide earth is too much fun to end just yet and set out to stop (or delay it). I't hilarious and fuckin' brilliant!!!

Even my add manages to read continuously for, oh, ten or twenty minutes. XD Really, it's great. Run down and spoilers next time. Hohoho. This is fair warning.

Also working on some original fiction (don't hold your breath) and a new layout for the fic/pic site. (again, don't wait up for it--It has original graphics and I draw as slow as I write. Especially when I'm trying not to be half-assed about it.)

And for the webcomic/manga crowd: New York Times had a short review of Megatokyo. Peh. Now everyone will be in on it. ^^;;;

The New York Times Magazine, however had a poor-ass article about how manga (and several other tipes of comics) are ignorable. The author does mention how manga-girls seem inordinately fond of sailor suits, though. ^^ Man . . . someone's being payed too much. The comics he recomends seem (and I say seem because I'm judging by what the article shows of these books, not having read them myself) a little stodgy. The art in the examples given are stiff (But might mean to be, you know, flavour and all that. I used to have this complaint about South Park.) and the short snippets of storyline given . . . may as well be a novel.

I don't get why someone would recommend comics--sorry, graphic novels--that ignore or leave behind the very things that make comics (Its just shorter to tipe/say, okay?) fun. The wacky stories of manga/comics aren't necessarily ignorable because they're wacky. Often, that's the fun of them. Even American serialized books like Marvel, DC, etc, which I don't feel so fannish about these days (Damn Teen Titans!! Gar!) sometimes have things to say.

Being colourful, young spirited, and not mired in angst doesn't make a book ignorable. There may be a reason the books he recced are hidden, one copy per bookstore, if that, between and behind other, more 'pop' comics.

Not that there isn't incredibly popular crap out there, but be fair--the whole graphic novel output of an entire country can't be 'ignorable'. Just statistically. Even if they were trying to make bad books, it stands to reason they'd make a good one just by accident.

Er . . . . This article annoyed me. Considering it's two weeks old now, you can probably guess how much by this rant. But geez, what a knucklehead.

rurounibug ; 08:36 PM|fine, ignore me

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