So a lot of things have been happening since my last post (part of which has contributed to my lack posting.) I’ll just put some of the more important things in this post.

The most important thing is that classes have started (ok, technically they started a bit before the last post, but I forgot to tell you guys about it >_<) Of note: I'm taking Beginning Japanese I this semester (and sucking horribly at it, so far.) It's kind of odd learning a language where you hear bits of it everyday (ie, anime) and can pick up odd words here and there. It's kind of annoying, actually, haha. I keep on hearing stuff like "wakarimasu" or "asita" (or ashita. My book uses a romanization system that I'm not used to, haha.)

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It’s been an interesting weekend. The very first thing I wake up to is the sound of my OS dying on my spare laptop (ok, it didn’t make a sound, it just reported that the boot file was corrupted.) Unfortunately, I didn’t have my Vista DVD on me (just a DVD-RW, which this laptop can’t read.) So, no more Windows for this laptop.

I decided to get Ubuntu. I thought getting it would be easy, but I was very, very wrong. Of course, since I didn’t have a computer of my own, I had to rely on a friend to burn me a copy. It was just my luck when the first turned out to be a dud. Of course, it was able to go into Live CD mode before anything wrong happened, which left my laptop to be the suspect for any errors. It wasn’t until trying the 3rd Ubuntu CD (and one Kubuntu DVD,) that I was able to install Ubuntu. Three hours after the initial installation, I was (partially) able to get it working like I wanted it to.

/rant

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Move over, Wiimote, there’s a new controller in town. A graduate student at NYU has made a controller that helps couples become more … intimate, The controller is a bunch of sensors that fits inside of a bra for women or on the back of underwear for men. The partners touch eachother’s sensors in order to play games. Yes, I’m not making this up.

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It’s my birthday. I just turned 19. I didn’t really do much, just went out for dinner. Didn’t even get a cake. It was relaxing, though, since I slept in till about 3 pm.

I’m ashamed to say this, but I’ve basically watched none of the “new” Spring 2007 anime, besides Gurren Lagann, that is. Since Spring started, I’ve watched 12 episodes of Gurren Lagann, one episode of Hitohira and one episode of Murder Princess. Yea, pretty pathetic. I do sort of plan on fixing it. I’m really looking at Lucky Star right now.

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Yup, finals are done and I’m back at home (for the moment anyway.) Better yet, my laptop finall arrived. Unfortunately, those jerks forgot to replace the graphics card. Even thought that’s the reason why I sent it to the warehouse, they ended up fixing a whole bunch of issues (motherboard, sound card, etc.)

My graphics card has the unfortunate trait of overheating… quite often. I can run Vista just fine and other non-gaming apps, but once I fire up a game of Medieval II: Total War or some Battlefield 2, it starts to overheat. I can play for about 10 minutes before the computer just shuts down. *sigh* What a waste for a Mobility x1800 to not be able to play any games.

Anyway, since I obviously won’t be playing any PC games, I’ll be playing a lot of my games for the PS2. This will mostly include Dragon Quest VIII, Ar Tonelico, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI. I’m on the last boss for DQ, so I should be able to finish that up next week (or tomorrow.) I was thinking about starting some kind of gaming diary for strategy games like RotTK and posting it here (kind of like what appears on the “Tom vs Bruce” column in Games for Windows.) Once I have some free time to dedicate to RotTK, I think I’ll start writing about it. Hopefully it will be interesting -_-;;

After a month of my laptop being in computer rehab, Alienware has finally decided that it had recovered enough to be allowed to come back home. I hope that this time, it will have recovered for good; rehab takes such a long time.

I’ve finally started catching up on some anime. This may come as a surprise, but I never actually finished Honey and Clover II until now. Yea, I know, so sad. I was kind of dissatisfied with the ending, but mainly cuz what I wanted to happen didn’t happen. I’m sure this happens to a lot of drama fans, so it’s ok.

Speaking of that, I found the PV for the opening song while looking for an mp3. The song’s stuck in my head now -_-;;. I must say, this is one really weird video. You can see it here. I assume all of you have divX codecs installed.

I also finally started watching Spring 2007 anime. I’m having trouble finding out which ones I should watch though. I’ve watched 7 episodes of Gurren Lagann and the first of Gigantic Formula, but that’s about it. I’m open to any recommendations that you guys have. I’m think Idolm@ster might be a bit cool.

And for the last thing in this post, DiscountAnimeDVD is having a 30% off Tokyopop sale. I already have 14 items, most of the Tokyopop titles, lined up on my cart. I’m ready to order once the 14th volume of Negima! hits on the 29th (or doesn’t hit and gets an ugly “arrival delayed” message on the page).

And I totally forgot about it. The actually birthday was on the 22nd of the last month, but now is better than ever. Since then, this site has seen about 26K hits and 48K page views. Honestly, I’m not quite sure about those numbers. I think the data is brought up by a lot of people coming here from Google Images or something, but no matter.

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And by love song, I mean a very well rehearsed fan-made lightsaber duel, so I’m not talking about Saikano. I mean, what can be more romantic than a sword duel?

Apparently, there’s this lightsaber duel video that became an Interweb phenomenon called Ryan vs. Dorkman. I never saw it, but they seemed to have just released the sequel to that video. You can watch the video down below, or you can watch the superior divx version here.

Another folding post from me. Don’t worry, this will probably be the last one from me for a while. With the release of the PS3 and SMP clients for Folding at Home, my interest in FAH has been rekindled (again.) I decided to make my own team (60521.) Feel free to join if you’re aren’t already part of a team (I’ll assume you all have been folding ) Btw, the link to the main folding page is on the right sidebar.

You can probably tell why by looking at this page. Won’t be able to fix this until after my exams this week…

MIT has this thing called IAP. It’s basically a month long vacation from schoolwork. I decided to do two things with my break, 6.270 (an autonomous robot competition) and watching Chinese soaps. My favorite one was Return of the Condor Heroes.