complich8’s journal

note: (this is one of those “early march” backlogged thoughts… might as well polish it up a bit and spit it out, right?)
So, more and more I’m finding myself in the skeptic’s mindset… demanding sufficient proof for whatever claims land at my feet — including, increasingly, my own claims.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing… it [...]

Ever find yourself trying to come out with just the right way to say something, only to have a quotation from someone else pop into your head which nails the idea perfectly?
The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head. (~Chris Cornell, Soundgarden, The Day I Tried To Live).
Yeah [...]

h.264 is generally touted as technically superior to xvid (among other alternative codecs). Some fansub groups have embraced this as the next big thing. But most fansub-watchers don’t give a damn. At least, that’s what I get from the following (all images taken July 8, 2006).

HB’s Keroro Gunso. While not seeded, notice that [...]

As of 10:30 am, the 4th of July, 2006, I’m down one more grandparental-type figure.
Not a whole lot to say about it. I wasn’t terribly close to her, but it’s never fun knowing of the passing of people you care about. Still, she lived a long, full life, and died peacefully in the [...]

9 moving cars
a jogger
2 bunnies
a rattling fence in the distance
a custodial worker taking out trash in the distance
a guy on a bike
a very distant bang of metal on pavement
someone coughing on their deck
This, I know that other people probably exist. I wouldn’t have predicted any of them (except for the bunnies maybe) at 2:00 [...]