http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2008-05-09&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

La 9-an de majo Rusio festas la Tagon de Venko, kiu estas oficiala ripoztago en la tuta teritorio. La Tago de Venko estas unu el la plej ŝatataj festoj en la popolo, ĉar ĝi estas ja tre ĝustatempa (la unuaj varmaj tagoj!) kaj ne tro politika (sendepende de politikaj starpunktoj homoj taksas grava la venkon super faŝismo en la Dua mondmilito).

Sankt-Peterburgo (en la tempo de milito Leningrado) aparte multe suferis en tiu milito. Blokita de nordo kaj sudo de hitleraj aliancanoj, ĝi travivis trijaran sieĝon, dum kiu proksimume 1 miliono da urbanoj mortis pro malsato kaj frosto. Amaran rememoron pri tiu tempo oni tre flegas en Peterburgo. Mi loĝas proksime de granda tombejo, unu el tiuj, kie oni enterigadis viktimojn de la sieĝo: la 9-an de majo certe multaj homoj venos meti florojn ĉe la eterna flamo en la tombejo.

Historio de la Sieĝo ne estas historio de nur german-soveta milito. Persone por mi estis tre kortuŝa koincido de du faktoj, ĉerpitaj de mi hazarde el diversaj fontoj: inter la sieĝintaj trupoj en la sudo estis ankaŭ hispanaj (frankistaj) soldatoj, pri kiuj konserviĝis bonkoraj rememoroj de lokanoj — la frankistoj ludis kun infanoj kaj kelkfoje savis lokanojn de perforto fare de germanaj faŝistoj (frankistoj militis kontraŭ komunismo, ne kontraŭ rusa etno, — klarigis la aŭtoro). Samtempe en la sieĝita Peterburgo estis domo, en kiu loĝis pli frue enlandigitaj hispanaj orfoj — orfoj de la Enlanda Milito. Veninte de unu terura milito, ili post iom da relative trankvila vivo trovis sin en milito eĉ pli severa, suferis dum la sieĝo, kiun kunfaris iliaj sampatrianoj, kiuj cetere tre ŝatis infanojn kaj helpis fremdajn lokanojn...

Ĉi-jare la festaj bildoj emfazas pozitivajn emociojn ĉe la fino de la milito, en la centro iom nekutime estas ĝoja virino, dum la venkinta soldato apenaŭ rimarkeblas flanke, kisanta ŝin je la vango:

Pacon al ĉiuj legantoj.

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Hello again.

I want to begin a sentence with something along the lines of, "It came to pass that..." I notice in the Brother Grimm stories the phrase "Es trug sich zu" is often used. Is this a good phrase to use, or is there something better?

Went climbing today. It was super fun. I basically cannot break the V1/2 barrier without regular climbing to get my finger-strength up, but I was able to do the big V0+ traverse on my first try!

Peculiar day, emotionally. My electrolytes must be out of whack or something.

Recycled meme:

1. Put your playlist on shuffle.
2. Post the first lines to the first 25 songs to come up (along with these instructions).
3. Have people guess the songs and artists in comments to the post.
4. Post the answers to the ones people guessed correctly. A couple of days later, post the first two lines of the ones no one got and get people to guess again. This is where we are now.
5. Repeat, adding the next line to the unguessed songs each time, until they're all guessed/you've posted the whole song/you've gotten bored/no-one's going to get the damn thing if you don't tell them.

Note: I have ignored little spoken breaks, choruses, and fragments of choruses at the beginnings of songs, and eliminated songs whose first line includes the title.

1. Why this uncertainty? "One in a million," Pet Shop Boys
2. You don't need diamond rings or 18-karat gold
3. I don't believe I went too far "Past the Mission," Tori Amos
4. I got your e-mail "www.nevergetoveryou," Prozzäk
5. He loves her but he sometimes thinks she's crazy "Somebody else's business," Pet Shop Boys
6. Aéroport, aérogare, mais pour tout l'or m'en aller
7. Wake up in the morning with a head like whatcha done (oh, why not a freebie?) "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'," Scissor Sisters
8. Dictation being forced in Afghanistan "It's alright," Pet Shop Boys
9. I've been crying for so long
10. Whisper round the town, 'cause you're my friend and that's the end
11. Some boys kiss me, some boys hug me "Material Girl," Madonna
12. I know what you think, it's clear as mud in your eyes "Shameless," Pet Shop Boys
13. We're buying and selling your history "Shopping," Pet Shop Boys
14. Long live us, the persuaded we "Integral," Pet Shop Boys
15. Too many doubts, too much pain, too much danger
16. Live in my house, I'll be your shelter (another freebie) "I'll Cover You," RENT
17. Thunder in the blink of an eye
18. Hey, Joe, whatcha doing?
19. A man walks down the street "You Can Call Me Al," Paul Simon
20. There's a place for us "Somewhere," West Side Story (covered by Pet Shop Boys)
21. Nager dans les eaux troubles "Désenchantée," Mylène Farmer
22. I may be wrong, I may be right "Tonight is forever," Pet Shop Boys
23. I believe the sun should never set upon an argument (is this a freebie too, or am I dating myself?) "Affirmation," Savage Garden
24. Sí, ya es hora de esconder
25. Round this time of night when the crowds have passed "I want a lover," Pet Shop Boys

I kid you not:

Great tits cope well with warming

Hey guys - just wanted to let you know that my friend and I are looking for another roommate for our 3 bedroom in Bushwick. We have the top floor of a two story, full kitchen, bath, & living room. The place is a pretty good size and in a great neighborhood. It's about 2 1/2 blocks from both the Jefferson and Dekalb L stops. Email WyckoffHeights463ATgmailDOTcom if interested, and we can give you the deetz.

Doom 4 was announced yesterday.

Doom II was the classic first-person shooter game we played in grade 10, a mix of demonic and almost Lovecraftian horror. Our school had a "computer users student organization" that would meet during lunch time, but all we did was play Doom II on the school's LAN. Up to 16 people in deathmatch! So we nicknamed it the "Doom student organization".

Many of us still play Doom II online for free using Zdaemon. I particularly enjoy the coop mode where 16 people can work together to shoot down the demons and complete a level!

Let's not forget Doom, the Roguelike for and even olderskool, rich ASCII experience!

Check out this home-made plush cacodemon!

John Romero is pretty is this picture:

Kawakami Kenshin is BACK woohooooo. And Tatsunami got his first hit of the season! And naturally I was at work for the whole evening and just get to see this stuff on the news highlights. Also 18-year-old Yokohama rookie Ryoma Satoh hit four batters in four innings tonight and catapulted himself into the CL lead in hit batters. AND they're doing the web gems of the week now on Megaspo and I swear I was actually there for like half of these. SO awesome!

Today I thought I would have like 4 hours free in the afternoon between classes so I decided to bring my laptop to GEOS and try to get other things done during the day, except like a moron, I forgot that I'd need a 2-prong-to-3-prong adapter there. And as it turned out I also kinda needed to head home for another reason mid-day, so I ended up coming back to my apartment for about 30 minutes in the middle of the day, which was actually pretty nice, though I ended up dropping my laptop off here again then, and didn't get anything done after all. Sadly tomorrow my nice big expanse of free afternoon time just got chopped in half by having 3 classes added to my schedule tomorrow. Whee.

On my way back to GEOS, I was hit by one of my huge pet peeves -- people who make a big deal about Talking To The White Person In English. I mean, I understand that sometimes these people are just really proud that OMG they know a few words in English, and maybe they think it's Great Customer Service to do so, but really, there are a few main reasons this practice bugs me:

1) I don't WANT you to talk to me in English unless I specifically ask for it. Plus, in general, I can understand your Japanese much better than I can understand your poor English. If I talk to you in Japanese, just reply to me in Japanese rather than short-circuiting your little brain. It'll save us both a lot of trouble.
2) It's EMBARRASSING. The entire country assuming that You Have White Skin, Therefore You Can't Understand Japanese, is REALLY grating after a while.
3) Foreigners speak languages other than English, you know. White Skin does not mean Native English Speaker. I have half a mind to just bitch out the next person who treats me this way, tell them I can't understand English in Japanese, and start swearing at them in Spanish or something. Then at least they'll be embarrassed too.

So anyway, I went to get a katsu sandwich for dinner from Wako in Akabane Station, and I had to wait in line for like 5 minutes due to a fairly slow cashier guy. So finally I get up there and I say in Japanese, お持ち帰りで、ひれかつサンドを一つ下さい ("I'd like one hirekatsu sandwich, to go, please,") and he says in very thick Engrish, "Please wait one minute", gets out the sandwich... then tells me the price (399 yen) in the same slow stupid Engrish. I REPEAT the price in Japanese and put down a 500-yen coin, trying to signal "Stop talking to me in English, you retard", but it doesn't work, as he hands me 110 yen and says "Sankyuu berry machi."

Those of you who can do math will notice that the change should be 101 yen, not 110 yen. And actually normally I totally would go back and correct people for doing that sort of thing (I have done so several times in the past), but since the guy refused to admit that I can speak Japanese, I refused to admit that I can also do math.

So today I asked my doctor's assistent 'Can I do these injections myself?'

He said 'Ehr... sure... but you'd have to shoot them into your leg and that hurts!' and he had to check with the doctor.
The doctor (one of them, not mine) said it was fine, so we did the preperations together. Piece of cake.

I dropped my trousers (haha) and sat down. We poked my leg to find a good spot, and then I grabbed my muscle and the assistent said 'Just dart it in.'

My body very much protested because of the insanity of sticking a 1.5 inch needle fully in my leg, but I managed to resist and darted it in, expecting it to hurt.
Apart from the little prick into my skin I didn't feel a thing.

I then had to pull the whatever-it's-called back to see if some blood would come back which would mean I hit a vein (not good). Not such thing happened, so I proceeded with the injection, slowly. It burnt, ofcourse, so I did it slowly, over roughly 30 seconds (the assistent shoots it in in about 10 seconds, burns more, but is over quickly).

When I pulled the needle out the assistent stuck a bandaid on it.

I then really had to lie down for a bit.

But I still rock.

i`m such a musicwhore sometimes. D;

one of my favorite FAVORITE FAVORITE groups (LADYTRON <33333) is coming out with a new album("#$&$%!!) in June and they`re now accepting pre-orders for an EP from the album packaged with a (limited) signed 7"!! OMG I MUST HAVE MUST. D; but you can only pre-order it through this UK music store that charges a ridiculous amount for guaranteed delivery outside of the UK & US. >:[ GRRR. but eitherway, i don`t have enough money in my US bank account to pre-order the EP now and the signed 7" is available on a first-come-first-serve basis. NOO! D; i must get money into my account asap asap asap, even though its not like i have a lot of it right now. luckily payday is next friday. D; i must have this EP (and hopefully the signed 7")! and the full album comes out on June 3rd-- it`d be the BEST self-bought b-day present. 8) MUST HAVE IT TOO.

just listened to some of the tracks on the new album on the group`s myspace (ewww mypsace) and omgomgomg. D; MUST HAVE AS SOON AS IT'S OUT OMG LADYTRON LOVE <3.

if only their tour included Japan too. :`[ i swear, where`s Japan`s love??

I got a question concerning English.

Our teacher told us something about relative clauses today. He made an example:
The boy who lived in Berlin had blond hair.

But then he said you could also use "that" instead of "who":
The boy that lived in Berlin had blond hair.

I remember somebody telling me you shouldn't use "that" with people, and now I'm confused. Could you please make things clear?


Edit: Thanks for all these fast, useful answers, now I'm relieved, because I told my fellow classmates our teacher wasn't right and that "that" shouldn't really be used with people ^^;

http://www.cartoonlabs.com/comics/index.php?date=2008-05-08&show=sinfest

Sinfest
Tatsuya Ishida

Is it just me, or do all LJ clients suck? Most of them don't even appear to be feature complete. Many of those listed by LJ have since died or are at least being seriously neglected (and it will take some digging to determine this in most cases). Every client I've ever tried has never had anything that made it better than LJ's standard web interface. It was frequently more awkward to use than the simple online form.

The key to a killer LJ client would be to provide some new way of interacting with LJ that LJ itself does not provide or even cannot provide because it's "too heavy" – too resource intensive, requires moving too much information, or simply isn't doable in a web setting using the (un?)holy trinity of XHTML+CSS+Javascript. No-one seems to have implemented anything along these lines.

Too many LJ clients simply attempt to reproduce the online interface. The online interface has already been done. Maybe there are some user interface improvements you could bring to the table, but it's still mostly unnecessary duplication of effort. Not to mention that reimplementing the online interface is not exactly exciting, which might go some way to explain why most LJ client projects shrivel up and die.

Am I mistaken? Have I missed something? Do you use an LJ client that provides some killer feature that would make you hate to go back to LJ's online interface?

Brainstorming is in order. ( Four a.m. thoughts as spare bulleted list... )

Nothing new on Dale today. I expected that. Mom had to deal with doctors appointments herself. I expect something new tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the stress regarding Dad has finally bubbled up. I don't scream. I don't cry (unless a song triggers it. That happens.). I don't drink (although I do have to get a bottle of Maneschevits, now that I remember it). I just get exhausted.

Unfortunately, its usually stupidly exhausted.

So, I'm going to bed to sleep with my cats.

Feeling restless today. Made some progress on understanding resource-monotonicity conditions in HLF this morning, but it's a little more subtle than I expected. I'm on the right track though, I think. Ran into both erika b and jeannie, foremost in the set of awesome people I seem to randomly run into a lot. Also hung out for a while with _tove and fam, her being at the forefront of awesome people I run into in a more semi-planned fashion.

I made this wordless comic for your wordless viewing pleasure. It has only the barest vestiges of "plot", because I just sort of threw it together over the last week or so.

This month is Mental Health Awareness Month, so the LiveJournal team is offering users a chance to support the Depression and Bipolar Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping improve the lives of those suffering from mood disorders. Proceeds from purchases of the Emerging Sun v-gift during May will be donated to the DBSA, so feel free to buy one. Or, if you really want to rack up some good karma points, get a bunch!

And don't forget: Mother's Day is this Sunday. Be a dear and check out the v-gifts shop. Send something that'll make her smile.


L to R: Emerging Sun, #1 Mom, Gift Basket, Chocolates, A Dozen Red Roses


We know how you salivate over the prospect of new themes, especially when they're designed by users with a unique handle on both form and function.


L to R: Shiny, River at Night, Live and Learn, Vector Drips.

( Winners of the HP 'What Do You Have to Say?' Theme Design Contest )


We'd like to remind you that the nomination process for LiveJournal Advisory Board user-representatives has begun. If you think you're fit for the job, now's the time to nominate yourself! After all, you're the only who can do it. In two weeks, on the 22nd, the voting process will begin; we'll remind you about it again here.

If you're interested in keeping up with the nominations, watch lj_election_en. We'll post the results and announce the winner by the end of the day on May 30th. The new user-representatives will be seated on June 1st. Further details can also be found in lj_2008.

Hodiaŭ mia taglibro aĝas kvin jarojn. Duona jardeko en la reto sufiĉas jam por festi etan jubileon. Kiam mi komencis skribi en 2003, mi ne pensis ke mi daŭrigos tion tiom longe.

Dum la lastaj monatoj ofte mankis tempo. Interalie pro tio mi serioze pripensis, ĉu ne fini en majo. Sed ĝuste tiam venis kelkaj tre kuraĝigaj reagoj.

Ofte mi skribas pri U2 dum tiu ĉi tago. Fakte mi hieraŭ aĉetis ilian fruan koncertan albumon "Under A Blood Red Sky". Mia bona amiko Holger forte preferas la vivan version de "Sunday Bloody Sunday". Mi ĉiam hezitis, sed uzis la okazon por finfine cedi kaj akiri la kompaktdiskon.

La honoran mencion tamen ricevas alia verko. Foje ankoraŭ okazas, ke mi aŭskultas kanton en la radio kaj ĝi tiom ravas min, ke ĝi restas en miaj oreloj kaj ne plu eliras. Lastatempa ekzemplo estis "Early Winter", melankolia amkanto de Gwen Stefani.

Nur mallonge poste mi aŭskultis rapidan, feliĉan popmuzikon, kiu ŝajne rekte venis el la 1980aj jaroj. Sed temis pri nova surbendigo, malgraŭ la stilaj similecoj al "The Time Of My Life", "The Promise You Made" aŭ "You're The One That I Want" (kiu fakte estas el la jaro 1977 aŭ 1978).

Kiel mi eltrovis, la disketo "Fascination" de la Dana grupo "Alphabeat" ankoraŭ ne estis aperinta en Germanujo kiam mi jam estis aŭskultinta ĝin du- aŭ trifoje. Almenaŭ la oficiala video ĉe Youtube helpis iomete mallongigi la atentotempon. Kvankam la bildoj mem ne tiom interesas min, plaĉas al mi, ke la muzikistoj aspektas kiel tute normalaj homoj kaj ne kiel fotomodeloj, el kiuj oni provis fari popmuzikajn stelulojn. Kompreneble la impreso pri la natureco povas trompi, tamen mi ĝojas, ke finfine eblas distingi bandon denove de aliaj.

Mi eĉ ŝatas la aliajn du kantojn, kiujn mi trovis sur la Myspace-paĝo de Alphabeat. Ili do ne estas unusukcesa fenomeno. Krome jam en Danlando kaj Britujo ili ĝuas sukceson.

Oni povus miri, ke du tiom diversaj kantoj kiel "Early Winter" kaj "Fascination" rekte trafas mian koron. Sed la recepto estas tute simpla, kiel jam pluraj amikoj de mi rimarkis:

melankolio + romantikeco
aŭ
1980aj jaroj + bona kantado

ŝajne preskaŭ ĉiam funkcias ĉe mi. Mi malŝatas konfesi, ke eblas kalkuli mian muzikguston tiom facile, sed estas tiom evidenta afero.

Wooo SUMMER!@@!

(more later when I am not so tired)