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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2007-10-02 12:47 pm

Don't Listen To Ondore's Lies!

There was a guy with a Griever necklace in my Approaches to Meaning in English lecture. I stopped him on his way out and told him how awesome he was and asked him where he'd got it from and generally made a complete prat of myself, but I have an excuse, and that excuse is Griever necklace.

Also, I have got more post, because you are all ridiculously lovely. I will talk about it under the cut, because I imagine most of you are fed up with my 'eeeeee, post!' entries by now.


[livejournal.com profile] draegonhawke has sent me another hilarious postcard, this one with a drawing of Captain Jack Harkness attempting to chat up a rather bewildered Milotic on the front, much to Sam Tyler's despair. The back suggests the caption, 'It hadn't even cast "Captivate" yet!' IT IS A WORK OF GENIUS. (I'll probably have to scan some of these things in when I next have access to a scanner.) One of the stamps did, indeed, appear to have a tiny '666' printed on it, which rather confused me until I realised that there was an extremely difficult-to-see additional yellow '6' at the beginning. '6666' is no less mysterious, but at least it's slightly less Satanic.

[livejournal.com profile] reipan has sent me a letter written on paper that inexplicably has pictures of sushi all over it and is held together with what appear, rather worryingly, to be tentacle stickers. (Oh, Rei, I recognised the handwriting from the envelope alone. Not signing it would have fooled nobody. ALSO, I ALWAYS WANT CRACKFIC. YOU KNOW I DO.) By the way, Rei, if you write 'P.T.O.' on both sides of a piece of paper, you have essentially doomed the reader to eternally reading the first two sides of your letter over and over and over again. That was probably intentional, wasn't it? Because you're evil. (The fact that I am now caught in an endless loop of letter-reading does not make me any less grateful for the letter, however.)

[livejournal.com profile] twilit_wanderer's letter opened with a series of warnings which included 'She will write letters until told to stop!', which I am both amused and pleased by, and included a line in Al Bhed, which, I was slightly concerned to discover, I could read perfectly well without looking at the translation. In fact, the translation says 'does' while the Al Bhed says 'will'. Was this a secret test of my Al Bhed-reading skills? Do I pass?

In the letter itself, she wrote about cave-drawing Pyramid Head and included a doodle of stick-figure herself going 'D:' at stick-figure Pyramid Head (THAT IS THE SECOND STICK-FIGURE PYRAMID HEAD I HAVE RECEIVED IN TWO DAYS WHAT THE HELL) and drew her Brilliant Techniques For Spider-Elimination and mused on how tall a model Jeremy Clarkson would have to be to fit with her Transformer figurines and generally made me laugh like a loon. Although she has now permanently associated spiders with the Weeping Angel statues from Doctor Who in my mind, which is horrifying. And I would love to hear about Vana'diel!


I have realised, rather to my alarm, that the way in which I write Balthier can sometimes make him sound very similar to the Master. I'll have to make them meet at some point and see what happens. (If Balthier hadn't been a hero, he could have made such a good villain.)

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually figured out the 6666, long after I sent it off. It was probably printed with offset printing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_printing), and it was tasting the Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK) ink streams. Wacky color tests! ...why it had to use "6"s is beyond me, though.

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...TESTING. Not tasting. Tasting would be weird.

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
•L• And 18 us just such an arbitrary number, too! I mean, 18? (Sure, it divides nicely by 1,2,3,6, and 9, but 12 and 24 divide evenly by 1,2,3,4,6, and 12, so it loses out on the "maximal pretty ways to arrange the booklet" angle.) But mine came in a roll of 100! That's $37.00, which has almost nothing to do with $6.66.

Randomly, because it has been a random morning, what is your keyboard layout like? You can't actually be stuck with the $ right above the 4, can you? And if you aren't, how do you code PHP?

...I wonder about strange things.

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
1:!   2:@   3:#   4:$   5:%   6:^   7:&   8:*   9:(   0:)

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:38 pm (UTC)(link)
...aww, those last pairs. Toupee Guy is sad and halo Guy is happy.

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Strange! Our ' and " share the same key between the ;/: and the enter/return. ;/: is at the end of the home row, right after Ll.

...and now, to class.

[identity profile] kadrin.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to butt in, and I know I rarely stand for America over the good old mother country, but...

To the immediate left of the Enter key is the only sensible placement for the " key. Because that way, using only your right hand, you can hit Shift with your middle and ring fingers, and move the index finger only a tiny amount to create a ". In high-dialogue situations, taking something from a quarter of a second to an eighth of a second and requiring decidedly less effort is, in my opinion, total win.

On the other hand, that's so a hash sign, not a pound sign.

I GUESS I JUST DISAGREE WITH EVERYBODY. CONTROVERSY!!!

[identity profile] kadrin.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, that's exactly what I do for the allcaps sentences myself. It's weird; I found myself thinking that I always used right-middle-ring for Shift, but then I started to write an allcaps sentence to prove a point and... left little finger. How weird, I thought. Maybe there is hope for weird British keyboards after all.

But you'd have to be trained into it. Don't cry for me, Riona. I'm already dead.

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2007-10-03 02:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, the Russian keyboard has the " over the 2, now that I look at it. It goes:

1-!   2-"   3-№   4-%   5-:   6-,   7-.   8-;   9-(   0-)

..which weirds me out to great extent.

[identity profile] twilit-wanderer.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
ahaha, yes, that could be possible (I honestly do not remember). I have done that to people - sometimes I throw in a completely random line that does not relate to ANYTHING, as if it is my fault orange is not a primary color, and see if anyone notices, but no one ever does, because they generally only read the translation.

It is good that you do not mind hearing about Vana'diel, because I have started that and it is going to be... probably ridiculously long!.

(And the word I could not remember was synesthesia. Just if that was a sleep-impairing mystery or something.)

[identity profile] newbie1990.livejournal.com 2007-10-02 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You are talking to people and ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT making a prat of yourself!

I enjoy the 'eee, post!' entries! Possibly by now you are tired of me saying 'O HAY ILALL UR ENTRIES'. But yes.

You should have Balthier meet the Master. Because this means YOU WRITING MORE OF THE MASTER.

[identity profile] emmarrrrr.livejournal.com 2007-10-03 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
STICK-FIGURE PYRAMID HEAD IS OBVIOUSLY TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING AND I AM TOTALLY DRAWING ONE IN THE NEXT LETTER TOO. :x

OMG BALTHIER!MASTER

OR EVEN BETTER, BALTHIER/MASTER. Y/N?

[identity profile] emmarrrrr.livejournal.com 2007-10-03 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
NEVARRRRR

also i have only just noticed that the title of this post is "Don't listen to Ondore's lies!" and cannot stop laughing. I DO NOT KNOW WHY.

[identity profile] rubaiyyat.livejournal.com 2007-10-04 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[magi] I'll have you know that I spent about five minutes trying to figure out how I could make and ship a Pyramid Head paper shadow-marionette.

...I did not, unfortunately, succeed.

NIDA!MASTER SUCCEEDS BALTHIER!MASTER SUCCEEDS JESS!MASTER SUCCEEDS SAXON!MASTER Y/N

[identity profile] rubaiyyat.livejournal.com 2007-10-04 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[magi] The progression to Jess!Master is so clear, too. Jess cons Lucy Saxon's ring away in a The Real Hustle special on high-profile cons, maybe for Comic Relief or something, and gloats by trying the ring on, and then BAM MASTER POSSESSION. And it alters her DNA like the watch alters human DNA, and she just flat-out becomes him. And then, since the Master is male, the regeneration process fixes the discrepancy on his next regeneration. Так просто!

[identity profile] rubaiyyat.livejournal.com 2007-10-04 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[magi] Nonsense! The Doctor does it all (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Doctors) the (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Doctors) time (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Doctors).