Direct Import from Poland
I was driving down the street yesterday, heading to the west end of the valley, and on the side of the street there was a scrolling marquee. I wasn't really watching what it said, but then a strange ad caught my eye, for "Polish Wax". It took me a couple moments of wondering what sort of food that was, thinking along the lines of a Polish sausage, before I noticed that the sign was for a car wash facilility, and was talking about polishing the car as part of the service.
Such trickery from the English language.
Tags: anecdote english pronunciation
Finite Infinity
At this point I've decided that Ties to Infiity will never finish, so I've deconstructed the Hehehee! The Story section of the forum and moved the topics back. At this point I will go into some post-mortem for it, and finish out the storyline I had come up with that I was guiding it in. As far as the way I inteded on making it go, I was only loosely guiding the story, and letting most of what happened otherwise just come about with whatever anyone felt like posting. I'll start by explaining what I was setting up for the current chapter as to how it was going to end, since it was nearly over.
Morganna had met up with Evil Chii in a zone on Omega server, and was talking about a plan to get back at The Anaconda. What her plan was would to be to guide everyone to one location and trap them there. Infoseeker and Windjet had found there way there one way, while Smith and party had just joined up with Aura and Skeith and were heading into the World, where they would head to the same location. Once on that location, which would be on it's own machine, all connections would be locked down so nobody could leave, and Morganna and Evil Chii would move in, unleashing a monster protected with the new Drain Lock encryption.
The very last post in the thread is a dream that The Anaconda has, in a conversation between him and someone he does not recognize, who ends up shaking him out of his intent of staying in the New Matrix. He and Reone then get equipped up with some Spirit weapons, and head out to leave the New Matrix. They are opposed by one of the members of Absolution, who sends out a beast called the Gatekeeper to fight them. The Anaconda then uses his new Twilight Bracelet function Data Capture and drains the Gatekeeper, gaining a unique virus core. They then escape the New Matrix and get over to The World, where everyone is losing against the monster that can't be defeated, can't be Data Drained, and isn't even being weakened. He then gives a real test to the new function, rematerializing the captured data from the unique virus core and creating a weapon called the Absolution Gun, which completely obliterates the monster. As they are all recovering and standing around wondering what just happened, Morganna then makes her move, using her Agent powers to take over the body of Reone, and then disappearing.
Tags: ties_to_infinity
Quite a Disappointment
What I listened to:
Ommadawn Part 2
What I expected:
Ommadawn Part 1 / Hergest Ridge Parts 1&2
What I got:
"It's Good To Be On Horseback "
Uhh.....
Tags: music
Unholy Holy Water
With the update today for Skewed, I think we can now appropriately more or less mark the midpoint of the story. Revealing the true purpose of the Storm, which has been one of the two major factors that existed since the very beginning of the story, has put it at a major milestone now. If you haven't read the update yet and don't want to be spoiled, go read that first, because I'm going to talk about it here now.
When I started writing Skewed, I didn't particularly have anything specific in mind for what the Storm would be. I will do this occasionally, starting a story referring to something that I will figure out later. It wasn't until last November, while watching a British miniseries called Eleventh Hour, starring Patrick Stewart. I had never heard of the concept of heavy water before, though I had heard of deuterium and was familiar with it for use in nuclear fusion, rather then the use of it for producing fuel for nuclear fission. I had known it could be extracted from primarily seawater, however I didn't know the molecules had a different effect on the properties of the water.
With this post reached I've hit a major goal for now, combined with the finishing of all the major functions of the map editor I'm writing for Spiral Island. My goal was actually to get this post out a week or so ago, when I was doing another update blitz, and then focusing solely on knocking together all the maps for Spiral Island before going back to work more on Skewed again. However a bit of a block for the update with the New Standard, as well as some problems getting the last of my functions working for the map editor ended up pushing it back until now. Plus it's coming up on October again, so time to work on some more of "Celebration" if I can fit some in this time.
Tags: celebration skewed television
AIM Talk
So I just remembered Sony Ericsson phones have built-in functions for posting photographs onto Google's Blogger service. I had started setting it up some time ago, then couldn't find some of the information for finishing setting it up. I just remembered it tonight while updating my Blogger settings for commenting on blogs, and so I decided to finish setting it up. Now it's all set up, so I can push pictures over whenever I feel like it. I'll have to add a link to that blog page on here when I update to PivotX, I don't really have anything on there at the moment except for some test sendings.
One of the things that comes with communication over the internet is a breakdown of language. Spelling drops, acronyms and internet speak abound, and general readability becomes harder for someone who's not from the internet. However, I've never actually seen anyone recognize this and say anything about it generally. Today at work, however, while having a conversation with someone, I had someone actually say something about it.
Their language was littered with words dropped to single letters, misspellings, and general overabundance of internet language. At one point in the conversation, the person I guess realized what they were doing, and ended up apologizing. More specifically, at that point they added "sorry to tlk so AIM". It was a rather surprising statement to me, not only because they realized that it might be hard to read, but the unusual name they gave to it. It actually took me a few moments of rereading the statement before I realized what they meant, simply because it was such an unexpected term.
Tags: internet linguistic spelling words