hello friends

JtL, at least my JtL, has horrible mouselag. My framerate's the same as ever, but the mouse just lags horribly behind my attempts to move it. I was running into walls a lot.

It also will not let me alt-tab out. I do hope that is not a "feature", because it sucks.

Ithorians look kickass. Of course, about half the people running around the server are Ithorians, me included, so.

I haven't actually gotten into space yet. For one thing I'm trying to get myself some groovy clothes, and I need polymer to make the shirt I want. ...and I bet the blue frog would give me polymer. Must remember to ask. But for another thing, someone else said they had the mouselag thing and it cleared up, so I want to go into space once mine clears up too, assuming it does.

(What follows is the part that will actually make sense to more than one or two people reading this.)

I got a package today! It was the Megas XLR promo DVD that I won on eBay. There is also a "comic" that is merely an episode each from Megas, Samurai Jack, Codename: Kids, and Billy & Mandy, where someone made crappy, vertically-squished screenshots of appropriate frames and added word balloons. So crappy that it's awesome. I love it. Of course, I was only really in it for the DVD. Happy fangirl.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to order myself some dinner using teh Intarweb. And drink the smoothie that I just remembered, after it'd been sitting on the table since I got home at like 6:15.

Hey, people, I know I've had this problem before, and I know I fixed it, but I forget HOW and so I cannot help this guy. But if sound and picture on an .avi won't sync up right, what's the fix? Go tell him if you know, eh? (that is the Megas fangirl paragraph. kinda.)

Did you know that there is a comic called "Army of Darkness: Ashes 2 Ashes"? I didn't until I saw ish 2 over at Vintage Phoenix. The guy said they cannot yet get ish 1 ordered, so apparently other people besides me have asked. Cry. Still, I grabbed one of the copies of 2, because c'mon, I HAD to. It has four different covers. Collect 'em all. LET US GOUGE THE CONSUMER POKEY HOORAY (that is the AoD/Bruce Campbell fangirl paragraph.)

Toes. (that is the, uh, toe fangirl paragraph. yeah.)

Megas XLR people: http://freewaymonkey.no-ip.com/megas -- got Battle Royale up there. I had to download WMP10 to view it, so either it's on a funky new codec or I was just behind the times. YMMV.

Stuff will get added to that directory as I finish downloading it. Be warned that my upstream probably sucks; also, you probably want to use a download manager like getright, because that directory is sitting on my local machine which has a habit of being rebooted, crashing, getting kicked from IU's network, et cetera. Also also, if you use something like getright, don't do that thing where you ask it to segment it and download it in pieces all at once or whatever. That massacres my computer's performance, and if I start thinking that downloadage is slowing me down, I WILL move the files off the server.

Yeah. I feel like a playground monitor for some reason... but you never can tell when you'll run into one of those Everywhere I Have To Be Is Important people who figure they're the only ones what matter.

In non-Megas news, today we got assigned groups for the final project in english class. Groups. Ugh. I hate groupwork, especially when it's for something IMPORTANT like, oh, THE FINAL PROJECT. Instructor split us into gender-segregated groups, which means I am stuck with two other girls. Oh, I've got nothing against either of them personally; they both seem like nice enough people. But... I just don't get girls. They, I dunno, shop and stuff. Makes no sense. I work better with guys. They make sense, for the most part, and the caring about what overpaid men do with various ball-or-ellipsoid-shaped items, I can overlook.

He told us that the first thing our groups should do was make up names for ourselves, like apparently they do on The Apprentice or whatever that one Trumpy show is/was/whatever. He said our group names could be anything we wanted. So I immediately raised my hand and asked "could our group name be a profanity?" Amusingly, he said yes. If we're willing to say it in class, it can be our name. Damn. I was hoping to call him on that "anything." Heh.

And stuff, and things.

My finger itches. Plus these damn cows take too long to grow up. Their names rock, though: Food, Meat, Beef, StAk (capital A as in long A), and Brgr. Damnéd four-character limit.

I am slightly disappointed to discover that it is indeed the same one as offered on Cartoon Network's site. However, now that I look at it, a lot of the things I dislike about it (such as the 'TAILGATE THIS!' mudflaps) can be fixed with some paint and some patience. I have both. Therefore soon(ish) my Megas will have GIRLIE MUDFLAPS like it's damn well SUPPOSED TO.

And now I switch to my digicam upon realizing that the webcam just ain't gonna do it.

For you see, I already owned a small plastic robot. So the question becomes, then: WHO WILL WIN???

The contenders: mini-Megas and the small plastic Iron Giant.

Mini-Megas is equipped with a number of combat-enhancing features, including flame decals that make him go faster.


The small plastic Iron Giant, on the other hand, still has glue on the bottoms of his feet from when I had him stuck to my monitor back in California, as well as the ability to sit down.


Now that we've met our contenders... let's see... WHO WILL WIN!!!


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Oh, look, they've decided to have a tea party instead. That's so cute.