Seth Johnson

The type of thing I used to post here will probably now go on a wordpress blog I make somewhere instead, like this one: http://www.subversion.onceuponaninternet.com/

Updates probably not super-regularly, but, lo, wordpress haveth RSS by default.  A winner is you.

Now, I must leave, before the Russians come in their fur hats and vodka-induced frenzy and rip out my testicles to wear as jewelery.

I keep this account open to check friendy page things

Well, now that I have my journal backed up (except this entry...dammit), I think I'm gonna post some Naruto slash yaoi pedo beastiality incest tentacle erotic fiction (you think I'm kidding, don't you). For a bonus, I will also be VIOLATING COPYRIGHT LAW, since I'm copying it without permission from fanfiction.net.

( Cut for multiple orgasms )

This thing with LJ deleting nambla accounts or whatevs is vaguely distressing.  If they're going to be going about doing massive keyword-based content moderation, I'm going to be going about moving my affairs elsewhere.  Anyway, gives me an excuse to backup all the crap I have on here which I've been meaning to do anyway.  Though F*CKING ANNOYINGLY I have to do it one-month-at-a-time, and even worse there is no way to export comments.  Also probably a good opportunity to set up my google reader stuff.  Though I guess LJ doesn't do rss feeds?  Guess I'll keep my account for tracking everyone who still posts stuff on here.

Anyway, if, like me, you don't actually use friend-locking / private entries, but you want to flee LJ, I recommend getting an account on Blogger or Wordpress.

I'll post another thing when I decide what to do with this facet of my public intarwub presence, if anything.  This LJ has already mostly been eclipsed by ZoD and GLWP.

There is another bright-side: now I can be like, GUYS I AM DELETING MY LIVEJOURNAL

This is how you know I'm an engineer.  Today I purchased and unpacked a 10,000 BTU "portable" (i.e. not a window unit) air conditioner.  It had several pieces and a bag of screws.  It did not come with assembly instructions.  My first thought after not finding instructions was, "Muahaha.  This will make it INTERESTING!"

I'm in a bizarrely good mood for some reason.

which is the new Infected Mushroom album that came out a month or two ago, is made out of pwnage.  I'd forgotten that I got it, and I noticed it tonight.  If you like  Psychedelic Electronica, definitely check this out.  My ears are orgasming with pleasure.

Youtube is almost as good as a dive bar.

I am apparently entirely unable to conceal how nervous I get at job interviews.  Or in general.  I remember when I tried to donate blood a few years back I freaked the nurse out because I kept fidgeting and she thought I was going to faint.  This isn't a huge deal, but I'm considering practicing some mental controls to make me look  more relaxed.  I usually look more nervous than I actually am, due to my tendency to keep moving all the time (shoe-tapping, finger flexing, etc).

In my dreams last night, among other things, people had a habit of spontaneously breaking down (mentally and physically) into component parts.  They would often later reappear constructed out of whatever parts and memories were laying around.  Sometimes people merged; sometimes they forked.  It was sort of like if Salvadore Dali had decided to write a post-singularity science fiction novel.

Oh there was also a big climactic battle that kept wanting to turn into Helm's Deep.  Eventually the Wizard (Merlin in this case) just flew back a bit and killed every one of his enemies at once with a single thought.

I've realized I frequently speak out loud the messages I am sending people when conversing online, as I submit them.

(16:57:54) FoolishSeth: pennies aren't money
(16:58:01) FoolishSeth: that means any money I get from that machine is free
(16:58:25) FoolishSeth: That means if I buy ice cream with it it's free ice cream.
(16:58:30) Post042: ...yes
(16:58:35) FoolishSeth: sweet
(16:59:03) FoolishSeth: So I just found out they're giving out free ice cream down the street; brb

So I'm reading Runaways, which is good, but most notably has the best dialogue of anything I've read since, oh, Transmet.

Samples:

(punctuation preserved)
"I'm a mutant but not a bad one like Magneto a good one like Doop and the X-Statix and when I grow up I'm gonna join the X-Men and get married to Wolverine so you better not act prejudiced around me. 'Kay?"

(confronting the LAPD)
"Chase lay down some suppressive fire!"
"I have no clue what that means...but this is for RODNEY KING y'all!"


Also, I think every single one of them may have independently called Dagger a skank-ho, though I actually had to look up Cloak and Dagger, because, well, it's like the kids said: "B-list superheroes"

Also, For some reason, I love all the ridiculous 21st century cultural references which I would normally hate.

Also, I love the corny retro-comics bullshit.  I mean they fucking LITERALLY HAVE A DECODER A RING.

I'm currently attempting to replace the caffeine in my diet with power metal.

So while I massively (like +8 hours) overslept on Saturday, I did have an entertaining dream where displaced homeless refugees were arriving on campus and my advisor had tasked me with finding lodging for them in abandoned classrooms and laboratories.  I had just found an abandoned movie theatre somewhere on the second floor of Nord when a bunch of comic book super heroes appeared and started fighting eachother.

In other news, apparently my brother entered a speed film-making contest at his university with some friends and they picked up an Honorable Mention.  Basically they draw genres out of a hat and have 24 hours to make a short film for that genre.  Imagine telling a bunch of nerds to stay up for 24 hours brainstorming and filming a musical (yup, that's what they drew).

If you want to watch it, there's a QuickTime version here:

• Download: Lo-rez (10MB)
• Download: Hi-rez (28MB)

It's called "Elevator Music."

Man, the one up-side to it being below fucking freezing in my apartment was that I didn't have problems with capsule overheating.  I reallly hope this is just the thermistor getting progressively more broken (not unlikely, honestly), because it should not be running 70C with just firefox and so forth.  Unless a fan had broken, but they all still seem to be working (I guess I should check the bridge fan; I might not notice if it died).

But honestly I don't think the system would be running smoothly if it were actually getting that hot, so it's probably just bad temperature detection.

Must finish thesis to get new job to get away from reliance on old and busted computer. =\

Of course, I can't throw capsule out.  Not without some kind of holy binding ritual.  It might go feral.

I got three pairs of thermal pants in the mail this morning. I guess people use these for sports when it's cold outside, but I just wear them around my apartment. I'm utterly fascinated by how I'm marginally warmer now. Wooooooo

[rankendrake] Anyway, isn't our AB IRC Nanoha chan a bot? All the -chans are bots, no?
[jinyamato] true
[sethjohnson] I am a bot.
[Impz] lol, seth
[sethjohnson] Why do you think that you lol?

It is way too fucking cold in my apartment. My fingers get a little numb if I type for too long (like an hour or so). I was talking to a guy in Holland earlier. Holland is like several latitudes North of here. He got vaguely terrified when I told him how cold it was. Then I told him I saw a guy in shorts this afternoon. Fucking Cleveland. Every winter here I want to move to SoCal, where 60F is "jacket weather"

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