naku.org 2008-05-10T00:00:37Z secret squirrel blog tag:naku.org,2008://10 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, naku snow crash 2008-05-10T00:00:37Z 2008-05-09T22:36:59Z tag:naku.org,2008://10.1492 2008-05-09T22:36:59Z I read a book. I mean the entire thing start to finish unlike most folk do. It was called Snow Crash. Word on the street is I should have read it aeons ago, but I'm slow at times. Well, I... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com I read a book. I mean the entire thing start to finish unlike most folk do. It was called Snow Crash. Word on the street is I should have read it aeons ago, but I'm slow at times. Well, I read it. I know Neal Stephenson won't read this blog but I will say just in case he Googles, and I have rank... nice work sir!

I can't help wonder if one of the fake "cool guy" producers of the hit TV show Heroes read this book and went to work the next day telling all his work friends he had this idea for a character that will make the show a hit? Kind of a blatant rip-off of Hiro Protagonist if you ask me... But not as cool. Cuter and more comedic, but not half a billionth as cool. Hollywood fools me yet again. Shame -_-;

I probably should be sleeping now. Snow is, mainly because he has the flu and wasn't raiding tonight. Poor angel. I fixed him some Lemsip and tucked him in and now I sit here unable to sleep myself. If only I was lucky enough to have an office plague like him. /sigh

My brain is virtually swimming with shockingly repellent crap at the moment. Elegant isn't it? Yeah I know, my writing style is so classy at times even I'm surprised. I rock the online thesaurus at 4am. Shouldn't everyone from time to time?

My amazing cousin is in the hospital, my family is kind of in shambles, I can't find a corn on the cob in this country that actually has a husk and is worth eating. As pretentious as the UK is... oh c'mon, you are. I'll start again, as pretentious as the UK is with everything... I miss the US. I miss my family. I miss corn on cob.... like I can walk 20 minutes from my Mom's house and PICK some to cook on the grill. I miss my Mom -_-; I miss the fake freedom of speech everyone thinks they have and might win in court if they try hard. I miss the laws that say, hey.... someone messes with you, you have the right to break their face and get an honor after.

The US has a semi bad rep at the moment... but I miss it. If you grew up there, you'd miss it too. I used to stand out on the curb of my house selling lemonade with my own personal American dream to raise money to be able to walk to the store and by comics and ice cream, and I did it. I have my entry printed in Heathcliff comics from when I was 12 years old to prove it. It's at my Dad's house and I will scan it! He was such a naughty kitty. Heathcliff, not my Dad.

We're going home in less than a month. I'm feeling nostalgic. I'm trying to delegate a plan to visit Hershey Park whilst there. It's the sweetest place on Earth if you didn't know. It's also one of my favs :D

I took snow to Chocolate World when he visited me in the US ages ago during our "courting phase" *giggles for remembrance of snow's first fish-tailing in my Saturn (god rest her red SC2 3-door-sporty soul)*... it was winter and snowing and no roller coasters run at that time, so he kind of got the shit end of that stick.

I want to make it right and see him scream properly on a coaster that he feels will be the end of him. You haven't really lived until you've done that in my book.

So USA here I come, and I miss you. You make cheeseburgers that taste good. And you hold a special place in my heart.

Madsen was right to name his tour of the US "one love" which he stole from me, but he's my super friend so I'll allow it ;)

One love,
/naku

]]> Nakuland, population 2. 2008-03-26T14:31:05Z 2008-03-26T14:11:39Z tag:naku.org,2008://10.1483 2008-03-26T14:11:39Z I have a city now which is funny and cute. Mostly because it looks like the Isle of Man right now but with less sheeps :P I was sicker than sick all weekend with some type of flu plague which... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com I have a city now which is funny and cute. Mostly because it looks like the Isle of Man right now but with less sheeps :P

I was sicker than sick all weekend with some type of flu plague which ruined my Easter. I missed eating ham and coloring eggs. I did however manage to hide chocolate eggs all over the house for when snow woke that morning. Apparently seeing an over sized egg in purple tin foil sitting in the mail slot in the door is strange before your first cup of coffee. Soon enough he realized there were eggs everywhere and then it became less like a David Lynch scene and more Easter bunny fun time.

Feeling better now, just in time to go back to work of course. Figures.

Also, I'm reading a very interesting book right now that I'd recommend: Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross. He has a very ADHD style of writing so you can't be too tired when you try and get a chapter down. It's definitely fun in a demon/hacker/spy/multi-dimensional/applied mathematics kinda way. Read it!

Time to make dinner!

]]> Happy Birthday Yukinator! 2008-03-09T10:02:28Z 2008-03-09T09:59:01Z tag:naku.org,2008://10.1472 2008-03-09T09:59:01Z The kitten is one year old today.... baby's all grown up ;_; There's going to be a gooshy food party later.... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com The kitten is one year old today.... baby's all grown up ;_; There's going to be a gooshy food party later.

<3 =^..^=

]]> mayonnaise gnomes 2008-03-08T00:20:00Z 2008-03-07T22:43:55Z tag:naku.org,2008://10.1470 2008-03-07T22:43:55Z So I got called out the other night (or week/month) by my new friend Alex for not updating. I almost forgot that I had a blog. I should probably re-design the layout as well as I very rarely attend meetings... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com So I got called out the other night (or week/month) by my new friend Alex for not updating. I almost forgot that I had a blog. I should probably re-design the layout as well as I very rarely attend meetings anymore and the ones I do have, no orcs participate thankfully.

I keep asking myself, "What prohibits me from writing... really?" I don't really get an answer I feel comfortable saying so I'll blame it on the mayonnaise gnomes. Don't ask. Oh, you asked anyway. I suppose I'll give an explanation a whirl. I loathe mayonnaise and if it's on a sammich, I cannot partake in eating it. I'm convinced that there are gnomes in the white, disgusting sammich goo who use their rusted picks to bang on the inside of your mouth until the said goo is spit out into the bin. It's true. You're eating a sammich right now with evil goo and you're scared now aren't you? You should be.

The lack of writing comes down to feeling like my creative fire is being slowly smothered out on a daily basis and what I do is never good enough. I know, emo. Big horned, furry, teary-eyed stupid emo in the wild... grazing on crap.

How stupid to think that way! Well, when being creative is your job and getting picked apart several times per day happens, it gets real hard. I am starting to see now that maybe if I try to be creative outside work instead of waiting for television to take my soul for good, I might make it after all. One post at a time! :D

So much has happened. Condensed OJ version with juicy bits!

January was my birthday and snow surprised me with a trip to Rome! Hey, if you cleaned up after him and cooked countless dinners, you'd get a trip too. All kidding aside, I'm a very lucky girl. I've been saying for years that I'd love to visit Italy and try the foods and see the sites and watch the folks on Vespas puttering around saying "Ciao!". It's a magical land. An expensive place of dreamy goodness. I had to have several personal dates with Billy Blanks to erase all that ravioli. Thanks Billy <3

I got me some gadgets!

I purchased an iPhone for the snow as a birthday gift. He loves it and I think he could have had some male-Italian-waiter booty the way they were fawning over it at restaurants when they saw him with it. They even whipped out their own phones to compare.

So dirty.

Well, he loves the phone. So much in fact that he never let me play with it or touch the bouncy buttons for more than 32 seconds before pulling it out my hands to "show me something". Apparently someone missed the sharing lessons of ages 3-30. If I wanted to poke weather and map thingies, I had no choice but to buy one for myself. However, I don't talk on the phone and no one really calls me. So I waited in the shadows like a ninja for the iPod Touch to get not-so-lame.

32GB iPod Touch. I found the page on the apple shop, clicked add to cart. I typed: "HI FLOOR! Make me a sammich!" in the engraving box and hit the HECK YES BUY NOW button. It's mine now and I can poke and break anything I want and no one can take it away!

I find the 32 gigawatt'er a bit constraining. I like to put every song I own on shuffle whilst working so I can get surprises hearing songs from aliens that I never heard or don't remember getting. Spices up the day.

It does all the fancy stuff the iPhone does, except no camera and I can certainly put it to my ear and talk to it, but there's no one on the other end to hang up on me. That suits me fine. I also like the lack of monthly bill. You do have to try and hack local wifi networks to get a connection, can't just google anytime the spark to strikes your fancy!

This is a side note after proofreading because I try an do that so my Mum will not make fun of me.

Is anyone but me noticing the vocabulary damage I've taken living in the UK? I called the trash the "bin" and I say reckon and sentences such as, I rather like this cup of tea I'm drinking!" whereas If I were still in the US, it would sound more like.... Hi there I'm compromised by ninjas, CONFIRM ALPHA OMEGA SPY SWITCHIE ACTION HERO CODE THINGIE TO MAKE MOVIE INTERESTING... HERE. GO!

Right we were discussing the iPod touch correct?

There are no games either. I rather liked solitaire on my dinosaur iPoo. Shame. It does have a touchie-slidie screen though, so I guess any negatives get cancelled out every time I pinch a picture and it gets bigger. I spent about 25 minutes pinch/release/pinch/release/pinch/release/pinch/release/pinch/release/big/small/big/small/big/small/... This would be the reason snow didn't let me play with the iPhone I reckon.

I had the bright idea of getting an appleTV. Sounded like a fantastic idea in theory. So, we went out and got it. Let me sum it up for you: I spent ₤300 on a cat ass warmer. What the hell am I talking about? Let me enlighten you to the unique ways of the iTV.

You dent your debit card and bring it home with a big ol' grin on your face. You watch your male partner in crime rip apart every electronic device in the house and re-wire it until his hands bleed to get the thing working.

He's really pleased with himself at this point, so I don't complain that the Wii and xbox don't work. DOESN'T MATTER. The glow of the tiny ready light on the sexy, silver newly acquired box on our entertainment center indicates success and the beginning of a new era of downloaded bliss!

We began our journey watching the new Terminator show, which is good fun. River is made of metal... not chocolate apparently.

Fast forward a few weeks later.....

The only one in the house that uses it is the cat. She LOVES it. She perches on top of it like a gargoyle as if she's downloading iTunes shows directly into her brain and she knows exactly who America's Next Top Model is before the rest of us do.

You don't believe me? Well here you go...

yay iBath time woo!

Kitten iBath. I think that's enough said about the apple TV. *grumble*

More later. Let's see if I can get this flowing again?

one love,
naku

PS: I'm desperate for new music... as in I'm hurting badly and if I hear one more repeated 3 year old song I'm going to scream. Unless it's Don't Falter, Butterfly, or Staring at the Sun... I've a soft spot for them. I need help. I know folks don't read this much anymore, but if you do and you want to pass on gems you have... mail me pls ;_; tehnaku(at) gmail.com

pss: Does anyone have a reasonable strategy to beat that asswipe BAEL in Devil May Cry 4? I'm about to can the game because I'm annoyed. I used all my orbs on heath juice and now I have nada and I'm stuck. I don't know what I'm doing wrong? He keeps biting me ;_; and his thespian twins come out and make me want to start fires with my mind because they're so pointless. Help! ]]> Vets, kittens and strings.. oh my! 2007-09-28T09:33:04Z 2007-09-28T09:24:22Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1454 2007-09-28T09:24:22Z naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com It's been a pretty dramatic week. I'm eternally grateful it's finally Friday. We took Yuki the Destroyer™ to the vet on Monday to get her surgery to prevent kitten spawning. I hadn't really given it much thought prior to taking her, that there's a possibility that they do things of that nature differently in this country. All the kittens and cats I've known that had this done, come home with a little nick on their belly and that's about the end of the story. Well, not here.

  1. Get snow to get the cat carrier down from storage with out killing himself.
  2. Get kitten into the carrier.
  3. Try talking to the kitten in the car, saying that it's for her own good and it'll be fine. (This step is more for the humans to feel better though I think)
  4. Take scared kitten into the vet's office and try not to get upset when leaving.
  5. Wait until noon to call them to find out how she is. Forcing yourself to have some self control and not call them every 15 minutes for status reports.
  6. Run out of work to go fetch the kitten.
  7. Look in horror as the kitten has a shaved square on her side about the size of one of those tear-off desk calendars. Try not to get upset at the Frankenkitty presented to you.
  8. Tenderly take kitten home and let her out of the cage. Treat her like a queen.
  9. Notice kitten eyeing the stitches. Hangie strings! [kitten bites strings]
  10. Snow and I take fifteen minutes to wrangle up the cat and figure out the "lamp shade" collar mechanism. Get collar on kitten. [2.5 seconds go by] Kitten gets out of collar. Humans give up on collar.
  11. Realize on day 4 that kitten has pulled out stitches. Call vet.
  12. [Repeat steps 1-3]
  13. Vet then GLUES kitten o_O

The end.

Yeah, so now we have a glued together kitten. I guess no one ever came up with the idea to make the veterinary surgical thread have a foul taste to it so animals wouldn't want to eat it? I suppose they'd argue that they still need to lick around the wounds, but surely they could so something? The fact that they do the surgery on the critter's side here is strange too. Now she's gonna look like a hobo for the next six months. I'm just glad she's ok though. What an ordeal!

In other news... I started playing FFXI some what again. I'm going to try and only play on weekends though. I don't want to make it a daily habit again, unless snow let's me hire a maid and personal chef? *light bulb* It's good to play again though. Madsen had to help me find the way through Castle Zvhal Baileys on Sunday, so the time off has definitely not improved my navigational skills.

In other, other news... I'm on the third book [High Lord] of the Black Magician Trilogy by Trudi Canavan. I really like these books and recommend them to anyone that is in the mood for magical bookie goodness. ^_^

Ok, lunch break over. Happy Friday everyone!

]]> The naku returneth... 2007-09-20T15:45:32Z 2007-09-20T15:29:08Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1453 2007-09-20T15:29:08Z First off.. Hi! Yeah I'm going to skip all that "hey, I still love you but I'm too busy to tell you things" song and dance. Let's just talk turkey as we say in the states. We say that because... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com First off.. Hi! Yeah I'm going to skip all that "hey, I still love you but I'm too busy to tell you things" song and dance. Let's just talk turkey as we say in the states. We say that because we eat turkeys on Thanksgiving and the people here where I am now, don't abide by the same turkey gods. Silly euros. Snow broke the server!! Blame him! Well, it was really only broken for a few days and is still broken in fact. I'm typing this in a text edit or... ew. I'll let him live I suppose. So, an update is on the menu tonight? Let's make it a juicy medium-rare one since it's been so long.

I miss writing. I miss listening to music. I miss FFXI. There is a perfectly good reason I don't partake in the festivities anymore and tonight I figured it out. My computer chair here sucks like one of those really expensive vacuum cleaners the housewives swear by. Yeah sounds like a lame excuse? Well you try sitting on a fold-up director chair from B&Q that doesn't even have your name on the back signifying that you've made a movie! I sit in it for five minutes and I'm ready to retire to a different room. It's horrible. You ask yourself, "then why are you writing your long lost crew tonight from your rickety fourteen pound chair naku?" My answer is simple. Snow is away in London for work and I stole his chair. He's got this big, sexy, black. cushy, ACTOR chair. You know they don't make Brad Pitt sit in those fold-up pieces of shit. Well tonight I am Brad Pitt and my normal chair is looking at this one as if to say... she's never sitting on me again is she?

End scene one.

Right, so talking turkey now that the ugly chair business is out of the way. I am alone tonight and not taking it very well and need to talk. I'm feeling somewhat pathetic since all of my US people aren't home from work yet with that pesky time difference and all, and snow is away. I have no idea what time it is in Mexico or I'd call Ainge and since me and the math don't get along, I thought it best just to write something here and work out the apparent problem I have with "blogging" (dirty word makes me feel icky inside). This actually ties in with the next paragraph!

The infamous Ainge came to visit us on our baby island a few weeks ago. He wrote all about it. Apparently I cook good and he doesn't like onions. Oops my bad, I'm half polish and we put onions in EVERYTHING. I actually had such a good time when he was here. It felt like a part of our family was leaving when he left. He neglected to tell everyone however that we stayed up so late on Sunday before he was to leave with this evil pear cider made by the swedes. Ended up that we all slept right through taking him to the airport the next day! So the three of us morons in a panic... get up and try and figure out what to do. We get him a ride home on the ferry which is like basically a short little tour to see how bad hell is and if you should behave for the rest of your life so you don't end up there. Yeah we felt shitty about that. It was the most comical ending to a fantastic weekend though. Snow and I don't like waking up... really. But Ainge we love you and want you to come back to admire all of our sheep. <3

My Mom came to visit too :D She loved the island and we took her to see Scotland (my other half even though the Polish seems to dominate most of the time). It was beautiful. I would live in Edinburgh if given the chance. Snow's lovely sis Kat lives there and I am envious ^_^ She can shop in other stores besides M&S which is about all we have on the island. We got lost a lot and I suck at navigation, but it was fun for me. I got to take my Mom to Scotland. It was kind of my dream since I moved here which might sound silly. I felt bad that the food here is complete crap. That was really the only bad part. Thank god I can cook or Mom would have starved and we'd have had to put a tiny skeleton on Euromanx airlines. I wish she could have stayed longer.. so we could have showed her more. I wish I could be close enough to drive over and hang out with her too. -_- I really think that the only ugly thing about this island is that I can't hop in the car and go see my family. It was so hard to see her go.

My Dad and Step mom came to visit a month later... shows how long since I've written *looks at chair in dismay* It was so enjoyable. I really do love having an excuse to go around the island and look at the historical places here. I know it sounds dull, but it's fun and usually there's an ice cream vendor hanging around! I know they were worried not being able to put a "face" to where I was living. I really felt proud showing them around here though. There are no ghettos, no bad parts. It was just so nice to chill out with them and have them escape their real world for a while. This place has a habit of doing that to you if you're not careful.

I found out today that I need to take another 2 weeks vacation before end of November or I'll lose it. I really want to go home. I might. For Taco Bell's sake and the value of the dollar at the moment, I might just have to! I'm going to come up with something tomorrow. Talk to the powers that be in my new position at the jobby. The job!

BEGIN SCENE: THE JOB

I had major issues job-wise for a while. I was hurting badly... due to a really horrific manager. I didn't kiss ass, I told the truth. Well, the real truth of how the business world works all over the world hit me square in the face. I'm short. I'm a female. I'm American. I know the business... I've been doing this for years. They basically told me I had an "attitude problem". Yeah. Guess what... I do. I have the attitude that you can't lie to get in a job and expect people to kiss your ass. Nothing comes for free. I worked my tail off for years to know the shit I do and I get nothing for it. My only saving grace was that I actually have talent. So, to get away from this guy I requested to be on the design team. I was on the web monkey team. I walked in... suited up with my portfolio and dealt with these people I see every day like... do not fuck with me. They didn't, and moved me to the design team. I'm so happy now. Working with talented people again is a breath of fresh air. I feel born again. The work is six times as stressful, but in a different way. Now I take on new things like I'm in the ring facing Shao Kahn.Yes, my job is more like Mortal Kombat than it is General Hospital. That makes me happy.

FADE OUT... QUE SLEEPS

**Update**

Snow fixed the server so I can actually post the above. I can say that I'm writing this small bit on a brand spanking new chair that I bought for myself today, inspired by the angst in the opening paragraph. My 'puter got an overhaul too thanks to the snowy. It apparently can now do dishes and pick my clothing out for the day. So far all I've tested is writing this bit but I fully intend to bust out the FFXI and possibly WoW and try to make myself like it.

I think that was his secret evil plan... give me a tricked out, blue glowy machine so that I'll play WoW with him and therefore he won't feel guilty spending every waking hour doing so. Good plan I reckon. So with the ugly chair business taken care of, I might actually spend more time doing things of the computery sort again. Only time will tell!

fin.

]]> I never update... shame on me -_-; 2007-07-03T12:12:40Z 2007-07-03T12:04:10Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1435 2007-07-03T12:04:10Z I'm about to go home too... Maybe I'll write something solid tomorrow since I haven't in so long. I just got inspired to quickly tap out a 25 second review of the new Chemical Brothers album. Here goes. Chemical Brothers... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com I'm about to go home too... Maybe I'll write something solid tomorrow since I haven't in so long. I just got inspired to quickly tap out a 25 second review of the new Chemical Brothers album.

Here goes.

Chemical Brothers - We are the Night:
It's no Push the Button. It's no stinker bologna sandwich either. "Do it Again" the album's single sounds like if there was a corny rave scene in Nightmare Before Christmas, this is the song that would be playing. That kind of makes me like it... even if it doesn't have Q-tip.

Ok, I'm going home now!
one love <3

]]> Mondays are for zombies 2007-05-14T14:55:20Z 2007-05-14T14:51:11Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1409 2007-05-14T14:51:11Z Typical MSN conversation from the other side of the office: snow says: sigh naku says: white zombie makes it all AOK snow says: awwwwwwww i wanna white zombie )= naku says: I'm playing it loud enough to piss off anyone... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com Typical MSN conversation from the other side of the office:

snow says:
sigh

naku says:
white zombie makes it all AOK

snow says:
awwwwwwww
i wanna white zombie )=

naku says:
I'm playing it loud enough to piss off anyone working near me
hopefully

snow says:
lol

Have a great week folks!

]]> Matt Groening vs. Nietzsche 2007-04-02T14:04:05Z 2007-04-02T13:58:43Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1396 2007-04-02T13:58:43Z Love is hell. or... Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come. picture coming soon, when I find my lucky pencil! Snow has been away for... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com Love is hell.

or...

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.

picture coming soon, when I find my lucky pencil!

Snow has been away for a week now and I go pick him up from the airport tonight. I hate waiting >_< That and I'm fairly certain that our house is haunted so I haven't slept in a week.

*yawn*

]]> V-day... not to be confused with D-day 2007-02-14T18:33:09Z 2007-02-14T18:29:25Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1373 2007-02-14T18:29:25Z naku says: Everyone is leaving early o_O snowchyld says: get ready naku says: I was born ready snowchyld says: all in the reflexes naku says: I love you snowchyld says: i know naku says: I meant I love when you... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com naku says: Everyone is leaving early o_O

snowchyld says:
get ready

naku says:
I was born ready

snowchyld says:
all in the reflexes

naku says:
I love you

snowchyld says:
i know

naku says:
I meant I love when you talk jack burton to me
hawt

snowchyld says:
:(

naku says:
that was a joke
silly goose

snowchyld says:
:P

naku says:
roses are red...
violets are thorny

>.>

snowchyld says:
violets are neet

naku says:
>.>

snowchyld says:
lol

naku says:
roses are red, voilets are neet.... let's wear baggy pants and talk like we're from the street!

snowchyld says:
Roses are Red
Violets are blue
This is my cheap
Valentine for you.

naku says:
hehe
roses are red
voilets are pretty
most of my rhymes
are kinda shitty

snowchyld says:
roses are #FF0000
violets are #0000FF
all my base
are belong to you

naku says:
roses are red
violets are turquoise
buy me a shelf
for all my spawn toys

snowchyld says:
lol >_<

naku says:
c'mon, that was a good one

snowchyld says:
Some roses are red, some violets are violet, i can only rhyme this with the word annihilate?
you made that up it was awesome

naku says:
I made all mine up

snowchyld says:
i know
cos you're awesome
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm allergic to both
So will text graphics do?
--<---<--@

naku says:
hahaha
roses are red
violets are blue
why in the fsck
do they call it a "loo"

snowchyld says:
lol
Gardez l'eau
'watch out for the water'

naku says:
hehe love you ^_^
Can we go home now?

snowchyld says:
yes
go go go

naku says:
wooo! Valentines Day just got a whole lot better!


Happy Valentines Day everyone!
<3

]]> One lump or two? ^_^ 2007-01-29T17:21:24Z 2007-01-29T17:04:35Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1369 2007-01-29T17:04:35Z I added a link to a dangerously cute (and funny) web comic I found. *points to the right* Two Lumps by J. Grant and Mel Hynes makes me laugh... which most things out there do not have the ability to... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com I added a link to a dangerously cute (and funny) web comic I found. *points to the right* Two Lumps by J. Grant and Mel Hynes makes me laugh... which most things out there do not have the ability to do. I'm fairly certain that my own lump Athena has been reading this comic whilst we're at work because her hankering for "gooshy food" has tripled in the last few weeks. When I start getting mysterious packages in the mail addressed to her, then I'll know for sure what she's been up to online haha!

I managed to read through the archives and just really liked the style. If I had to be picky, I'd say the only thing wrong with it is that it's on Keepspot (advert overkill=blah) and could use a bit of code ninja'ing. I suppose since a lot of my job now is SEO related, I'm finicky about yucky code.

Anyway, it's adorable and you should check it out if you need something fun to do ^_^; Two paws up fo' sho'!

P.S. Mondays suck eggs... pass it on.

]]> Moogles in tiny coats? Someone pinch me. 2007-01-22T17:21:36Z 2007-01-22T14:42:21Z tag:naku.org,2007://10.1364 2007-01-22T14:42:21Z Ahoy! I have not been writing as frequently as I'd like. Between the Christmas festivities and birthdays I suppose there just hasn't been a time to do so. That's the excuse everyone uses this time of year... I'm sure it... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com
First off, I received a Wii from santasnow this Christmas. Originally I said that I'd probably not buy one but would like to play Zelda since I'm a fan. Well, that was one of the stupidest ideas my melon has ever thought up. Nintendo really developed something fun, not to mention it's small and cute. The "small" factor is nice since space is limited in our place and with all of the other gadgets taking up room, the dimensions of the Wii are perfect. The darn thing is just fun. I'd elaborate but I think you just have to play one for yourself. There are tons of sites out there documenting all the wiimote disasters which is amusing as well. I love the Wii and if you don't love the Wii, you don't get any dessert after dinner. ^_^;

The next order of business is the PS3. Yeah, got one of those too and well... just one game. The one game is not even for the PS3. Of course I'm talking about FFXII! I only have a UK PS2 here and even worse, the UK version of FFXI isn't even released yet. So we did what every red-blooded, obsessive gamer nerd does, got an american PS3 so we can play all the games when they release them in the US.

The PSH(ot) is really swanky looking. It's looks like what would happen if you took a PSP and gave it 28 vials of Jekyll's potion. The interface looks dangerously close to that of the PSP with happy icons and whirly background. It's definitely classier than the Xbox 360 but doesn't have the "fun" appeal as far as customizing. Apparently you can allocate space and install any OS you want. I wouldn't let snow hack it until I finished FFXII just in case. Which leads me to my next topic...

I'm already obsessed A new Final Fantasy game make naku a happy girl
I don't want to do laundry anymore...fabreeze! A new Final Fantasy game make naku a happy girl
please send food A new Final Fantasy game make naku a happy girl

Ehm... right. Where was I? Well, so far after putting a bit over 30 hours into it I feel I can review'ish it. It's darn good. I wasn't sure at first until the story line progressed a bit and I actually got to control my character instead of watching six hours of cut scene. Not that I'm complaining since the cinema scenes are wonderful and quite pleasant to watch! It's like any other FF game though.... you want to dig in but you need to be patient. I hate waiting. I really wish they would have made this a PS3 title though. Not that I'm disappointed in it, but I would have liked to see smoother graphics and FFXIII isn't due out for another two million years or something. The game mechanics are fun and surprisingly enough, kind of have a FFXI feel. Yeah I know, that sounds funny since there aren't any noobtastics walking about asking questions about fish mining, expecting a laugh when you might as well come at me with 25 consecutive badgerbadgerbadger mushrooms.

There are however, similar looking maps. For instance Garamsythe Waterway (FFXII) looks almost identical to Toraimarai Canal (FFXI). I thought for a second Fenrir was going to jump out and make dog chow out of me, alas... just wimpy skelingtons with the occasional beefed-up bat. I've been taking the last several hours of game playing time to level up my characters. The new version of the "sphere grid" is done with license points (LP) which are given along with XP. Nice system, but you can't use any spell/armor/tricky move with out the appropriate license. You basically kill things until you pass out on the couch from exhaustion.

I'm probably going about the game the wrong way. I'm so used to spending 3 weeks in the same area (like FFXI) to level up that I'm doing so in this game as well. I'm not building up one character as a mage, one as a melee etc. I'm building every character up equally so that every character I have is able to use every spell, piece of armor, technique and weapon available. It's more fun that way, for me at least. It's really just my house work that's suffering since I don't have a problem spending 6 hours chaining skelingtons.

I'll update with progress (maybe) and of course if I have issues with it. Anyway, it's great fun and the moogles wear tiny, stylish outfits which makes me love it even if it did suck game wise. There are some familiar faces too *cough*montblanc*cough*. You should get it and play it.

Time to do some work! ]]> cake boobies 2006-12-17T01:01:03Z 2006-12-17T00:53:17Z tag:naku.org,2006://10.1359 2006-12-17T00:53:17Z So, I promised snow I'd make him a birthday cake with boobies. Six+ hours and struggling with fondant later, here she is: It didn't come out as nice as I hoped, but it was the first time I tried to... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com So, I promised snow I'd make him a birthday cake with boobies. Six+ hours and struggling with fondant later, here she is:

It didn't come out as nice as I hoped, but it was the first time I tried to use fondant and you have about 25 seconds to work with it before it turns to a rock. -_-; I tried really hard though.

Also, here is our first Christmas tree :D

woo presents!

I'm going to go roll around on the floor now. Ni ni all!

]]> Birthday lido... boop boop! \(^o^)/ 2006-12-14T21:14:31Z 2006-12-14T21:02:26Z tag:naku.org,2006://10.1356 2006-12-14T21:02:26Z Happy birthday Babe!! Since you got GoW I guess I won't be seeing you until my birthday... in 2008 hehe. I hope you had a good day even if we had to stand in the rain for two hours and... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com Happy birthday Babe!! Since you got GoW I guess I won't be seeing you until my birthday... in 2008 hehe. I hope you had a good day even if we had to stand in the rain for two hours and get hassled by the man.

Yeah, getting pulled over for a head light out in the UK is a heck of a lot less scary than in the US. The cops here actually seem genuinely concerned that they have made you late for something and are all friendly. If you don't have your driver's license with you, they say "well, just show up in a week or so and show it to someone". o_O

Now that may seem normal to the folks on this side of the planet, but to the Americans... that sheet is unbelievable. Most times when you get pulled over in the US, you feel like you're going to throw up, pass out, cry and have a mental breakdown all at the same time. OH and they give you a $200 fine ;) Here they make you a cute list to take to the car service station and draw hearts all over it, and spray it with nice perfume and stuff.

Twilight zone or actually.. one American that I work with referred to this place as being very similar to that movie Pleasantville... but with more sheep of course.

I'm off to hang with the birthday cute!
Take care all!

ps. if you're not watching Heros or Jericho... you're missing out!

]]> btw.... 2006-11-30T00:08:45Z 2006-11-30T00:07:05Z tag:naku.org,2006://10.1348 2006-11-30T00:07:05Z I got my visa and am all legal and stuff now :D I can stay with the sheep! Watching Heros right now, which is my new favorite show. More to report tomorrow if I get time since I actually work... naku http://naku.org/ tehnaku@gmail.com I got my visa and am all legal and stuff now :D I can stay with the sheep!

Watching Heros right now, which is my new favorite show. More to report tomorrow if I get time since I actually work a real job now and stuff.

/dance

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