FREEDOM!

Sadly not freedom from work or anything, but the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam. Yes it finally arrived today, and I can't wait to start work on it. I need to get some fine sandpaper to get rid of the nubmarks (those of you that saw the previous kits I made may notice there are some white bits still around, that's because I couldn't fully sand them away), but I do have some Gundam markers now, so I can panel line and touch up as needed ^^

I'll make posts of the progress as it'll be a bit slower than the previous ones, partly due to the number of parts, partly due to the stupid workload I gave myself (an 80/40 split does not equal an easy first semester).

Anyhoo, as I have much work to do (or gundam to make...maybe), I'll leave you with Freedoms reactivation from Seed Destiny. See you again soon.

BSc in Procrastination

Yes, it looks like I'm going to be doing alot of procrastination soon. I spoke to my tutor today, and changed to a top heavy year. Now if no problems occur and make me go back to the 60/60, I'm on a 70/50 (although as someone pointed out earlier, it'll be more of a 80/40 split...). Main reason for this was due to a couple friends saying that the Computational Physics module is stupidly easy for someone who has more programming history than the average Physics undergrad (turns out I actually do have more than the average ^^).

On another note, first lab session was held today. I signed in at 10:00, and signed out at 10:05. Yes it was that useful. I'm yet to meet my partner, nor have I had a meeting with my supervisor yet, so I actually have no idea what I'm meant to be doing. So for the 2 hours after I signed out (and then got bored) I sat in a computer room, and found as many research papers about my project on a certain research paper archive website. Have to set aside some time to read those, which will most likely be Thursday.

Curious as to how this will all turn out, but here's hoping my average goes above what it was. Although, a few things that could throw a spanner into works have recently arisen. I found myself talking to the cat, and apologising to it, which is obviously a sign that I've been single for faaaaaaaar to long now. Then there's the need to play games, as let's face it, reality does suck. And finally there's the Freedom Gundam kit I ordered, and when that arrives I'm going to spend a fair amount of time making that look awesome. May even spraypaint it to give it the proper colours instead of the injection moulded plastic colours.

Anyhoo, I'm off to procrastinate some more. I'll leave you with the 4th intro the Gundam Seed, just so all of you can see how awesome Freedom looks!

The drop into Hell

This isn't an emo post don't worry. It's referencing Halo 3: ODST. New Mombasa is known as hell now due to the sheer volume of covenant.

On to what I was intending to say. I've recently started my third (and technically final) year at uni. Looks like it's going to be a busy year, what with the massive project (and useless partner), coupled with the sheer volume of work I have to do in order to bump up my average. Luckily I managed to get the project I wanted, so it should be all good ^^

As I mentioned before the uni update, I've been playing a fair amount of ODST this week. It's amazing, if a bit short, and Firefight is worth the money alone. It gets out of hand so quickly, and when hammers get involved it turns into a deathtrap! The last 3 of the Halo 3 Mythic maps are released with it (with every map now on one disc with ODST, handy eh), and they too, are awesome! The community favourite Heretic makes its return, and with it comes Longshore (a remarkably large map set in a dock), and Citadel (a very open, if a bit cramped, Forerunner artifact). Not had the chance to play Longshore yet, but I'm genuinely impressed, and they didn't make the Citadel skull the easiest thing to find. But we all like a challenge ^^

I also gave in to temptation and ordered the X10A Freedom Master Grade kit, along with some Gundam Seed Destiny markers for panel lining and touching up the nub markings. This MG, while 1/100 scale (the same as my 00 Gundam) consists of over 250 parts, so I'm looking forward to making this. If all goes well I'll end up ordering the Strike Gundam with the Aile pack, which is also an MG. I really must resist buying the MG Exia Ignition Mode, and the PG (Perfect Grade, the highest level level of detail/articulation) 00 Raiser Gundam (that's 00 Gundam with the 0 Raiser attached to it's back and shoulder GN Drives).

Roll on the next month so I can get that kit eh.

I'll leave you with the extended ODST live action trailer. Even if you don't like Halo, you have to admit, this trailer is awesome!

September loot

Well after an age of waiting, I finally get my loot from Tokyotoys. A haruhi oppai mousepad, which helps with my severe case of RSI I must say, and a Haruhi/Mikuru/Nagato bunny girl wallscroll...mainly due to the Kaname Chidori/Teletha Testarossa (Full Metal Panic) one being out of stock :(

Just to point out, I was debating what sort of mousepad to get, one of those boring ones, or one that is relevant to my interests? Obviously the otaku inside won, and I purchased one relevant to my interests ^^

If it wasn't for the Royal Mail postal strike yesterday, and their sheer incompetence, I would have had it Tuesday. There's another strike on Monday, meaning I won't get my copy of ODST on time most likely T_T

You guys had many problems with the postal service your way?

Cable Ties

No not the kind that you can tie cables together with, more the kind that can tie you up!

Let me explain. I'm fed up playing my xbox on a small TV/DVD combi, and so have been trying to connect my xbox to my monitor and speakers without having to pay through the nose. I ended up buying a £18 cable from Amazon to do it easily, as the number of converters I woulda been going through is immense (although I did spend £10 earlier on a HDMI to DVI converter...that's wasted but never know when it'll be handy). But it got me thinking. Why do we need so many cables? We have USB, DVI, VGA, Scart, Composite, HDMI, Ethernet (and so many different ones of that, CAT5, CAT6, etc, etc). Why can't we use one all purpose one? I know it'll be a bitch to manufacture, but it would save so much hassle. Or what about an anything to anything converter. Again a bitch to convert, but then we won't have so many different cables bloody everywhere.

I was almost buried by the sheer volume of cables I was searching through earlier and I still didn't have the one I wanted. It's madness! (No...THIS...IS...SPARTA! to milk an already overused catchphrase).

I'm going to go and watch a new series while I wait for that cable and calm down after the whole "buried by cables incident" as it shall now be known. I'll leave you with the intro to the series, but I'm not saying what it is ^^

F***ing Kanji

I'm busy trying to work through that issue of Newtype I ordered a while back, but there's so much kanji, and I've still not properly grasped the Japanese language. I understand the connectors (ie, wa, no, wo etc) but 'tis a bit harder than I imagined. Something that confused me majorly is something that's similar to what people learning English struggle with, and that's the whole double readings thing. I was looking at my dictionary trying to figure out what the hell the last part of the sentence was, and the only thing I could find was 'to shout', which seemed out of place. It was. Turns out it should have actually read 'the beginnings' or something. Wasn't expecting the 'origins' kanji to combine with tonaru to read as that, but it sure as hell makes more sense than 'origins are shouted'...

Just thought I'd let you know of the pains of learning another language, especially one with entirely different writing styles to our own. I'm sure any other Japanese learner, as well as Chinese, Korean, Russian, Thai, Arabic, etc. student will tell you the exact same thing!

Have fun with whatever you're doing people!

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I'M A BILLIONAIRE! (with internet moneyz)

Yes I am! Last night I hit 1 Billion ISK in my wallet on EVE. Technically I've got well over a billion in assets, but still this is the first time I've actually had this much in my wallet!

AWESOME!

On another note, may have to just do random posts to give people something to read. I know some of you read this as you think it's pretty interesting to read my thoughts. Expect some pretty random ones then ^^

I'll leave you with CCP's most recent EVE trailer, The Butterfly Effect. Clever I must say!

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