Attie the penguin

My headphones are broken ;_; ↑↑↑ Those were my headphones (not me, image from google) and I think you can all guess why I bought them *cough*

They weren't awesome concerning sound quality, only a little better than the knobs that came with my iPhone, and the materials felt extremely cheap - that white paint on the cushions dissolves if your hair is even slightly damp, and then sticks everywhere - but they didn't cost much, and most importantly, they didn't keep my head in a vice grip. I was so apprehensive when I bought them, because I wear headphones for hours on end, and my ears are pretty sensitive to pressure. But it turned out fine, even when I put on glasses underneath.

I'm kind of tempted to just buy the same ones again, now that I'm sure that I can get along well with them, but on the other hand I'd kind of like something with a better sound. I'm just afraid of putting a lot of money into it and then not being able to stand them because of pressure issues.

Anyone got any recommendations?

LOL. So you know these fire drills where they make you go stand outside in the cold without shoes on ever since Kindergarten? Well, as it turns out, the day your building is actually on fire, they won't actually evacuate, but someone will stop by to tell you "Oh, by the way, there's a fire somewhere over in that part of the building. You can smell it quite strongly and almost see the smoke if you walk down this corridor here. The fire brigade is downstairs already trying to extinguish it. Just to let you know so you don't call them again when you go to the toilet through all that smoke. Have a nice rest of the workday :)"

I sure hope all that smoke is only there because the ventilation system keeps carrying it around everywhere...

( Two magazine scans from this month... )

OH PIKO JUST ADMIT YOU WANT TO WEAR SKIRTS ALREADY

Happy new year from my timezone!

ETA: oh my god you guys, I am celebrating at a friends' place, and the fireworks are so beautiful. ;_; These people are blowing up a fortune!

So I was reading through Piko's old, old blog entries from 2008 in the hopes of finding something interesting...

...summer 2008, remember the european football championships? Well, Piko watched. And he had this to say about it:

「フェルナンド・トーレスは俺の嫁。」
Fernando Torres is my waifu.

Let me tell you, it is hard to growl and giggle at the same time. (That game was against Germany, after all.) Oh Piko, never change!

Hm, I need to change my DW layout, there's not enough Piko the color I gave visited links doesn't show up enough against the green background.

Argh, now where do I find the time to dive into DW styles?

It is 5:30 am and whoops I am still not asleep! Dang. Isn't there any kind of comm about how to acquire Sleeping Competence around here?

'Tis LJ failidays again, and since it seems seasonally appropriate, this post is here to remind you that I am attie on Dreamwidth, and that I have, in fact, moved there over two years ago!

What's that, you hadn't noticed? Well, that would be because the DW crossposter is awesome!

In fact, my setup is very low-initial-effort and low-maintenance, and seriously non-committal, allowing you to fluidly move between the two services. So if you're scared of a clean break, but still want to be less dependent on LJ, here's what you can do:

• Open a DW account if you haven't yet - until the end of the year, sign-ups are open with no invite code needed! (If you happen to read this in 2012, ping me, I've got tons of codes left.)


• Import anything you want to keep a backup of, but especially, import your icons!


• Set up automatic crossposting to LJ. You can do this in a way that no one will notice, like I have, or you can be more militant about your move: enable the footer saying that this is a crossposted entry, or even disable comments on LJ to force people to walk over to DW to comment (LJ users can comment on DW using OpenID, so they don't need to create a DW account for that.)

That's it, you've moved! Just remember to post using the DW new entry form, and whenever you upload a new icon, make sure you give it the exact same keyword on both sites. (I rarely lock anything so I haven't tried, but I think it works the same for custom filter lists? Anyone tried this out and can confirm/deny?)

The only downside is that you now have to check two flists instead of one. You get used to it pretty quickly though :)

So, new, totally-pedobear-approved maidloid-from-the-future Tone Rion is now out!

(Cf. picture at the right for an impression of just how short she is. Officially, she's 16, but who are you kidding? Her torso is smaller than Yuki's!)

And the obligatory Magnet cover (with SeeU, who was released in Japan the same day) has also been provided already :P I really like how you can hear the improvements of the new V3 engine and voice banks, by how much smoother the random just-throw-a-VSQ-at-it-and-upload covers are. Looks like both Rion and SeeU make good starter voice banks that don't require much fiddling or editing.

Also, maybe it's just my perception that's skewed, but I'm kind of irked that any Len or Piko* songs (or Oliver discussions) always elicit tons of hate for people who like shotas, but things like this pass as normal:


Link if you don't like embeds

*yes, Utatane Piko counts as a shota, for some reason. Seriously, people, have you never heard of the concept of "femme"? Sometimes, high voice does not equal boyish. No, really.

I can't believe it's not lipsynced...



Tee hee, he sparkles~

Seriously, doesn't he sound exactly like on the CD?


(It doesn't help that I'm on my work computer and PulseAudio is a piece of crap that introduces a quite noticeable latency between video and sound, so the lip movements never match >:[)