- shredding up heroics with Robert and boss in teh WoWz (if boss wants old man Phil to level faster, there’s still quite a few Outland instances he could drag my old ass through. Just sayin’.)
- late night burger, yum.
- Mario skit on tonight’s Conan, hell yeah. Now I want to go dig up my DS…

Also, I may loot me a DSi in the near future. Remember how last year, during the summer for no reason I just up and ordered a bunch of things off Best Buy? Yeah, I think that’ll be a yearly thing I’ll do, a summer Treasure Box of Awesome. Maybe I’ll go through Gamestop this time and go eat up a bunch of old games I’ve been putting off.

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Haven’t touched Sleepover for a couple days… last thing I did was just start to ink the Chelsea part of the second piece. Maybe tomorrow I’ll ink more.

On that note, I should, like, sleep and such.

People who know about tweaking ffdshow filter crap, I require your expertise!

I have in my torrented video pile some things that sound a little… off. Like they’re a couple octaves too high or something (you notice it mostly in the music, but some of the voices are also affected). I figured that these were just bad torrents and looted them again, only to find the issue unchanged… and only after testing videos encoded in other codecs (e.g. DivX, etc.) were fine did I begin to suspect that there has to be some way to force a setting somewhere to make these torrents sound normal, but a lot of these settings are gibberish to me.

Yes, these videos are extracts of my disaster movie stash that was lost when my previous DVR crashed, and I realize that I should just go buy up the DVD/Blu-Rays already… which I will when my VPI rebate check gets here, but I figured that knowing how to fix stuff like this would still be useful for future reference.

I just know it’s not a hardware thing because I’m encountering this on both Blastoise and Dinah. Halp? :(

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Followup to OMG PIZZA:
Holy crap, Papa Johns manages to win even more. I do not know how, but they managed to improve upon my favorite config (sausage + pepperoni) with their new event pizza, “John’s Favorite.” I imagine it has to do with the tweaks to the cheese blend that was used in this config. I hope this becomes a permanent menu item, because if it does it’ll become “Yoshi’s Favorite.” /gg

Tweet.
TWEET.
TWEEEEEEET.

Yes, I know. I said I was too verbose for it. But as I lay in bed yesterday after a nap, lamenting the non-existence of a Yuri Lowenthal-narrated “Let’s Play” YouTube series about Metroid Prime (damn you, Yoshi’s Imagination… stop hijacking my subconscious and trigger dreams of awesome stuff that could plausibly exist but DOESN’T, like the above-mentioned thing!), some stupid ideas occurred to me. And Twitter somehow factors into this.

If you are among the BOO HISS TWITTER camp, here’s some good news: no batch posts to this blog. Oh no, I have something slightly more evil in mind. Once everything is set up here, Yoshi-brand tweeting will instead get piped to the front page of Ayarane Project (you know, that domain nobody cares about and currently pipes things like my LJ and Ramen feeds?). Specifically, it’ll be one of those sidebar widgets, along with the RSS of Instant Ramen and such.

So, yeah, no need to worry there, twitterphobes, as your access to Yoshi’s Imagination will remain in the filtered form of normal posts and Instant Ramen. :P
The rest of you can access the direct Twitter feed in the meantime, until I can get it linked to Ayarane Project proper.

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Also… dude, Papa Johns? You are totally getting my money today, if only so I can see if your upgrade on my favorite pizza config (sausage and pepperoni) passes muster.
Waiting on mother and Evil Stepfather to clear out (they’re going to visit his mother), though… which is hopefully soon, because I’ve not eaten yet. >_>;

*needs to make a happier “I see what you did there” icon*

Originally it was going to be “go to IHOP with mother, then get ninja’d by siblings for Best Buy raiding and slacking for rest of day” but mother slept in. What actually happened was “go to IHOP with sister, go back to other house and ninja Robert, and… wait, I know this route, this is how one gets to Fry’s! o_o;;;;”

Robert had never been to Fry’s before and only knew about it second-hand as being “Best Buy on steroids,” so when he actually went in he was all “:O” The car ride both ways was actually the best part about the whole thing, since there was much silly even though much of it sailed over my head because I don’t watch a whole lot of “normal” prime-time TV. :P

So, uh, now I have a LG-series Blu-Ray drive and a 1TB drive. Must obtain case, PSU and OS and then I’m good…

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Chocolate chip pancakes = ohgod so freaking tasty just as they were 12 years ago.
And yes this post took 6 hours to write since I kept falling asleep. :P

Details are being leaked a bit at a time.

IHOP for breakfast (because goddamn I want chocolate chip pancakes)
tech loot (Blu-Ray drive and terabyte drive)

and, uh, apparently I am being snatched by my sister after she gets off work for a little joyride? O_O

If mother’s not up by around 11, perhaps I should wake her…