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Well, I haven't made a post regarding my weight for a while because I've been battling a plateau. However, this morning, I finally reached my first major milestone. I am now under 300 lbs.
WOO WHO!!!!
Show us a discontinued food or product you wish would return.
Submitted by Shawn.
The Chicken Ceasar Pita from Wendy's *sniffle* Oh god, this thing was so awesome. Everything about it was.
The chicken, the ceasar dressing, the little slivers of asiago cheese, the romaine lettuce (which was always so amazingly green and fresh), and the pita bread.
It's gone...all gone...
Normally, I would blame such a travesty on the death of Dave Thomas, but it was discontinued when he was still alive. Why Dave?! Why?!!
If they ever bring it back, I'll shed a silent tear of joy and immediately buy 50 of them (just in case). I guess something that good was never meant to be.
*cry* *sob*
Which popular slang expression drives you nuts?
I know the question is asked in singular, but I couldn't possibly name just one. There are too many that annoy the hell out of me equally. Most of it is ghetto retard bullsh*t.
Now, the whole language that Snoop Dogg invented where everything starts out sounding like it's coinciding English word with an izzy, zouse, etc doesn't bother me. That is, unless that's the only thing someone speaks in while expecting other people to take them seriously. Otherwise, I see it as a modern day version of Pig Latin reserved for friends joking around amongst each other.
However, what causes the veins in my forehead to pulsate with unending fury and rage, the kind of rage found in the fist of an angry god, are words like 'Bling'.
It's like the media practically shoves this down our throats now. Even people older than time, like Joan Rivers, have used this word.
I guess they did need to shorten the original word. I mean, it's hard to continually put "I am an ignorant piece of crap that happened upon money one day through the exploitation of my 'talent' and decided to waste it on hideous material things that further accentuate just how retarded I am" in a sentence. Falling into this category are 'Grillz'. You can see the astute gentlemen in my accompanying picture sporting this fine piece of jewelry. I expect for future payment of any of my wrongdoings in life, my child will one day come home wearing one of these. There will then be the dilemma of allowing them to live further or removing them from the gene pool for the greater good.
Now we trek into the land of ignorant ghetto parents who have difficulty with the solution to 2 + 3, but are allowed to have children much to the chagrin of the rest of us. I present to you, 'Baby's Daddy' & 'Baby's Momma'. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. It is now acceptable to bear children with someone only to leave them and then be labeled as one of these. Why? So, the other person can live in denial of ever being a whore/man-whore. By given no acknowledgment to ever having had a relationship with this other fine quality human being, the other person escapes these derogative labels and are free to raise upstanding little snowflakes. Being responsible has no place in society after-all.
Another gem is 'hater' and/or its variation, 'hatin'. I frequently see these used by the MySpace crowd and 12-year olds...excuse the redundancy. These just annoy the crap out of me. I think it's because the context they're always used in. You don't like something, so your unedumicated adversary immediately comes back with this as some kind of weak insult. I will give an example. This was found by doing a quick Google search:
"I don't have to hate haters because I understand that hating is their way to express their emptiness and self-imposed misery."
Since when did having a negative view of something indicate someone is empty or forcing misery upon themselves? Bah! I do not force misery upon myself. It's the ignorant masses of humanity who make statements like this in defense of their position that cause me misery. I mean honestly, who is really going to be bothered by this statement? I'm a hater? My god man!! I knew there was a word for my dislike of your position. Thank you Captain Obvious. I have truly seen the light.
Stop being stupid and I'll be happier than a tornado in a trailer park!
Doctor L's CT Re-retranslation.7z
The translation is complete, finally. It was a long arduous task. But, I am pleased with the result.
It would have been released weeks ago, but I was having difficulty inserting Crono's new element icon into the game to replace the 'Lightning' one. It became necessary to look for help which I eventually got from justin3009 at Chrono Compendium.
So, I have made posts at Chrono Compendium and at ROMHacking.net, but it seems to be getting little fanfare. I wish I could find out how often it's being downloaded if at all.
I'm trying to concoct a way to get it more fan press without being a douche about it. No luck so far.
I'm not entirely done with everything though. I consider all my work an ongoing work in progress. So, as I continue to play the game, I'm fixing text to make it look more uniform and neat. Eventually, I'll submit these changes as a new release version. I also realized I need to change the default name of the flying craft in the game back to 'Epoch' as the CC team changed it to the Japanese name. But, the space provided isn't big enough for the name, so it's shortened making it look awkward. I've also changed a bunch of the abbreviated names of items and equipment to shorter names while trying to retain their original meaning in Japanese. A second run through the game made me realize how much this annoyed me. I've never been fond of abbreviating words normally not abbreviated.
Here's to hoping it gets the kind of recognition I'm hoping for. :-/
So, much catching up is in order as much has happened this week that I have yet to mention.
First, I completed my fan translation of Chrono Trigger after a graphics related debacle. I'll go into greater detail about the whole thing in another post. The important thing is, it's done and posted at Chrono Compendium.
Now secondly, I had a life altering event occur to me today. This...
I've never had to worry about wearing glasses my whole life. I always thought my vision was really really good. Lately, though, I started noticing I couldn't read text from as far away as I used to be able to. So, I setup an appointment with an eye doctor to get checked out.
Well, it turns out I'm near-sighted and have astigmatism in my left eye. It took a few hours for my prescription to get done, but when I got them and tried them on for the first time, my reaction was astonishment. The best way I can explain it is it's like watching a movie on DVD versus VHS tape. Even colors and stuff are brighter. And I can't believe I accepted blurry images of things as normal vision. I've been looking at things with my glasses on and with them off for comparison. Just...wow.
Initially, I was going to get contacts because I thought glasses would look incredibly stupid on me. However, I changed my mind and got frames. Think I picked a good style as it doesn't look nearly as stupid on me as I thought it would.
Do you have a particular "catch phrase" for which you are known?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.
EDIT: On many occasions, I am known to use the term *facepalm* in IMing or everyday conversation as a sign of contempt and disgust at the world around me.
I'm a happy clown.
What products can't you live without?
Submitted by galindafied.
- Food
- Wonderbread Stoneground Whole Wheat Bread
- JIF Crunchy Peanut Butter
- Quaker Oatmeal to Go
- Yoplait Light Yogurt
- Leaf and/or Romaine Lettuce
- Turkey or Tuna
- Bananas
- Chocolate
- Drink
- Pur Water Filter
- COFFEE!!
- Margerhitas
- Meds/Medical Devices
- Provigil
- Amitriptyline
- C-PAP Machine
- Electronics/Entertainment
- My Computer
- Vidya Games
- Music
- Cellphone
What is your favorite quote and why?
My favorite quote is definitely this:
"I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill." - Gandhi
If more people were like Gandhi, there'd be fewer problems in the world.
On another note, here are a few others I'd like to mention that I'm partial to:
- Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability. - As Good As It Gets- Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church. - Mark Twain
- Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. -H. L. Mencken
- How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? -Edith Wharton
- Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. - Malcolm X
Bonus Round: Least Favorite Quote
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. - John Stuart MillI hope an event comes in my life where I can show Mr. Miller how much of a coward I am. He's right about one thing. War is not the ugliest of things. The belief that there is no other solution is.
Love it or hate it, many of you lost an hour of sleep last night due to Daylight Saving Time? Worth It? Do you like it more/less now that Daylight Saving Time occurs earlier (and later) in the year?
I like it when I gain an hour of sleep, but hate it when we lose an hour like last weekend. Blargh.
How do you think having siblings (or not having siblings) affects who you are as a person?
I have an older brother by 2 1/2 years. Like all brothers, we never got along when we were kids.
Now that we're adults, I think of him as more than a brother. I consider him a friend. We don't get to see each other too often seeing as how we're both in different states. The only real opportunity we have is at holidays. However, we do play games online together when given the opportunity.
I admire him very much. He's gone through tons of crap in his life too and still came out on top. Sometimes, it feels like he's the only one who could possibly understand what's going though my head. I'm looking forward to seeing him graduate from college this spring He used to serve in the Navy, but eventually got out and now works for them as a civilian.
It just makes me feel good knowing someone else in my family didn't adhere to the curse too. I'd say it influences my view of the world a lot. Two people that didn't become a statistic in the same family? It's because we chose not too. As far as I'm concerned, no one has an excuse after what we've been through.
