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Alternate Dimention (Part 26)

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(Continued from Part 25 ) [Mamiko's point of view of what happened from Part 24 ] Saeko received a call from Kotomi asking for help urgently for Kotomi's school festival tomorrow. Saeko and I came across a shop near the train station along the way. I don't know why, but those pretty things they are selling at the shop attracted my attention. I can't help myself but to check the stuff there. I don't know how much time had passed, but Saeko has quietly left me behind and found out that she's now quite close to that school. I know we can read each other minds, but can't she at least tell me that she's leaving? She has never even spoken a word to me since the night after we gained the ability to read each other minds , although this could be partly my fault for playing with a machine I know nothng of that had me end up in a cloned body of myself in the first place. Hold on, does that mean that my current mind was separated from my original? If not, then who

375th post: navigation menu images changed

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(a slightly updated version of this post ) On some of my blogs, I have changed the images with this new style. I wanted to do this earlier, but didn't know how. Turns out that I could use an image-editing software that has been installed on the computer, but rarely used, to do this (GIMP). All the time, I was trying to see if the program I had always been using (Inkscape) has this feature. I still need the latter program for sizing and cropping to the exact dimensions though. For example, if you were to hover over "Anime", the new version should display as the background. For the older version, it would be or, if I didn't modify as a result of the recent resizing of square thumbnails, . Notice the gradual transparency. As there are some problems with the colour scheme with these new images, I might need to do some adjusting or even replace with new ones. I might also have to remove the borders and that background colour when hovering over text links anywhere on that

374th post: Lol, what?

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I was playing around with Google Maps to see what places I have never been to looked like at street level and was shock to see a particular street that has a long row of people posing for the camera at such high resolution without face blurring. People were holding up sings that range from "x loves y", "hi mom" and even "engineering". People were even holding up bicycles, large balls of various colours, and even wear clothing or do actions that sticks out. Here are even more pictures of the place:   Wonder what's the occasion or how many people are there....

373rd post

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As I'm typing this I'm watching K-On! episode 6. Between 4am and 11pm earlier, I have written reviews of episode 2 and 3. I know it's overdue by 3-4 weeks as I had done that of episode 1 shortly after it came out. I have yet to cover episode 4 onwards. Since episode 2 review came out so late, screenshots of the widescreen version were used instead of the letterbox version that came out 23 days earlier. Ah, the haunted house in this episode. I remember during the festival at my school: walking around in a dark, unfamiliar area with minimal lighting. There would also be people trying to scare me. But with no thanks to me being able to see well in the dark and the sense of knowing people are approaching me is not really scary. Need to blindfolded and be dragged there to be more effective. As for the food.... it's questionable. How well I can see in the dark? Well, take any digital camera with the default settings and point to any scene at night and what I see captured on

372nd post: 16:9 versions of my vectors

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Well, these 1280*720 versions of my vectors has been up at the same place as the regular version for quite a while, but did not mention anything about it. In fact, they are not displayed anywhere else, except for a particular blog hosted outside Blogger that I have yet to figure out how to use. Another reason for not displaying is that some just doesn't look right or take too much of my time that I'm better off doing something else. To view them, just add "widescreen/" in the URL just before the file name, but it only works on sfgdhjyfmjh, v0001-v0007, v0011-v0038, v0016a, v0030a, and v0051. How I extended the image depends on the background. For the above ( v0003 ), I used my interpretation on extending the railings and the ceiling. The clouds in the original area are left untouched and are extended/duplicated in the new areas. Another example are these two ( v0014 & v0017 ). Making 16:9 versions is relatively easy as the background is plain or are already in la

370th post: old tv fried

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I was patiently waiting for "Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood" on TBS by watching some golf tournament that came before it on the old 29" CRT TV bought in 1997 stored somewhere in the forgotten corner of the house out of randomness. It was replaced by a newer 32" LCD widescreen TV in 2007/8 when it was obvious that the older TV was breaking down. Guess what? Just before the golf tournament ends, there were weird noises from inside before a smell similar to the time I (somehow) inserted the RAM on a 2005 motherboard wrongly and turning it on. Upon hearing that, I quickly unplugged the TV from the socket. The smell, that was not new to me, lingered the room and the surrounding area through the doors and windows. At that time, my laptop is connected to it via 3mm to RCA jack cable for audio and S-Video to see if months of non-usage made any difference. Good thing that it's grounded, because the TV is not grounded and can still sense electrical static inside. Knowin

Influenza A(H1N1)

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[edited 1:19am: typo] (formerly called Mexican/Swine flu) Everywhere I go in recent days, I keep hearing about this: Forums, message boards, news, spam mail, Twitter, Facebook, podcasts, etc. from all over the world. It's like, it's impossible to not hear about it. I don't want it to become like the H5N1 virus Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome back in 2003 with so much protective measures (and hospitals at red or black alert), but through the medium mentioned earlier, they only amplify as to how serious it is. *sigh* There's little progress with the 4th story or translating 3rd story. Have more important things to do, writer's block, and days seem to zoom by. Either time seem to fly by faster as I get older, or the things I do made it seem faster.