Because dzioo had it, and it was too tempting not to bite. I still can't make up my mind about how the sometimes somewhat extensive lack of knowledge from my side should be interpreted. Good or a bad thing? (It could, of course, also be seen as lucky (for me) that the selection of titles here seem to be somewhat odd...)

And to improve my standing a little at least, I let the Escaflowne one stay on too. It was after all there when I first started to write my answers on the version nicked from Dzioo ;P

( Looong anime/manga meme follows here )

Spot on...

I still say that Sinfest remains my absolute favourite among web comics. Or among strip comics in general, regardless of media.

People who still use IE6 shouldn't be allowed to use the net. But apparently around 30 percent of the ordinary net surfers still are; forcing poor, tired web developers to spend hours trying to make things look at least somewhat decent. (Fanfic-writing fangirls on the other hand - and to the lesser extent that fanboys exist they too I suppose - seem to be more computer literate with only 6 percent using the browser from hell. They also are almost double as likely to use macs as the more generic crowds. Oh the things you can learn from site logs.)

And why does the main web advertising bureaus have to be American and pay their associates in the currently soft and not very almighty US dollar? That's the last thing I need right now.

It's been grey and icky for days, not exactly helping my mood even if today the sun finally for a while succeeded to demonstrate that it still exists somewhere behind the clouds or under the horizon. And on top of that my sis succeeded in making me depressed without her knowing it. All in all, yesterday wasn't really the best of days.

( Quiztime again )

Fluff time. Or some sort of angsty fluff at least. Because I needed it, and in any case it was a long time since I actually posted any drabbles here.
If someone is to be held responsible for providing inspiration this time, it's probably dzioo ^^ (in the good way I better add). In combination with myself and a somewhat tough last week.

(My English feels worse than usual, but I think I'll just blame it on being tired.)

( The Small Things (Gundam Seed (Destiny)), rating: All ages )

Some randomness again, since there's not much of interest to talk about and I'm bored.

My childhood best friend has been nagging me the last weeks to start playing World of Warcraft and I'm, well, hesitant. Mainly because I'm not all that fond of games having monthly fees, but also due to the fact that my interest in playing computer games seem to have dwindled the last years (true, that's probably partially because said best friend who was the usual one I played with moved away, playing games alone isn't all that fun, and online gaming isn't really the same). But at the same time it would be a good way to raise our level of interaction a little. (Lowering it any more is barely possible anyway. I still don't know for sure if it should be blamed on my usual bad communication skills or just on it being the typical communicative level between two Swedish males.) So I guess I'll see what I do. This far, the whole thing sort of falls on the fact that my HD is more or less full, even without a large online game client.

And as bonus, an old quiz result:



While technically most likely correct in its description, it's still a somewhat odd result for someone who in no-disturbance mode has a brain that prefers to wake up around 8.30-9.00. Then again, early mornings are kind of nice, once I've passed the swearing over the wake-up part. And if it's in the time of year when you actually can wake up early and still be greeted by daylight that is.

Watched Casino Royale (the new one) the other day and got positively surprised. After having read things about the movie "restarting" Bond and having a new actor, I didn't exactly have too high hopes. But, well, the movie is good. And Craig is a very nice Bond, if a somewhat different looking one. It's just that I'm not sure if it's the real Bond or not.

I still have trouble with the "young inexperienced 007" thing, but once I got over that fact, it got better. (To fit me and my ideas of it, it would have been much better if they had placed the story back in the late 1950s or so if they now absolutely had to make a beginner Bond. The basic idea being good and all.) As it is, I can always try some variant of depicting Craig-Bond in my mind as some kind of James Bond Jr., replacing the "real" one.

But as I said it was an overall pleasant experience, and to be honest it's was probably time for something refreshing. The Brosnan-Bond stories wasn't all that excitingly new, even if I still have a soft spot for Tomorrow Never Dies.

Oh, and I - naturally - found Vesper Lynd an interesting woman to my liking. But I'm sure no one is very surprised over that statement.

Finally finished with the very pointless work that taken almost a week and in the end most likely will serve no purpose at all. Oh well, the last thing to die is hope, I suppose. Even if there's a never-ending battle between the logical side of my brain and my dreamy, hopeful one. And I'm not sure which one I want to get the upper hand.

And now for something totally different. Meme from dzioo.
( What I've been journaling about )
To be honest, I'm mostly surprised how many of the illustrating pics it actually got right. Even if there's still a whole lot that makes me wonder what exactly I've been babbling about...

It's probably a clear sign that I ought to go to bed when I start to find the job title "Senior Gender Advisor" somewhat amusing...

So, the Christmas celebrations officially finished after having spend the day having a second gift-giving day due to my sister and her family celebrating the first one in Germany. (Where they as a side-effect got duly impressed by the German healthcare system when my youngest niece got ill. No hassle, being allowed to see a doctor at once, no half-day-waiting in the emergency room, good competent doctors, an x-ray just in case the infection could have spread further than expected, no waiting for the x-ray, and so on. I can understand it must have been like paradise for someone used to our Swedish "the best healthcare system in the world"!)

Anyway, Christmas now thoroughly celebrated, and I spent the day playing board games and building Lego. Maybe not the most productive of days, but randomly fun in its own way. (And the mecha fanboy in me still wants those Exoforce Lego mecha they sell now. Why didn't they have those back when I was a child?)

All that's left now is the now usual end-of-the-year melancholy - and the weird feeling of some sort of closure - when I summarize the year that's gone by.

Four episodes into Gundam 00, and this far no sight of anything to make me feel anything particular for it. In other words, it's already proven itself to be no Seed, and no Wing. No Cagalli, no Duo, no Athrun, no Heero. Just four annoying gundam pilots that I couldn't care less for. I really hope it is in the staff's plan to make Celestial Being come off as the bad, irritating ones here. Someone needs to defect from the organization soon, or at least get in some angsty mess. I'm feeling slightly uncomfortable finding myself more interested in the success of the side characters than the main ones here.

The Shinn wannabe Setsuna once again make me wonder what organizations deploying gundams have against psychological aptitude tests by the way.

And can someone please give Mr Erde the sex change operation that he so obviously wants! Or just kill off the smug bastard already.