Kyanobenthes' Scratch Pad

Moving clear across the country!! O_O I won’t have access to a computer for a while since I decided to slowly bring things via plane trip instead of renting some big ol’ truck (I really don’t want to drive cross-country all by myself).

Halloween and all related nomenclature for this particular seasonal holiday. I won’t finish chapter 1.12 by tonight after all. Parties and all that. But soon. ^_^ Muse-chan wants to dress up as George W. Bush. I don’t think so.

Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, I had a hard drive wipe. My computer had gotten a virus. I was in college, and rather than try to clean it out (perhaps they couldn’t), the campus tech support decided to reformat the entire thing. I fancied myself an archivist back then, but I [...]

Sit down, kids. Reading Rainbow is over. It’s a sad day (week or so) and a sad reminder on the state of true literacy in good ol’ America. It’s not enough to teach the A-B-Cs of how to read and write when no stupid American kid wants to read or write. They’re dumbing down everything, [...]

I’ve decided not to renew the subscription to that, since I’m paying for this domain and hosting anyway. I think the only difference it (lack of subscription) will make is that the post pages won’t be styled and… not sure about the gallery. That reminds me, of course, that I need to transfer the little [...]

“Dedication” Occasionally, one of my professors would point this out to me. I would invest far too much into the research project I was writing at the time and do too much research, find too much information, and then just write too much, covering too much ground or going too deep. This would sometimes lead [...]

Here goes something rambly again, but much less ranty than the first.

Honestly, I should just make a T-shirt and get it over with: OMG talky bits! D: Noooo …I guess there wasn’t much point to this post. ^_^; But I’m busy researching and outlining and all that. Maybe I’ll post that squib I have saved up. It’s been a couple weeks since I posted 1.11, and [...]

Out of curiosity, I looked up some information about readability and found a Brit-based calculator using the “new” SMOG reading formula. I ran Syncope chapter 1.10 and came up with these statistics: The SMOG index: 14.6 Total words: 8317 Total number of polysyllabic words: 850 Total number of sentences: 656 The page goes on to [...]

This is confusing as hell. Okay, I think I got most of it working. I still haven’t tried the poll plugin, but that’s pretty minor. Uh, please avoid commenting on any other of my entries besides this one since I’m still trying to figure out how to fully import/format my old Livejournal stuff here. Of [...]

No job now. I also know one other friend who was laid off this year, one laid off last year, and a bunch of people whose job searches have been empty since late last year. My priorities are shifting a bit, so that’s fair warning that chapter 1.11 probably won’t be released this month. I [...]

LJ may be having problems since they cut a good chunk of their workforce and has difficulty making a profit. I’ve bought my own domain and intend to host “Syncope” there among other things, but I’ll have to figure out how to mirror and stuff later. Maybe I’ll set up WordPress? We’ll see. I don’t [...]

2009 is going to be interesting. I mean, 2008 was pretty demn interesting already, but I expect 2009 to take the cake in terms of international attention span for a lot of people. One can only hope, anyway. I don’t have any particular new year resolutions, though. I’d like to say that I’m going to [...]

Happy end-of-2008 holidays! Dear Suzushiro Haruka: I hate you, Mrs. Malaprop. With fist-shaking love, Ky P.S.: Muse-chan isn’t terribly amused either.

O B A M A In other news, the California Proposition 8 to ban gay marriage passed, and similar bills passed in I think three other states. That’s really too bad. I’ve had writer’s block on an important Natsuki/Nao dialogue for a few months now, but I’m going to try to break it down anyway. [...]