Hola from Cabo! I’ve been doing my best to learn spanish while i’m here.. having a semester in it does help me understand i must say, but the majority of the people here speak english very well so it’s not a necessity. Bad part is that it just means that everyone here is expecting us tourists, so everything is just as baller.

On a tangent: did you notice “hello” sounds really similar in a lot of languages? Para examplo (i have no clue if thats even how you say example in spanish): “Hola” means hello, but swap the ”a” and “o” and its “Halo” and pronounce it chinesey, you get “ha-low”, which sounds like “hello” which is awkwardly similar to “nay-ho” for fobbers out there.

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So this is backwards, but i was reading online how to design a character, and one of the key steps before you even draw anything, is to make a silhouette. Then after you do it, you identify the major basic shapes in your character, and see if they work well together. I have no idea which shapes work together, but i thought I’d try to give an RH silhouette a go, and that’s what i came up with 5mins later. Not bad, considering i wasn’t expecting it to come out looking like anything more than a mangled psychologists ink blot.

One thing to note that I learned, is that a key to a good character design, is so that people can recognize it by it’s silhouette. Check out these i found online. Who knew character design was more than just drawing a thing out and having it in a cool pose.

And if you’re gotten this far please click this for hilarious remake of Take On Me song.

It’s over. It took me longer than i thought because I kept getting side tracked looking for new clothes and hair and cutlasses, but alas, my pirating days in Albion are done.

I liked the game overall. It wasn’t long and never felt boring like some of the Final Fantasy games out there, actually, any jrpg. Best part of the game for me was the combat system and the character styling you get to do. I hate how some games give you badass armor or weapons that look awesome as an item graphic, then you equip it, and it’s the same generic stick you’re going to have all game to fight with. Not the case here. Also, I got to make my character a pirate.. and in my unending thirst to get more & more shit for my character for the lowest price possible, he’s a butt pirate.. named Desperado.

Overall review + a spoiler after the jump.
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Beisty (pronounced bay-stee for the most part) means embarassment in Punjabi. If you’ve been around me or my friends in the last year or two, it’s become a regular in our vocabulary. This weekend, after some happenings that could not.. should not go ignored, I’ve decided to turn this into an award.

You’ve all done it. You know you have.. you know, when you do something so ridiculously stupid, everyone ridicules you for it and it will take years before you’ve lived it down.. this is the situation where you will be eligible for the Beisty Award. Once you receive said award, you will have to carry it around with you until someone else is more beisty than you and if it’s generally agreed upon that he or she is, a passing of the beisty will occur.

After some heaty discussion with a few of you, it’s been decided that there should be a few Beisty Awards floating around, I was thinking about 2 or 3.

I thought I’d open it up for discussion on what these beisty awards should be.. like a general group for each beisty award. Please email me or post a comment here for your suggestion and or category/nomination in the following form “[category name]: [Person to nominate] - [Reason]”

A few examples that I think of are note may be:

1. Group Beisty: Ann - for turning a group dinner for 8 at a restaurant into a subway/safeway sandwhich festival instead.

2. Gift Beisty: Amrik - Leaving the country to visit the Netherlands and buying “gifts” for people, then being found out a month later that the gift came from Ikea. Aka “The Lakerol” incident.

3. Personal Beisty: Janet - Believing that lesbians can get AIDS from dildos because they can squirt things.

Boyz II Men concert was mega. Considering it was a few days ago now, it’s still fresh in my head. Obviously, the group isn’t the exact same as I remembered them back in the day when their songs shot arrows through the hearts of many, but they are magic live. Still, if the missing member Michael didn’t have some disabling sickness, his part in the group would be the only thing that would make them better.
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Einraged. Incredibly einraged.

The situation: I sit near the door in my cubicle at work. The receptionist door is about a 30 second walk away, so every once in a while i’ll get someone douche bag enough who thinks they’re important enough to interrupt whateaver work a stranger (me) is doing, to make me get up and let their fuck hole asses in. Usually, this isn’t a large problem, even though they could turn around and waddle to get a guest pass for the day, because really it’s only 10 seconds out of my day and the only annoying part is that it breaks my train of thought.

Today, however, crazy-stupid-bitch-whore-dingy-cunt-cotton-swab woman knocks on the door. I’m coding. I’m busy and deep in my train of thought. She knocks yet again, harder.. and again! So i finally get up to let her in, obviously disgrunted, and to make it worse, as i get there she is in mid motion of taking out her security card to unlock the door. What the fuck, whore. Stupid woman was fumbling with her [name brand] purse in one hand and a stupid chocolate milk in the other. GAWD.

I’ve made plans to fuck with her mind hide her keyboard/unplug her shit tonight.

Oh. I only used blackula because “fuck you coworker” sounds less hateful.

So that’s the understatement of the century. Everything is different: noses, mouths, eyes. I even have to be careful how i shade you.. because it could come out looking like a freaking beard. I will try harder next time.

(read: your bits and pieces are much too hard, lol)

My thoughts go out to your family and friends. I only knew you briefly, good sir, and it’s a shame I didn’t get a chance to to know you well. Your friends loved you a lot and will carry your memory on.

Busted out the tablet again and started to sketch a friend. Something is wrong with this one.. oh well, hopefully #2 will look closer. I’ve always had trouble drawing real people. Cartoon versions of feces and/or objects.. sure. Cartoon people? Say hello to disproportionate body parts.

Note: not my pants.

There’s a simple recipe that I’ve perfected since living on my own that I’d like to share with you all. It probably differs slightly from person to person, but I have a 3 step process that will take you from cranky to calm quite quickly:

1. Go to one’s favourite spot (mine happens to be my bed) in the house to relax.
2. Immediately disrobe until all that is left is one’s underwear (preferable boxers) and undershirt (white, tag-less). *
3. Inhale deeply, and exhale making an audible “aaaaauuugghhh” noise.

* If you don’t own a pair of men’s boxers and/or undershirt, you may substitute with nudity or sliced bread.

Sadly, the only caveat to my plan for a successful comforting of one’s self, is the fact that it requires me to be at home doing nothing. I wish it were more like Instant Noodles where I could just douse myself with a cup of hot water and I’d feel at ease. I guess even if that were the case, not only would my roomie find me even more extremely weird, but my coworkers wouldn’t appreciate a half naked, wet guy groaning throughout the day.

D’oh.