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End of Summer

Published on August 31, 2009 in Daily flash. 44 Comments
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Agh, August is just about over (or maybe it’s already over depending on what timezone you’re in). Every summer vacation, I always get a sense that I didn’t really do anything interesting, even if I actually did. There’s always the feeling that summer vacation is too short, and when it’s about to end, you go “What? It’s ending already?” regardless of whether or not you did anything interesting. If you spend your summer doing interesting things, you won’t want the fun to end, and if you spend your summer doing nothing, you want the vacation to be longer so that you’ll have more time to spend not doing anything. Interesting how that works out. Well anyhow, college orientation starts tomorrow, so my summer vacation is over today! And for the people who still have time to waste before they have to go back do doing stuff… I envy you!

Oh yeah, and I couldn’t think of anything easy-to-draw interesting thing to do besides hang-gliding, so Headphones Character’s memories may be a bit lacking in interestingness. But be assured that she had fun.

Meteor Showers

Published on August 11, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 30 Comments
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So yeah, a daily flash! About meteor showers! I’m pretty sure I had a better idea for the ending but I suddenly forgot it so I just kinda made up stuff. It was not regarding danmaku, though. Or maybe this was my original idea and it just seemed great at the time and then after I finished I realized it wasn’t as great as it first seemed to be, so I was led to think I started with another idea. Well, whatever it is, here it is.

Safely Removing Hardware

Published on July 15, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 48 Comments
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I always use the ‘safely remove hardware’ thing when removing USB devices, even though I’m sure that I’ve closed all programs that are attempting to access the USB device. Though sometimes it’ll keep saying that a file is open in a program and I need to close the program before I can remove it, even though I’m sure it’s not. Sometimes I just leave it there until I have to shut down the computer anyway, then take it out after the computer’s off. Or I just remove the device anyway (after trying the ‘safely remove hardware’ again a bunch of times). Nothing bad ever happens to the files though. In other news, I like how neat the handwriting in the title frame is.

Buying Used Stuff

Published on July 7, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 29 Comments
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I don’t really buy used stuff that often, and my reasoning is similar to Headphones Character’s. The only times I can remember buying something used would be for books that aren’t available at libraries (such as textbooks).

Though recently I bought a used textbook online and it had the name of a library imprinted on the pages and some numbered labels on the spine, with some poorly-ripped labels on the back, leading me to believe it was stolen from a library. But the library is all the way in another state, and I don’t feel like doing anything about it, especially since I (well, actually my parents) already paid for it and it’s from so far away. So yeah, be cautious when buying used stuff.

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Borrowing Pencils

Published on July 6, 2009 in Daily flash and Life. 42 Comments
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Okay, I don’t really like this one that much, but I just want to say that it’s kinda annoying when people borrow pencils or pens and don’t return them. Usually I start a school year with a full set of brand new pencils, and in a few weeks, I have two or three left. Most of the time I forget to ask people for the pen/pencil back at the end of class, but it should really be the borrower’s responsibility to return it. Sometimes people say things like “I’ll give it back after the next class” but never do, and that’s even more annoying. However, there are some people who will always give a pencil back even after forgetting to do so at the end of class, and they’ll hold on to it until the next time they see you, and those people are awesome.

I don’t know where I’m going with this rant, but I doubt it’s that interesting to most people (reading over it, I realized it probably makes me sound really angry, but it’s more of a minor annoyance, if anything). This didn’t happen recently or anything, but I just thought it needed to be addressed, because it is a very serious problem that runs rampant in a society where people borrow or lend writing utensils. Well, it’s not that serious.