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I cookie likes

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:18:00 +0000

Okay apparently Google translate sucks. Maybe it works between languages that follow similar grammatical structure, but English to Japanese requires a little more intelligence than merely translating each word separately and stringing them together. My friend told me "私のようなクッキー" and I immediately thought "Google fails" and "she likes cookies." The literal translation is "a cookie like me," since of course it translated each word separately to achieve this nonsense: 私: I/me, のような: like (in the comparison sense, not the preference sense), and okay, well it at least caught the rest correctly. The correct way of saying "I like cookies" is "私はクッキーが好き," which, if you just look at it as a string of words the Google way, translates to "I am cookie like." Turns out you have to type in "I cookie(s) likes" in order for Google to understand that like is used as a verb and to coerce the correct ordering. ::Ramble over::

p.s. via Loren http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/cookie-monster-20080603-133713.jpg
p.p.s. also reminds me of this http://triketora.tumblr.com/post/158012681/feynman-google-translation-equilibrium-via

Oerba Yun Fang

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:39:00 +0000

Oerba Yun Fang by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

Loving Final Fantasy XIII, and especially Lightning and Fang.

Another Jack...

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:59:00 +0000

There was some odd rumor that Zac Efron was going to take over Johnny Depp's crucial role in the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean 4. I'm not a fanatic but that can't be right, right?

Jack Sparrow by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

I think the face didn't take that long, but I procrastinated on the rest for weeks. Though pencil is generally easy, making the dark parts dark is so hard and takes a bit of unlaziness, which I don't have...

SonicStage 5.1

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:13:00 +0000

New version of SonicStage 5.1 (Japanese only as far as I know, but then again you shouldn't be sad because non-Japanese Walkmen aren't locked to SS) was released by Sony Japan a couple of weeks ago, and I definitely had to follow my own instructions to get rid of the stupid promotions frame again. At least the same procedure worked, but let's see how many versions it will take until I get sick of fixing it...

LUNARR

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:19:00 +0000

I just went to a talk by Toru Takasuka and Hideshi Hamaguchi of LUNARR, Japan. Coincidentally, I've subscribed to their corporate blog about a month ago and had no idea what their products were. Something about inspiration. In fact, their talk was so abstract... so Japanese... so scientific but chaotic (for better or worse), so obvious but not, that I kind of regained hope for the Japanese innovative process and its spirit. That is all, for now.

Enigma / Rainmeter

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:54:00 +0000

Clearly not what I should be spending my time doing... thanks to Lifehacker... [Rainmeter, Enigma]. I've also found Rainmeter to be better than Samurize, or at least more stable on Vista, but who knows. Wallpaper credits to ~KiloOneOne [Blackwater Point] and Bulletcatcher [Tuxflo]. Definitely needs playing around on my part, but I need to not be any more distracted from work...

Don't look at me like that.

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 09:53:00 +0000

My friend told me to bite the head off first so it would stop looking at you. Well, I partially followed instructions...

Happy Hippos from Italia, no more :(

Legos x10

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:03:00 +0000

Some dude in Japan, Kato Takafumi made buildable LEGOs out of paper. Check out this picture of a kid in front of a pile of them as well as other snapshots in the album, or go check out the exhibition at Musashino Art University.

Too much time? Or art? Well, I definitely wouldn't mind having a wall like this and ponder about "liberty with materialism." Oh wait... I have a phobia of large objects...

Can't Sleep, Can't Eat, I'm Sick

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:29:00 +0000

Well a third of that is true. Another product of insomnia, although it's also invading my daytime hours... when I should be work... or something. From the album cover, pencil only:

Amuro Namie by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

Insomnia...

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:22:00 +0000

It's been way too long since I've returned from Japan to blame it on jetlag, but I'm having issues falling asleep. I found out today that two of my roommates have the same problem... new room, new environment?

So what do I do? Draw random shit. It kind of sucks in limited lighting, however.

whoever by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

Over 1000

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:59:00 +0000

The Dark Knight wallpaper has over 1000 hits now on deviantART. Thanks :D

Mustang and Hawkeye

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:54:00 +0000

Finally got myself to take an hour to finish this drawing I meant to finish by November... I meant to only draw Riza, but by request of the recipient I threw in Roy. I must've wasted more time trying to scan this... ugh, but I like how Hawkeye turned out. Now I need to draw some non-anime subjects!

Mustang and Hawkeye by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

Addendum (wallpapers):

Yurt 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 09:29:00 +0000

Fun procrastination tool that I found via MAKE Magazine... yay pixel art.

Another ghetto tool worth mentioning is an Online Icon Maker where yurt 1.0 was conceived.

That makes me want to change this to yurt.blogspot.com and use my favicon...

It's getting cold...

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:10:00 +0000

Need a break... from school work... ie Random doodling:

life? by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

Personally a fan of VAIO wallpapers at the moment. Scroll down to 'Artist,' not the PC history crap.

SonicStage V

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:41:00 +0000

I'm sure not many people were as excited as I was when Sony announced the release of SonicStage V, a rather crash-prone and cumbersome application that manages your music. Well, a Walkman user like myself, and especially those with the Japanese models, is pretty much stuck with SonicStage for now. Even worse, the A820 series apparently has some incompability issues with SonicStage CP that made me reflash the memory a couple of times...

The upgraded player isn't too exciting except maybe that you can find whatever song you're currently listening to in the library with one click (yes, it used to be really lame), for rating purposes in my case. Maybe I like the colors more... or something.

My biggest complaint was the "info" tab with a flash ad, which is not only annoying to look at but wastes resources. Luckily, I found a way to get rid of it thanks to these blogs: http://blog.livedoor.jp/orcinus_/archives/51757103.html and http://taiseiko.blog.so-net.ne.jp/2008-10-13 (both Japanese), but it does also get rid of some other new features like album art and artist visualizers. That's okay though.

Here are the English instructions to do so (I take no responsibility if anything goes wrong):

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Getting rid of the box:

1. Close SonicStage V

2. Go to C:¥Documents and Settings¥All Users¥Application Data¥Sony Corporation¥SonicStage V¥Data¥XML¥Blue (Windows XP) or C:\ProgramData\Sony Corporation\SonicStage V\Data\XML\Blue (Windows Vista)

3. Open FullMode.xml in editor of choice (optional: back it up).

4. Under ＜！-- PortWindow --＞, on line 354, change160 to 0.

5. Under ＜！-- ContentsArea --＞, on line 363, change 160 to 0.

Getting rid of process:

1. Close SonicStage V and go to regedit

2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sony Corporation\SonicStage V

3. Export key Promotion to backup, then delete it.

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Voilà.

☃

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:42:00 +0000

http://www.unicodesnowmanforyou.com

The Dark Knight is out

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:42:00 +0000

Went to see The Dark Knight on opening night.. and it was as great as expected. Still don't know how Blender works... but just another application.. (1280x800 at deviantART)

The Dark Knight 2 by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

The Dark Knight

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:26:00 +0000

in... 5.5 days! Wallpaper based on graffiti. I'm starting to feel that my laptop screen is a lot more vibrant than most out there so the blue/green might not appear as rich on some monitors... Same for the previous Batman wallpaper with the dark brown gradient.. (1280x800 download at deviantART).

The Dark Knight by ~tamumu61 on deviant ART

I also just uploaded the original graffiti for the previous Batman wallpaper.

Batman Logo

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:43:00 +0000

Excited for Dark Knight like this guy? (1280x800).

Edit: Here's the original facebook graffiti piece that unfortunately did not get saved :(

PSP Firmware 4.0 out

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:31:00 +0000

This latest upgrade adds a google search function right from the home menus, video playback at different speeds, and closed caption for oneseg TV if you have that. Not ridiculously exciting for me but worth checking it out.

... for life

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:40:00 +0000

I always knew Panasonic's slogan was "Ideas for Life," but there are so many "for life" slogans out there.. and from large companies too..

Panasonic - Ideas for life
Abbott - A promise for life
Genentech - In business for life
XTENT - The right size. For life
ITT - Engineered for life
Biotronik - Excellence for life
and.. likely more.

Just a random thought.

Vase

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Wed, 28 May 2008 09:49:00 +0000

This next tutorial I did can be found here. Their server seems to be down and I couldn't get the texture files for the floor and vase, but besides that I think I had some issues replicating what they had. I still managed to play around with it, and am overall satisfied with the result even though it was kind of exasperating. The render actually took quite a while... like all of dinner time... after I added some ambient occlusion or whatever.

Blender N00b

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Mon, 26 May 2008 20:57:00 +0000

Instead of working I was up til 5am fighting through Blender tutorials. I've always wanted to step into the 3D realm of art but have not had the chance to really tackle through the nettlesome interface. This time I started slowly with the basics: Noob to Pro tutorial. Then I went back to do some stuff that I looked at before but either failed to complete or didn't even try: A Simple Winter Scene and Dolphin. Before those I actually tried this head modeling tutorial, which let me familiarize with some of the million shortcut keys but I think it's a bit more advanced than the others. I hope one day I can post my original art online... For now I'm posting my tutorial-generated pieces.

Something about the vocal cords...

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:43:00 +0000

To add on to the collection of electronic goods that is no longer functional, I've taken apart my Victor (JVC) headphones [HP-S82F]. I got this a while back.. maybe 5 years or so.. to go with my Sharp MD player. It fit nicely with not too much long-term pain on the ears, and it has an extraneous feature - the rotating color wheel to match with your clothes... or something.

Anyway, since then I've switched to a Panasonic pair that has doubly retractable cords, but for some random reason I decided to take this one on a little trip up to SF. Too bad one of the sides didn't emit any sound. My friend tested it and confirmed that it was something inside, not just the connections. Since it wasn't likely that it would be fixed easily, I just took it apart.. just like this guy, and learned a little about speakers. Kind of like tympanic membrane and vocal cords? Ehem, it was fun while it lasted.

Hayabusa

noreply@blogger.com (tamumu) — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:19:00 +0000

I miss those days I made a bunch of plastic models from kits. I was a fan of those snap-in non-glue kits that required less effort and resources like paint. A few years ago I actually got a Tamiya model of a random Suzuki motorcycle that I thought looked pretty awesome. I actually bought cheap blue and black spray paint and did my best to color everything I could. Turned out pretty nicely, in my opinion. Unfortunately parts of it like the mirror broke off when we had to move...

I wonder when the next time I'll make one of those models.. My next one was supposed to be a Nissan Fairlady Z in the same color that my family had, but too bad I messed up the spray paint (this is why you don't buy cheap ones) and I guess we no longer have the car :(

Wallpaper (1280x800) adaptation from deviantART here.