I love how something so mundane as using a sock instead of a cardboard insulator for your paper coffee cup has become so fashionable. Life hacking is something that I discovered relatively recently. To be honest, I've mostly found it useless since I guess I'm a natural born life hacker - if I need a little box to keep my "Buddha beads" from when I was 15, I just go make one.
It's a sign of the times really, everything must be renamed to make it cool, re-conceptualised to make it fun to be around. Making things out of random household things to make your life a bit easier is life hacking. Making an object with a previous specific use that you don't want any more into something else, like knitting needles into bangles is called upcycling. Kids today. Crazy stuff.
Thursday, 16 April 2009
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
On Hold
Seems I have a billion-and-one things that I could be doing right now. I have at least ten projects on the go, none of which I can actually be getting on with. As you may or may not know, I'm in the process of moving house, which involves a certain degree of packing up all of your belongings. I, in my infinite wisdom have managed to pack up half of my supplies in different places, forgetting to note down where everything is. I can pick up my kawaii embroidery and find that I've packed away the embroidery thread in another box.
So for now I've taken to staring at the Internet, wondering what else I can do for fun. I'm very tempted to start writing a novel, or a comic, although I have no talent with drawing at all. If it was a comic about boxes maybe, I could do that. Or robots, very square robots. I aced technical drawing when I was at school studying graphics but I can't draw people.
I'm also really tempted to start another website. It's funny really, I actually have my own website that I pay for each month but I'm dying to start my very own fan site for Project Zero. To be honest I know that it will be fleeting, that eventually I would get frustrated and bored with updating the site. I also know from experience, people lose interest in subject matter like this and your site becomes useless - all your hard work is for nothing. I might transform Amaloli.co.uk into more than just a sale site. Watch this space!
So for now I've taken to staring at the Internet, wondering what else I can do for fun. I'm very tempted to start writing a novel, or a comic, although I have no talent with drawing at all. If it was a comic about boxes maybe, I could do that. Or robots, very square robots. I aced technical drawing when I was at school studying graphics but I can't draw people.
I'm also really tempted to start another website. It's funny really, I actually have my own website that I pay for each month but I'm dying to start my very own fan site for Project Zero. To be honest I know that it will be fleeting, that eventually I would get frustrated and bored with updating the site. I also know from experience, people lose interest in subject matter like this and your site becomes useless - all your hard work is for nothing. I might transform Amaloli.co.uk into more than just a sale site. Watch this space!
Friday, 10 April 2009
Translachuns
I've got myself hooked on Japanese again.
I've recently been baffled by the "finish it later" efforts of an individual who has somehow gained the reputation of the top source for information a certain subject I wish not to name here in case they read this. I'd been to the website before, and found numerous errors. It was something simple, errors in Japanese translation but I decided to drop them an email about it.
I got a nasty reply stating that she actually knew the information was wrong and hadn't published the correct information because people had started to steal the information from her site as well as the layout. Again I was baffled by the phenomena that is late twenty something year old online girls. They can be very petty and very sharp. Not sure if I explained all about this before, but I've previously had some lovely experience with a 27 year old English girl who sent hate mail to my jewellery myspace profile telling me that I "suck at photography" and that my designs "are crap".
On another note, I decided to try to translate the subtitles from a Japanese version of the game call Rei (the English version, called Project Zero or Fatal Frame isn't released yet, if it ever will be). Too hard! I've been using a playthrough video on youtube, which means that it's near impossible to get a clear and big enough picture of the kanji to be able to count how many strokes there are in the character. Then you have to search manually through a list of kanji with that many strokes (of which there are averagely over 100). Then you have to figure out what that kanji means. By the way, babelfish is useless. I have no trouble if the kanji is big enough, and I figure that I could develop my kanji recognition skills and stroke counting and order and so on doing this. Rambles.
To sum up: I like to translate Japanese text. I can't unless the kanji characters are big enough. Late twenty-something girls are mean. Babelfish sucks.
I've recently been baffled by the "finish it later" efforts of an individual who has somehow gained the reputation of the top source for information a certain subject I wish not to name here in case they read this. I'd been to the website before, and found numerous errors. It was something simple, errors in Japanese translation but I decided to drop them an email about it.
I got a nasty reply stating that she actually knew the information was wrong and hadn't published the correct information because people had started to steal the information from her site as well as the layout. Again I was baffled by the phenomena that is late twenty something year old online girls. They can be very petty and very sharp. Not sure if I explained all about this before, but I've previously had some lovely experience with a 27 year old English girl who sent hate mail to my jewellery myspace profile telling me that I "suck at photography" and that my designs "are crap".
On another note, I decided to try to translate the subtitles from a Japanese version of the game call Rei (the English version, called Project Zero or Fatal Frame isn't released yet, if it ever will be). Too hard! I've been using a playthrough video on youtube, which means that it's near impossible to get a clear and big enough picture of the kanji to be able to count how many strokes there are in the character. Then you have to search manually through a list of kanji with that many strokes (of which there are averagely over 100). Then you have to figure out what that kanji means. By the way, babelfish is useless. I have no trouble if the kanji is big enough, and I figure that I could develop my kanji recognition skills and stroke counting and order and so on doing this. Rambles.
To sum up: I like to translate Japanese text. I can't unless the kanji characters are big enough. Late twenty-something girls are mean. Babelfish sucks.
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