SomeGuy: Smallville

Welcome to my world.

I'm SomeGuy, 29 years old, residing in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I've studied English Literature, Chinese Martial Arts, and am currently pursuing careers in writing - possibly even in the anime industry itself.

And I work for this site.

And you should be watching Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad.
Or watching Ranma 1/2.
Or learning about the Shinsengumi.
Or planning to visit Vancouver, The Best Place On Earth (actual marketing motto).

Here at the "Smallville" page, I have my personal blog where I'll post about anything and everything. If ya need me or otherwise need to know anything from/about me, here's where I'll be.

If you're really looking for my more professional, site-type stuff, you wanna head over my "Metropolis" world.

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Things Worth Mentioning From The Past Few Days...

Point form, gettou!

Did a little Christmas shopping. Still have not started mail out for Europe just yet and am now cutting it extremely close. Umm . . . if it's not there in time . . . sorry, Europe. My bad.
On grounds that bills gotta get paid, most of you on my usual lists are probably gonna notice a significant lack of bubble packages this year. We'll call 2008 the "economic crisis" year. That which does arrive should hopefully bring a little luck nevertheless.
Superstore started being open 24 hours this week. I'm not getting much of any of those midnight-onward hours, and actually have fewer hours this week than last. I need to check that today so I can get moneys to pay said bills.
Internet has been sucking especially bad lately. Thankfully, we're getting our own cable and internet set up Tuesday morning. It shall be glorious.
Alexa's getting better. This is good.
Alexa got me a new keyboard/mouse combo as an early Christmas present on grounds that the old keyboard was "REALLY loud" when she was trying to sleep. Amusing. In any case, new keyboard is pretty nice, is less gunky than the old 4-year old one, and still has all the wonderful shortcut keys I love. And yes, it is quieter so the girl can sleep better.
I also made Alexa watch the extended director's cut of "Kingdom of Heaven" last night. She didn't comment on how she felt about it (aside from the whole "I hate how much shit people do in God's name" bit) on grounds that it was way past her bedtime. Burn. Still, good times.
My kung fu group was in this year's GlobalTV Santa Claus Parade yesterday, just ahead of the Mayor of Vancouver even. Since I don't have TV yet I don't know how that looked on the thingy, but it was fun and went well enough.

That is all. I'll go do the podcast now that internet's back on.

HD Question . . .

If an LCD television is only 32 inches, should one really worry too much about whether it supports 1080i or not?

Otherwise I'm gonna happily settle for 720p. Thoughts?

Oh Toy Companies . . .

Y'know how when you have a movie like "The Dark Knight", you always have action figures?

But what if the whole movie is basically one guy? How can you sell a bunch of action figures of just the same guy wearing the same thing all the time? Oh yeah, I remember now: you make crap up so the kids'll buy 'em.

There was a display of "The Dark Knight" action figures outside my department at work. They made me roll my eyes and groan . . .

Remember that part in The Dark Knight where he put on ninja clothes under his suit and pulled out a giant fan to fight gangsters?

How about that part in The Dark Knight when he had a gun that shot spinning chainsaw blades? Yeah, there was one of those too.

Dumbasses.

Cooking EXP: +100

The little one is sick right now.

I made jook.

It actually turned out fairly decent. This pleases me.

Also, I watched Prince Caspian finally - enjoyable.

December? Already? Wow...

So who's been missing actual life posts from me? Work is still movin' along at Superstore, I'm still makin' the little moneys I can in the meantime, buyin' groceries for 10% off and such. I'm a little afraid since it's Christmas time comin...

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