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Okay, so as I randomly trawl through the internets, looking for porneducational materials, and I run across this pic:

Hey, he’s a pretty passable ‘Advent Children’ Cloud, isn’t he? Yeah, I’ve seen worse cospl-… oh… my… god… what the hell is that in the background..

THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!
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So, Tim Hardaway, some basketball player of moderate fame, goes around saying ‘I hate gay people’. And then George Takei, who pwns with the fiery heat of a thousand suns, puts this out:

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This weekend will be spent putting my new NVidia 7600GS card through its paces with a lot of World of Warcraft, Second Life, and now, the Lord of the Rings Online Stress Test weekend, but I do plan to update maybe tomorrow or Sunday with a little special feature: The Many Faces of Katsu, a collection of screenshots of my different online avatars. Ought to be a hoot. Before that, though, thought I’d update everyone on what wickedness I’ve been up to, now that I feel somewhat human again. I spent all of last week up in the frozen wastes of Buffalo, NY, visiting Mystery Girl and the rest of the gang up there, checking out Buffalo University’s Law School, and generally making a nuisance of myself by being very, very cold all the time. I shoveled snow! What did you do on your vacation?

It was actually quite a bit of fun, the cold didn’t bother me nearly as much as I feared it would (but then again, I’d already lived through an Ithaca winter), I got to drink lots of Guiness, stuff my face at a Red Lobster, trudge through the snow in search of the elusive and deadly Yeti, watch some very bad movies (Dracula 3000, I’m looking at you), and even cook a passable paella for the gang before I left. Visiting the university was a blast as well, if decidedly cold. I took a 3 hour tour (cue the Gilligan’s Island music), and while most of it was indoors, the short bits where we had to walk outside while it snowed sideways were not fun. But the facilities looked great, the law school library and classrooms looked nice, and hey, it’s one of the better law schools in the state, if not the country. And pretty much the only law school in the SUNY system, which means, it’s the only one that’s anywhere close to being affordable for me, so it’s a good thing that it seems to be pretty great.

So, having survived a week of Buffalo blizzards, I do think it’s very likely that before this year is over, maybe even by summer, I may be moving up there. Going to take me a while to actually get into the school for several reasons, not least of which is that I want to try and get my NY state residency before I apply, as the difference in tuition rates between in and out of state students is fairly marked, and that will take a year. So, the sooner I get up there, the sooner I have my residency and can get to studying properly. Of course, all this depends on my finishing my Associate’s Degree soon as well.. so don’t let me get too distracted with other things!

And, on that note, I leave, to finish up my workday, and then prepare for a weekend spent playing a fine selection of online games. What’s that about studying? Sorry, you’re breaking up, I can’t hear you…

Why? Because it brings me things like this through the tubes:

Why is he wearing a Gundam helmet? I… I… it doesn’t matter. The word ‘transcendental’ comes to mind. Thank you, Internets. Thank you.
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Well, this is just fine and dandy, now isn’t it? I finally get around to re-activating my Second Life account a couple days ago, after having it be inactive for months and months after that hacking incident last year, and what’s one of the first things that I run into? This article: IP’s Brave New World. It’s a really fascinating discussion about how Intellectual Property law (my personal area of interest) and the realities of a virtual world where people can create their own content (such as Second Life) intersect, and just as fascinating, how some real-life lawyers are offering their services in-world, resolving disputes that would be too complex to resolve outside of it. Fascinating stuff, and well worth a read, if only because it’s one of the few articles about Second Life that doesn’t wax rhapsodic about how to make money in the game, or how to have virtual sex with furries.
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