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Journal TechnoLust's Journal: /. oddness and weird dreams 27

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Ok, so I tried to get on the dot last night and I was getting a 503 Service Error. Not unusal around here, but when I logged on this morning and got my messages, so of them were broken. For example, KSHGoddess's reply to my comment in her journal had a broken hyperlink. It was to http://example.com/comments.pl?sid=114716&cid=9723398
Oh, I just noticed this at the bottom of the form page:
URLs <URL:http://example.com/> will auto-link a URL
So supposedly if I type in a URL, it will autolink it, but I typed one in, so we'll see if it works!

Now, my assumption is, they were making a code change and forgot to change a static variable before rolling it out, and since /. IS the dev server, my message was created incorrectly. They must have realized this and fixed it because subsequent messages were ok.

Weird dreams
So last night, my dreams were in anime. Now, I'm not an anime fan. Cartoon sex and violence just don't appeal to me. I've seen little bits of anime and I don't hate it, I just never really got into it and I've never seen a whole one. Just the little bits of Akira they show on commercials. So for me to dream in Anime is weird. That's not all. The next part of my dream, I was a website. yeah... a website. I was looking out from behind the monitors watching people answer questions in some sort of weird survey about Japanese weddings.

I had mexican for dinner last night and watch a movie about Brazilian Jujitsu, so I'm not sure how that translated into Japanese themed dreams, but... so if there WERE any of you left that I hadn't convinced I'm crazy, that should just about cover it! ;-)

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  • Uh.. huh (Score:4, Funny)

    by the_mad_poster ( 640772 ) <shattoc@adelphia.com> on Saturday July 17, 2004 @11:35AM (#9725117) Homepage Journal

    Been eatin' them Guatemalan insanity peppers [thesimpsons.com] again?

  • I love finding out what sleep will bring me. There usually always entertaining, I just wish I had more dreams or remembered more of them when I wake up. There like late night movies and you're the director. But it can be freaky sometimes when they seem so real. On the other hand that can be a great thing too.

    And yeah, there was a code change last night. Don't forget to report those bugs by clicking on the Bugs link and telling them about it :)
  • I take it you don't read the front page, do you? [slashdot.org] :7 Yeah, they made a code change and now the whole place is ridden with bugs and other monsters.
    • Woah! When did /. get a front page?!
      • I suspect it may have something to do with this "system update" they did last night. To quote Taco: the changes are almost entirely 'Under the Hood' type fixes: architecture stuff that shouldn't really impact much end user functionality. Perhaps they took some of the "journal" code and built a "front page" on top of it?

      • When did /. get a front page?!

        I think that they made 1 just a while ago. ;^)

        I had an anime-style dream also. It wasn't anime in the real sense. It was more like Transformers-GI-Joe type stuff. The characters even ran in the same manner.

        The genre was sci-fi, & was about these good fighters who fought off the bad guys. The only 2 main characters I remember were these 2 caucasians who were indentical twins; 1 dressed in white; the other in yellow. They each had a small nuclear missle sticking out of thei

        • I challenge you to see if you can tell me
          Err... it doesn't really work like that. If it DID, I'd be really rich, Boo's parents would be completely frightened of me and let us date (as I would read their minds and start telling them their darkest secrets), and I'd rule the world.
    • Monsters? Oh dear!
  • I haven't seen any anime dreams, but i've had a few videogame-dreams. In some of them, i would die at some point and then start all over again. A few of them have been 3D shooters. One was just like GTA. Oh, and in one dream, i was a giant. That was perhaps the coolest one. I remember that at one point, i was sitting on the roof of a house and there were people looking for me down below. Another giant -- sitting on the roof of another house -- threw me a package of M&M's, which i proceeded to eat. But t

  • Saying you don't like anime because you don't like sex and violence is like saying you don't like books because you don't like sex and violence; don't confuse the medium with the content.

    Admittedly a lot of the anime that winds up getting exported and played on TV tends to involve violence, but what do you expect? You're in America.

    • All the guy has to go on is Akira, what some wannabe Otaku* showed him one day, and the stuff that he flips past on Cartoon Network.

      You could at LEAST plug a good non-sexual, non-violent anime. Although, since I happen to see nothing wrong with sex or cartoon violence, I can't think of a lot of good ones off hand.

      Well, there is one... blue-something. (Not la blue girl, I don't think...)

      • You're thinking of Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, I think. Basically, a series version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. You might have seen the movie version: Disney's Atlantis.

        Lets see. Good non-sexual, non-violent anime. Well, depends on what you're looking for. Serial Experiments Lain is a good one, if a bit of a head trip. .hack//SIGN is another very good one; some people might find it slow, but it's not slow, so much as introspective.

        The problem you get is, define violence and defi

        • ...a Disney movie, other than perhaps GotF, and Cowboy Bebop. Forgot that I'd mentioned CB.

        • You're thinking of Nadia: Secret of Blue Water, I think. Basically, a series version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea. You might have seen the movie version: Disney's Atlantis.

          No. It was a very well-done movie that was a serious head trip. It had "blue" in the name, and was about a girl who was a pop singer turned model, who was apparantly going crazy.

          • Oh, you're thinking of Perfect Blue [imdb.com], the fine fellow [imdb.com] who did Millenium Actress [imdb.com] and Tokyo Grandfathers [imdb.com].

            Yes, it's an utter head trip, and an amazing movie, on several levels, but it also doesn't fit the 'non sexual, non violent' defintion, by any stretch of the imagination.

            The movie was an adaptation of a novel, by the way.

            • the animation sucks. That being said, its "cute" that she's using an Olde Sk00l (as in crusty) Mac with a crusty web browser (mosaic?! Or just a Really early netscape?).

              Its an interesting story about "growing up."
              • the animation sucks

                Out of curiosity, what about the animation 'sucks?'

                And what's so 'old school' about using a mac with netscape in a movie released in 1997?

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                  • You know what... I completely forgot about Cowboy Bebop. I actually did used to watch that. I didn't even really think of it as anime at the time. Odd. I liked it somewhat. But then I had my satellite turned off and I forgot all about it. Wow.
                • Out of curiosity, what about the animation 'sucks?'
                  UHm, you've seen a Miyazaki film, right? Nuff sed.

                  And what's so 'old school' about using a mac with netscape in a movie released in 1997?

                  Because I was using said mac (Quadra? Centris? Performa?) with netscape in 1994-5.
                  • UHm, you've seen a Miyazaki film, right? Nuff sed.

                    UHm...Nuff not sed. I've seen many Miyazaki films, and I've seen Perfect Blue. Perfect Blue is not a Miyazaki film. It is not animated in the same style as a Miyazaki film; it has a more 'realistic' look to it; smaller eyes, more accurate body proportions, and less fantasy elements, being, well, not a Miyazaki fantasy.

                    • okay I'll spell it out: the animation looks cheap.
                      Maybe it was the transfer? Possibly... however I was unimpressed, my wife was unimpressed, and my friend Han was unimpressed. Now, perhaps you are unimpressed with the anecdotal evidence of 3 random people (of questionable "qualifications") saying "yeah, it sucks" but let it be known: I've seen better anime both in content and in animation.

                      And you call THOSE faces "realistic?" Sorry bub, no dice. Flat affect all around. But in many ways thats the esse

                    • The DVD was a terrible transfer, yes.

                      The animation itself, however, was fine. Minimalistic, perhaps, the style not to your liking, but fine.

                      And, yes, the faces were 'realistic.' Not photographs, no, but contrast them to say, something by CLAMP.

  • I think it's an effect of having 4AM-1PM sleeping hours...

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