Subject: WHOA.
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Posted on: 2015-01-06 12:04:00 UTC
THE THING.
THE THING HAPPENED.
Okay, so it's basically just four electromagnets and a computer, and has to run on a smooth sheet of metal, and only rides about a centimeter above the surface.
BUT STILL.
THE THING.
Thanks. ;)
hS
*blows noisemaker* Let's post some of our New Year's resolutions! Mine are...
1. Eat more fruits and vegetables
2. Earn my first-degree black belt (this is more of a goal than a resolution, but it counts)
3. Defeat the Sinnoh Elite Four on my Pearl ROM, darn it!
4. Complete a riff on/meta-fanfic of Zarrelion's "The Life of the Legendaries". (read it if you ever need to be amused by bickering legendary Pokemon) My riff can be found on my deviantART under the title "Origin Science Theater 649".
5. Be more patient with people
I WANT IT NOW! Okay, that is flipping amazing. I want. Really badly.
IwantitIwantitIwantitIwantitnow.
*Checks the reward prices.*
Er, on second thought I may wait for it. Totally worth the wait, though. This is AWESOME. I really want to see how far this technology goes.
THE THING.
THE THING HAPPENED.
Okay, so it's basically just four electromagnets and a computer, and has to run on a smooth sheet of metal, and only rides about a centimeter above the surface.
BUT STILL.
THE THING.
Thanks. ;)
hS
Thank you Tumblr for showing me that! Currently the place is half Back to the Future, half Evangelion.
And to think I just got used to writing 2014. Oh well. As for resolutions, I'll shoot for actually getting my first mission out.
Hoo boy, can I just take a moment to point out how amazing the present is?
We have robots that clean up our living rooms, computer programs that can simulate worlds hundreds of miles wide and an intercontinental web that allows people in California to regularly interact and share ideas with people all the way in the UK. We might not be zooming through chrome cities in our hovercars, but the world right now is kind of amazing. I very much look forward to the coming years.
But as for this year I resolve, for starters, to start writing again (and perhaps to actually put in a Permission Request for the first time in... what, two years?). Also, more personally, I resolve to get my own place, and travel to somewhere I've never been to, perhaps not in that order.
It's funny how the present and our past futures have diverged so much. There's almost nothing in retrofuturity which envisioned our style of computer games and programs - Google Earth? Minecraft? Kerbal? Forget it. But on the other hand, there's very little which assumed we'd still be using mice and MSWord, either.
The internet? It's a major part of many people's lives, but retrofuturity barely takes it beyond 'chat'. Think of all the things you do on the 'net that aren't straight communication...
And... yeah, non-humanoid robots. Fiction and prediction alike have assumed that robots need to be fully aware (or at least capable of simulating it), or they're useless. But we have Roombas (my parents call theirs Dobby), and Siri, and self-driving cars, and...
... well, and all the things we don't even notice, the little automatic algorithms that tag your Facebook pictures, or fill in your username for you, or filter out your spam emails. It's all very very clever. But we're still waiting for those hoverboards.
But... I guess it's the same for everything. Why are dinosaurs and mammoths unspeakably cool, when their direct descendents, swans and elephants, are 'coolish' at best? Why is it that the future you don't have is more exciting than the one you're living in - when the one you've got is way more advanced?
hS
................oh, right, I totally forgot about those resolution thingers. Well, if anything, my only resolution was to get my WoW priest to level 100 today, but that won't exactly be difficult, so... I got nothin'.
Well, I guess missioning Little Miss Mary and Rose Potter might also count.
Also, wow, black belt? That's so cool! In what?
Karate. Specifically Jeet Kune Do, which is Bruce Lee's mixed martial arts style. I'm currently a brown belt, making my goal slightly more plausible but no less painful important and good for my health.
Good luck with your resolutions, whatever they end up being!
As someone who only made it through a year of mixed martial arts training, awesome, you've already done a lot. *Makes mental note about potential fight scene questions*
Anyway, resolutions have never really been a thing in my family, but I want to start exercising regularly again--once a week at least--and study Japanese vocabulary.
I've kinda never made those.
I guess I want to save money for a gaming PC.