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[tammaiya]

I have named my laptop, after being asked several times what its name is. Ji and I discussed it, and I have decided to call it Lex for the following reasons:

• I am easily swayed by current obsessions
  
• We decided calling it Sei-chan would be too scary
  
• I wanted it to be suave and amoral like my desktop keyboard, which is called Crowley
  
• Lex is rich and hot. He is also insane. However, he's the kind of crazily obsessed that works in your favour and buys you expensive cars if you don't lie to him.
  
• He's got super healing powers and is hard to kill
  
• He won't object in a morally righteous fashion to any infringement of copyright that he may be implicated in
  
• He's super intelligent and capable of taking over the world

Also, it gives me the opportunity to nickname my laptop Alexander the Fabulous, which I saw in a fic and thought was brilliant. My laptop is suave, amoral, and FABULOUSLY fruity. It's the armani-wearing porche-driving purple-loving laptop, you know. It probably twirls. (I have a gif file of Lex twirling mid-step, for those who haven't seen it.)

Plus, Lex the laptop has an inbuilt microphone and I can talk to people over IM. Ftw!

Anyway, today has been spent largely on japanese phonetics & phonology. I totally don't care about whether or not there is a difference between final-accented and unaccented words in tokyo dialect, for serious. *grumpy because she has to summarise this article in 300 words for assessment*

Currently I am listening to I Want You Back on repeat. I have decided, because I have no willpower to resist temptation, that it will be involved in popband!X AU. It will be wonderful. Mooahahahahaha!

I want to work on popband!X, dammit.

ETA: Something I forgot. I want this like BURNING. Not just Tales of Phantasia on PSP-- which I crave, it's one of the reasons I'm going to get a PSP eventually-- the limited edition bonus DVD that you can only get by preordering from certain stores. Amazon being one of those. And I would so do this, I would happily part with my $42 odd plus postage, IF IT SHIPPED OUTSIDE OF JAPAN AAAARGH. Is there anyone living in Japan who'd be willing to take the order and send it to me? I'd pay poooostaaage. I'd write you fic. I'd grovel appropriately and love you forever? D:

Oh, and we might be getting a new printer. 2 or 3 years since we got the last one, and at half the price, it's 4 times faster, 4 times the resolution, and a 3-in-1 fax/scanner/printer. Oh, technology, you move so fast. *rueful*

Comments

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

He's got super healing powers and is hard to kill

Of course, what a good idea to name a computer after a villain. They never die permanently, at least not if there's a sequel. And Crowley has to be the best name for a laptop that I've heard. A laptop named Aziraphale would be...less than good. It'd probably have tartan wallpaper.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

*cackle* It's actually my keyboard that's named Crowley. I named it that because it was a sleek black keyboard with all these buttons that look good but really just frustrate because they do nothing useful. Flashy bastard, in other words. XD

[sakanagi.livejournal.com]

I bet those keys really do something useful. They could, oh, secretly take the credit for the Spanish Inquisition, or tie up phone lines, make ducks sink, that sort of thing. It's just that you haven't noticed the world-wide holistic effects, yet, because (presumably) there is no duckpond in the room.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Well, we've had ducks come and swim in our pool a few time. I probably didn't try hitting any of those buttons while they were there, however. I'll have to remember it for next time. *g*

[terr0rflare.livejournal.com]

Try contacting my friend Daniel in Kobe - http://www.geekinjapan.com/ (his contact details are on the site). He should be able to give you a hand, though I am still expecting an Entama from him, but at this rate, I won't get it till he comes back next year (which I don't mind waiting for XD)

[terr0rflare.livejournal.com]

BTW, is it cool if I got my Fruits Basket Manga back from you this week? I'm willing to lend you out some more :3