Nuggetty Goodness

...because what is it with these people?

This evening, as I was standing in the subway, minding my own business, nose in a book while waiting for someone, a salesguy for some random stuff (there were a bunch of them, and I don't know what they were selling), trots up to me and asks, 'Are you local?'

O.o

Look I wasn't even talking! He'd never heard me speak! I was just reading! XD

And then there was that taxi driver a week or so ago, who, at the end of a 20 minute ride, solemnly told me, 'You're Japanese. I can tell. You sound Japanese.'

OoOoOOOk.

And for the record, I'm not Japanese, and I'm supposedly local, though from all these specimens you probably couldn't tell.

...no idea what the nugget is ranting about? See my previous rant.

As they say, 'Well, you got a song out of it.'

And yes, the kittehs were asleep.

I came to the rather disturbing realisation this morning that my style of 'cooking' is almost exactly like MMO crafting.

1. Get raw chicken (or cow, or piggy, or ... whatever)
2. Add assorted herbs that I like (lotus seeds, fake cordyceps, polygonatum rhizona, lily flowers, whatever)
3. Mix the entire mass together in a large-ish bowl, with spices from a premixed spicepack
4. Pour water in rice cooker (about half the cooker's capacity)
5. Put bowl in rice cooker
6. Turn on and close rice cooker
7. Press down button
8. Wait till done
9. NOM!

In other words, collect ingredients in backpack, press button and wait. O.o

The funniest thing is, with the right spicepack choices, this actually produces delicious (if not particularly aesthetic) food!

>.> <.< Advanced crafting requiring skeelz? >.> <.< Pah!

P.S.: One can even craft ginormous muffins this way.

My first attempt with a new program - Livebrush.

Livebrush is interesting for a couple of reasons, not least among them that it seems to present a more intuitive and fluid way to work with vector brushwork than Illustrator.

Takes a bit of getting used to, though, because what dictates the width/strength of the lines isn't pressure, but speed. The faster I move my brush, the fatter the lines I get.

That being said, I am a total nub at this, so it's entirely possible that there's a way to adjust so that the lines respond to pressure, and not speed.

The program itself seems pretty nice in terms of responsiveness, and the kinds of lines that are generated. Especially nice is that for just US$10, I'll have the option to export the entire thing as vector shapes.

I'll probably play with this some more on my upcoming holiday.

I also find it interesting how adapting to / learning this new tool has resulted in something quite far (I think) from my usual linework... Omm!

The above occurred to me as I was poinging on a good friend a couple of days ago.

Nuggeet: I know that sounds totally nonsensical, but that's how it feels to a nuggeet!

Friend: ZOMG Nuggeet! Mai bro just said something really close to that a while ago, and he's like this totally hardcore FPS player!

Nuggeet: ZOMG!

Friend: ZOMG!

Us: LOLZ!

Maybe I'm onto something here...

Discovered last night that the Paragon dance + general look go amazingly well with the raiment of the lich costumes ArenaNet released for Halloween!

1-4: My brand new baby paragon camping it up.

5: My GM camping it up with me in Avian Courting Dances of Dubious Nature after I show him the wonderfulness of Fallen Paragon Camp

6: My blonde ninja wif a bun meets her twin, a (surprise!) fellow blonde ninja with a bun.

...and people say there's nothing to do on GW. Pfft.