| Jun. 5th, 2006 @ 06:30 pm Ahhh, Perfect. |
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today, i am:  working
program: TV in the other room.
Yes! EXACTLY!!
In other news:
Due to my chronic mispronunciation of the Japanese name "Iori," my dad seems to think that Iori-dono, my purple betta fish, is actually named "Yuri." The irony lies thick and heavy, like extra-firm tofu.
I recently attempted to capture the "Glock-Glock, muthafucka!" experience in my own neighborhood shooting range by holding the gun Gangsta-style(tm) for a couple shots. It must look easier in the movies because they use blanks or whatever, but having to deal with the recoil yanking your arm across your body instead of up your center line is just too wild for my taste. It's harder to recover from. The only advantage I can think of would be that the way you hold the gun is more like a natural pointing gesture (with the palm towards the ground), which might theoretically make point-shooting at the center of the target's mass easier. But oh well, now I know.
It is still terribly fun talking to guys much older than me about stupidly overpowered handguns. I BSd with a range employee last time about a compensated Desert Eagle that he used to own--he claimed that it spat three feet of fire out the barrel with every squeeze of the trigger and could throw steel silhouettes backwards ten feet. I KNEW those things were sexy for a reason. *_* Today I talked with my branch's resident gun nut about the S&W 500. He was adamant that it was just too much handgun, but please. I know the bullets are as big as your thumb and probably cost $5 each or something outrageous like that...but it's comped, and it's huge, and it's shiny steel, and...yes. Words fail. (Not that I'd ever buy one. No matter how glorious it is, there are definite limits to how much I would spend for an elaborate chunk of metal.)
Finished reading Lesley Downer's Women of the Pleasure Quarters just today in the course of worldbuilding research. It's quite a well-researched book on geisha, though I wish I could find more material on the actual practices of the dances and structures of the songs and such (I know there are books in English dedicated entirely to the art of the kimono, but those will have to come later), but I take what I can get. It could use more pictures and diagrams, but overall I found it very satisfying. ^^
--E.G. |
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