音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

2014-Sep-11 (木) 16:26 -7:00

❆ Winter Reveries

[prologue]
It was ~25 °C on last Sunday. Not hot and not cold. Nothing special and perhaps only a people had noticed the temperature would drop down suddenly.

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[day 1]
The forecast was correct, it began to snow at some time in the early morning of Monday, and by the time when I went out, there was quite a lot of snow accumulated.


Oh, yes, it is still September. But here, we had got experiences of snowing in May, so September snow was not surprising to me at all. As a winter/snow lover, I did enjoy the blending between white and other colours.


↑ and a Silent Hill-ish street view~ (I waited until there's no cars in the sight).

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[day 2]
The snow continued, making the entire city into a very pretty white field. The forecast just announced an extended snowing period.


Nice colour again, although the snow seemed too heavy to most "regular" plants. Everything was good enough to give you a Christmas mood, but weirdly, I was playing some music with a strong summer aura (Mitose Noriko's "Pleiades")--of course NOT because I want the summer back!

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[day 3]
No matter what, my mind won't change. Snow is awesome, even occurring in August. However, I appreciate the nature aspect, not the others. The traffic of such times is always rubbish. So was the third day and it was getting worse--some streets went out of power completely including the traffic lights (and glad every one stayed careful and safe~). Yet I wish I didn't have to leave home so I could also do some "hand crafts" like this (and make them smile!!):

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[epilogue]
Winter reveries, indeed. It was back to about 7 °C and will keep increasing in the following days. The white things are gone, and life is returning to as normal as any other time in September. Just as nothing had ever happened, as long as you don't look at the street.


I have no complaints about September snow itself, but I do feel bad for these trees--I think I never truly understood (or think about) why leaves fall off from trees in autumn until this very moment.

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and I kinda want to see the bunnies around..
(↑ 500% personal story, ignore what I'm saying!)
2014-Sep-04 (木) 23:19 -7:00

❈ Cotton 3, I know that's impossible

I wish someone could tell me why lots of people love the seriously limited twitter over a fully customisable blog service. Most of my favorite artists have switched to twitter so there's no use of my rss reader. -- well, the point is, I don't like twitter and hardly check it so I feel like an outdated stalker.. (by the way I check my rss reader every day. -_-;;)
Anyway, today I'm not going to complain about twitter or other microblogging systems. Just, by chance (or destiny), I checked my twitter stalking list yesterday and entirely crashed my working mood. --although not really very hyper...

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2014/10/1 - みとせのりこ (Mitose Noriko): Nostalgia

Oh yay, here comes the eroge theme song collection No. 3~ >///<

At the first glance, I thought that's a photo from Ali Project. ^^;
After "Centifolia" and "Mille-feuille", this time the key word is "Nostalgia". Too bad, not a new album at all. In brief, songs in this album are mostly from the 2000s' PC games, either original versions or new recordings. While looking at the tracklist, suddenly I got a weird (?) question: why the hell there are so many PC games that I've never heard about?! °A°
Although the previous "Mille-feuille" isn't bad, I'd more wish to see albums like "Centifolia" and "vierge automatique". But guess I shouldn't expect too much, she's having so much fun with lives (at least make some live DVD/CD's, it's such a waste if she doesn't (# ﾟДﾟ)!!).
Perhaps the only expectation is the last song: "哲学系彼女". The title sounds so moe literary~! It's not too long till its release, I'll see..

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Second release, on the same day of Noriko's album, but sadly, no jacket available currently.
↓
Ciel nosurge Genometric Concert Vol.3~帝賜の詩~

Good job GUST, you've completely messed up my cognition toward Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge.
what I know is Akiko is awesome than anyone else~
--and Shurelia and Ayatane are somehow involved in the game (Ayatane looks so different from A.T.1 though).

Since I care about only the music..
I think I saw yoko's name...
That was indeed a stronger impulse to me than the release itself (yes I know Akiko is there, not surprising at all)! "EXEC_METEMPSYCHOSIS/." was such a great song even across all hymmnos songs, so I do believe in this series yoko's work will be superb (and I'm happy not seeing Kizuki Minami--I just can't get used to her voice and singing style ~_~).
So, should we expect to see KOKIA's name in vol. 4 (ignore me if it's not supposed to exist at all)? *_*

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Seems this year lacks good music, including Comiket, which used to capture my heart a lot (I miss the feeling when new albums come like in last August).

霜月はるか(Shimotsuki Haruka) etc. - canoue chronicle
(to be frank, I love their booklet design.)

One of my loves finally got something new, yet another best album...
And take a closer look, they included all the tracks from their last year release "最果ての塔". orz
I have no issue with that album itself, but what's the point to include the entire album while simply separating instrumental and vocal tracks into two different discs?
At least there're 3 new songs--although I can't stand with the last 3 tracks in the "instrumental disc". Too old RPG-ish!! xD;

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My last line:
I don't really care about eroge song collection or best albums or this or that, can I request Cotton vol. 3? >_<
2014-Sep-01 (月) 21:57 -7:00

☆ Ar Tonelico playing thoughts

People's mind always changes, so does mine.
I thought I would never play more RPG's, but as the super sweet and most romantic August passed, I finally got trapped in the world of Ar Tonelico.
Music is the main dish of this series, I'm much more excited when a familiar hymmnos comes out. However, in [1], songs of hymmnos are less impressive in game, except PAJA. Apparently I was less impressed compared to [2], which has a more perfect unification (maybe I should use "synchronity") between the game itself and music. I was very happy with SUBLIMATION series during the final boss battle. It was a completely different experience from listening to those songs separately. Then, REPLEKIA is another shinning star (although I regretted miss-activating it during the DESPEDIA battle... ><). Surprisingly I did get all the 100 I.P.Ds~!
I played [1] and [2] in a row, and I like the graphics in [1] a lot (don't understand why most people dislike the pixel art). So it did take some time for me to get used to the overall graphic rendering in [2]. Regardless of the kinda weird pixel characters in [2], the song magic scenes are much better made. Here, I'd say I was glad to choose Croche at the end of Phase I--Her Lolipop Sweets is now my favourite choice!

見るたびに癒やされる～～
Now about the story. In [1], because I don't like Misya (really), I was with Orica all the time (her "BOE" is awesome). In [2], I guess most people who have played [1] would go with Jakuri (reason 1)! Reason 2, tsundere is never my love, and I don't like dorodere either. Reason 3, I can't refuse straight, long and black hair.. ._.
and reason 4, I love her face while saying "what a useless man"! xD


↓ the most superb conversation.


Probably the only other person who can be compared to her is Infel, as I love her puns.
↓ I believe Croche has been more or less affected~


Anyway, Croche's REPLEKIA+Lolipop and Jakuri's charming personality altogether have pushed Luca out of my heart--I haven't even used her since Jakuri's join, only Croche+Jakuri over and over.. xD;;
Last, I'd never know there's an "unreleased" song in A.T.2 until I actually played it. (The version in Harmonia pamphlet is toooo short so I extracted a longer looping version from the game -_-'').
P.S. Some people say one's personality can be inferred from character and route choices, so in my case,
A.T.1 permanent party: Lyner+Radolf+Ayatane+Orica;
A.T.2 permanent party: Croah+Shun+Jakuri+Croche.

What? I didn't mention A.T.3 at all?
――あんなエロゲー、遊ぶことはないでしょ？！　(# ﾟДﾟ)
～終わり～
2014-Jul-24 (木) 23:55 -7:00

❆ 最初の一歩・The First Step

I was planning to write something earlier 2 weeks ago yet because of my sudden decision, I didn't.
I was in a huge complex mode. Although I'm supposed to be happy, it's complicated in my mind. Rather than feeling happy or that sort, that was quite shocking to me. I know it's only my one-side love admiration, it's still hard to face the fact. I lose my angel and my heart hurts!!....
will my angel becomes a godmother in the future?! =w=
Anyways, lemme be frank. It may be too late, but...
CONGRATULATIONS KOKIA!!～♥ and I still love you even though I haven't played your music that much since this year!

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Also, my complex wasn't really the reason that stopped me writing something.
Actually I was doing something that's very time-consuming, starting from the Friday night 2 weeks ago.
It's not relaxing, but it's fun!
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I'm very aware of that I should prepare some new toys for my daughter and I've been repeating it since nearly a year ago. On that Friday, the operation finally commenced.
I may not be super experienced, but I do have the confidence that I can do most things I wished to do.
Camel is my friend, and (basic) MySQL isn't that scary anymore~!
Speaking of the real reason, for my own use, the difference of performance isn't really a problem, and I simply don't bother to learn PHP, a term that gets me stuttered after repeating it for 10 times. :left:
During these days, perhaps playing around with css served as relax -- I never thought a glass of mixed berry juice would make me rewriting my css. But I couldn't stand doing nothing with the pretty purple transparency, so I extended my work after handling most scripts I wished to have, to make a new series of css files.

of course I cleaned up my desk before taking the shot.. :pp:
Guess my current blog (hosted on google) looks rather messy since I didn't sync my new css definitions in my writing. Yet I won't publish the new purple-thinking-mood theme (plus a newly made header img combining red+golden for the mizuhiki, which is too attractive to switch) until I clean up everything in my to-do list. I'm expecting a lot of troubles and hope everything will be fine.
and I'll probably come back to the topic of design (fairly) later.
At last, something that's quite sad.

⇧ Almost 8 years of blogging eq 1.83MB (566kb after zipping)... :zzz:

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Finally, no wonder I'll blow lots of complaints toward... someone.
If you ask him what you've done during the past 2 weeks, he's answer: I've extracted a bunch of gi numbers and downloaded the corresponding genbank pages.
Considering debugging time and the connection speed, the slowest case would be shorter than 1 day. What the hell made you spending 2 weeks on them?!

He claims he knows perl, but now I don't believe it.
1. He doesn't know how to download webpages. Fine, no one knows at the very beginning and he might just be less experienced. But can't you do some simple search first? It's not that hard comparing to "check potential security holes in my cgi scripts", and keywords like "perl download webpage" will lead you to the awesome LWP::Simple page in less than a second. I don't understand why he couldn't figure it out on his own.
2. He doesn't know how to use flags and intermediate values, I assume. The string he needs to extract is sometimes broken into two lines, and he "tried to figure it out". I remember this kind of problem was covered in one early chapter of the first book I read to learn perl. Well, not only perl, I'd assume other programming languages uses similar logic.
3. If both problems above do sound complicated to people with less experience, this one is really "amazingly" stupid. In a foreach loop, he keeps saving each url into the same output file:
foreach (@url) {
getstore($_,'path/on/his/pc/saved.txt');
}
and he asked me "how to save them into different files?"...
HOW DARE YOU CLAIM YOU KNOW PERL?
MR. CAMEL WILL CRY.
以上です。
Now I'm really happy that we didn't ask him to do more for our database.
I bet he's not a Aquarian or I'll cry. :irked:
2014-Jul-05 (土) 26:11 -7:00

❈ euforia**

--Don't be picky, I know the syntax is wrong~!
Recent weather made me in despair (>27°C+100% sunny):
あつい‥
あついかゆい。
かゆい、うま。
Refer to BIOHAZARD if you don't know what I'm saying.
Anyway, I'm not turning into a zombie because the state of being hyper euforia.
First but not the most, in early this week, I by chance discovered how to apply gradient to text by css, although too bad it only work with a webkit (which I don't understand what it means) browser.
Together with gradient colouring, another thing is to stop line wrapping so it does serve as the equivalent of a <hr /> tag~.
.line { /*kiyo-styled <hr /> tag~*/
color:#de6666; /* used when browser doesn't work with gradient or is of non=webkit */
background: -webkit-repeating-linear-gradient(left top,#DE6666,#C996D9 8%,#6A7BD9 16%,#8CCBCF 24%,#74C285 32%,#EBDA7B 40%,#FFA154 48%, #DE6666 56%);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
-webkit-text-fill-color: transparent; 
text-shadow: 1px 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.2);
font-weight: bold;
line-height: 175%;
font-family: "Lucida Console", Monaco, monospace;
display:block; /*in case I put it in a <span>*/
white-space: nowrap; /* limit this elem to be in one line*/
overflow: hidden;
}
Then you'll get this: ↓
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Now, second and the major stimulant.
After 1 year after I started to tame my camel, I finally truly understood how to bring clear Japanese text into my CMD shell.

Not only the encoding issue, I've been playing around with MySQL+Camel for a (short) while and I'm feeling good.
This indeed kept me awake even after midnight--although I can't say that I won't be freaked out when I switch to a remote server. (；´∀｀)
Yet amazingly, seems MySQL shell is utf-8 by default. I wish my CMD is like this.
I know it's not a good timing to start tweaking into such things, but even with a short span, I believe it will be much easier if I resume later.
Also, I've accepted the fact... (one of) my daughter(s) is a Leo. << and I'm not sure what I'm going to deal with a blog's personality.. xD
2014-Jun-29 (日) 23:17 -7:00

✾ F.Aid Spray Abuse★

Regardless having no guts to break into Hunk/Tofu episode, I eventually couldn't resist trying Biohazard 3 last night (I want to continue "Call of Cthulhu", but my body rejects it by giving me severe motion sickness). I've only watched someone's playing video quite a while ago, but because that guy was way too boring, I dropped barely after 10 minutes (right around the old man who lost his daughter locked himself inside a truck). So I can say Bio3 is completely new to me, and thus I'm excited (how far I can go by myself).
Being afraid to get spoiled, I didn't read anything about this game except its user manual, so the "choose a costume" was very mysterious--how could my fresh install grant them?! Anyway, I don't mind being spoiled in this aspect...
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Jill simply fits the police cosplay S.T.A.R.S. uniform~
But comparing with Bio2, Bio3 was worse in terms of key controls. I spent much time adjusting keys, and while getting myself used to the system, I touched something interesting:

Does it mean Bio3 also has "B side"? Since I did learn that there's another main character in this game. By the way, Bio2 was currently my favorite one in Biohazard series (1-5), because its duo-side setting, like parallel worlds.

In Silent Hill, the thing on the ground is probably a pipe~

At first I thought he's Chris, but soon realised he's not.
--He's the guy who gave Bio2 players the key to the costume closet~

A simple lock.. I need Jill's key-pick. Understood!

And now it's our familiar R.P.D.~ (the only place I don't need a map~~ w)
Right after entering the R.P.D., here came the parallel world again. Bio3 is supposed to be before Bio2's story (since Brad was alive), but most areas in the R.P.D. building was sealed--who opened them in Bio2 then, and many statues were absent or with a completely different description. What's going on?! Well, guess I shouldn't be so picky..
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Like Bio2's B-side story, a boss-ish gorilla showed up (and you have to choose a way to deal with him). Last night, I ran into the building but he appeared when I was about to leave. And.. he got me for all my 3 tries! Today, I chose to fight first, yet he still appeared. Fine, I get it, perhaps he's like Tyrant in Bio2 or the Pyramid Head in SH2 who can't be defeated until the last battle. Nice, Bio3 is not action, it's survival horror--You don't need to do too much but running away--like what I do in CoC (at least I don't have motion sickness and I have maps)!
--And there's no screen shots for him since I don't have chance to do it! xD

Yet different from Bio2, why the area to search is SO BIG!! °A°
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I like horror games, but I never say my play skill is good enough to survive even under normal mode. So for a new game, I always start from easy mode (and in case of Silent Hill 2 it was beginner mode ^^;), and that's why I have almost endless ammo.
But what I want to say is what I just took:

火かき棒... reminds me SDK (Suda Kyouya from SIREN)!
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Now, I'm trying to mess up my item box with this or that, especially herbs. Since it says for Lite Mode the grade won't be displayed, I decided to abuse all First Aid Spray first before touch these herbs, and see how many life supplies I'll have by the end--as a measurement of entering Normal Mode--just hope the arrangement of items are the same. But currently I think I'm lost in the downtown area. I spent ~8 hours for the first-time play of both Biohazard 1 and 2, let's see how long I'll need to finish Biohazard 3!
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Bonus

The photo of S.T.A.R.S members. HD(?) version.
Front (left-right): ?, ?, Chris, Jill, Joseph(?)
Back (left-right): ?, ?, ?, ?, Wesker, Barry, Brad
2014-Jun-28 (土) 10:23 -7:00

✿ 3 Happy Weeks in June

I was supposed to finish this quick post last night (this early morning) but I fell asleep~ wwww
"I have no interest in business." -- "That's why you're in science."
This conversation happened yesterday, when we finished the last session of the "end-up-to-do-the-same-task-1k-times" (scripting) class. Although for lots of things in that class I've already known, such as how to tame a camel, or how to sing out the magic spell of regex, the rest was really very helpful and activated more shining sparkles in my brain. Now I'll at least know where I'm going next time when I get lost. Of course, I'm not a FBI hacker (I wish I were), so I'm not doing things that's hard to figure out. Although I wish there were more about how to tame a penguin, guess I shouldn't ask for too much.
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Since last year, I do believe my logic has changed a lot, which helped a lot to follow easily in that class. I myself would assume I don't really need to take it, but I won't tell I took it because it almost means an automatic "A" -- I know it's not correct because one guy dropped half way. Anyway, that was indeed three happy weeks. Yet again, I'd say it's such a nice thing to learn how to manage the best swiss army knife on one line. Meanwhile, outside of the class, I finally figured out an acceptable way to save money & time from EndNote (have never bought and never tried though) and Word Reference, which I once stalled in the end of last year. Plain text, sometimes with simple markups, solves everything for me (and people who have similar logic to mine).
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Penguin is hard to tame indeed. I've spent the whole night yesterday to try to install XML::Simple, but I kept getting the same test failure. Same for R. I sudo-apt-get-ed this or that, and then got a new error after every step. This morning, I tried around again, and sudo-cpan-ed to make a upgrade (not sure if that worked though). Afterwards, "I know I'd get the error again but I just want to type it".

--->>> install XML::Simple.

and like a magic, I got it.


I feel surprised, released, but not happy. I know I'm becoming much more complicated.
I also know I've been spoiled too much by the pretty and adorable Strawberry. ~_~
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Yet originally I was planning to write other things--3 days ago.
This week's greatest news:
Penguin Village now has its own opera house~~
---> Opera finally came to Linux as Developer version!
(I really feel like I'll lose my intelligence if I keep watching that anime... ^^;)
So finally I can say goodbye to chrome for pages that Opera 12.16 can't deal with smoothly. (Maybe the only google product I don't like so far is chrome.) And now the next wish is that they could solve the data sync so I don't have to copy back and forth to keep all have the same settings.
Now, I wonder, when we can have gdrive on PenOS? Hope they haven't forgot (or given up) on that~~
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Life updates:
I should have spent more time to play with my daughter! Although promised I'd get some new toys for her since last year, I still haven't made it~~~ I didn't mean to neglect her, and I love her. The fact couldn't be changed, but at least the pile of things are decreasing little by little. I know I'll eventually do what I've promised, just not now now. だから、ここで一応謝罪します～　( ´ω｀)♪
Side complaint:
I just don't understand why every of our summer student are so slow to understand something. To have time explain things to them, I'd finish the task on my own!! ><
And at the very last of this post,
Thank you very much and all the best in Austria, J.S.!~