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After the post of some days ago (see overleaf for details), I have received a number of comments from certain people. 90% of the comments came from her fiance, 1 from her mother, and one, well, from herself. In the reply from herself she is wondering as to why I don’t make all those comments public…

Well, I shall grant your wish. =D

But I only do it, because I have been asked to, and also, because of the threats I have received from her fiance, should I show up at the next Q-Con in Belfast. I have forwarded the IP addresses and the email alias of him to the Royal Police for investigation.

Before I post these comments, I would like to make one thing VERY CLEAR.

1) My argument was never with either - her mother, or fiance.
2) Hitler was not a German (and in a world without Internet, you’d vote for the one who promises a better life, I guarantee you that much - you’ll see in a moment why I mention Hitler here)
3) Wordpress logs IP’s among other information. So think twice before commenting.
4) I did what I did because my feelings were hurt. What would you do?

and

5) Threats to my security over a public channel will go to the right departments. If I have to, to the corresponding local authority branch of the government.

Right then. Enjoy the show.

The person in question

So, why dont you publish all the comments we made? Could it possibley be that we have called you out on how bloody self-obsessed and stupid you are? Hitler was rather self-obsessed and didnt allow free speech either.. so I’m not surpirse.

Her mother

Hi Marcus remember me I am her Mum. If you think my daughter is evil, take a look at your own nations grandfathers and grandmothers as theirs are the true faces of evil!
Woof! Woof

Her fiance - just a selection

“And I’m glad so glad that I’m done with you”

we all know that you will never publish these comments here (typical…bloody germans where always about the curtailment of free speech…nazi bastards)

however, i must add that the song lyric above…pay attention…now piss off back to germany u grotty little streak of piss

sorry one more thing every dog does indeed have his day. im having mine right now!!!! it is indeed a fine day!!! oh, friendly advice my friend, dont use big words without having big balls to back them up with. things can go really bad if you do

im sorry i cant stop laughing at this!!! (in the james voice wich i pulled off rather well without having to study it it!!) 5 times i’ve read this and i find it sooooo damm funny!!!! if photos is you idea of revenge, well, i think you need help mate!! ah well, im away off line….i gots better things to be doing with my life, like being with her.

There are more… but, well, you get the picture.

And that’ll be the end of it.

Again:
I post those because I was asked to and because I was threatened.

To round things off, here’s another song lyric that I think fits well.

The explosion of my tongue makes you shiver
Makes your heart go numb
You’re on the run
You faggot lost your flavour like an old piece of gum… yeah
It’s tragic, the fact when I damage
So you can’t manage to rap
Just manage to panic
Put the pen to the pad and see your
Talent vanish
Rambling whack shit, try to show you’re the baddest
While I sit back and relax go in full flow with attacks

Privileged to witness

Scooter
Priviliged To Witness
Who’s Got The Last Laugh Now? ( <- This is the album’s name)

And now for something completely different!

Motoko is the ordinary school girl. She is no Einstein, but also not stupid. She is no super carpenter, but also not bad with her hands. She gets average grades in exams, sometimes good, sometimes bad. She’s living with the normal family, it all seems to be a good thing. Until one day, something out of the ordinary happens.

“The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” - Theatrical Poster

And this something is not just “out of the ordinary”, it would border on the impossible. Yet, it happened. It is just around 4 PM that afternoon when Motoko is riding home on her bike. It’s downhill, so no need to waste energy and pedal. However, there’s a train crossing at the end of the downhill-streak. Just before the crossing, her brakes break - she is left with no mechanism to slow down her bike - and faces the inevitable as she sees the barriers of the crossing coming down. She hits the barrier, and - so it seems - the train has gotten her good.

It is in that moment that she discovers that apparently she possesses the power to travel back in time when she suddenly finds herself on the ground, having run into an elderly lady - and the clock is showing a time just before her fatal moment. The bike is with her on the ground.

As this causes questions, she is seeking advise from her aunt, who then, much to the surprise of Motoko, admits that many girls have been “Time-Leaping” before.

So she uses her new power to do things over and over… but does not realize what implications her actions have on herself, and others.

Not for Motoko, and not for you.

She is now puzzled about why she has this ability, and is about to undertake a life-changing journey, and about to find out the truth behind some things.

Another great story well told, I absolutely enjoyed this one. Don’t think about the scientific implications of time travel for a while, okay? It is a beautiful story nonetheless, I recommend it to anyone

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Genre: Drama, Romance, Science fiction, Slice of life
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Original Release Date: July 15, 2006

In the last few weeks I have been working pretty hard on my project, which eventually is meant to become a FreeBSD based operating system, with all likelihood commercial in nature.

Recently the entire code base has crossed the 5,000 line mark, and it’s all working out nicely.

I can tell you that I have developed features that currently are not to be found in all modern operating systems, like Windows, Mac OS X or desktops on Linux (KDE, GNOME, etc).

I cannot tell you the specifics about it or post screenshots because I want to keep these features a little closer to my vest in the moment.

Rest assured that it is progressing nicely and I am now in the area of implementing file management features.

For now, you can have a look at the placeholder page I have put up at the domain for the project, laststep.eu.

For the technical people out there:
laststep is built upon a FreeBSD 7 core, which then has the GNUstep libraries and frameworks - upon which my code is built on. Some of the features use GNUstep quite extensively, while others built upon my own frameworks (which then in turn use GNUstep).

GNUstep is a cross-platform, object-oriented framework for desktop application development. Based on the Cocoa API (Formerly OpenStep) originally created by NeXT (now Apple), GNUstep enables developers to rapidly build sophisticated software by employing a large library of reusable software components. GNUstep is used in production environments at several organizations.

Well you probably got the drift that I was kinda blown away by the show Madlax. So because of that, I kinda looked up Luci Christian, who was part of the cast of the show. She voiced the character Margaret Burton, who ultimately became THE core character of the show towards the finale.

Margaret Burton. Clumsy, mind-absent, but somewhat important to a lot of people… because she possesses Secondari

Yeah so I wrote to Luci Christian on MySpace, asking politely if I could get an autograph. She eventually replied and asked me for my address - I replied back with my address.

So today, it finally arrived!! :)

I am really flattered… all handwritten, for me

See for yourself. I got a frame for it and put it on the Madlax Wall Of Fame.

Two posts before, I wrote:

I’d like to mention that the person, of which I thought is gonna be my girlfriend, broke my heart bigtime last year I was there [at Q-Con, an Anime convention]. If you read this right now, you know who you are. This time I gonna do it my way, and not being tortured to stay up as inhumanely as possible, say until like 6.30 AM. I wanna do it my way. And if I run into you - tough luck. You showed this con to me. You also broke my heart. At this con. Now live with the burden of seeing me each year.

You see, pretty much exactly (maybe even to this day) a year ago, I was with this girl. We met on the web first, then for real. She lives in Belfast. As things went on, we got closer. I thought something is really building up here. So on last year’s Q-Con weekend, I took two extra days off to see her, for after the con. Turns out those days were useless, didn’t need to take them. Here’s why.

So you see, on the Sunday of the con weekend, they do Cos-Play. Costume play per se, you put on the clothes of your favorite character (or any other character you want) and you perform as those characters in live-action, assuming their names, abilities, attitudes. Because it looked as if we were boy-girlfriend sort of thing, she asked me if I could perform with her. I agreed. I was to play James of Team Rocket. Jessie is the girl of the duo. Team Rocket is a duo of slightly clumsy evil-doers in the wildly popular Anime show “Pokemon”. Although the show is primarily aimed at kids, I agreed to play the part.

I learned the lines. I studied the James character. And why? Because I wanted us to win. I wanted to be a good performance. I did everything I could.

However, on that Sunday morning at her place, she gave me the costume of James. Asked me to put it on. So I did. She then said “Man you look totally ridiculous in those clothes… I can’t take you there - the thing is off.” I said that I promised her to do it. Promises are promises you know. She said “don’t care about breaking a promise, just change back”. I did as she asked without arguing. Although I was pretty PISSED for 3 fucking weeks I was learning the damn character. On the bus stop for the bus to the Student’s Union she said that she doesn’t really feel like talking or having me around right now. “It’s not really personal… I just don’t want to see you right now” - were her exact words.

Not entirely sure what she meant, I asked what the meaning of that would be. In a desperate move to get a clear answer I reminded her that I did all the learning, and took off two days to see her and rest. She then said I could also rest at home. I then asked if she wanted me to leave, and she said yes. So I left, took a train home. Crying all day long.

One day later, over god damn IM, she tells me that she doesn’t wanna be my boyfriend no more - but no specific reason.

And that was pretty much the end of that.

Now, I go to the con. Again. Alone. As you are in a confined space you can’t necessarily always avoid one another - and so I ran into her. Not on purpose. I saw her first but she didn’t see me at that point. I’m at some consoles to watch others play, and then she - on purpose - walks right in front of me, from right to left. I look into her eyes, not saying anything at all. She walked away. I saw her again occasionally, but I was okay with that. After all, she is a legitimate convention visitor and I cannot tell her to always be out of my way or not to be on the floor I am on.

But this isn’t it. The big bomb drops now. And if you, the person I am talking about, are reading this, well… What goes around comes around.

So I go to the con this morning. Again, to have some final hours of fun. I’m at the Call Of Duty network session table, trying to have a game with others. And then… she appears.

With her boyfriend. In THE GODDAMN COSTUME!! Both of them.

And of course, they are showing off right behind where I am sitting. So people start taking photos of them.

I said to myself that this is the only one chance I have of payback, this is my moment. So I grab my phone, turn on the photo mode, position myself right in front of them… And take a photo. I could see in her eyes this fear, this desperation… this ‘OH. MY. GOD!!! PLEASE NO!!’. I did not say a single word.

And I am thinking: another photo for my blog! Thank you very much for that!

So after this story, I’m putting the photo here. For everyone to see. For everyone to realize, how evil you are.

You know what they say:

Every dog has his day.

// UPDATE, 9:48 PM
According to her Bebo page (which I can’t link to because the link contains her real name - and I will not publish the name, for privacy reasons), she does not only have a boyfriend, she is engaged. That’s kinda funny and interesting, because she was with me - or so I thought - just about a year ago. Of course I don’t have the background on this, but usually people don’t engage within a year. Also interesting is, that apparently she is getting married in Las Vegas next year, according to the page. I hope her marriage breaks into millions of pieces. So that she is even more depressed as she was when I met her.

I gonna sing this song for you over and over.

Tell me tell me is life just a playground?
Think you’re the real deal honey
And someone’ll always look out for you

Good good luck
in your new bed
Enjoy your nightmares

———-

Basement Jaxx
Good Luck
Appleseed OST

Things like this happen at anime conventions. I just HAD to caption it.

What is Q-Con? One of the largest Anime and Gaming conventions in Europe, and it takes place annually in Belfast.

It is needless to say that I am in fact going there. Actually it has already started, but since I was on the late shift this week, I’m going there tomorrow early in the morning and stay there until I can’t stand no more. There’s gonna be a lot of franchise being bought… so I hope my backpack will carry it all! Haha.

On a side note, I’d like to mention that the person, of which I thought is gonna be my girlfriend, broke my heart bigtime last year I was there. If you read this right now, you know who you are. This time I gonna do it my way, and not being tortured to stay up as inhumanely as possible, say until like 6.30 AM. I wanna do it my way. And if I run into you - tough luck. You showed this con to me. You also broke my heart. At this con. Now live with the burden of seeing me each year.

Yeah so anyways. It is Geek Heaven. Hang with me there if you want. I’m the one with a white Madlax shirt, having THIS image.

I’ll be posting some photos of the event later on.

I don’t know if I posted this before, but if I did, I felt like doing it again =D

What if TNG was a crappy 80’s/90’s sitcom? This:

The original episode is “Deja Q”. I think this edit funny as hell!!!

Who knows Anime, knows Ghost In The Shell. Obviously. If you don’t know it, let me briefly explain. It’s not too far in the future, around 2030. The Internet is practically the core of the nation, people have implants to improve certain things or add functionality. For example, memories of each person can be accessed via cable (if the government requires to do so). Or people have direct access to the web using their brains alone. This also enabled wireless communication between people, sort of a telepathic thing. But then, also, this spawned a whole new generation of crimes and hackers. And to top it off, there are entirely robotic bodies which can be run by a human soul - or “Ghost” in the shell.

Section 9, a secret anti-crime department of the Japanese government, employs 8 of the finest people when it comes to crime-fighting. Run by a wise man Aramaki, the group has to deal with pretty tough stuff. Since they are on the top of the government chain, Section 9 has access to the latest and greatest feats in technology - and one of those feats are “Tachikomas”. Super advanced defence robots, that also serve as “think” tanks. They seem to have individuality of sorts, seem to enjoy their existence and are always happy to help.

The core cast of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex

Eventually the crew is confronted with a truly mind-boggling case. They come across a super-hacker, with never-before seen abilities. Able to pull off stunts so incredible that it almost seems unreal to them. Six years ago, there has been an assault on a certain member of the government. The person responsible managed to hack the eyes of all people around him live and in real-time, disguising himself only with a logo… The logo of himself, who then became known as The Laughing Man. But he never referred to himself as that - it was the media who coined that name for him. Manipulating the streams of cameras and people, all at the same time, simultaneously, has never been seen before, or after - and Section 9 and their crew is about to make one startling, and truly mind-boggling discovery of the truth.

“I thought what I’d do was, I’d pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes”. The Laughing Man logo.

I finished watching it last night, and this has been another great masterpiece of the mind from Shirow Masamune, the creator this one and many others. The music, again, was scored and composed by Yoko Kanno. The voice acting was fantastic and works phenomenally nice on this one, in English.

If you don’t have it - get it. Buy it. Torrent it. Watch it. It really is worth your while.

So I was in the city on Saturday to enjoy the sun for a while (and to take a break from coding). During my stroll I encountered an interesting bunch of people who protested against the Scientology church.

Scientology breaks up families.

Don’t join them, kids. Even if you think Tom Cruise is cool.