Looking good, no? Romance Language 2 be shipping no later than Friday, which means the preorder window is until tomorrow night. Also, orders after Monday afternoon won’t ship for a couple weeks as I’ll be out of town, so, that’s all the more reason to get a move on if you’re impatient, though I guess the truly impatient will always be able to hit up bandcamp, as I should have it for sale there by Sunday/Monday.

More hipster than nerdcore, but I wanted a little American Apparel flavor.

Karl vs. Hamburger Cake

Karl in a Jim Carrey Movie

You see, the Google I/O badge had a little schedule guide w/ map jammed right in the back of the badge, and you could easily fold it over to the section of the schedule you were probably there for anyway (like Android panels or OpenSocial Panels.) Now, maybe you couldn’t quite do it the same way at a big anime con with scads of panels, but putting a simple script on the con’s website that’d allow proactive attendees to print a little list of all the panels they wanted to hit that they could jam in back of their pass would be super convenient.

Oh, and the self check-in option at would be neat to replicate as well. It could dramatically drop the wait time in lines for pre-registered guests at least, and at large cons like AX or Otakon, wouldn’t be much if any of a cost burden. If anything, you may be able to free up volunteers for more pressing business.

PS: Check out the first round of Google I/O media from me, namely photos.

I wear my stunna glasses at Computer Stop, so I can, so I can, look at expensive 3D monitor effects in the afternoon.

Meanwhile, I am going to Google I/O in San Fran as I am an Android Developer, and the company is paying for it. One of these years, I won’t end up going to a con unexpectedly.

Oh, and someone did a video for an old song of mine that I should probably do fresh vocals on. NintendoNerr bevideoifies “He’s Homsar”.

It’s meant to look somewhat like a book.

Needless to say, I’m now busting my can getting stuff square. It’s gonna be “get the apartment, move in, go to school.” So much for having breathing room, not that the weather would have afforded me any anyway. I’d have been packed faster though.

And oh man, it’s going to be sweet to have basically a bed, computers/printer, a table for computers/printer and some tubs o’ clothes. Maybe some small electrics (rice cooker would be good to have, electric razor will come with, hopefully the apartment has a microwave.) By sweet, I imagine I’ll be up to Seattle on the weekends as time affords to get some other stuff down (like a dish set/silverware set.)

Hey, have you seen this blog post? You should totally hit that. Get some deals. Stimulate my economy

Meanwhile, Derek, Misu and I belatedly celebrated my 25th birthday with some Gameworks and Wann, and miracle upon miracle, the oft-broken PURIKURA machine was running! Wicked cool photos hide after the break.

Photos were taken, and appear after the break.

Fail: McDonald’s Cafe Mocha. Too much chocolate (and the wrong kind of chocolate at that,) and not nearly enough coffee. Plus, the cost wasn’t particularly lower than the Starbucks down the street, so it’s not even a decent value buy. In fact, the Mochas from the nearby Costco are vastly superior, and they are only a buck.

Oh, and this:

So far it’s on schedule.

this is the danger of working in a computer shop, especially one that gets refurb monitors that work great for cheap.

PS: the finger is healing, slowly but surely.

PS: Sky’s the limit:

Not Your Personal Rapper
by Karl Olson

ch.
I will not freestyle for you after the show
Won’t battle or keystyle – no, I don’t think you blow
I just know that I’m tired – yeah, I’m pretty exhausted
So by drunk rappers, I won’t be accosted
(x2.)

v1.
It’s not even a particularly fair fight, right?
You’re 10 steps passed loaded, and I’ve been fronting all night
So I won’t say that by me you’ll be so out-paced
But I’ll doubt be erased by a man who’s so faced
That he’s fighting with friends, that he has to pretend
That he’s the big man in the club, just by rapping against
A tired nerdcore MC wearing an anime shirt
Who never acts up in the club because he isn’t a flirt

Or more to the point, I never get tore up
So even though I’m exhausted, I could still shore up
Everything I’m flowing with, so you should knowing this
Otherwise you’ll be humiliated – you’ll be blowing this
Chance to look awesome, yes, so fresh and hyphy
The chance to be the greatest – yeah you could be like me
But I refuse to take part – yeah, I won’t let you strife me
With your pucca shell necklace, khaki shorts and nikes.

(ch.)

v2.
Unless you’re geek like me, we’ll never decide a winner
I’ll rap about Sailor Moon, while you rap about spinners
Rap about Sugar Rune, while you rap about hotties
My rap will be clean, while your rap will be bawdy
That’s apples and oranges, that’s not that fair
So that’s just another reason why I do not care
And if you’re not tore up, then you’ve probably been planning
Meanwhile, I’m burned out, so I doubt I’ll be scanning

My freestyle card, into my verbal e-reader
Already used my HP, but I am no conceiter
If we’re ever both playing gigs, in the same place
Maybe right before the show, we could rhyme with taste
It could be key or battle, either way works
But at this moment in time, I’m refusing you jerks
Who think I’m just a chump, and that I’m easy to take
I just can’t be bothered, though there’s nothing at stake

(ch.)x2

Probably the meanest thing I’ve written not about a company.

PS: Possible Mixtape Cover. Lame looking, I know.

OTOH, I’m not that hot on that album cover, and I won’t release it until I make a good one or someone else makes a good one.

However, the tracklisting’s ready:

disc 1 – never knows best
01. pop idol
02. new coin
03. alpha series
04. heavy door
05. cocoon
06. clerk
07. misago
08. mobile doll
09. mima
10. blackened feather
11. steel track
12. day of raising
13. new day

disc 2 – never yours to share it
01. sea of stars
02. lone wolf a
03. blueberry honey
04. bounty hunter
05. ran
06. negotiator
07. last love song
08. won’t let up
09. artist team
10. lone wolf b
11. tracer
12. fun (the remix just for me)
13. mima suite (bonus track)

total run time: 134 minutes.

side note: I’m not remastering these songs any. They’re well mixed and produced, just a bit quiet. You’ll have to play them back at about double the volume of my new material.

So the finest hairdresser and MC in nerdcore, Nursehella gave me a haircut. She says it’s Pretear-style. Himeno Awayuki from Pretear-style. I suppose that’s fitting for a mahou shonen MC like me. ^_^

All in all, I’d say Wii Play is like 7.7/10 (and not a review magazine/website 7.7, but a real, “this game is a C+” 7.7.) as it could be a bit user friendly or at least a bit more instantly gratifying, but it’s worth picking up if you have the console and you have friends. I hope more of these party games have online play in the future as well. That’d be a blast.

Now, on the way over to my friends’ apartment, we stopped by a 7-11, and what should have there but Hyphy Juice. For those of you not in the know, Hyphy is a sub-genre of rap from the Bay Area that popularized the concept and term “Ghost Riding the Whip.” As I enjoy Hyphy, atleast from a production/music perspective (the lyrics are pretty much about partying and getting Hyphy, which is cool and all, but necessarily notable except for things like Mistah Fab’s ingenious “Ghost Ride It”,) I was compelled to buy Hyphy Juice, and much to my surprise, it tastes pretty good. It’s like Grape and Apple Jolly Ranchers, with no gross energy drink taste or after-taste. A little over sweetened maybe, but still very good. If I drank energy drinks regularly, Hyphy Juice would be my weapon of choice.

Oh Apple Store, you’re always a fun way to kill time. If only I could build Apples like PCs (without laying out some serious cash upfront,) I’d almost switch.