Name Taken.
Posted on December 20th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 12:01 am
Took my little bro down to a Nintendo WiFi Event/Mario Kart DS Tournement, ran into a friend of mine with a camera and met Reggie from Nintendo who was a really cool guy. Nintendo found a gem in that guy, cause he’s a real gamer himself, and he gets along well with gamers, freely handing out his friend code for Mario Kart. Thus, I end on a picture of me with “the Reggielution” and my little bro.
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Me doing a planned in advance live show? For the first time ever?
Posted on December 18th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 4:05 am
Yes, and it’s a cancer benefit (the ACS the IBCRF to be specific) at the Preston Community Center at 8625 310th Ave SE, Preston, WA. I’m not sure quite yet exactly when I’ll be playing (heck, I’m still kind of dazed from finding out that I’ll be playing,) but the actual time for the whole event is 5:30pm-10pm on December 22nd (IE: this Thursday.)
How this came to be: What I thought was going to be a little set at an acquaintance’s private X-mas party at their house now may turn out as many as 125 people (assuming capacity can be reached,) and not just myself will be performing, but various local acts who likely are much better known than myself. As such, if any of my friends from AK could turn out (I know my BCC posse will show as that was the original deal with x-mas party,) I think it might make things a little easier for me. Or vastly more stressful. I have no idea. Boy, I hope I can rehearse myself into some level of confidence and competence for this.
PS: Food is apparently going to be covered by the cost of that 5 bucks, so even if you only turn out to see me, and you’re unhappy with me, atleast you will be fed. Besides, I’m sure the other bands and artists will rock, so it’s way totally worth it.
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Progress Report
Posted on December 15th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:12 pm
So, since in next few weeks reprints of my old CD will be available (and since someone brought it up in my myspace,) I thought now might be a good time to go over the progress on the next CD. It’s basically done, save for 2 tracks and cover art. The two tracks are, of course, the collaborations, and really it’s my fault for not persuing them harder. However, I recorded my segment of what will hopefully be the Tycho collab (I think I’ll have another shot at emailing him, but realistically, I should just drive down to Seattle next week and see if I can just talk to him about it at his offices.) Meanwhile, I need to email Nurse Hella about our collab. I really sorta dropped the ball while I was working on school stuff, but school is important, ya know?
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VIDEO GAME?!
Posted on December 7th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 9:24 pm
The compsci final project. A group endeavor that was nothing short insanely trying but rewarding work on. The result is pretty good for roughly two weeks effort IMO (with most of that effort in the last week, err 5 days,) especially since it’s Java therefore isn’t the most glamorous setup for this kind of thing.
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Billards, Burgers and Bomber Girls.
Posted on December 4th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 3:17 am
Ok, so I basically did nothing today (as in Saturday.) Well, I read the manga I bought yesterday.
But Friday was eventful.
Got some new manga at Anime Kingdom (Nana, Bleach, Full Moon, Fruits Basket, Keroro Gunso, Kare Kano and Midori’s Days.) I went to Starbucks (repeatedly,) chatted with friends, went to Chili’s with friends, got dripped on by Chili’s broken ceiling, bought cheap manga at Half Price Books (Bomber Girl – vapid and fanservicey, but it brings balance to the heavy shoujo stuff – besides, it’s out of print now, and it was a silly little read in Raijin Weekly Comics back in the day, so why not.) Then I wandered around Tukwila looking for a bowling alley that’s also a billards place, and I eventually found it (stopped into Target for Advil and Powerade first. Then, I got my butt soundly kicked all but once (and that was dumb luck.)
Oh yeah, today wasn’t totally uneventful – I got myself running litestep and boy it’s come a long way since the old days. I’m using a very, very stripped down theme, and outside needing a clock that’s not stuck in the launch menu (I’ll find something I can embed on to the desktop,) I’m loving it. Much lower system load than Explorer (which is great, especially since I’m waiting on Kingston to hook me up with fresh RAM under their lifetime warrenty, though I suppose they might stick me on it since I put those RAM heatsinks on. Cept I never OC’d the stuff and they broke with out my stupidity helping it along.)
Anyway, on a less “boring-everyday-life-noone-cares-about” note, I’ve gotten things underway for reprinting the first nerdcore cd. It’ll be even nicer than the last batch when it comes to print quality, and all that, and it’ll probably be available either just before or just after Xmas. Also once class is done for the year, I will get those collaborations I need for my CD resolved in some fashion, some how.
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Black Friday.
Posted on November 25th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 11:17 pm
Nothing like waking up at 4am so you can head down to a store to get save some moneys.
This year’s take:
PNY 1GB Thumbdrive
Airlink USB Wifi Adapter
.hack//legend 2 & 3
Home Movies Season 3
NEX Console & SMB1 (though I got those later in the day)
Huge thanks goes out to my mom for coming along on this insane journey.
Huge thanks goes out to KnuxFive from TZ for getting me a Gameboy (Original) w/ Tetris for my birthday.
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And now you can actually buy them
Posted on November 23rd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 10:10 am
really expensive black t-shirts with the Revision 4920 art on them.
Actually, I’m probably going to buy one of those bad boys myself. Way too tempting not to.
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Thematic Remix.
Posted on November 22nd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 6:35 pm
Basically, I decided the old theme was gratuitously image intensive, so I found one that wasn’t. Took a bit of modification to become something useful, but I got it there. Yay. 😀
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Busy.
Posted on November 21st, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 10:29 pm
Fun things done recently:
-Hit Kinokuniya, Bought Dengeki Daioh Dec. Issue.
-Watched “Mindgame” @ BCC Anime Club.
-Went to Denny’s w/ BCC crew. Hilarity ensued.
-Interviewed various animation peoples for podcast.
-Watched new HP movie.
Actually, I’ve got to say I’m not particularly overjoyed with the new HP flick. I mean, it’s good, it’s just not excellent. Some how the books are just more magical.
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Generic Interstitial Beats
Posted on November 18th, 2005
Filed under: Music News — Karl Olson @ 7:43 pm
as heard on the Toon Zone podcast.