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Mar. 10th, 2016 06:18 amWent with Brian to his job again yesterday.
The two of us got breakfast at this place called Boston Public Market (no relation to a certain TV show) that just opened up after getting off the train.
The previous day, Brian suggested I pay a visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Upon reaching his office yesterday, he pulled up Google Maps so that I could write down some directions to get there.
Devon met me there when I arrived, and found me a spot to drop off my sweatshirt and backpack. (Turns out that he actually works there as a staff member, and it's possible that's the reason Brian suggested a visit there in particular.)
While looking around, I eventually found a room showcasing all manner of different minerals. Earlier in the morning, Brian suggested I look there in particular for ideas of what the Magé Stones in Starbound could be. I told him that those are already based on the twelve birthstones, and quite by coincidence, those are the first things numerically that that place has to offer.
While it is impossible to retain everything that one reads about a given subject, I have known beforehand that rubies are red because they contain traces of chromium. Learned while watching the last few minutes of an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (back when I was watching All My Children, what I was actually waiting for), and I learned later on that the word refers exclusively to the red variety of a mineral known as corundum, while sapphire, though normally thought of as blue, refers technically to the same mineral in all other colors. Said blue variety, as I would actually read just yesterday, owes that color to traces of iron and titanium, and pure sapphires actually lack any color altogether.
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Two nights ago, the money on my train ticket had run out, and I had to refill it at a machine. I inserted a ten to add just one dollar to it, and got the other nine back in golden $1 coins. Six of those went towards that ice cream we bought later on the way back to the apartment.
Yesterday, while making my way back directly to the apartment, I thought I'd buy a water bottle from a vending machine in the subway. I put one coin in, pressed the button, and the machine asked for $2.50. Put the remaining two in, turns out they didn't register, tried to get them back, but it turned out that they were too big to fit down the actual chute (as opposed to just into the slot). Went upstairs to inform a pair of custodians I happened to spot, and they advised me to call a number somewhere on the machine. I did that, and was only able to leave a message before boarding the train.
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In anticipation to having Colleen over, Brian asked me to go to this Chinese takeout place called Food Wall to pick up dinner. I set him up with those three entries from February, hoping he'd be able to look over them by the time I returned, but he told me when I did so that, while he did read part of the first entry, he was just too hungry to make much sense of anything.
The three of us ate while John made himself and Quinn some spaghetti instead, and then watched an episode of Lucky Star. Brian and I had agreed in advance on 15, since that contain's appearances of Gyopi (second of two in the anime), Ayano (first official one, together with Misao's), the entire Hiiragi family, and the real-life rock star Aya Hirano (since Brian asked earlier on about any possible equivalent to Earthbound's Runaway Five), along with being the episode right after which Yutaka debuts (as does Minami, though she doesn't appear in Starbound until chapter 5).
Before we actually watched the episode, Brian suggested that I implement something in Starbound that involves flying a kite off a rooftop, something he says Marie had done with her friends just the other night. I told him that kite-flying in general is actually brought up in episode 13, as one of several traditional games for New Year's.
He also suggested that I implement the spherical cat that appears in the title and commercial break shots (known usually as Nyamo, although a talking one does stand in for creator Kagami Yoshimizu at the end of manga volume 1). Even though such cats are not shown to actually exist in the Lucky Star universe (there are several normal ones in both anime and manga), I wouldn't be the first one to pretend that they do. Tsukasa is said to have that cat as a pet in Stars Above, and here, the cat that Tsukasa plays with in chapter 4, along with one that Van Slyke might be shown caressing when he first appears, could be the same breed conceivably enough.
While we were watching the episode, I did notice a subtitle saying "Goldfish scooping" for a festival booth sign in the background. The scene in question, however, takes place at the cherry blossom festival during the weeks between winter and spring (New Year's had already come and gone three episodes earlier, with Valentine's Day passing the next one), and Wikipedia still only specifies the game to be held during the summer festival known as ennichi. So, yeah, implementing that into Starbound might still be a bit awkward.
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After the episode ended, I took out those physical copies of those three entries that I had printed up back at home. Brian told me that it would be so much easier for him to read in that format than on a computer. In case he actually wondered why I didn't show that to him sooner, I thought it would be nice if he had actual access to anything I linked to while reading everything, and this was just a backup in case one would be called for. Considering the kind of luck I've been having getting him to read anything I've tabbed on his laptop since that one night, it will end up serving exactly that purpose if he can read it on the train ride to work, which seems likely enough given how well he was able to read something much longer the other night in just the time we had been on another train. (The ride itself was a lot longer, but this is only five pages, two of which aren't even halfway full, as opposed to a whopping seventeen.)
The two of us got breakfast at this place called Boston Public Market (no relation to a certain TV show) that just opened up after getting off the train.
The previous day, Brian suggested I pay a visit to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. Upon reaching his office yesterday, he pulled up Google Maps so that I could write down some directions to get there.
Devon met me there when I arrived, and found me a spot to drop off my sweatshirt and backpack. (Turns out that he actually works there as a staff member, and it's possible that's the reason Brian suggested a visit there in particular.)
While looking around, I eventually found a room showcasing all manner of different minerals. Earlier in the morning, Brian suggested I look there in particular for ideas of what the Magé Stones in Starbound could be. I told him that those are already based on the twelve birthstones, and quite by coincidence, those are the first things numerically that that place has to offer.
While it is impossible to retain everything that one reads about a given subject, I have known beforehand that rubies are red because they contain traces of chromium. Learned while watching the last few minutes of an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (back when I was watching All My Children, what I was actually waiting for), and I learned later on that the word refers exclusively to the red variety of a mineral known as corundum, while sapphire, though normally thought of as blue, refers technically to the same mineral in all other colors. Said blue variety, as I would actually read just yesterday, owes that color to traces of iron and titanium, and pure sapphires actually lack any color altogether.
-----
Two nights ago, the money on my train ticket had run out, and I had to refill it at a machine. I inserted a ten to add just one dollar to it, and got the other nine back in golden $1 coins. Six of those went towards that ice cream we bought later on the way back to the apartment.
Yesterday, while making my way back directly to the apartment, I thought I'd buy a water bottle from a vending machine in the subway. I put one coin in, pressed the button, and the machine asked for $2.50. Put the remaining two in, turns out they didn't register, tried to get them back, but it turned out that they were too big to fit down the actual chute (as opposed to just into the slot). Went upstairs to inform a pair of custodians I happened to spot, and they advised me to call a number somewhere on the machine. I did that, and was only able to leave a message before boarding the train.
-----
In anticipation to having Colleen over, Brian asked me to go to this Chinese takeout place called Food Wall to pick up dinner. I set him up with those three entries from February, hoping he'd be able to look over them by the time I returned, but he told me when I did so that, while he did read part of the first entry, he was just too hungry to make much sense of anything.
The three of us ate while John made himself and Quinn some spaghetti instead, and then watched an episode of Lucky Star. Brian and I had agreed in advance on 15, since that contain's appearances of Gyopi (second of two in the anime), Ayano (first official one, together with Misao's), the entire Hiiragi family, and the real-life rock star Aya Hirano (since Brian asked earlier on about any possible equivalent to Earthbound's Runaway Five), along with being the episode right after which Yutaka debuts (as does Minami, though she doesn't appear in Starbound until chapter 5).
Before we actually watched the episode, Brian suggested that I implement something in Starbound that involves flying a kite off a rooftop, something he says Marie had done with her friends just the other night. I told him that kite-flying in general is actually brought up in episode 13, as one of several traditional games for New Year's.
He also suggested that I implement the spherical cat that appears in the title and commercial break shots (known usually as Nyamo, although a talking one does stand in for creator Kagami Yoshimizu at the end of manga volume 1). Even though such cats are not shown to actually exist in the Lucky Star universe (there are several normal ones in both anime and manga), I wouldn't be the first one to pretend that they do. Tsukasa is said to have that cat as a pet in Stars Above, and here, the cat that Tsukasa plays with in chapter 4, along with one that Van Slyke might be shown caressing when he first appears, could be the same breed conceivably enough.
While we were watching the episode, I did notice a subtitle saying "Goldfish scooping" for a festival booth sign in the background. The scene in question, however, takes place at the cherry blossom festival during the weeks between winter and spring (New Year's had already come and gone three episodes earlier, with Valentine's Day passing the next one), and Wikipedia still only specifies the game to be held during the summer festival known as ennichi. So, yeah, implementing that into Starbound might still be a bit awkward.
-----
After the episode ended, I took out those physical copies of those three entries that I had printed up back at home. Brian told me that it would be so much easier for him to read in that format than on a computer. In case he actually wondered why I didn't show that to him sooner, I thought it would be nice if he had actual access to anything I linked to while reading everything, and this was just a backup in case one would be called for. Considering the kind of luck I've been having getting him to read anything I've tabbed on his laptop since that one night, it will end up serving exactly that purpose if he can read it on the train ride to work, which seems likely enough given how well he was able to read something much longer the other night in just the time we had been on another train. (The ride itself was a lot longer, but this is only five pages, two of which aren't even halfway full, as opposed to a whopping seventeen.)