For darcenciel and ifotismeni:

Almost done. Obviously a number of loose ends need to be finished up, especially on the pauldrons, which are just tacked together currently. But I mocked it up to give you a rough idea of how the final product will look.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I will also be wearing a black belt around the waist there. Also gray pants and black boots, and a white shirt underneath.

Just noticed that it hasn't posted for me in the last few days. Apparently their servers crashed under load, and they're not sure they can continue financially (since it's not like they made any money).

Apparently now that the service has *stopped* people have started tossing in donations, so that's good. If they can get the server up and running again it'll probably continue.

Otherwise, it's time for me to start reading up the LJ API... Might be advantages to rolling my own loudtwitter-like functionality. For example, I could make it format my posts a bit more nicely, and filter out things like @replies. We'll see...

Here are a couple "in-progress" pictures of my Edgar costume for the FFVI group.
( Mostly for darcenciel since she asked and ifotismeni since she's making me a cape! )
The sleeves and tails are made, but obviously not attached. And I need to properly attach the fasteners (you know, instead of having them pinned on).

• 10:18 @RevRagnarok Because even though it's from a Latin root, it doesn't come from a noun, so it wouldn't make sense to pluralize like that. #
• 10:20 @pennjillette's children are named Zolten and Moxie? That's kind of awesome. #
• 10:32 Looking at some of the nitwits who get elected to congress, I'm starting to think representative democracy isn't such a good idea afterall #
• 11:07 Looks like they *finally* closed up one of the vulnerabilities I pointed out. But there're still some silly SQL injection and XSS exploits #
• 11:47 @varmazis Too few. I think he should 150 million years. #
• 13:10 Woo! Free leftover pizza in the breakroom. It's my lucky day! (yes things are bad enough that this excites me) #
• 15:02 RT @Roland_Hedley: MJ's legacy is... hold it! There's a police chase on US 635 in Dallas! Excellent, presser was a downer. Thank you, MSNBC! #
• 15:08 @HitDanBack Fuck you spammer I don't care. Please go die in a fire. #
• 15:18 @JC_Christian: Wow, that's embarrassing to look at. Nobody gives a shit about his tweets he has to use a pyramid scheme to get followers #
• 15:49 Will somebody please explain to me wtf "reverse descrimination" is supposed to mean? #
• 16:30 @blackcoat Find a good 'podcast' to listen to. That's what I do when I exercise. Makes it more bearable. #
• 16:47 I've started noticing a pattern where my hypochondria starts flaring up on Monday mornings and recedes as the week goes on. #
• 16:56 @varmazis: Do they have any advantage over just plugging a record player into the line in on your sound card? Includes track splitting sw? #
• 17:11 @kantrn Because most blog software I've seen seems to think security is optional in general. #
• 17:11 @kantrn What exactly have you been working on anyways? Trying to unify all your accounts on various sites? #
• 17:20 @kantrn I'll take that as a 'maybe'. #
• 17:26 @varmazis Who now? #
• 17:39 Hate it when theists mock atheists as "sooo enlightened". We're not the ones making any claims. We don't profess any particular wisdom. #
• 17:44 They're free to believe whatever, but we're not the ones claiming certain knowledge of the origin of the universe or that it's even knowable #
• 17:48 Going to an O's game tomorrow. Kind of spur of the moment, but it's their second to last game with the redsox, so it's of interest to Lisa #
• 18:25 Goddamn car stereo can't play ogg vorbis...have to sit here and transcode everything to mp3. Yay lossy-to-lossy! -__- #
• 18:26 Actually, come to think of it, can it play ogg? I've never actually tried it. I doubt it does, but stranger things have happened... #
• 18:38 From now on I'm just going to just report any Twitter marketing-oriented accounts as spam. #
• 20:33 And sure enough, soon as a make a post containing the keywords "Twitter-marketing" 17 more asshats follow me thinking I'm interested in that #
• 20:36 And of course because of that post I got even more. This time I won't use any keywords... #
• 23:07 @newbieking Please go choke on a bucket of cocks. #
• 23:08 @wallsimp Please go choke on a bucket of cocks. #
• 23:40 Wow, all the Twitter clients for Google Desktop are highly lacking. Though #Twigd seems to be the most usable for now... #

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• 12:23 Hrm...I have a good signal out here but I can't get an internet connection. How will I live?! #
• 16:34 I think when the deltek T&E system gets rolled out at work I'll have to write some greasemonkey scripts for it. #
• 16:35 At the very least I need to get some sort of autosaving to work. Should theoretically be easy. I wonder if I can time charge the work on it #
• 16:37 RT @kantrn Heavy Weapons Guy pitches bathroom cleaner, very well made: tinyurl.com/pgjfaj (via @jaredr) //That just made my day #

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• 00:52 twitpic.com/8jilx - My cat being fadorable. She likes lying on her back sometimes. darndest thing #
• 12:46 @Roland_Hedley *BING!* Need followers? Click here! [Sorry, couldn't resist; also, Twitter spam is really the bane of my existence anymore] #
• 19:27 It's amazing how good South Park has managed to stay all these years. Sure it's had its ups and downs, but overall consistently funny. #
• 21:30 @blackcoat What? It is! Giant guinea pigs--hilarious. #
• 21:32 Walter Cronkite is apparently on his death bed. I'll be sad to see him go. #

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• 10:25 RT @MrTeller Midnight. Riding in a limousine from Reno airport to Tahoe. No light in the limo except our two iPhones, as we watch the maps. #
• 10:31 Oh boy guys! "ARCHIVED DELTEK TIME RECORDING MULTICAST SESSION NOW AVAILABLE!" Hopefully this'll be so bad it'll be fun. Deltek really sucks #
• 10:33 "** Warning ** We have detected that your computer is using an old version of Windows Media Player" How about, I'm in Linux you morons. #
• 10:34 Great, well now I have to get sound working in my Windows VM. *Shouldn't* be a problem, but hard to say... #
• 10:43 Hah. Even in Windows it complains that my WMP is too old. But it works anyways. #
• 10:44 Weekly timesheets on Thursday! Now twice the predictive timecharging goodness, fffffffuuuuuu >_< #
• 10:47 Okay, I'm already starting to nod off...read blogs... #
• 10:54 I just realized I'm supposed to be following some slides in a PDF, because the video producers lack competency to put slides in video. #
• 11:00 Oh my lord this UI is hideous. Why am I not surprised? Very Web 1.5 (whatever that means). I'll be shocked if it works in non-IE browsers #
• 11:05 "The first time you log into Deltek, you will be presented with..." A page full of blue dog vomit. At least, that's what it looks like. #
• 11:07 Black and light grey text on a a medium grey background. Accessibility: we has it! Wonder how the layout holds up with larger font sizes. #
• 11:15 "MyDesktop"? MyAss... Why don't they just call it "eMy-iDesktop.NETpro"? My desktop is the thing I rest my elbows on, assholes. #
• 11:42 @BillQuick Normally I would consider you spam, but man, Deltek really really looks bad. Have no choice in the matter though. #
• 11:46 You have to manually save changes to your timesheet. And they're calling that a "feature". Hilarious. #
• 11:47 Excuse me, but the close button on my browser is not "a big black X". It's a big white X. Asshat. #
• 11:58 This lady consistently pronounces "button" like "butt-ton". It's funny. #
• 12:03 @ikhlaqbhat It's mandatory. Granted, I could just mute this and say I watched it, but as I suspected it's been unintentionally hilarious #

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• 08:32 N.Korea: So you threaten to use nukes, because we're so bold as to provide S.Korea a nuclear umbrella, because you threaten to use nukes... #
• 09:28 @varmazis I didn't even know you went there o_O Or maybe I did, but forgot. #
• 12:58 @kiddetective You're making a post-apocalypse survival kit or something? I keep meaning to do that... #
• 13:02 CNN's theme music is so silly. I think they should just take it all the way and start using the Terminator theme. #
• 13:08 @kiddetective That's pretty rad! You should add an altoids tin survival kit. #
• 13:40 Oh man...barely past 1:30? It's gonna be a long day.... #
• 14:51 Wow, one of our server's user table got pretty royally hosed up. No idea how this happened but I suspect an ID10T error is responsible. #
• 16:55 Hate getting car work done. Always costs in the hundreds of dollars. Oh well, better than running it into the ground and destroying it. #
• 17:24 Ack...$400. But at least now my brakes feel good as new, and my rear wheels aren't in as much immediate risk of falling off. #
• 17:56 Twitter freaking out over supposed "death" of Michael Jackson is hilarious. No major media outlet is reporting this. TMZ doesn't count. #
• 18:06 Not that it isn't improbable, but I'd prefer this were confirmed by other sources before just assuming it to be true. #
• 18:07 Also, my computer just crashed: "npviewer.bin[27618]: segfault at 00000048 eip b6c50c7d esp bf84cacc error 4; (cont.) #
• 18:07 Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason b0 on CPU 0.; You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus. (cont.) #
• 18:07 Dazed and confused, but trying to continue" Gee thanks kernel... #

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• 08:54 Dammit, they put syrup in my coffee. Now it doesn't taste like coffee. It just tastes like syrup. #
• 10:51 RT: @Roland_Hedley: Stimulus package spending out of control: Appalachian Trail extended to Argentina. #
• 11:13 Today's going to be a long, boring day... -_- #
• 11:56 Why are you trying to apply POSIX standards for command line option documentation to Trac wiki macros? NOT QUITE THE SAME THING YA THINK? #
• 12:53 Eating out all the tine is expensive. I should bring lunch to work more often. This is not the first time I've made this observation -_- #
• 13:12 Traditional media wanking over Nico Pitney is hilarious and sad. What a bunch of pathetic, self-aggrandizing lunatics. #
• 14:11 I've been holding off on buying yet another new car. But I might just take advantage of the "Cash for Clunkers" program while I can. #
• 14:17 Hrm...seeing conflicting information on the mpg your car has to have to qualify. Mine may or may not.... #
• 14:34 Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit about Mark Sanford? #
• 14:37 *Yawn* Another week, another "family values" Gopasaur cheats on his wife. This one just does so particularly sloppily. Booooring. #
• 14:55 @varmazis Whose wedding? #
• 15:07 RT: @markosm: Every fucking time. Not an accident. RT @murshedzaheed On Fox: Mark Sanford "(D)" holds press conference bit.ly/yCZaz #
• 16:57 I'm pretty tired of "how to" being used as a noun. Worse when it's written "howto". I think "guide" would suffice. #
• 17:09 @dyfrgi ATI always worked fine for me in Windows. Never understood complaints about Linux support until I found out first hand :/ #
• 21:48 So I make a post about how I hate the usage of "howto", and some bot called @howtoprojects follows me -__- #

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• 10:00 RT @MrTeller On our opening BS show on Orgasms, I enjoy the friendship of a farm animal. #
• 10:39 @cf_sarahk Right--didn't actually have anything to worry about, personally anyways. Thanks! #
• 10:44 God dammit Israel, when will you stop playing these stupid games? What is your end goal, total eradication of the Palestinian people? #
• 11:07 WTF is David Gergen blabbering about on CNN? "Obama doing the right thing, but since he represents change he should be more forceful?" WTF? #
• 11:08 This was with respect to Iran, btw. Gergen's such a goddamn idiot I wish he'd just go away. One of the most strained arguments he's made. #
• 12:24 Joe Klein to John "Bomb Iran" McCain: "STFU". Not literally, but close enough. McCain needs to learn that elections have consequences. #
• 12:44 Why am I on facebook watching a presidential news conference? Oh, new media, what will you do next? #
• 12:55 Love how Obama can take a yes or no question and answer in multiple multi-paragraph points. #
• 13:06 Obama is on fire today! #
• 13:06 But I wish the press would ask him about more questions besides "Iran" and "public option" geez... #
• 13:09 He won't say right out that the public option is "non-negotiable" but he's goint to bat *hard* for it. Now pwning question on his smoking. #
• 13:26 Testing... #
• 13:44 Stop saying "My point is is that" -__- #
• 14:21 @kantrn Agreed. Also "and let's make it really hard to find out that this functionality exists and how to use it". At least it's there... #
• 15:19 RT @HunterDK: In show of Iranian solidary, President McCain promises to dye all bombs green before dropping them. #
• 15:45 twitpic.com/87p65 - Testing out TwitPic. Now to waste even more bytes with crap no one cares about #
• 15:47 twitpic.com/87p65 - Crap, I need to shave :( #
• 16:08 @kantrn Saw a preview of the first 10 mins of it at a con. No idea what was going on (this was not due to language barrier) but very pretty #
• 17:39 @varmazis She actually likes when I have facial hair...when it's neat...which right now it's not. Starting to get neckbeard ;_; #
• 23:32 This collar is PAIN. Too many triangles. Think I'll make it slightly fewer triangles. Lisa said she'll work on it for me tomorrow :0 #

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• 02:00 @kantrn I still use Flickr--have already invested too much in it to explore other options. It's still good though--few complaints. #
• 09:52 Really need to reset my sleep schedule. Can no longer stay up past 2 and reliably get up on time. And by "reliably" I mean not at all. #
• 10:45 Slept in a weird position. Left shoulder all effed up. *sheds single tear* #
• 12:38 Feeling slightly hypochondriacal today, possibly due to ache in shoulder. I think I have some form of hepatitis. I doubt it, but who knows? #
• 14:22 Fuck you congressional Democrats. Fuck you in your fat stupid faces. You know, I hate the GOP, but at least those fuckers have principles. #
• 14:23 I mean, lots of them are also massive hypocrites when it comes to those principles, but at least they pretend to have some. #
• 17:34 Don't try to fight a battle thinking it'll improve your profile when you aren't given the proper resources to fight it. They didn't listen. #
• 18:38 @kantrn I just noticed that the other day too. I was like "Bzuh?!" It is certainly unsettling. #
• 18:39 Taking less pleasure in saying "I told you so" than I thought I would. It doesn't sit well with me. Too much time and energy was wasted. #
• 18:40 Holy shit #metro collision. #
• 18:42 Holy shit, red line train, right near Takoma Park. Lisa coulda been on that if she were still working downtown #metro #
• 18:48 @cf_sarahk Heard it was a head-on collision though. That would have involved outbound too I imagine. #
• 18:49 Geez, the red line's been screwed up for a long time. Some wild bumps on that track. never thought it was this messed up though #metro #
• 23:24 Sewed two pieces of my collar together the wrong way. Time to stop sewing and call it a night -_- #

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• 21:20 Oh hey, Netflix has entire seasons of Bullshit! in their watch instantly selection now. Win! #
• 21:21 RT @pourquoinon RT @Atrios: dear media. jib jab is not funny.//Finally, someone says it! They were funny for like 7^Hzero minutes. #

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• 00:15 Dear makers of Wolf's Rain: Four recap episodes in a row?! Seriously?! wtf... #
• 09:41 @varmazis; If they were low on funds it woulda been better if they did silly popsicle stick episodes a la Kare Kano #
• 12:03 RT @JC_Christian Get some balls Dems. Make the conservatives vote against #healthcare public opt. because it cuts insurance industry profits #
• 12:30 Yay, finagled my way into getting lunch expensed with zero effort. #
• 14:02 Dear user, please stop reporting that bug. You've been told it's fixed in the next release. That doesn't mean the fix is already deployed. #
• 17:21 John Roberts is a real fucking asshat. #
• 17:52 RT: @alyankovic: twitpic.com/7u8mk - How can I get Seth Green to stop riding my Segway around the house?? #
• 18:56 RT: @_defcon_: Well it's official, I can proudly announce @donttrythis Adam Savage will be speaking at @_defcon_ this year! //Woot! #

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• 10:04 @varmazis: Pointless. Better idea, esp. if you have access to a static IP address: Run a proxy for Twitter bit.ly/uf2F0/ #
• 10:05 @varmazis Oh man, you guys use CVS?! I am so sorry :/ I mean, it could be far, far worse. It's just so archaic.. #
• 11:26 RT: @JC_Christian: The health care argument is inverted. It should center on whether we have a private insurance option or not. #
• 13:10 @varmazis: Don't you mean VCS? Also, in fairness to CVS, I'd just say "modern" VCS :P #
• 15:57 I would characterize that as a mostly pointless meeting. At least, from my perspective. I can't say nothing was accomplished though. #
• 16:39 RT: @meerkatdon: End Judicial Activism! The people should be allowed to decide. bit.ly/TSArU lol #
• 17:05 Concerning the customer: We suck. They just suck more. #
• 17:11 RT: @alyankovic: Ever have your toenails painted by a 6-year-old? It's awesome! twitpic.com/7qosk #
• 17:22 RT: @Roland_Hedley: In line w/ cool kids outside Apple store waiting for midnight release of 3Gs iPhone. Mood giddy. People dressed as apps. #
• 18:41 Oh, geez, when did it get this late? I guess I'll go home soon! Time flies when you're critiquing other peoples' code. #
• 00:15 Dear makers of Wolf's Rain: Four recap episodes in a row?! Seriously?! wtf... #

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• 10:23 Rumor has it govt. thugs dressing in identical green tshirts and filming themselves destroying public buildings -_- #iranelection #
• 11:40 AN rally picture photoshopped to appear larger: bit.ly/8Ex2i I'm shocked...*shocked* I tell you. Yay clone stamp. #
• 13:08 @dyfrgi Way too little, but not too late. Better to keep the pressure on than to throw your hands up in disgust. #
• 14:26 @dyfrgi True where the fundraiser is concerned. But not overall. I have to believe Obama will do what's right in the end if we keep at it. #
• 14:26 RT: @markosm: I hope you gays getting married in Iowa and Maine are happy about what you did to Ensign's marriage. #
• 15:13 FUCK YOU I AM NOT AN SA >_< #
• 15:15 This is not my fucking job. I only have something like 300 tickets worth of actual development I could be working on. #
• 16:38 PM promised me lunch. Delivered bucket of lies and wasted my time. #

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• 10:03 I'm gonna be pissed off most of today. I can just tell. Something about it is off. Maybe the weather's fault. Should try to stay positive. #
• 10:20 Why are the neocons so eager to promote Ahmedinejad's legitimacy? #
• 10:35 @kantrn: Yes, well, in fairness it's probably best for a "web server for dummies" to not give too much control over authentication. #
• 12:00 @kantrn True, true. Maybe I'll suggest that to them. #
• 12:22 @kantrn I approve of this idea :D #
• 13:38 Lunch...greasy...blurgh -_- #
• 16:55 RT: @RevRagnarok: "Please don't use the little X to close, it does not work. You need to logout." #FAIL //Are you shitting me? #

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Where do you go to complain when Twitter's down? Back to Livejournal! Apparently.
I actually should post here more often. You know, stuff with actual content. I'm often tempted to, but then fall into the same old problem of being too lazy to write more than 140 characters at a time.

But occasionally I do miss going off on topics in long form. It probably helped keep my writing abilities stronger too. And yes, I realize the irony of that last sentence.

• 10:34 @blackcoat? You're playing Xcon on superhuman? How many times have you had to save/reload on each turn? -_- #
• 10:34 @blackcoat xcom, rather. #
• 10:46 @varmazis: I think Koakuma Heaven was actually a subtle hint that he's gonna change his name to ６（＊・Д・）９ #
• 11:20 @JC_Christian Hey, don't call them hicks. That's the Real Iran™ you're talking about. #Iranelection #teaparty #
• 12:12 RT: @JC_Christian: Abdullah the Plumber calls Mousavi voters "elitists" #tcot #
• 12:39 Wait, what the fuck does ACORN have to do with Iran, let alone anything? You people are fucking insane #tcot #
• 12:46 Seeing some wild-eyed posts on Twitter comparing Iran election fraud to Obama and ACORN. It had to happen... these people are insane. #
• 13:15 RT @Jakewk: Kurds going for AN is like California going for McCain. //More like Jews in Palm Beach going for Pat Buchanan. #
• 15:42 RT: @Roland_Hedley: Twitter proving itself today in Tehran. Leading Mousavi supporter in Saadatabad district just tweeted dinner plans. #
• 23:51 Urgh...been feeling a bit nauseous for the past couple hours. No idea why. Hopefully'll be able to sleep it off and am not actually sick. #

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• 01:04 @Oprahfansclub: @Oprah's a goddamn unskeptical moron, and so are many of her fans. Do you just follow anyone who mentions "Oprah"? Fail... #

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• 15:26 @varmazis: Yeah: www.flickr.com/photos/hyuga/3604776639/ This is one of the tails. I'm a bit further along now if you want more. #
• 15:27 @varmazis As I wrote in the LJ comment, the flash brightened the colors significantly. The white is actually off-white "papyrus" #

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