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The assignment is to write a blog entry with six random facts aboutyou. Then pick (at least) six of your friends and tag them; notagbacks. This explanation should be included.

1. When I was about four, I had veeeery long hair. But after a while, mum cut it cuz I cried a lot when she combed it to remove the knots that formed occasionally.
2. At one Carinval party (I guess I was about six or something), I dressed as Flip from the series Maja the Bee. Who was male. Go figure ^_~
3. I have one aunt and two uncles.
4. In elementary school, I loved to play Mega Man with some friends who - you prolly guessed it - were mostly boys. Most of us had a Nintendo console and we actually discussed the games. That went on for a year or two even when we went to different High Schools.
5. At one point, I could've swapped rooms with bro. But I didn't, even though - or maybe because - his room is pretty big compared to mine. Good thing, since cleaning takes a lot less time in this lil' shithole ^^
6. I failed my driving test twice.

I tag
joekickass
metalmusicfan
mirmingi
rennuian
silicondreams
thekelaal

Sometimes, it scares me how things fit together in weird ways.
I just headed over to hugh_and_robert for some RPF.
Guess what the title of the first fic was? "Rise and Shine".
Eek.
That won't make any sense now, but let's say it's an important sentence in "Star Trek: Borg". More about that once I manage to actually write a decent post about the thing O_o

And to make the madness complete, on Saturday, I accidentally stumbled into an episode of "Charmed".
Guess who was guest starring? Yep, John de Lancie.
Holy fuck.
He's stalking me!!
(Haha, I wish XD)

Can you guess what those two completely unrelated devices have in common?

Answer and details ( under the cut! )

Apart from that, CD 2 of "Star Trek: Borg" finally completed. Still need to play it, though ^_^;;;

You scored as Moya (Farscape). You are surrounded by muppets. But that is okay because they are your friends and have shown many times that they can be trusted. Now if only you could stop being bothered about wormholes. </td> Moya (Farscape) 94% Deep Space Nine (Star Trek) 88% Serenity (Firefly) 88% Babylon 5 (Babylon 5) 81% Bebop (Cowboy Bebop) 75% Millennium Falcon (Star Wars) 69% SG-1 (Stargate) 63% Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix) 63% FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files) 63% Enterprise D (Star Trek) 56% Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda) 50% Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica) 44% Your Ultimate Sci-Fi Profile II: which sci-fi crew would you best fit in? (pics) created with QuizFarm.com

Great. Off al the - possibly very cool - results I get a series I never watched O_O;;;

Okay, got CD 3 now. Geez. Trust me to finish them in the wrong order XD
Oh well, whatever *goes t burn it*

joekickass posted some songs from the "Borat" soundtrack. Which made me search for Ali G videos on Youtube because I, too, think that he's the better character.
What fun :D
Watching that stuff again made me realize four things - a) I love that guy b) he is terribly funny c) I've seen an awful lot of his themed interviews (weapons, drugs, language, religion...) d) I'm ashamed to ever have watched ther German ripoff because it's so very, very bad compared to the original.

Anyway. I also read a couple of things about Sacha Baron Cohen so once the Borat movie is out, I'll be able to explain him to the people around me. Cuz I'm sure SOME of them will not get it. Like most of the people he interviewed as Ali G didn't get it and like some TV viewers and media who managed to confuse his characrters with his real self >:|

In other news: CD 1 and 2 of Star Trek: Borg are nearly finished. #3 might take a bit longer, tho. Still, it'll be nice to finally be able to play the damned thing. Oh, and OF COURSE I'm still planning to buy it later. And now... I need to go and search for some CD-Rs to burn the ISO files. Damn DVD age ;)

ETA: Oh! I completely forgot something. I ordered some stuff on eBay. A cellphone data cable and some rechargeable batteries for bro. It makes sense cuz *he* doesn't wanna open his own account but *I* want the rep points. Talk about a win-win situation ^_^

Update on the "Star Trek: Borg" issue!

( Since I doubt that this interests anyone at all... )

Finally O_O;;;
It's partly based on my German blog article, but since last night, I was actually able to add some things.

( You know the deal - Long text, click to read! )

Even the ripped version of the Q DVDs don't work correctly. Well, that's 32 GB of HDD space saved *throws the files away*
Boy am I glad that I have Kan-chan and his stone age DVD drive. He played all of the discs without much complaint.
Why, you ask?
Well, the newer a drive is (this concerns both CD and DVD and I'm pretty sure it will be similar once BluRay and HD-DVD become important), the better its reading capability and the more sensitive it is to errors. Old drives simply overlook pressing errors and such. Because they're old and imprecise. Which, as you might have seen by now, is a good thing.
Case in point: Dad's old standalone CD player. That thing plays every damn CD-R(W), no matter how badly it's burned.
It's a law of the tech world. So my advice would be thus:
Be sure to a) try all the drives you have if you have problems reading a disc and b) keep some old drive for emergencies such as my Q DVD set or audio CDs that have heavy copy protection or pressing errors.
That was today's geek lesson, folks ^_~

Okay, now. Some words about the DVD set.
Right now, I find it hard to believe that I was able to develop a crush on a certain character without knowing his un-dubbed version.
Translation: The dub is OK but the original version is almost too great to be true O_o
John rocks. Terribly. OMFG yeah.
I'll try to come up with some more details tomorrow. And that will probably include some observations on the differences between the dub and the original version (vouces, translation, performance) and of course on the character of Q himself, now that I know how he REALLY is.

In other - but not really different - news: I've been hit by a tidal wave of ideas for funny (read: funny in my twisted opinion XD) Q icons. And now that I finally installed a version of PSP on Kan-chan, I might actually try and make some...

Oh, and I have a new favourite word. Quaint. *snort*
It's amazing how well Cecelia Fannon (she wrote the Spock VS Q audio plays) captured his language. Same goes for certain P/Q writers out there. It always makes me laugh to bump into words that couldn't be more typical for our favourite entity.
Heh. I think Q must be amazing to write. What a character ;)

Okay, shoot me. But only after reading this:

Remember this (or, less confusing, the US version)? Well, on Thursday evening, I finally gave in and bought it. If all goes well, it'll arrive tomorrow.

Why? It was all one person's fault, namely the one who uploaded this. And that. And that. And that. And finally, that.

Well, it's not like I didn't see that coming. And I like the dub. I really do.
Or rather, I did, until the first time you-know-who came up. No matter how good his German voice actor is, nothing beats the original!
So much for that.
Thank Q (Haha XD) they made the fan sets. That way, I won't have to get any other DVDs.

I also did a small hunt for bloopers (or outtakes, as we Germans say XD) on YouTube and came up with this.
What a bunch of goofs :)
Needless to say, I love Q failing to pronounce "omnipotent" *roflmao*
But the best thing is the Q/Sisko thingy.
"Bring them back, Q. Now!" - "Or what? What? You'll ravish me?"
Hahaha, ravish. Er... ravish?!? Ooookay X_X
And then, Avery going "I might". Hehe XD
...
Hang on. He had his hands on John's shoulders (Aaaahhhhh *thud*) and all he said was "I might"?!? What an idiot ^_~

Oh, and I also managed to slip yamasagi those SG-1 torrents. Next week, I'll grab the downloaded episodes (especially 6x11, yay!) from him :D

Finally, this. I call it "TNG screencap heaven". Those are just too cool. If I get some more good ideas, I might use them to make a couple more Q-related icons. For I am obsessed.

Okay.
Now, shoot me.

I think I'm kind of misusing my new software firewall.
Why?
Well, instead of using it to protect my comp from incoming threats, I use it to prevent programs from opening outgoing connections to search for new versions *lol*
I just did that with Paint Shop Pro. Now it's caged, ehe >:D

I also re-organized my userpics. I now have more from different fandoms (SG-A, House, ST TNG...) because it makes sense. And there's still TONS of Kai and Tobi left. Oh, and I still have 14 free slots :D
BTW, this entry holds my newest selfmade icon. It's based on a pic that's been fuckin' HAUNTING me for days. Mmh, DS9!Q *drools a bit*
And even though self-praise is supposed to be bad... I think it's pretty awesome ^_^

Lost the auction. Oh well. At least I managed to download the mp3s :D [/invincible positivism XD]
(Which reminds me, I still haven't listened to "The Sequel". It scares me a bit because the main plot is that Spock and Q swap characters. As in, Q becomes all rational and quiet and Spock turns stupid, childish, giggly and generally all over-the-top. Scaaaary X_X)

Guess what? silicondreams wrote me a story *squeals* And I well... printed it out and it's now haninging on the cupboard behind my bed, next to the lyrics of Edguy's "Land of the miracle" :D

I'm also re-watching the superheroes. Because I loo~ooved it. Oh, and also cuz I'm weird XD

Coming up tomorrow (maybe): Some reviews of recent SG-A episodes and a little something about the argument I had with yamasagi last night. Yeah, we actually TALK about stuff *rofl*