[mark_naoki] Yes, I'll take you up on that offer eventually, Parker. Thanks ^^
[_Parker__] naoki: excellent :)  I'd love to learn more about it ^^
[mark_naoki] I actually have a friend who is designing for Fusion this year, the competition between Parsons and FIT. She was at my house last weekend sewing like mad...
[_Parker__] <---designer/animat-awr for a living, at least for the moment :P
[mark_naoki] Most of her clothes are influenced by the Due le quartz costumes, which gave us a good excuse to watch the videos all day^^
[mark_naoki] oh, cool...where did/do you go to college?
[_Parker__] Awesome!  that must be a pretty high powered competition :)
[mark_naoki] Yea, it's pretty intense. 
[_Parker__] well, I was accepted to Parsons actually ;)  however, it's a long story
[_Parker__] well, not particularly long
[_Parker__] I first went to music school for composition
[_Parker__] at the oberlin convservatory of music
[_Parker__] I left because I didn't feel like music was going to make an enjoyable career for me
[_Parker__] and after that, I didn't want to go back to a 4 year school basically :)
[mark_naoki] aah
[_Parker__] so I ended up going to the shortest design/multimedia degree I could find -- Full Sail in orlando ^^
[_Parker__] 14 months for an A.S. -- wonderful! :)
[jabbar] mark! from jpopforums
[jabbar] true?
[_Parker__] I graduated almost two years ago, it seems...my sense of time is skewed in the morning
[_Parker__] spent a year living on people's couches trying to build a business
[_Parker__] was succesful approximately 9 months ago -- and now I'm a partial owner in a production house, and I do motion graphics/design/visual effects/thassortathing ;)
[mark_naoki] That's me^^
[mark_naoki] good deal...
[_Parker__] well, we're about to go under! ^^  So I'm debating whether to stay here or move...so many options, I'm sort of excited about it! ^^
[_Parker__] holy shit, my window is closing down on buying these tickets, or else this website is bunked
[mark_naoki] That's cool though, good luck with whatever you do
[_Parker__] thanks -- and you too!  I'm curious to see how you do :)
[_Parker__] yo jabbar ^^  how's the day going?
[jabbar] damn Parker, your life story is making me regret my choice of being an ee
[jabbar] i'm gonna graduate this march (actually i finished the coursework last september, but they took their sweet time in processing my graduation application
[jabbar] but i'm still jobless
[jabbar] i've been turned away so many times
[jabbar] 'no experience' they say
[_Parker__] jabbar: I left the part out where I had my heart torn out, started smoking again and binge drinking, waking up just to vomit and going back to sleep . . . that part wasn't particularly fun ;)
[_Parker__] so you're doin just fine :)
[_Parker__] hey, I was jobless out of college...I just chose to create a job instead of bootlick for one
[jabbar] how the fuck can i get working experience if they don't even offer me a god-damn job?
[jabbar] ah yeah, that route
[mark_naoki] interships.
[mark_naoki] intern*ships
[_Parker__] yep, either internships or get some start-up capital and start your own :)
[jabbar] being your own entrepeneur
[jabbar] however, mom and dad aren't too keen on that just yet
[jabbar] they say that i need some working experience at least
[_Parker__] just make sure you have CONTROL of your start-up capital -- I have learned the hard way that if your investor has their finger in things you will die :)
[jabbar] i was an intern for three months, but when I tried to apply for a permanent position, they say that there's no vacancy
[jabbar] it was a polite way of saying 'your space is taken by the bosses son/daughter'
[_Parker__] yeesh, I must say that you'll get more working experience starting a business than anything :D
[asterixcon] / me s
[asterixcon] / em l
[jabbar] damn lag
* asterixcon sss
[_Parker__] the work world sucks :)  I'm not going to play the game
[_Parker__] luckily I've gotten some decent network going over the years somehow and I have 'in's in a few places
[jabbar] i know, but since i'm asian, i am dutybound to follow my parents' orders
[_Parker__] of course really I want to work for wddg or curious pictures, but that's not going to happen until I get some serious experience ;)
[_Parker__] spring break tickets are about sold out
* jabbar 's idea of a business is to start a comics shop
[_Parker__] fuck fuck fuck :)
[jabbar] or a video game shop
[jabbar] now that would rock
[jabbar] what's with spring break anyway?
[jabbar] isn't it where you can see college girls get drunk and flash their boobies at you?
[_Parker__] it would . . . I'm not going to tell you to break away from your parents, but I have a lot of asian friends and some of them just don't care... at some point you have to kind of make a decision based upon how much they're fucking your life up
[_Parker__] because parents shouldn't do that.
[_Parker__] well, that's the general idea of spring break
[jabbar] yeah, i'm thinking,if come may i'm still not working, i'm gonna go my own way
[jabbar] for now i need the room and board and free internet
[_Parker__] however, spring break is when colleges in the US get a break -- and unfortunately I live in a spring break destination
[Shoryuu_] hey.. can someone remember the name of the c/w for Shiina Ringo's newest single? 
[_Parker__] I am bringing two of my friends (one, oddly enough, is the one that I developed a drinking problem over ;)) to puerto rico
[_Parker__] and plane tickets are fucked to hell right now
[_Parker__] so I'm stressing for the first time in a long time
[_Parker__] because I want to see her pretty badly
[_Parker__] Shoryuu: the new LP is Karuki Zamen Kuro No Hana
[_Parker__] jabbar: yes, I understand :)
[jabbar] isn't zamen = semen in japanese?
[_Parker__] jabbar: I must say that though I sympathize I cannot empathize -- my parents have always been very supportive
[_Parker__] my mother started her own business, and a few other people in my family as well
[jabbar] yeah, mom's pretty cool so far with me, i get to do nothing as long as i be her driver when she needs to go somewhere
[_Parker__] I would have thought it would be 'shiimen' personally, but it could be :)
[jabbar] dad is silntly mad at me i think, but i also think he's glad that at least i finished college (i almost flunked out)
[_Parker__] words for semen:
[_Parker__] aieki, gyosei (fish semen), karupisu (both a japanese milk-based soft drink, AND semen), saamen, seieki, superuma
[jabbar] i think it's maybe something else, you know the japanese writing system, different kanji has different meanings, but may use the same pronunciation
[_Parker__] shirako (fish semen), and seiwomorasu - to have an involuntary emission of semen
[_Parker__] so if Zamen means semen then it's pretty new slang most likely
[_Parker__] jabbar: understood :)
[jabbar] calpis, i've heard of that
[jabbar] also calpico soda
[jabbar] which is carbonated milk
[jabbar] lol, carbonated milk
[_Parker__] yep :)
[jabbar] they sell it over in indonesia
[_Parker__] allright, I'm going to go freak about the plane fare
[_Parker__] 486 bucks per ticket with four goddamn connections
[jabbar] i think it is slang for semen, since i saw a japanese porn dvd with the title zamen gokkun
[_Parker__] I'm not sending her on that POS flight
[jabbar] are you using the net to book tickets?
[_Parker__] zaamen - seed... dunno though, it could be! :)
[_Parker__] trying to
[_Parker__] just a few days ago they had direct flights for under 500 bucks
[_Parker__] I'm trying to get her standby tickets, but I think that's out of the question now
[jabbar] hey Parker, i finally know what i usually call a gear box with dog gears
[_Parker__] I need two of these tickets! :)
[_Parker__] I've been saving for a few months now
[jabbar] man, 500 bucks just for a ticket to puerto rico?
[jabbar] is that one of the cheap ones, or is that first class?
[_Parker__] yeh?
[_Parker__] yeah, it's spring break
[jabbar] ah, i see
[_Parker__] people come here for spring break
[_Parker__] cheapest one I've found today
[jabbar] prices go up with demand
[_Parker__] she's not a princess, geez :)
[jabbar] to escape the blizzard?
[_Parker__] crap, I bet you're right!!  last I checked was before the damn snowstorm
[jabbar] this ftp connection i'm using to upload stuff for a friend is screwy
[_Parker__] heh, I don't stress when my company is crashing in flames
[_Parker__] but now I'm sweating all over my bed with fear
[jabbar] i'm gonna stop once this file is finished uploading
[_Parker__] I need to go calm down and have a cig & some juice
[jabbar] man, remember when air travel wasn't such a danger?
[jabbar] nowadays we gotta check in 3 hours early just to barely make it
[_Parker__] special fare 203 from new york to san jaun...let me see if I can book one going into ny and then from ny to sj
[_Parker__] well, dunno about that -- I've been fine with 40 minutes to an hour depending on predicted traffick :P
[_Parker__] and I fly a fair amount
[jabbar] i bet if i fly in to the us, i'm gonna be detained with all of them 'suspected terrorist' just because of my name
[_Parker__] I mean, it's definitely more annoying, yes :)
[_Parker__] I'm going to get one of my airline friends to help me with this tonight
[_Parker__] I wouldn't argue with you there, jabbar... :/
[jabbar] straight cut drop gears, that's what i'd call a dog-geared box
[_Parker__] fuck, keith doesn't get back from the union trip for another few days...I hope bob's home
[_Parker__] allright, I'm heading out -- take care!
[jabbar] damn, you got a lot of friends in high places
[_Parker__] straight cut drop gears ... that makes sense too! XD  no helical cuts in the gears -- straight ones!
[_Parker__] dude, airline friends are the best ;)
[_Parker__] bob's just a recruiter, keith's a co-pilot & the union rep for the puerto rican American Eagle airline.  they live upstairs, and they're just cool -- lucky for us :)
[jabbar] yeah, no synchromesh
[jabbar] ah, the union
[_Parker__] but they're not exactly high places ;)
[jabbar] i used to work for a guy whose a union rep
[_Parker__] have a good day!
* _Parker__ away work-style
* jabbar listening to white zombie
[Kasumi] hey shoryuu_
[Shoryuu_] hey
[Shoryuu_] man.. I'm so bored ._.
[Shoryuu_] been waiting a couple of dudes to call me when they're gonna come leech me with cd-r's and played some baldur's gate.. and that's it >_<
[Shoryuu_] umm.. wow. You queued my whole siam shade folder?
[Kasumi] can i?
[Kasumi] :p
[Shoryuu_] well.. it's like 90 files.. hmm.. I guess it's okay if I remove the user list priority slot..
[Kasumi] wh??
[Kasumi] ok ok
[Kasumi] it will take too much time but its ok :p
[Shoryuu_] cause those other guys would have to wait an eternity :P
[Irishman] nas
[Shoryuu_] well it's like 10 queues or so before you
[Kasumi] k
[Kasumi] lol
[Kasumi] np
[Irishman] anybody have the song of Dr.Slump in japanese
[Kasumi] gonna lunch
[Kasumi] brb
[Irishman] ¿?
[Shoryuu_] bye
[shakuhachi] hi folks!
[shakuhachi] which pizzicato 5 album can you recommend?
[jabbar] dr slump is onionman's favorite anime,
[jabbar] because arale an her friends likes to play with unko
[papparazzi] unko ga kuitai