luckykaa

A show I'm enjoying at the moment is Black Butler. An anime series about a demon butler called Sebastian. The butler describes himself as "A Hell of a Butler". It's a good catchphrase and gets the premise across. He says it a lot. A typical exchange, after Sebastian does something impossible is:

"Are you sure you're just a Butler"
"I am one hell of a butler"

A little trivia is relevant here. In the original Japanese though the wordplay is a much more interesting pun. According to this stackExchange post, He says either " aku made shitsuji desu kara", or "akuma de shitsuji desu kara". Both sound the same.

The first means, idiomatically, "I am a butler, through and through,you see".
The second means "I am a butler and a demon, you see"

Both answers work perfectly as a response to "Are you sure you're just a Butler". Knowing this adds a certain something to exchanges like the one above.

So, quick update while my laundry dries...

Went to Tim Burton Exhibition.  Was probably worth it just for the cute animated short - Vincent. Am tempted to make an Edward Scissorhands costume at some point or a mad hatter one.  Sadly no photos were allowed.  

Also had a look at ACMI.  Decent enough movie museum.

Bought a Myki card for the trams.  Similar to Oyster except Oyster works and these are really flaky.

Pub crawl.  Started off with a piss up in a brewery.  Directions were rubbish.  Stops out in the sticks aren't all labelled on the route map.  Brewery directions don't mention stop numbert.  Just the name of an adjacent street.  Eventualy got there.  They did a sampler platter - 4 smallish (third of a pint?) glasses on a wooden board, each with a different beer.  Nice idea.  4 very different beers. 

Followed up with the Lambs Go Barrrr.  Bad pub.  Huge selection of bottled beers from around the world.  Chocolate porter was interesting.

Apple/Pear Cider in Mrs. Parma's.  Pub #4 was Penny Blue.  By the time I left there were only 4 of us.  Then there were three.  I'm sure the others went on to the next pub after I left.  

Feet are really killing me.  Am going to spend as much of the con as possible sitting down.

I seem to be doing something at work that nobody has ever tried to do before!!!  A real-time Afro!

Programmable shaders have really moved on a lot since I was last doing this stuff.  Cg actually allows you to write programs in a C like language. Seems there are countless examples of procedurally generated hair of all colours and types, including african, but when I want something puffed out a bit, nobody has ever tried it before.  Perhaps I should get this to be really good and actually have created something new and amazing that I can share with the world!  Either that or I'm really stupid and everyone else sees this as 5 minutes work.