mipeltaja: (Nathan: Expressing myself)
I promised I'd let people see the paintings I've been working on all summer.

These aren't all of them but they're the ones I'm most comfortable with )
mipeltaja: (Geek)
I have this odd habit: I "collect" nice-sounding names. I don't know why I do it; I rarely need to name anything. I've never had a pet and do not plan on having kids, at least not anytime soon. I don't even name my computers, which I understand is a major nerd faux pas.

This post was brought on by the realization that "Johan" is a very nice name and OH GOD I WILL NEVER USE THESE NAMES FOR ANYTHING WHY DO I KEEP A LIST.
mipeltaja: (JUMALAUUUTA)
Dear Finland, please stop using the word "racism" as a synonym for discrimination. Racism is discrimination, yes, but if discrimination has nothing to do with race, then it isn't racism. It's really not that complicated.

I'm not even exaggerating here. "Age-racism" just may be the most common term for ageism over here. And I know at least one person who thinks the word racism also covers sexism. Today I read an article that used the term "personality racism" to describe a situation where a less than ideal personality may prevent someone from passing an entrance exam.


And okay, racism - or rather, the Finnish word "rasismi" - is a loanword and I guess a lot of Finns don't immediately see the word "race" in there like an English-speaker would. And I suppose it's a quick and easy way to get the message of "it is wrong to hold this belief" across, because unlike many other -isms, the vast majority of people understand that racism is wrong. But the word has a specific meaning and there are already other words that mean all those other forms of discrimination that you're incorrectly filing under "racism". Learn those words. Use them.
mipeltaja: (HEX Error)
I haven't really had any interest in playing WoW for the past couple of days, since I've been distracted by, among other things, playing Sam & Max and watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (shut up it's actually good!).

But just now, I tried to login and it won't even open the launcher because it says it can't obtain data. =/ My Internet connection has been behaving a little wonky lately, so I guess that's just it getting worse. The funny thing is that now that I know I can't play I kind of want to. Haha.
mipeltaja: (Nami: ew)
Sometimes living in the middle of nowhere kind of sucks.

Finding out that there isn't a theatre within a 50km radius of me that's showing Year One is one of those times.

The same thing happened with Watchmen.

And I never had any illusions of getting to see the Tekken movie (if it ever freaking gets released at all) in a theatre, either.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
It probably says a lot about how exciting my life is that the high point of my weekend was watching some Babar with my cousin/roommate.

This amount of excitement is perfectly all right with me, though, because I'm a thoroughly boring individual.
mipeltaja: (Nami: ew)
Oi, friends, Romans, chain letter forwarders:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/nothing/billgate.asp

So please stop forwarding me those Bill Gates e-mails. Watch me as I do not forward that email to anyone. I promise you I will receive the exact same amount of money from Microsoft as you will.

Hint: That amount will be zilch.

I have forwarded precisely one chain letter in my life. I was nine years old. It promised me a happily ever after with Mr. Right. I suspect that promise will be fulfilled 'round the same time as Bill Gates's wad of cash arrives.

I love you guys, but please try to think for a few seconds before you forward everything you find in your inbox.
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It must really suck to be a prosecutor in Phoenix Wright's town. The guy ruins perfect records like nobody's business.

Though to be fair it's because he's always representing an innocent person.

In other words: OMFG I'M ALMOST THROUGH THIS GAME WHERE CAN I GET MOAR?

Also, my computer mouse is apparently about to click the bucket. The cursor keeps stopping at inopportune moments and it's probably only a matter of time before it ceases to function for good. I've all but given up WoW and Sims 2 as a result. It's probably just as well that I have a shiny new DS and PW and Pokémon to keep me occupied.

Plus, I'm going to see Dark Knight tomorrow. Excitement!

Oh, yeah, and I need to make a sketchpost sometime soon.
mipeltaja: (Chaka/Pell)
I love you all.

No, I'm not drunk. Or high. Or anything else. Experiencing bizarre mood swings in the middle of the night, perhaps, but I swear that's all.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
Attention, duelists Americans of my friendslist! (and why not everyone else too, if you feel like it)

I want to ask you something.

Let's say you're having a conversation with someone. They don't use your name once during that conversation. Will you notice? Do you consider this impolite or offensive?

I'm asking because I once noted to my mother how, in Hollywood movies, people seem to sprinkle their sentences with the names of the people they are currently talking to ("Well, Dave, I better get going now."), and how odd it seemed to me. She said that it's an American thing and that over there, people would consider it rude not to keep saying each other's names every now and then.

Is there any truth to this?
Because I know that here in Finland Ican bluff my way through entirely natural-sounding conversations with people whose names I can't for the life of me recall. People don't notice, because they don't generally expect to hear their own name in the middle of a conversation. Overall, I usually only have to resort to calling people by their names when I'm trying to get their attention, not when I'm already talking to them. As it can, at worst, take me up to two months to learn new names, this is a relief. Would that strike an American person as rude?
mipeltaja: (Geek)
So I now own Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All.

What I lack is a DS.

Oh, there is a DS I am occasionally allowed to play, but it sorta belongs to my youngest sister and it's pink. So I've also invested in a DS of my own, the order for which was placed today. I can hardly wait!

Also: I re-read Good Omens yesterday. Only I'd forgotten just about everything, so it's almoust as though I was reading it for the first time. I have never before stayed up all night to get to the end of a book I've read before. I knew how it ended and I still couldn't put it down. I'll tell you, it didn't have as strong an impact on me back when I was thirteen, and I suspect that's because it was the Finnish translation back then. I know for a fact that Terry Pratchett's writing doesn't translate easily, and I suspect Neil Gaiman's doesn't, either.

Also Also: sketchdump on the way. Maybe tonight or tomorrow, depending on stuff.
mipeltaja: (DC: WHAT)
Just got back from seeing Sex and the City (shut up, it's a guilty pleasure of mine, much like Eminem's music [shut up]).

It was exactly like the TV series, which means that, for a Sex and the City movie, it was perfect. Not the best movie I've ever seen, no, but quite enjoyable nevertheless. It was also longer than a movie has any right to be. Of course, that seems to be the case with pretty much every movie I've watched in the past... 4 years? Not that 4 years' worth of movies amounts to all that many in my case.

I noticed they're still showing Iron Man in the local movie theatre. I wonder if I should go to see that, too. I'm pretty meh on the comics, but I've heard that it's a really fucking amazing movie.


ETA: Oh, yeah, also paid a visit to the local emplyment agency today, since I am now officially unemployed (at least until I find out if I got into that school). And I had to bother the folks at KELA (Social Insurance Institution) because they couldn't word their forms could any less clearly if they tried and I won't get a dime in the way of unemployment benefits unless I fill them. So I went in to have a few parts clarified for me.
mipeltaja: (Geek)
...So apparently not everyone associates colours with numbers and letters.
Not only that, the tendency towards doing so has a name. I've been convinced of the redness of 3 and the yellowness of T for as long as I can remember, but I never realized that was out of the ordinary in any way.

Well, you learn something new every day. Is there anyone on my friendslist who's like this as well?
mipeltaja: (Oh noes!)
Okay, so, I remembered an old riddle I once heard and was never told the answer to. It occurred to me that maybe my friendslist could help.
[livejournal.com profile] varoitusmerkki, I know you've heard this, too. If I'm misremembering a detail or you have the answer now, do tell.

So. Anyway.

A man enters a town. On the balcony of one of the houses he passes, there's a woman hanging laundry. The man pulls out a gun and shoots her. The police do nothing.

Why?


Now, if memory serves, the answer is not that the authorities never find out. They're aware of what happened, but the they take no action against the man who shot the woman.

It's more than likely that this riddle exists in a variety of forms with the exact same answer. If you know the answer to a similar riddle, it just might be the answer to this one, too.
mipeltaja: (Vivi: Wibble)
Uhuu the Finnish edition of OP 31 is finally here! ♥ And damnit, even with the issues the Finnish translation sometimes has, Skypiea flashback's still got it in it to make me cry. ;__; It's one of the three parts of One Piece that make me cry pretty much every time, the other two Being Luffy vs. Usopp and Franky's flashback. I've cried at other things but those three are sure-fire.

This volume also came with a poster but fuck the poster, because with or without it, this just may be my favourite volume so far.

And now I'm off to play some WoW. :DD
mipeltaja: (Nathan: Expressing myself)
Something I've been wanting to rant about for a while:

So, one or two years ago, there was an ad campaign in the finnish women's magazine MeNaiset (the name can be translated as WeWomen or UsWomen) to raise awareness of breast cancer. The ad features a picture of a shirtless woman dressed in pirate garb and wearing a large "eyepatch" over one missing breast.

Now, when I first saw it, I thought it was creative and powerful and would make people stop and think. But get this, apparently there were people who just plain missed the point and complained about the other breast, which was bare. I saw some discussion about it on the 'net some months ago and all I could think was: "We're FINNS, for God's sake! The average woman reading this magazine is between 25 and 60 years of age and must've seen thousands of boobs belonging to other women she's never even spoken with, thanks to public saunas and whatnot. Bare nipples in women's magazines are not unheard of, and the ad was not a sexual one, so I fail to see the problem.

I'm including the picture here for those of you who are interested:

As much as I want to not cut it, I realize that not every country would consider it worksafe, especially taken out of context )
mipeltaja: (Geek)
Oooohhhgoddd has anyone else read Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith? It was fabulous. And I have to say, right after Deathly Hallows Pratchett's writing is.. indescribable. I'm not dissing Rowling, but Pterry's writing just flows way better for me.

I want to draw fanart but as always with Discworld I feel like I can't put my mental image to paper (or canvas, as the case may be, because this one would have to be painted. With like, real paint) and that it's a waste of time to even try. orz

And I still want a copy of Where's My Cow?. I hear it has Vimes's own version of the story in it and I. WANT.
mipeltaja: (Bring it on)
A bit of a c-c-c-combo breaker artpost to prevent three Harry Potter posts in a row. Because I know there are people on my flist who don't care about Harry Potter.

Here's a handful of drawings for you to look at )
mipeltaja: (Macarena)
Got my new glasses yesterday. ♥ I also got my prescription sunglasses so now I can finally drive a car and wear sunglasses.

I've been listening to Haengbok a lot lately, too. It's such a cheerful and energetic song and it makes me feel happy every time I hear it.

That's all for now.
mipeltaja: (Oh noes!)
They're not going to air Mi Gorda Bella during the summer. D:

That means approximately three months' lack of more or less hot Venezuelan people screaming at each other in a language I don't really understand, being attracted to basically everyone but the person they're currently with and trying to kill each other when not masquerading as someone who doesn't actually exist. WHAT AM I GOING TO DOOO?

You'd think that would be the ideal summertime program, but no. I guess I'll have to tape a few episodes to watch over and over if I go into withdrawal, which I probably will, because I'm so hooked on the stupid telenovella that every weekday on six o'clock I just drop everything and sit down in front of the TV for the next 50 minutes.

Well, as usual, I'm exaggerating. Except for the "drop everything" part, because I do that. I don't throw tantrums if I'm not home at six, though. Yet.

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