EGA/EGL,anime conventions,and general geekdom.

so I will be going to my first anime convention this March. I never been to any comic convention ever. I had the chance to go to San Diego ComicCon but cirumstances beyond my control happened and I wasn’t able to go. I pretty much have two costumes that I am thinking about doing. The first one would be just the school uniform from Persona 3. I figure going as either Kanji or a generic student would be nice.  I have been looking for reference pictures so i can go out and find a pattern. my second choice is either Gothic Lolita  Gothic Aristocrat or Dandy.  This second choice is crazy expensive, especially when you are not stick skinny and need to get custom sizes, but I love it  and I plan on buying  major pieces when I get the money. =w=   I CANT BLOODY WAIT FOR THE CON!!

what’s in a name?

i was looking for a cool new name for a design business i had to create for my graphic design print media class. it was luftewaffe designs then i found out not only is it german for  “airforce” but more importantly the “nazi airforce” so i quickly  nixed that name. (i mean if you strip the word of its bad connontations its a pretty cool name just say it with me Luftwaffe Designs. see? it just flows…) anyway i was searching and searching for a new name when i just happen to hear that word on CNN.  this word was sharp, it had oomph and it had this…this power. i had it!!  TECHNOCRAT.  it was every thing i dreamed of and more. Then i looked up the definition.  this is what i got:

Technocracy : A form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control; “technocracy is described as that society in which those who govern justify themselves by appeal to technical experts who justify themselves by appeal to scientific forms of knowledge”. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat_(derogatory)

 

Technocracy (“techno” from the Greek tekhne for skill, “cracy” from the Greek kratos for “power”) may refer to: * Technocracy (bureaucratic), a governmental or organizational system where decision makers are selected based upon how highly skilled and qualified they are, rather than how much …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat

 

Technocrat is a superhero in the DC Comics and a former member of the Outsiders. His first appearance was in Outsiders Alpha v2, #1 (November 1993). written by Mike W. Barr and drawn by Paul Pelletier.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocrat_(comics)

 

Someone who believes that engineers should manage society.
www.udmercy.edu/faculty_pages/staudenmaier_sj/ethics/glossary.html

 

New type of bureaucrat; intensely trained in engineering or economics and devoted to the power of national planning; came to fore in offices of governments following World War II. (p. 875)
occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/stearns_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_T.html

of course i prefer definition number 3 about to superhero but that is neither here nor there.  it struck me how odd it was that some people think that engineers and scientisits  should manage society.  i think that they do for the most part. if not for scientists and engineers there would not be any developements made at all. we as a world would be stuck in the dark ages. america wouldn’t be america. and all that jazz.   what do you think? Should scientists and engineers be in total control of society? how would that be good or bad?

new years resolutions and what not.

so it is the first month of the new year,  have you made your resolution yet? i fail to see the point. i have made countless resolutions over the years and have yet to actually keep any of them. lets start out with a little statistic:

40 to 45% of American adult make one or more resolutions each year. Among the top new years resolutions are resolutions about weight loss, exercise, and stopping to smoke. Also popular are resolutions dealing with better money management / debt reduction. The following shows how many of these resolutions are maintained as time goes on: - past the first week: 75% - past 2 weeks: 71% - after one month: 64% - after 6 months: 46% http://www.proactivechange.com/motivation/resolutions/research.htm

my resolutions have ranged from  finishing knitting projects to learn a new language  and from the traditional stop smoking and lose  weight to spend more time with my family…i have never kept any of them for the long term.

all a resolution is is a long term goal set in the new year. why do you have to wait for the new year to set goals?  i understand that a new year means so called new beginnings but making goals because you “have to” is not much incentive to keep them as opposed to making goals because you want to make yourself a better person.  i call for the abolishment of the  new years resolution. it just causes more stress and you feel a lot more guilty if you fail to keep it. only make goals because you want to not just because its the new year. you will feel better about yourself and will probally be more likely to keep it.