Below are the 20 most recent journal entries recorded in Panzertron The Ruiner's DeadJournal:

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
6:42 pm	push button for coin return Leo [July 23 - August 22] The stars indicate that you're a lean, mean sex machine. Also, the stars indicate that you only take quarters. (Insert Coin)
1:08 am	replace Whopper with Baconator Current Mood: sleepy Current Music: Akira Yamaoka - Attitude #70 (1 Credit | Insert Coin)
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
4:20 pm	wtf bsg? So Season 4.0 of Battlstar Galactica comes with Battlestar Galactica: Razor movie as the first disc. Which means they are selling you something you want, but tacking on something you either don't want (admit it, Razor was basically filler) or already have, and making you pay more for it. It's kind of a backhanded "fuck you". I had about 20% off because of my Barnes & Noble Member card, but it's still basically getting another copy of something I already have for free. I suppose I can just sell my old copy of Razor now, but that's not the point. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: Akira Yamaoka - Fukuro (Insert Coin)
12:04 am	what seems to be the problem, officer? I'm pretty sure a hot policewoman was checking me out earlier. In the "I'd hit it" way, not the "That guy looks suspicious" way. I feel weird, now. (Insert Coin)
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
1:18 pm	happy new year, grasshopper Drew the picture on the whiteboard on New Year's Eve. At some point, someone else wrote "Happy New Year, Grasshopper" over it. It works, I guess. Yes, he's smoking a cigarette. I guess some robots like to smoke, for some reason. Current Mood: tired Current Music: Bear McCreary [BSG season 3 OST] - Violence And Variations (Insert Coin)
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
12:42 pm	MM/DD/YYYY So... 2008 is over. Not a bad year. Lots of things have changed in my life, most of them for the better. I still get depressed occasionally, but I do not suffer depression, as I knew it. I look less defeated. I'm standing up straighter and holding my head up more. I'm gaining something approaching what could be called self-confidence. It's a little scary, but I'm getting used to it. I think. I've met some great people in the past year as well. (In addition to those of you who were already close friends; I'm not leaving you out.) People who like who I am. People who make me believe that there just might actually be something of worth in me. And for that, I thank you all. Over the past couple of years, my general mood has been slowly improving. Each New Year's was a little more hopeful. Do I dare to hope for Good Things in my life? I'm still the same cynical person I've always been, but... I think now I may be willing to give this life and this universe the benefit of the doubt. (I realize this is a little more cheesy and sentimental than most of what I write. But I should be allowed to do this once a year.) So... if Yellowstone blows up, or a giant asteroid hits the Earth, or something: Be safe. Be well. Thanks for everything. Current Mood: hopeful Current Music: Klangstabil - Reason To Live (Insert Coin)
Monday, December 29th, 2008
9:27 pm	ready for new year's (2 Credits | Insert Coin)
3:29 pm	all we have and need is here / bombs away and everything is clear Hmmm. Haven't updated in a bit. Probably reusing that subject line, but whatever. The Xmas presents I got tended to be fairly robot-centered. robziel got me all of Transformers G1 (the entire original series) on shady bootleg* DVDs, Erin got me a WALL-E tin lunch box with a cute little stuffed robot and a reversible Transformers hat (which will never be reversed, because I only need the Decepticon side), and Marc gave me a flash drive with a bunch of episodes of Macross Frontier on it. After Xmas, I decided to shop around with my gift cards and Xmas moneys. This led to a Day Of Weirdness. Random strangers** kept coming up to me and engaging me in inescapable conversations in which they told me way too much about what was going on in their lives. (You'd think the scowly guy in the black trenchcoat would look like the least-approachable person in the room, but apparently not.) This culminated in me receiving a random free lecture*** on the history and development of the A6M Type Zero carrier fighter. At Toys R Us. After that I went home, because the day was becoming unusually weird, even for me. Saturday night, I went out to a club with some friends, and had some ridiculously overpriced drinks. Sunday, I decided that I'm going to re-read House Of Leaves. So, of course, every bookstore I went to was sold out. I did manage to run into one of the weird people from Friday again, however. Argh. So I spent the rest of Sunday being antisocial and playing wipEoutHD. At least I unlocked some new skins for some of the ships, so it wasn't a complete waste of time (depending on whether or not you view videogames in general as a waste of time). Tonight, I'm gonna try to find the Lucid box that comes with the neat absinthe spoon and the glass, for New Year's. * - I realize it sounds like I'm talking smack about them because they're bootlegs, but I'm really not. If anything, it's better to have them all fit into a single oversized DVD case than have the officially released boxed sets that take up a huge amount of space and cost a lot. It really is the thought that counts. I haven't tried them out yet, but even if the quality isn't perfect (I'm thinking back to the ExoSquad DVDs he picked up) - what do you want from an 80s cartoon, really? ** - Okay, honestly, if they had been attractive and female it probably wouldn't have bothered me nearly as much. I'm just saying. But they were neither, so it was just really weird. *** - This was the first of these random conversations that I was actually interested in. I was walking around with a 1:32 scale A6M2 Zero, and a guy with two kids asked me where there were more of the series. We started talking about them, and he revealed that he had done extensive research on the fighter for a simulation he was working on. Apparently the tail number and markings ("V-103") on the toy are based on those used by Saburo Sakai, one of Japan's leading wartime aces. Current Mood: working Current Music: Colony 5 - Knives (Insert Coin)
Sunday, December 28th, 2008
6:07 pm	oldboy totally looks like band of brothers moar funny pictures [EDIT: Also...] moar funny pictures Current Mood: bored Current Music: Fexomat - live DJ set in Ghent, 2007 (Insert Coin)
Monday, December 15th, 2008
2:58 pm	misnomer Trying to think of a better name for my DeadJournal, now that I'm not so depressed about life anymore. The current name, "Another Monster", comes from the Converter / Asche / Morgenstern track "Monster", which was pretty much my theme song during the recent, more depressed, part of my life (there was a remixed version called "Another Monster", which I thought made a better name than just "Monster"). But I don't hate myself anymore, and I no longer feel like I'm totally unattractive and utterly sucky at life. So perhaps a name change is in order. Suggestions are welcome. Current Mood: working Current Music: Colony 5 - Knives (3 Credits | Insert Coin)
Friday, December 12th, 2008
4:43 pm	oh, well that answers that question (Insert Coin)
1:19 pm	parallel lines Current Mood: artistic Current Music: Technical Itch - Caution (Insert Coin)
Thursday, December 11th, 2008
1:54 pm	re5 - tgs 2008 trailer The new Resident Evil 5 trailer looks pretty badass. http://www.thinkhero.com/?p=256 Also... it looks like it's trying really hard to be Metal Gear Solid. At least storywise. We shall see. Current Mood: interested Current Music: Broken Fabiola - Slave (Insert Coin)
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
3:59 pm	you Post your name on my blog and... 1. I'll respond with something random about you. 2. I'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you. 3. I'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle you in. 4. I'll say something that only makes sense to you and me. 5. I'll tell you my first memory of you. 6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of. 7. I'll ask you something I've always wondered about you. 8. If you do this you MUST post this on yours. You MUST. It is written! Current Mood: bored Current Music: Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught (version point five) (7 Credits | Insert Coin)
Monday, December 8th, 2008
1:49 pm	i don't do mondays (The pic is actually from yesterday, but in terms of non-perkiness it's still pretty accurate.) Current Mood: tired Current Music: WormsOfTheEarth - TheSerpentsThatLickTheDust (Embodi remix) (Insert Coin)
Sunday, December 7th, 2008
8:48 pm	b&w I love the concept of this game: http://iandallas.com/games/swan I hope they finish it soon. And hopefully it'll show up on PlayStation Network. Current Mood: fascinated Current Music: Fexomat - live DJ set in Zürich, 2007 (Insert Coin)
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
8:43 pm	Panzergrau Another shot of my work-in-progress 3D Kübelwagen project. Added halfassed bump-mapped treads to the tires and changed the color to gray (I may not leave it this color, though). Also playing around with making the windows look mirror-tinted in various colors. For some reason. I still have yet to learn how to put a Decepticon symbol on the door, but that is coming. Current Mood: artistic Current Music: This Morn' Omina - (The) World Tree (Insert Coin)
Thursday, November 27th, 2008
2:05 pm	preemptive partying Another of my semi-regularly-scheduled, partially-intoxicated whiteboard doodles. I know one or two of you have camera phone pics of a pleasantly-buzzed Panzer wearing a cat-ears hat last night. I wanna see ^_^ [EDIT: I forgot, but I have a couple on my camera phone: What is missing from these? (HINT: One of those "PIMP" cups with fake plastic bling all over it.)] Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Rollcage: Stage II soundtrack [DJ mix by Timecode] (Insert Coin)
1:59 pm	i'm not gonna tag anyone, feel free if you want Pass it on to five other bloggers, and tell them to open the nearest book to page 56. Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences. The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL! But although he appeared lighthearted and drunk, his easygoing nature concealed a dark streak. When he couldn't save the life of William R. King, tubercular vice president, Pierce went into a deep depression and refused to name a successor. "Goddamn this war," he muttered, pulling off his presidential surgical gloves. But there was no war: YET. Current Mood: hungry Current Music: Akira Yamaoka & Mary Elizabeth McGlynn - Sacred Line (2 Credits | Insert Coin)
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
5:00 pm	bogeyman Whiteboard doodle from last night. Kinda wish I'd made his torso narrower (or at least at an angle) and his legs longer. But admittedly I wasn't 100% sober at the time. Current Mood: bored Current Music: Akira Yamaoka - Cold Blood (Insert Coin)