エルフの耳が長くなったのは出渕裕氏のせいだな。当時出渕氏が指輪物語のわ ずかに尖ってるだけのエルフ耳をよく知らず映画ダーククリスタルのゲルフリ ン族の外観を取り入れたらしいが今となってはよくぞ間違ってくれたという感 じだな。だがダークエルフを巨乳にしたのは出渕氏ではなく結城信輝だ。
"It's Nobuyuki Izutsumi's fault that elves' ears got so long. Back then, Izutsumi apparently didn't know much about the elf ears in The Lord of the Rings, which were only slightly pointed, and incorporated the appearance of the Gelfling race from the movie Dark Crystal, but now it's like, thank goodness he got it wrong. But it wasn't Izutsumi who turned dark elves into big-breasted ones—it was Nobuhiro Yūki."
— Cultural Heroes
Dear Macports port maintainers,
Um, “fail”.
building 'pycurl' extension creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5 creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/python2.5 -c src/pycurl.c -o build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src/pycurl.o unable to execute -DNDEBUG: No such file or directory error: command '-DNDEBUG' failed with exit status 1
Upgrading Movable Type
The machine this site runs on hasn’t been updated in a while. The OS is old, but it’s OpenBSD, so it’s still secure. Ditto for Movable Type; I’m running an old, stable version that has some quirks, but hasn’t needed much maintenance. I don’t even get any comment spam, thanks to a few simple tricks.
There are some warts, though. Rebuild times are getting a bit long, my templates are a bit quirky, and Unicode support is just plain flaky, both in the old version of Perl and in the MT scripts. This also bleeds over into the offline posting tool I use, Ecto, which occasionally gets confused by MT and converts kanji into garbage.
Fixing all of that on the old OS would be harder than just upgrading to the latest version of OpenBSD. That’s a project that requires a large chunk of uninterrupted time, and we’re building up to a big holiday season at work, so “not right now”.
I need an occasional diversion from work and Japanese practice, though, and redesigning this blog on a spare machine will do nicely. I can also move all of my Mason apps over, and take advantage of the improved Unicode support in modern Perl to do something interesting. (more on that later)
At least he has taste...
Danny Choo found someone who really, really wants to let people know that he’s a Mari Yaguchi fan. I confess, I didn’t even need to read her name on the armband or the “sekushii beemu” on his chest to recognize her instantly, so I can’t really criticize too much…
