Sometimes I just want to run away and sleep in a nice bed all day and then wake up not knowing where i am
January 26, 2001
especially after this week. I skipped 4 of the possible 11 classes this week but I’m still exhausted. Who am I to complain? Some are working their asses (or hands) off. So I shouldn’t complain. There’s something about school though that is just tiring. Maybe with the threat of midterms looming just around the corner and with a plethora of assignments not just looming, but breathing on your neck.
I installed a super old game that I got from someone; Zapitalism Deluxe. It’s some sort of education/business game where you are a manager of a store and you buy/sell products, stocks, bonds, travel, and maintain your store through labor negotiations, budgeting for overhead and all this crap. I got the game in high school and back then it wasn’t terribly fun – the graphics are miserable and the music was composed by some weird looking guy. Anyway, I thought now that I’m in accounting, learning that activity based costing runs circles around standard costing systems, I thought I could blow this game up and set some sort of record.
Wrong.
The computer cooked my ass and made me cry. I came in last place. The problem is you have to auction for building permits that allow you to expand your store (to hold higher inventories). The first permit – probably the most important one costs a lot. I don’t have the cashflows to cover it so in the beginning I’m in debt already. So I reverse strategy. I don’t buy the first permit to build up assets first, but the computer that got the permit takes off way ahead of me. A I’m screwed, B I’m screwed. I don’t like that game.
Dennis you idiot, the ‘J’ looks nothing like the ‘katana’ in Daikatana. My whole design rests on that ‘J’ style. Now I’m conscious of that. Food for thought: in japanese, the phrase ‘big knife’ would NOT be ‘daikatana’, it would be ‘oo-katana’. The notion ‘big’ is pronounced differently according to the situation. According to Eri & Co., it should be “oo-katana”, the ‘oo’ pronounced like an extended, short ‘o’ sound (not like boo). I hope someone at IONStorm got fired for that.
Much like some marketing examples courtesy of comm396; some japanese organ producer translated the instruction manual to english. They replaced every word “screw” as in “pass me the philips SCREWdriver” with the word “FUCK”. Imagine how many recalls were made.
Then in a Latin American country, Chevy had to rename their Nova line because in spanish, Nova sounds like, “no go”. In portugal, the Ford Pinto translated into “Small dick”. I hope people got fired there too.
On a side note, my supervisor asked me to locate 3 students cuz they owed money (repo-man I is). One of them is called, “Xiaoxiao Wang” – most likely from China. For all you mandarin literate, you’ll know that xiao translates into small, or little. So, the guy’s name is Little Little Wang. I hope he never finds that out. (Me and my supervisor were cracking up at that).
Another tragic anecdote. A teacher came in as we were laughing. We explained the Wang joke. She then tells us one of her colleagues from before had a student called Hung. When he/she was waiting for Hung to respond to a question, she/he would say, “Well Hung?” Ok that was more subtle.
I need a shower and a beer. Bye.
