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Terminal Sarcasm: It's all in the Mind.

Undated
120% effort = 50% endurance

Undated
“Close the door, my chi is leaking.”

Undated
“Now how the hell do I do reverse recursive programming??”

Undated
“I used tai chi chu’an on frosh!!”
- After “Storm Chasers” game during frosh week (better known as “capture the leader”) 

August 18, 2004
“Let’s go, we got a water leak in the software lab.”
“We got a water leak….WHAT?!”
- my manger and me, after AC’s condenser leaked water into the SW lab

 August 16, 2004
"I call this the Pick Grapes, Make Wine technique.”
- Tai Chi Chu’an

August 7, 2004
“It’s a Kelvin Run!!" - A comment on Kelvin's preference to play paintball by running through fields of fire without a paintball gun

July 31, 2004
“If my mind is a dangerous weapon, then I’ve mortally wounded myself.”

June 18, 2004
"Luck gives you opportunities, but it is skill that lets you take them."

June 3, 2004
“Your reward for quick work is more work.
Your reward for good work is harder work.
Your reward for quick, hard work is a migraine.” – On working

June 1, 2004
“Gomes would have to give you perfect. He’s likely not seen that before, and would be too afraid to contradict it.” – On Algeo “proofs” for Kelv’s finals
(undated)

“We have Gran Turismo 3 (and 4) lacking realistic damage effects since they don’t want to see (or simulate, for that matter) their beautiful cars damaged. Yet we have General Motors winning a contract to watch many of their prized cars being blown up onscreen in The Matrix Reloaded.” – (stray thought)

March 18, 2004
“CS and Engineers live on coffee, beer and sleep, and I’m not sure about sleep.” – On work at UW

“The most programming is done on paper.” – On programming (MIPS)

March 17, 2004
“Save most of your entire life savings to pay for your first term, and earn all of it back and more in four months.” – On work terms and tuition

“I’ll hack into your fridge” – during BU111 (Business) course, on internet-ready fridges in homes

“…and last but not least, there’s assassination….but I won’t go there.” – during BU111 lab, discussing how to curb music piracy

March 16, 200 4
“98% of students are employed. 53% of them are within Initial Phase, actual co-op jobs. Some of the rest are Continuous Phase, lesser jobs. The rest we don’t consider jobs, but CECS does.” – On Co-op (Campus Day) “statistics”

March 15, 2004
“Dereking : v. falling down a miniscule hole repeatedly, without fail, as demonstrated by Derek several times in Smash Bros Melee; n. the act of Dereking

March 2, 2004
Q: “How do you evaluate me as a friend?”
A: “I don’t know. Show me the marking scheme and I’ll tell you.”

(Undated)
“Show me a man who laughed in the face of danger, and I’ll show you a man who died laughing.”
“I’ll keep fighting until he dies, I die, or my clip runs dry.”

Rules of the Armchair Operative: Part II
(excepts from Dakkar's Rules of Combat, unreleased)
Your worst enemy is a friendly with an automatic weapon and bad aim.
Artillery is never accurate. Shrapnel is.
'Honourably discharged' generally means 'wounded beyond use'.
'Missing in action' either means 'blown to bits', 'can't find the body', or 'got lost'.
Running is a skill and a sport for a reason.
Friend and foe all look alike to bombs, cruise missiles, artillery, and aircraft.
The dead and incapacitated have no use for ammo.
The dead and incapacitated also have less use for grenades.
Keep the shooting range clear. No one likes to see a guy trip with an automatic weapon in hand.
Keep the grenade range clear for the same reason.
Make sure you're not the only one firing. It draws attention.
The only thing you need to know about enemy weapons is which end is the 'good' end.
Doing something stupid can get you shot at. Sometimes even by your enemies.
One thing will not make you more dead than another.
It'll just mean you die more painfully.
In a grenade range, more pins will be thrown than grenades.
Therefore, there will always be more pins than grenades.
Which is why few people actually use grenades.
Covering fire is the quickest way to waste ammo.
Do everything everyone else does, except, preferrably, dying.
On the battlefield, there are two types of soldiers--the living and the dead.
There are only two Rules of Engagement: Shoot first and shoot second.
A "fair fight" gets everyone dead.
Pyro-weapons work both ways.
The most powerful and expensive weapon is the one you're not allowed to use or have.
The "best" piece of equipment will always break down or jam at a very inopportune moment.
For "silent killers": most people react to pain by making noise, proportional to the pain.

R A N T : Gundam Wing. All your gundams are belong to us!
Warning: Do NOT read if you like Gundam Wing

Ah, the first Gundam to cross the great ocean, and loved by many tweenaged boys. Well, if they must choose a gundam, they sure gave the kids the worst, thank god. I'd hate to see what they would do to a GOOD series. They'd pokemon-ize everything,dammit.

First, Gundam Wing is NOT a GOOD gundam series. Of all I've watched, it's the worst. Five teenaged pretty-looking boys in five nigh-indestructible gundams trashing countless waves of bad guys isn't exactly fun. Well, the premise starts nicely enough: gundams infiltrate earth, wage guerilla war. Nice and fun. Now with big robots and pretty boys you'd think that the corporations would have an easy time winning little boys over (and emptying parents' wallets come Christmas). But then, soon enough, we get into a heavily philosophical discussion about war, peace and humanity and other philosophical crap. Listen, when I'm in a 50-foot walking engine of destruction, I don't give a shit about war and peace. When some guy in his 50-foot walking engine of destruction is trying to kill my 50-foot engine of destruction, I don't plan on discussing human nature with the guy. Guy shoots at me, the only think I think about is blowing him up. If I had something designed to blow shit up, guess what, little guys and girls? I BLOW SHIT UP. Save the thoughts for your memoirs. I
can stop fighting when I'm the only one left standing or you can pry my beam rifle from my cold, lifeless mechanical fingers, thank you.

Now on to the pretty boys. Let me set this straight. They're GAY, well, most of them. Trowa is about the only decent one. He's only wants to blow shit up, and damned if he's going to do anything else. Wufei worries about honor. Hell, how honorable can Robot 1 kicking Robot 2's ass be? Heero's just there to look cool and nothing else. Duo's openly gay, God of Death or not. Now Quatre, he's a peace-lover. Look, if you send a kid in a Hugeass Robot of Death, MAKE SURE HE'LL BLOW SHIT UP, GODDAMMIT! And I don't know why people say he's the leader of the group. Or maybe he just gives orders and no one else gives a damn; they're too busy trying to blow shit up.

And they're not HEROES either. I have no idea what kind of political group would give teenagers Hugeass Robots of Death when they haven't even hit puberty yet. Mood swings in a 50foot Engine of Destruction is NOT something you want to see. Hell, they're INVINCIBLE! How heroic is that supposed to be? What is that trying to say for their skills? 15-year old teenagers sure aren't going to beat my mad Virtual On-honed skills, that's for damn sure. Yes, kids, I actually DODGED one of your shots. But then I'd float my way into the Eve Wars  with my Alpha Azieru and blow BOTH sides away. Show this guy Heero what a Mega Particle Cannon's REALLY supposed to be like. And I think I'll introduce my bits to him. Don't know what an Alpha Azieru is? Good. Stay that way. And stay away from the other Gundams. You'll
only Americanize it, chun gwai lo.

Oh yeah, Char can kick Zech's ass anyday. Or any of the G-Boys. At the same time.

R u l e s   o f    t h e    A r m c h a i r     O p e r a t i v e
He who uses grenades is against everyone.
Location, location, location.
Mines are the easiest way to get yourself killed.
The most dangerous place is not in front of an enemy’s rifle, but in front of a teammate’s.
Whomever dies returns next round with a fully-loaded rifle and worse temper.
If an enemy cannot kill you, a teammate will.
Grenades have the right of way.

R a n t i n g  a n d  R a v i n g
Never put off anything you can do today tomorrow, except working and dying.
The whole world is watching, especially when you do something stupid.
The weak cry “unfair!”; the rest cry “stupid!”
There’s nothing wrong with taking advantage of the stupid; in fact, it’s unfair not to.

E x o p h i l o s , W i s d o m o f t h e S a g e s
(Stuff I didn't come up with)
“If I’m scared, you’re dead.” – Mark Hinton, ECI
“Rules of engagement don’t mean anything when I’m dead.” – David Lucko, ECI
"If you can't get an apple from a tree, chop down the damn tree." - Kelv

“Dude, you’ve got to stop thinking Prague police and start thinking Playstation! Blow shit up!”
- Vin Diesel, xXx

“If I told you not to jump off the Empire State Building…”
“You’re right, I’d definitely do it.”
- Samuel L Jackson and Vin Diesel, xXx

“That guy looks like Rakesh!”
- Kitty Shum, RIM, during Co-op Careers Forum teleconferencing with RIM Waterloo and RIM Ottawa on OPEN MIKE

'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
'I don't much care where --' said Alice.
'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
'--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.
~ Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

T e r r a  C h a o t i c a , T h e  C h a o t i c W o r l d
Anyone may wreck a building; only few can build one.
$584 000 Rolls-Royce SUV + $200 Soviet-grade RPG = $2 piece of scrap

S k e p t i c i s m
04.24.04
From Raven Shield Off Topic board, Murphy's Laws of Combat thread:
"If you're bleeding to death, say something witty."
"If you're actually dying, say something deep."

04.06.03 - Of Friends and Enemies
"If an enemy of my enemy is my friend, then would the enemy of my enemy of my enemy
be my enemy? But if my friend becomes an enemy, then who is my friend?"

04.04.03 - Excerpt taken from the Raven Shield Off Topic Forums
"Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."
- Herman Goering, Secretary of the Interior of Nazi Germany.

03.10.03 - Royal Canadian Air Farce on 03.07.03
From Royal Canadian Air Farce, "Hans Blix "
Q: Is the US going to attack?
A: The US has 250 000 troops in the region, 6 aircraft carriers, and CNN has half their staff on site. What the hell do you think?

02.28.03 - Sony ad got it rite!
"Play in your world. Live in ours.” - Sony America president, on the war in Iraq

S t r a t e g y

The Ray-ean Strategy of RPGs
Exhaust MP by hitting Boss with magic, summons, and techniques. If the boss is still alive, use physical attacks, and hope for the best.

First Strategy of RPGs
Attack, heal. When he’s weakened, pound him with the most powerful, MP-consuming spells in your arsenal. If he survives, use physical pray for the best.

First Strategy of Action RPGs
Dive head-first into the biggest mass of enemies you can find, weapon swinging.

Second Strategy of Action RPGs
If your enemy carries a sword bigger than you are, fight conservatively.

First Strategy of FPS
Shoot, strafe, aim, kill.

Second Strategy of FPS
Run, hide, aim, shoot in back.

Third Strategy of FPS
Get lucky.

Fourth Strategy of FPS
Quit, find another server, repeat.

Theory of Graduates
Each successive grade will never be smarter than the one before
 

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01.08.05 16:40 EST
Finally had the time to update this site, after an absence of a REAL long time (since frosh week, maybe longer). Anyway, starting this term at Scotiabank, network security dept. This term oughta be fun.

Updates: Anime, Gundam, Mind

08.19.04 00:33 EST
Normal updates, nothing spectacular. Hey, I'm bored this term.

Updates: Anime, The Mind, Old News

06.11.04 23:49 EST
Minor cosmetic changes to the site, just to give it somewhat of a visual kick. I did it mainly just to make the page stand out a bit more.

05.27.04 00:00 EST
Finally, an update! Got some time now, but since I get home fairly late, I have to make the best of my time (yes, this qualifies). I dropped the Rant, since I'm losing my cynical viciousness. Also, read the disclaimer in Profile. It's worth reading.
Updates: Anime, Gundam, Mind

03.17.04 22:49 EST
Limited, if very rare, update, since I'm in the middle of my study term. Expect slow updates of the rest of my site as time progresses. Of course, this study term might kill me, so no guarantees. Oh yes, if I die, PS2 goes to Kelvin. Nice try, Derek. Btw, some interesting stuff in The Mind recently. Might be worth a look-see. I intend to (hopefully) throw up another Rant.

11.26.03 23:18 EST
Major revamp of the black-styled site to a refreshing stylish white. Background to follow since I need to modify the cool GP03D wallpaper, but right now it's conflicting with the page (ie you can't read my stuff). I've added "Old News" section since my main page is getting pretty damn big, so that's to minimize that. The usual update to everything else...or pretty much everything else.

10.27.03 08:57 EST
Updates will likely be scarce, since I'm likely wasting my time playing SkyGunner or Raven Shield, now that I've got my PC configured correctly. Minor update to The Mind, decent update to Anime, somewhat bigger update to Archive, and a miniscule update to Gundam. And, as before, this website does not exist if you ask me. Main reason for small updates is simple: I haven't got any significant change in my sarcastic bastard-ness. This elegantly divides the masses between those who hate me, and those who love me; black and white. Clever, no?

09.18.03 22:48 EST
Behold, for I update! Well, this update will include minor changes to anime and a slightly updated anime and gundam, while hopefully a massive change to The Mind. Officially, I am no good at HTML and webpage design ( since teachers are going to be coming to me asking to update their sites). Unofficially, however, there's this. If asked, this page DOES NOT EXIST. And at that point, The Seto Compendium, Dakkar, RiCeKiNg! or whatever name I will be using for the month will disavow any knowledge of this site and of my skills. That is all.

08.13.03 23:05 EST
Well lookee here! An update! Alright...The Mind is seriously revamped to take advantage of my numerous rants and raves, rather than my rather silly and stupid one-liners. Trust me, it's better this way, and it'll be more fun. All sections are more or less updated. (more or LESS, keep that in mind). My excuse for the late update? University. School.  Dai Hok.  No, seriously I don't understand why you would be so interested in this site. No, really.  I'm flattered, but also astonished at your continuing perceived interest in this site...

06.05.03 12:59 EST
Yes, yes I know it's been over a month since I last updated. And with good reason: university. Too much work, assignments, and midterms. Hell, you should be lucky that I updated at all! Whew!  Well, midterms are comin' up, so it'll be longer still.

04.25.03 09:17 EST
A lot more updating done, and a good chunk of it. Gundam and The Mind updated. I have also created an Advanced Wars FAQ of my own (love the damn game) and my own compilation of Murphy's Laws of Combat.

04.14.03 11:46 EST
All the pages are fully up (no longer just "technically") Some are updated, others are not. And I'm in the process of updating. 

03.05.03 11:31 EST
Finally all the pages are up (some are still empty) but they are, technically up. Not many pictures and shit, but the simple and rather elegant design and atmosphere should more than make up for it. It will still be a while until Archives are filled since I will need to compile everything for it. Home, Profile, and Gundam pages are fully up, though. Anime, Archives, The Mind are up but more or less empty until further notice.

02.23.03 19:56 EST v2.0
Ah, the glory of HTML and Frontpage. This may finally earn the title of version2.0. Everything's been kicked up a notch, and if you've noticed, looks a lot better, doesn't it? Rejoice, and be glad, and may it see v3.0!!

02.22.03
Lo, and behold, Dakkar returns! Alrite, so this site heavily needed a revamp, and after three years, mainly offtime, here it is! Except for the frames, there's nothing else rite now.