The Karmine Chronicles
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04:48 [karmine] sup
04:49 [karmine] all dead?
04:49 [karmine] give me your computers if you never use them
05:03 [yubimusubi] I'm up
05:04 [yubimusubi] shibaraku, ne?
05:10 [karmine] hi
05:10 [karmine] still there?
05:11 [yubimusubi] kinda
05:11 [karmine] never go to ##linux
05:11 [karmine] people there are so moronic
05:11 [yubimusubi] Aw, why not?
05:11 [karmine] brb ill tell ya why
05:11 [yubimusubi] hrm...
05:11 [yubimusubi] k
05:12 [karmine] back
05:12 [karmine] hmm
05:12 [karmine] who are you
05:12 [karmine] were you at the meeting i went to
05:12 [karmine] the only one
05:12 [yubimusubi] which meeting was that?
05:12 [yubimusubi] st pete? tampa?
05:13 [karmine] it was tampa Benny's
05:13 [karmine] march
05:13 [karmine] i believe
05:13 [yubimusubi] oh, recently?
05:13 [karmine] yetr brought me
05:13 [yubimusubi] nah, I haven't been to a meeting in years
05:13 [karmine] ah
05:13 [karmine] i felt very out of place there lol
05:13 [karmine] im not uber-nerd like a lot of them
05:14 [yubimusubi] heh
05:14 [yubimusubi] you know what they say
05:14 [yubimusubi] nerdiness is close to godliness
05:14 [karmine] those guys in ##linux
05:14 [karmine] were talking politics, the whole israel...paki...iraq shit
05:15 [yubimusubi] yea, that happens
05:15 [karmine] its been going on for a thousand year blah blah, i bet you know the history....especially after WW2 and the UN/US intervention
05:15 [yubimusubi] I heard they caught that al-jazira guy or w/e
05:15 [karmine] someone came in and asked a valid linux question and i get bitched at for telling people to stfu and help the guy lol
05:16 [yubimusubi] hm...Iraq shoulda never been made
05:16 [karmine] well
05:16 [yubimusubi] at ##linux? no way
05:16 [yubimusubi] he musta been trolling then
05:16 [karmine] those countries should have never been split after ww2 as well
05:16 [yubimusubi] right
05:16 [karmine] that caused a LOT of problems
05:17 [yubimusubi] as we can see today :P
05:17 [karmine] im only 25, my history is getting rusty but i know we and the UN did a lot of BS to provoke all this
05:17 [karmine] ive read a few 1000 page books
05:18 [yubimusubi] hm...
05:18 [yubimusubi] so how long were you in the military for?
05:18 [karmine] 6 months
05:19 [yubimusubi] how is it? I was thinking of enlisting once i get back to the states
05:19 [yubimusubi] I might be too old by then though
05:20 [yubimusubi] they seem to like young blood
05:20 [karmine] they do
05:20 [karmine] i got a lot of strings pulled to get in
05:21 [karmine] waivers
05:21 [karmine] its funny they let anyone in infantry though
05:21 [karmine] very dumb people got in
05:22 [karmine] most of my drills were rangersz
05:22 [yubimusubi] obciously, people are begging to go into the midst of battle in Iraq with no previous experience
05:23 [karmine] i mean you can have an asvab score of 35 to go infantry
05:23 [karmine] thats like forrest gump
05:24 [karmine] i went to college for computer science and got some degrees in robotics and mechanics and went infantry
05:24 [karmine] but my book reading didnt help my physical side
05:25 [yubimusubi] yea, we're nerds we know that feeling :P
05:25 [karmine] i can shoot like a motherfucker, i qualified sharpshooter
05:25 [karmine] i wanted to make a sniper team
05:26 [karmine] now all i got is counter-strike and dayo of defeat
05:26 [karmine] are you japanese?
05:26 * yubimusubi plays counter-strike through wine
05:26 [yubimusubi] japanese-american
05:26 [karmine] you know fluent japanese?
05:27 [yubimusubi] born in the states, but parents are both japanese...
05:27 [yubimusubi] fluent? I wouldn't say that.. but I can get by.
05:27 [karmine] or a lot of it?
05:27 [karmine] can you tell me what kaioshin means?
05:27 [karmine] kaioshin
05:27 [karmine] yes its DBZ
05:27 [karmine] kai-oshin perhaps
05:28 [karmine] i watch most japanese anime in japanese but english subtitles are hardly accurate
05:28 [karmine] hard to learn
05:29 [yubimusubi] ah...really most japanese words depend on how their spelled...
05:30 [yubimusubi] the spelling of "kai" I'm most familiar with is "raising" or "to rise"
05:30 [karmine] hmmm
05:30 [karmine] i seem to know what it is
05:30 [yubimusubi] while "o" is a particle (no real significance besides grammar)
05:30 [karmine] it deals with buddhism
05:30 [karmine] and ascension
05:31 [yubimusubi] and shin has about 50-million meanings
05:31 [karmine] enlightenment
05:31 [yubimusubi] but the one most known is "body, mind, and soul"
05:31 [karmine] yes
05:31 [yubimusubi] so yea, enlightenment sounds about right
05:31 [karmine] that deals with buddhism
05:31 [karmine] one thing ive read is few books from tibetan monks
05:32 [karmine] i love asian culture and history
05:32 [yubimusubi] buddhism, taoism, tai chi... based on very similar principles
05:32 [karmine] sure beats pure warfare of the english and etc
05:33 [yubimusubi] heheh, read up on the events leading up to the tokugawa era...
05:33 [karmine] every night i wish i was reborn in the tokugawa regime
05:33 [karmine] lol
05:33 [karmine] you read my mindc
05:33 [karmine] mind
05:33 [yubimusubi] :)
05:33 [karmine] but back then you needed real skill
05:33 [karmine] hand to hand pretty much
05:33 [karmine] true discipline
05:33 [yubimusubi] that's an understatement
05:34 [karmine] now you can kill from miles away
05:34 [karmine] i can do that now
05:34 [karmine] i cant fight with a sword
05:34 [karmine] to a point
05:35 [yubimusubi] ah, that's one of my studies next semester
05:35 [yubimusubi] kendo
05:35 [karmine] myself
05:35 [karmine] ive practiced mostly hand to hand
05:36 [karmine] mantis
05:36 [karmine] kung fu
05:36 [yubimusubi] shaolin, by any chance?
05:36 [karmine] almost took my teacher one night sigh
05:36 [karmine] no he was an army ranger
05:36 [yubimusubi] ...
05:36 [karmine] before i even got in
05:36 [yubimusubi] I meant the area of kung fu
05:36 [karmine] im not sure
05:37 [yubimusubi] the style*
05:37 [karmine] it was a very long time ago
05:37 [karmine] i was taught to fight with bamboo staff
05:37 [karmine] at first
05:37 [karmine] but this guy came much later
05:37 [karmine] he taught hand to hand
05:38 [karmine] while i was being taught shotokan
05:38 [karmine] with wooden swords
05:38 [karmine] and eskrima
05:39 [yubimusubi] the road to perfection is a long one
05:39 [karmine] my hand to hand teacher said i have a natural art
05:39 [karmine] for blocking
05:40 [karmine] i guess in every discipline im defensive
05:40 [karmine] even swords
05:40 [yubimusubi] Book of Five Rings will change your opinion on that
05:40 [karmine] what is the art
05:40 [karmine] of drawing called
05:41 [karmine] the draw art
05:41 [karmine] it is defensive
05:41 [karmine] to a point
05:43 [yubimusubi] ah, sorry got distracted
05:44 [yubimusubi] it's an art called shippitsu, (english I think is calligraphy)
05:44 [yubimusubi] If it's the same one I'm thinking of
05:45 [yubimusubi] it could also be kireidessan which literally translates to "pretty drawing"
05:45 [karmine] no
05:45 [karmine] its a style
05:45 [karmine] of drawing the sword
05:45 [karmine] and killing with it
05:45 [karmine] very fast
05:45 [karmine] very accurate
05:46 [karmine] from the sheath
05:46 [yubimusubi] ohhhh, I know what you're talking about...but that's not even a japanese word...there's a japan-ified version of it, but the name escapes me
05:46 [yubimusubi] The actual style is chinese, and the word is also chinese
05:46 [karmine] hmmm
05:46 [karmine] i thought it was a samurai style
05:47 [karmine] japanese discipline
05:47 [yubimusubi] hrm...I can't think of any samurai training like that...I'll ask my kendo teacher though...
05:47 [yubimusubi] a lot of japanese culture came from teh mainland (the land of mice) though
05:47 [karmine] it may have been adopted
05:47 [karmine] long ago
05:48 [karmine] all this japanese anime perverts history
05:48 [karmine] especially hentai
05:48 [yubimusubi] hey, it's popular though :P
05:48 [karmine] har har
05:49 [karmine] [---likes real
05:49 [yubimusubi] as do I...hentai is low, real low, if you take it seriously...
05:50 [karmine] only fun thing is hentai games
05:50 [yubimusubi] Thing is, hentai's original purpose was to be the butt end of jokes
05:50 [yubimusubi] exactly, hentai games
05:50 [karmine] ya, fun
05:51 [karmine] hentai is suppose to mean dirty old man
05:51 [yubimusubi] no...
05:51 [karmine] like kami in DBZ
05:51 [yubimusubi] it means "pervert"
05:51 [karmine] hmm?
05:51 [yubimusubi] so similar
05:51 [yubimusubi] but slightly different :)
05:51 [karmine] almost the same
05:51 [yubimusubi] ecchi is more commonly used (and almost synonymous)
05:51 [karmine] dialects i guess
05:52 [karmine] you watch dbz?
05:52 [karmine] ever?
05:53 [yubimusubi] pssh... I saw an episode or two when it was popular...
05:53 [karmine] hehe
05:53 [yubimusubi] it was a cool idea...but doesn't fit my heritage at all
05:53 [karmine] http://www.tamashop.com/DragonballKaioshinPotaraEarrings.htm
05:53 [karmine] i got the blue ones
05:54 [yubimusubi] pretty spiffy...you still say "spiffy" over there?
05:54 [yubimusubi] Ah, it's yuushoku time
05:55 [yubimusubi] I'mma have to go...the family I stay with is pretty strict about yuushoku
05:55 [karmine] spiffy? no
05:55 [karmine] not me
05:55 [karmine] thats so 80's
05:55 [yubimusubi] no? aw man... wow, I'm out of my zone tonight
05:56 [yubimusubi] But yea, I'm gonna have to go...god luck with your training and stuff
05:57 [karmine] talk to your kendo master
05:57 [karmine] and learn that style
05:57 [yubimusubi] ah will do ^-^
05:57 [karmine] of drawing
05:57 [karmine] rurouni kenshin uses it:)
05:58 [karmine] but of coursed it was a real style and very effective
05:58 [karmine] course