2004-04-25

ithika: (should hold us over - by indilime)
2004-04-25 12:16 am

I throw shapes. I set them up, I watch them fall

Ah, good old Sands. There's nothing like Sands fanfiction for anger. He's a very angry chap, you see, and it's good, because when he's angry he kills people, and there's nothing like violence to please an angry mind.

Ahem. Sorry.
But today was not a happy day for me, despite there being ROTK cups at work and despite [livejournal.com profile] uruserce and Tessa being there for a while, making things happy and good.

I'm just in an irrationally bad mood now.
*rants*
Not wanting to go back to school is bad for me, because it makes me irrationally angry. I hate not being able to control what I do. Hate it. Hatehatehate, blah blah blah. I don't think I'm conventionally a control freak - I don't care what other people do, and whether I influence them or not. Don't care. But can't stand not being able to dictate what I'm going to be doing.
It irks me, ok?

I want to be an action movie... not hero, bah! Boring. [Appologies to El] villanous chaotic neuteral types are the way to go. And violence. blood. Copious ammounts of it.
Yeah.
...blame Sands.

I'm done now, there's really no point in continuing to rant about how generally bleak my outlook on life for the next term is... in other news, 31 days to ROTK on DVD
ithika: (welcome to the caribbean - me)
2004-04-25 01:40 pm

Wow

The HMS Victory is still alive, as is the Cutty Sark. But the HMS Victory owns more, and you should know why it 0wnZ more. That ship is over 200 years old, you realise. +200 years and it's still floating, for crying out loud. If that's not impressive, well, I just don't know what is.
Ok. So the Battle of Trafalgar [which is what makes the HMS Victory have more 0wnz4g3 than the Cutty Sark] was 200 years ago on the 21st Oct of next year, yes?
Wait.
The Victory was commissioned in 1778, launched 7 May 1765. That makes her 239 years old, or 226 years old, depending on how you reckon. Either way, that's a damn impressive age for a ship. Even cooler, she's still a flagship - the flagship of the Second Sea Lord and Commander in Chief Naval Home Command.
So what if it's in a dry dock? So what... Maybe it would still float. I think it would, it wouldn't be a flagship if it didn't, right?
And she has lots of guns.
Freaking 104 guns! Bloody hell!
for anyone who cares - the *type* of guns )
Yes, yes. I know it's probably far from normal to be all excited about this, but
omg!
*cough*
Yeah. Since when have I ever claimed to be normal?
ooooh. The 32 pounders had a range of over 2 km. All of them ranged at over 1 km. Wowzers, but that's cool.
Muahahaah! 28 tons of shot were fired at Trafalgar. That's alotta cannonballs, folks.

But yeah, that's cool. Cool cool, even.
[I'm so going on a tall ship at the end of the year]
The Leeuwin has no guns, though, *poutage*, which is a little disheartening. And it's a barquentine, 1850's barquentine, not a Frigate [Omg... *ogles* coolest. damn. thing. ever.] Or a Brig [second coolest damn thing ever], but hell, it's pretty damn cool. Or a Ship. mm. Tall ships.
but that's not to say that barquentines didn't have their own ammount of 0wnzag3. They did. The Leeuwin II just doesn't have cannon.. *wibbles*
The Cutty Sark was a clipper.
Yeee... Schooners were unimpressive.
*Squeal* The Endeavour has serious 1337age.
AAH!
YOU CAN SAIL ON THE ENDEAVOUR!
Must go now. Going to take Bon to beach again.
Ocean!
HUZZAH!