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[petronia]

I have to (because ain't no one gonna do it for me) write this javascript that retrieves string values from a four-dimensional array, where the indices are entered by the user through pull-down menus. Essentially. Results to be displayed in input line format on same page. Is not very complex but the gooeyness is defeating me, in both the GUI and ew-sticky-get-it-off senses of the word. That, and the thought that I'm going to have to initialise all the values in said array manually. Small enough to not justify using a database, large enough to be a pain. Feels like a CS-300-level assignment. So. How's your day?

...Am through to TeniPuri ep.52. Since the last time I posted about AniPuri I've covered the Fuji vs. Ryouma practice, all of Yamabuki and the second round of ranking matches. (Nearly three weeks! I wouldn't bet on me finishing the episodes I have before the anime wraps for good.)



worldserpent and I were discussing how strength in singles appears to be the decisive factor in Seigaku's hierarchy both factual and apparent, though this is not necessarily the case for the other teams (ex. Yamabuki), nor in fact the best strategy to pursue (as the doubles matches always come first). It strikes me now that this has a lot to do with the ranking matches. In essence, one makes it into the Seigaku Regulars when one becomes one of the top eight singles players of the club. I mean, for all we bloody well know Arai and Wossname Second Year would make a better doubles qua doubles team than [insert Ryuuzaki-sensei's random crack pairing here] but that factor won't show up in the rankings. If the ranking matches had fallen out in such a way that either Eiji or Ooishi had been odd man out instead of Momo Seigaku would've been in trouble. But then the damned things are rigged in that respect anyhow, as the distribution is done by Tezuka and not at all random. XD

Speaking of Eiji and Ooishi - I'm likely neither the first nor the last to point this out, but you'd have to spend a lot of time in someone's room to know how the teddy bear falls, wouldn't you?

Akutsu has the best BGM so far hands-down. And likely the best animation. Will continue this when the beer's worked its way out of my system and I can type again.

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, at least now you know. *g* I did an entire undergraduate degree in Computer Science. Yet mysteriously, though I learnt to write fecking long object-oriented programs all in Java, I didn't learn to write jscripts. Those I had to figure out by myself. Am figuring out. ..Or would be if management didn't just feed us beer.

Whee, beer...

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

We don't know how the other schools determine who the regulars are. (Anyone notice that the uniform doesn't seem to differ for the other schools?) Fudomine's team used to suck, so they probably don't have a huge reserve to fall back on. Hyoutei has a gigantic pool, and probably a lot of talent in the ranks, but they also work on the ranking match principle informally, although I figure that Oshitari and Gakuto are entitled to refuse any singles matches. Yamabuki and Rudolph recruited all of their people, probably, so they don't need to hold ranking matches. Rikkai, no idea how all these talented players got together.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Fudoumine's team are the second years, more or less, so if they're lucky they have a bunch of chibis to pick up their balls. ^^; Hyoutei's "informality" in fact allows for a lot of leeway that wouldn't pass in Seigaku. They don't even force Jirou to be present for what they consider unimportant matches, just let him sleep (I'm assuming). When Shishido wants back on the team there's no exception process apart from the coach and captain's say-so.

Is there even a Rikkai coach? (But then, there doesn't have to be. ^^; I've decided that what Konomi's trying to tell us by naming Sanada and Yukimura like that is that two heads make for one outstanding military strategist.) How about a manager? 100 cheerleaders? XD It's like their regulars exist in a vacuum. (Back to 20.5, ahoy...)

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not as if you really *have* to have one way to choose regulars, but it's good for disciplinary purposes. Hyoutei, is, after all, the team that had its second stringers play the match against Fudomine, so I'm wondering what 'regulars' really means if people who aren't regulars are allowed to play in tournaments. It's not as if Hyoutei really needs to have hard and fast rules anyway, because Japan isn't a legalistic society like America, where parents have sued schools when they thought the cheerleading auditions weren't fair. (Well, that was random).

Rikkai's coach is in the same place St. Rudolph's is. Maybe the coach oversees the cheerleading? Makes bus reservations? Dunno. And I don't think all the teams necessarily have a manager. Since Yanagi is the data person, I assume that he fulfills part of the manager's function. Yeah, and Rikkai the school doesn't have a personality much. I figure it's supposed to be like Seigaku, an escalator school, IIRC, but not all snotty like Hyoutei.

[smurfmatic.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Been working all day on trying to write a shell. A shell script would be fun/easy (which I understood at first, so was to my classmates like, hah! been writing shell scripts in my free time at Taskforce, hah!). But a shell? -_-; And the C. The relative low-levelness is making me sick... [/rant on other people's blogs]

The Devils beat the Habs with a hammer et pis une bonne dose de somnifere. Bleh.

And besides, will never understand your fandom ramblings.

Want to get drunk (cheaply, as much as possible XD) with ya. Sometime in the coming 7 days, okay?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Devils: argh! Curses. (And I can't help you a whit with shell. ^^; D'you have any javascripts with arrays lying around, though?)

T will call you for karaoke tomorrow, methinks, but I'm probably not going to be there. So we're looking at Monday-Tuesday, the usual. Afghani resto first, or are we heading straight for the ethanol? (I've also got K's CD to give you, don't forget to remind me...)

[vignette00.livejournal.com]

The ranking meetings in Seigaku, I've always thought they were rather rigged to be that way. In fact, Bing (sanguine) and I actually had a rather long conversation on this, what would happen if the ranking meetings organized out so that Eiji or Ooishi were out, but I think Ryuzaki or at least Tezuka would realize just how bad of an idea that was and not put either of them in a block with two other regulars.

(Although, wuhahahaha. Imagine if one of the other regulars were put in a block with Tezuka/Fuji or Tezuka/Ryoma or Fuji/Ryoma? That's like, a serious message that you are off the team.)

But I think you are right, the fact that Seigaku puts so much emphasis on your personal playing level really does reflect in their doubles team. The Golden Pair, if I am remembering this correctly, sort of appeared out of pure luck (my fangirl half is screaming DESTINY), and I doubt they'll be able to pull together another one, Ooishi being a natural doubles player and all and the others all seeming to be singles players. I think Ryuzaki is right when she complains about all having stubborn people on the Seigaku teams. They are ridiculously stubborn people.

Now I'm just babbling, so I'll shut up.

Oh wait. As for the teddy bear, beyond that, you'd have to spend a lot of time either pushing teddy bears around or like, actually engaging in active activity to know which way the teddy bear falls. *wink*

And Akutsu is too cool for words. Especially later when they do that creepy animation of him randomly rising from the ground just behind the net. Like a zombie. *shiver*

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's all Ryouma's fault, though. XD Fact is when you make the regulars you'd be hard put not to stay on the regulars, because you're improving through competition experience that the rest of the club isn't getting - not to mention the various, ahem, extra special training regimes - and Seigaku's talent pool isn't really that deep. So whoever makes the team at the end-of-year shake-up when the seniors retire is probably there to stay. (Rigged! All rigged! XD;; But the illusion of fairness certainly gives everyone an incentive to improve.) Then, out of the blue, one Echizen Ryouma appears, and suddenly there's an odd-man-out situation. ...Is where Our Guys' senses of honour really are brought home to one, because if any of them had been nasty pieces of work like Tezuka's sempai way back when, Ryouma would've gotten a knock on the elbow too. But not even Arai considered sinking to that level.

(Yamabuki doubles guys: "The teddy bear is a coded signifier! Don't fall for it!")

Watching it again like this, I'm feeling that the method in Akutsu's madness is that, well, he's like a wild animal. ^^; Get angry and he'll fight you. Show fear and he'll hunt you down. Try to put any kind of boundary on him, and he lashes out. The best way to deal with him is to smile and cluck in an inoffensive and vaguely soothing manner. XD

[vignette00.livejournal.com]

It is all rigged. But maybe Ryoma wouldn't have gotten beaten up if he met Tezuka's senpai. I figure the reason the senpais took it so badly to Tezuka being such a genius was that he was pretending to be not all that good when he played them. Well, good, obviously, but he was hiding his true potential. If it was Ryoma, sure he'd play with his right hand, but he'd kick their asses with his right hand and not be afraid to rub it in their faces, and I think they wouldn't have bothered just smashing his elbow, they'd probably beat him up. But I'm betting Ryoma has a good idea of what to do in that situation too. I mean, he can't have lived this long being that much of a snotty brat without knowing how to defend himself, right? I'm thinking a couple of Twist Serves to the face would show Tezuka's senpai who was boss.

At the same time, it is damn amazing how much the Seigaku regulars don't resent Ryoma at all. I would think, if one was in Momo's situation when he gets booted off the Regulars for a time, he'd put some blame on Ryoma, because Ryoma did shake up the Regular's 2-men-in-one-block routine during the ranking matches.

Arai is probably not violent. He's just... angry all the time.

I adore the Yamabuki guys. All their babbling during the Tezuka vs. Atobe matches warm my heart. Sengoku is the cutest thing in the world, despite the fact that his hair is physically impossible without lots of hair gel.

As for Akutsu, the best way to deal with him is probably just as you said. Or, well, you can be like Taichi Dan, and cry in big pearl-like tear drops after following him like a baby. Or you can kick his ass like Ryoma did.