In the past week, I've discovered that it is going to be too hard to do Sojourner and Psi right now so I've decided to focus on more simple storylines that aren't necessarily designed to be presented to an audience in live action. This has also led to the resurrection of an older story as well as a concept from a few months ago making its way into the fold. There are also several sketch shorts in the works. I'll list these below:

Time Traveler (2005): A story concept meant to introduce the audience to the R1 (or Reboot 1) storyline of Trinity. It was originally designed to be in novel form but can easily be implemented into machinima. I submitted a few chapters of this story back in 2005 to deviantART and had at least one fan of it (maybe two).

M & H (tentative title) (2009): A comedy-themed feminist talk show that borrows the point/counterpoint theme from several political talk shows (with a comedic spin) and borrows slightly from Mind of Mencia on other fronts. Originally designed to be a two host (one female and one male) show but has been reduced to just the one female host. There may or may not be a monologue.

As well as several sketch shorts including -
- Zombie Apocalypse preparation: Features the actress who will play Marie Herring on Psi and the currently unnamed female engineer of Sojourner giving the audience pointers on how to survive the coming zombie apocalypse.

- Geico-themed Civil Protection propaganda commercial: Features a member of Civil Protection running around to "Let me be Myself" in a similar fashion as the caveman from the Geico commercial. Features the catch phrase "Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more of your life."

- Fountain Brew commercial: Obviously a spoof of Mountain Dew. Borrows a meaningless and dull name that references the fact that the name "Mountain Dew" is somewhat meaningless in today's society. I might do a Gipsi-Cola commercial as well. (see if you can catch which soda I'm referencing there). I'm still deciding on that one.

Some of you may remember that my laptop has been going through some performance problems for the past two years. You may remember that I upgraded the RAM in an attempt to fix this problem to no avail.

Well, one of my watchers suggested that the hard drive was failing a while back. It turns out that they were right. Just after I upgraded the OS to Ubuntu 9.10, I got a message that my hard drive has several "bad sectors".



I've decided that I'm going to just dump this one and get a new laptop. I'm thinking about this one: [link] If I do get that one, I'll be able to port my steam folder over to it and blank out my Windows installation on my mac and use Mac OS exclusively on it.

That'll leave me with the Windows 7 upgrade that I got on my birthday that I can use to restore my previous desktop to working condition.

Yep. I bought into it. And I did it on my birthday too.







It was good (still is).
I plan to have all computers in the house capable of running it upgraded by the end of the year.

Twenty two years ago today (October 30, 2009), deviantART member =MashuHoruto was born. Man, he's lucky. My birthday isn't for another year.

Well, I guess I should go send you all off to wish him a happy birthday.

Apparently that's how my adoptive mother pronounces my username.

A tip for anyone (and that means anyone; I don't care if you know me IRL or you live in Michigan or wherever): If you have problems pronouncing my username, you can either follow my instructions below, or simply refer to me as "M".







Instructions for the proper pronunciation of "MashuHoruto":

Ma - like Nathan Petrelli calls his mother on the hit NBC series "Heroes".

Shu - pronounced like "Shoe".

Ho - pronounced like "hoe", the ever popular gardening tool.

Ru - Pronounced like "Rune", without the "-ne" part.

To - Pronounced like "toe", like those useless appendages attached to your feet.

Now, let's put it together: Ma-shu-Ho-ru-to. Not hard now, is it? If you're still having trouble, refer to my original statement above.