For Your Delectation And Amusement

[kingandy]

I have just presented this to the Bahadhu mailing list (in response to a query about the sequence of events), and I'm quite entertained by it.  So I thought I'd repost it here.  Is to enjoy.

EDITED TO ADD: For clarification - the question was "Why was the Hitoshi not allowed to commit seppuku?" Also, does not actually have anything to do with Reboot.


1. EXT - KITCHEN TENT

KANJIRO: Kneel so I can kill you!

HITOSHI: I demand that the Daimyo come here and execute me himself.

PLEASANT AUTUMN WIND: *rushes off*

HITOSHI: - Or allows me to commit seppuku.

KANJIRO: Very well.  Please to wait in the shrine.


2. INT - ANAGUMA MEETING TENT

PLEASANT AUTUMN WIND enters.

PLEASANT AUTUMN WIND: Tanaka-dono! Hitoshi-san demand execution by your hand!

TANAKA: Does he, eh?  Does he really?  I'll show HIM execution so I will. Give me your pointies.

POINTY-BEARER: *gives*

TANAKA: *charges*


3. INT - ANAGUME SHRINE

HITOSHI: Nice in here, innit?

KANJIRO: Sho nuff.  Want a pointy?

HITOSHI: Yeah, seppuku is easier with a pointy.  Give me a pointy.

TANAKA: *enters* *gives pointy* *continues giving pointy*

HITOSHI: *dies*

KANJIRO: Oh, very funny.

Comments

Dang your misleading!

[pkgem.livejournal.com]

I read "Mainframe Strolling Players" and though "Reboot stuff - cool!" But no. Stinky, makes-no-sense-to-me Maelstrom stuff. Bah! I'm disappointed. Cheer me up!

Re: Dang your misleading!

[myki.livejournal.com]

I don't understand either, worry not chicken.

Cheer me up!

[kingandy]

Okay. Look! Fanart!

Re: Cheer me up!

[pkgem.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thank you.
(Will look properly later when boss not sat so near).

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Pointy-Bearer is Anaguma Togamora (Martin, anyway) and that's almost exactly how I remember it happening. Mmmmmarvellous.

[kneeshooter]

I'm hoping someone will explain who is at war with whom, and why, to me at some point...

Your email

[renniek.livejournal.com]

andy@andysdrawings.co.uk is bouncing all my messages. Some of the dryads have tried to mail you as well, and can't get through.

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

Hmm. Cock. I don't know what's happening, I just sent myself a load of mails from a variety of different sources and they all got through fine... it's not the spam filter, if it was I would be getting a load of messages saying "SPAM DETECTED for these reasons"... Shrugs.

Try andy at bennee.com instead then, that's clearly working fine as it's where all my LJ emails go! If all else fails then rai_yoshiyama at hotmail.com avoids benneeware altogether...

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

That said, the hotmail address is taking a while to show up. Maybe Alex has a thing against hotmail... hope not, that would be harsh and counterproductive.

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

No just crap. Certainly the logs show mail arriving for you andydrawings address. Are you sure there spelling the address right. I can check the bounce messages if you send them to me.

Of course the rsync of my 40 Gb music directory between my work box and my home box may be slowing things down a little.....

RSync

[kingandy]

Is that still running? You started it weeks ago...

Re: RSync

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

I've been updating the tags of my collection with EasyTAG. Unfortunatly that means the whole file needs to be transfered again. I did most of my compilation albums last night (fixing the Various Artists in the Artist field for around 400 songs) and started the resync when I left work last night. It was still running this morning.

Re: RSync

[kingandy]

Ach. That is a most inefficient sync process. There must be some kind of specific music file sync program out there...

Re: RSync

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Mmm, probably. Something with tiger-tree hases would probably do a good job. I'll have a look.

Re: RSync

[kingandy]

Hooray, I'm helping!

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

Oh - is there any kind of upper limit on my mailbox? I have been keeping all my Anaguma mailing list entries there. Show me how to get my mail onto my own PC and I will ease the load... ;)

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

The size of the home partition? Currenty about 9.6G free between all users of jack. At some point I'll be off-loading all the music stuff onto a dedicated file-server so I'll be able to expand the /home partition.

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

Alright ... I shall not fret about using too much space just yet.

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

When did you send the message? What response did you get?

Re: Your email

[renniek.livejournal.com]

Yesterday and today. Bog standard delivery failure response. I've deleted the mail - I'll try again so I can forward you the exact text.

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Please, with full headers if you could.

Re: Your email

[renniek.livejournal.com]

So, when I tried proper messages (yesterday and this morning), it failed. When I write "test" it works perfectly. Will forward you the info if it happens again, but for now it all seems to be working.

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Personally I blame Microsoft, after most people assume its their fault ;-)

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

If it matters - between Katy telling me of bounces and my own tests I did open the aliases file in CUTEFTP. Didn't edit or save it at all, just requested it for viewing purposes. I don't think that would have affected things but I'm no expert.

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

It could of been that the secondry MX for andydrawings.co.uk wasn't actually set to handle its mail so may of been bouncing mail. Normally this matters not as all mail should go to the primary MX. However the rsync prcoess may of eaten enough bandwidth that things gave up and went to the secondry MX - in fact looking at the logs I can see Katie's rejected mail and one from a "gloam".

Do you want the emails of all the reject's sent to you?

Who actually maintains the DNS records for andydrawings? Is it you?

Dropping an email to web-users@bennee.com helps of course as I generally don't run support requests via LJ ;-)

Re: Your email

[kingandy]

DNS record is hosted by my mate John.

Will try and remember that email address, but suspect I will fail... don't worry, I would have mailed you eventualy, I do not yet rely on LJ as a communication medium. :)

Re: Your email

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Ah, I suspect he just cloned the bennee.com MX records assuming I would of updated smtp2.bennee.com to relay your mail as well. As I've noted on my latest posting this will need fixing at some point as the secondry MX will soon die.