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Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Turning Japanese
The previous post is a test of your system. I just wanted to see if that Japanese characters would show up on your browser.

It works for all my Macs. I just love that.

At work, the computer at my desk chokes on that and I get nothing but empty squares or some other junk. The computer I use in the lab renders the kanji well. I posted that quote from there. It's interesting to see it, too, a cut and paste job from a browser into an email. I was surprised XP kept up.

Anyway, here's the translation for those interested. It's the first verse.

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Quote of the Day [4.30.08]
答えはいつも私の胸に・・・
なんでだろう　あなたを選んだ私です
もうとまらない　運命様から決められたけど
I believe 真似だけじゃつまらないの
You'll be right!
感じるまま感じることだけをするよ

冒険でしょでしょ！？　ホントが嘘に変わる世界で
夢があるから強くなるのよ　誰の為じゃない

一緒に来てくださいっ
どこまでも自由な私を見てよね
明日過去になった今日のいまが奇跡
I believe you...

Bouken Desho Desho?
From The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

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Link of the Day [4.30.08]
Thomas Friedman is almost always wrong, but, like the cliché of the stopped watch, he's right at least once on occasion. In this opinion piece in the NY Times, he's making sense that the way to a national energy policy is not through taxation. The Clinton-McClain gas tax holiday is a bogus way out of dependency for oil. Those two candidates are wankers and are only pandering to the stupid people of the US with this proposal.

We got us into this mess, relaxing the cost won't get us out. We need to reduce our dependency on oil, not increase it. The decrease in cost should raise the demand.

Something this dumb should disqualify them both from being president.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/opinion/30friedman.html?
ex=1367294400&en=0588e238277893d6&
ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Quote of the Day [4.29.08]
"The only kind of voter fraud that SEA 483 addresses is in-person voter
impersonation at polling places. The record contains no evidence of any
such fraud actually occurring in Indiana at any time in its history.
Moreover, petitioners argue that provisions of the Indiana Criminal Code
punishing such conduct as a felony provide adequate protection against
the risk that such conduct will occur in the future. It remains true,
however, that flagrant examples of such fraud in other parts of the
country have been documented throughout this Nation's history by
respected historians and journalists, that occasional examples have
surfaced in recent years, and that Indiana's own experience with
fraudulent voting in the 2003 Democratic primary for East Chicago
Mayor-though perpetrated using absentee ballots and not in-person
fraud-demonstrate that not only is the risk of voter fraud real but that
it could affect the outcome of a close election."

Supreme Court Justice Stevens writing for the majority in Crawford v
Marion County Election Board

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Link of the Day [4.29.08]
Brains!!

Hee.

Hee. Hee.

Hee. Hee. Hee.

http://zombieurl.com/WhEX

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Animated Bunny Girl Rocker


The scene from the previous post in context of the anime

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Monday, April 28, 2008
God Bless Haruhi Suzumiya


This song actually rocks. And the English version isn't bad also. Someone should cover it. What's the chords and stuff?! RockBand

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Quote of the Day [4.28.08]
"Consumers don't want to be treated like criminals and artists don't
want their valuable work stolen. The iTunes Music Store offers a
groundbreaking solution for both."

Steve Jobs, Apple CEO on the iTunes Music Store which opened 5 years ago
today

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Link of the Day [4.28.08]
Bike sharing is coming to our nation's capitol. This is the idea where
for a slight fee you can borrow a bike to get from one point of town to
another. It's going to service a small area. I hope it gets popular.
I hope the bikes are available and not stolen. I hope you get out and
use it when you don't have to take the car.

http://www.smartbikedc.com/

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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Live

Aya Hirano is so cute in this. Much better than how she looks like on the extras from the DVD.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 11:56:00 AM
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Quote of the Day [4.27.08]
"Read my lips. No new taxes."

President George HW Bush

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Link of the Day [4.27.08]
What kind of game is this? I don't understand it at all. Should I play a game that thrillingly mimics online message boards? WTF! Feast your eyes on this.

http://www.forumwarz.com/

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Let's go team!
Let's check in with some of the sports teams we follow on this blog.

The Baltimore Orioles are still hovering around first place in the American League East. The Hiroshima Carp are 3 games under .500 just short of the bottom of the standings in the Central League. Sheffield Wednesday are very much in the running for relegation in the English Championship League. Ajax is battling for first place in the Dutch Premier League. Paris Saint-Germain is going to be relegated to the French Division 2.

The Ravens get a second league quarterback. I don't know how Tampa Bay did.

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Saturday, April 26, 2008
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forgetting Sarah Marshall may only have been produced by Judd Apatow, but it still manages to find the same time warp capability to make 112 minutes seem like 130 minutes. It felt long, because Apatow seems to have a way at imparting length to his films by not doing much.

The first half was not making anyone laugh. The second half started to be funny. Not until the third half did we find some good comedy. Three halves? It felt like that long.

When did little Jackie, Mila Kunis, get hot?

That dude playing Aldous Snow -- his funny accent -- was a riot.

Ridiculous, but since it got funny towards the end, I'll amuse myself and give it a so-so rating rather than below average.


3 of 5 stars.

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Quote of the Day [4.26.08]
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist."

President Eisenhower, 1961

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Link of the Day [4.26.08]
How to make your own Judd Apatow movie. This is from the poor man's mad magazine, Cracked. http://www.cracked.com/blog/2008/04/21/how-to-make-your-own-judd-apatow-movie/

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Friday, April 25, 2008
iPhone Test
Will yahoo add crap to the end of this message? Just checking the email capabilities of both this device and yahoo email. I don't trust it at all.

Sent from my iPhone


____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.

http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 6:05:00 PM
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Quote of the Day [4.25.08]
"I'm Haruhi Suzumiya, from East Junior High. First off, I'm not
interested in ordinary people. But, if any of you are aliens,
time-travelers, or espers, please come see me. That is all!"

Haruhi Suzumiya: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya: translated into
English

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Link of the Day [4.25.08]
Oh the joys of stupidity! If this was the 50s, this would've been
vinegar and baking soda.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/23/ncoke123.xml

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Thursday, April 24, 2008
沢近 愛理
Sawichika Eri is very confrontational with Harima Kenji. Does she have deeper feelings toward him? Or does she hate his guts and find him a fool? With Tsukamato out of the picture in the US, it looks as if Eri and Harima might find out what type of relationship they have.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:14:00 PM
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Quote of the Day [4.24.08]
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Link of the Day [4.24.08]
Monocle is a magazine that the hipsters read. It's actually international based mainly in London but are worldwide. It's got some interesting articles. It's website is nicely done. Too bad the exchange rate is terrible for US dollars to English pounds. I would like to subscribe, but it's pricey. For now, I'll just read it in the aisles of our local B&N.

http://www.monocle.com/

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Mikuru Beam
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Suzumiya Opening

Original Version


English Version

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 11:49:00 PM
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Lookin Up
I wonder if things are going to get better once school is done.

I'm trying to cram something in tonight, because of class tomorrow. It's half assed right now (that link will work later this evening. I've got dishes in the sink. I've got laundry to fold in the drier. I've got some to iron. When will this shit end?

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:06:00 PM
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Quote of the Day [4.23.08]
"You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up
the Amazon for a year."
Charles "Hopsie" Pike, The Lady Eve

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 5:33:00 PM
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Link of the Day [4.23.08]
If you watch anime or read manga, you are going to encounter the
sexualization of young girls as out right erotic, teasing imagery and
somewhat suggestive poses. Do the authors create this for their
audience or does it come from their imagination? I wonder what it is
about Japanese culture that lets this be pervasive?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolicon

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Tuesday, April 22, 2008
高野 晶

Takano Akira is the silent, quiet, proper one of the famous 2-C girls in School Rumble. She just kissed Hanai?! What does that mean?

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Quote of the Day [4.22.08]
"If there's more than one way to do something, and one way will result
in disaster, then someone will do it that way."

The real Murphy's Law

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Link of the Day [4.22.08]
Why are you still running Windows?

Of course, if you get a Mac, it would be like, "You just threw up in the
punch bowl we all share and now you expect us to believe it's Alphabet
Soup?" Like, when, you know, the aging hipster says, "I like their
older stuff better," in reference to U2 or REM. He just wants you to
get off their bandwagon.

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/
what-microsoft-could-learn-from-apple.ars

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Monday, April 21, 2008
Quote of the Day [4.21.08]
"Plan to throw one away, you will anyhow."
Fred Brooks

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 9:00:00 PM
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Link of the Day [4.21.08]
Here's an interesting read about making your neighborhood Borders or B&N
into your own personal library. Specifically, the author calls out the
people lolly-gagging about the manga aisle.

I usually spend a lot of time in a bookstore. I confess to doing this
on occasion, but only for the satisfaction of finding an interesting
book. I am guilty at buying books that I don't read. Just not for
manga.

http://animealmanac.com/2008/02/27/manga-hobos-japanese-culture-meets-american-laziness/

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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Quote of the Day [4.20.08]
"The wisest men follow their own direction."
Euripides

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Link of the Day [4.20.08]
Today we're gonna visit the godfather of Japanese manga and anime, Tezuka Osamu. He did Astro Boy and for people my age, he also did what was called in America, Simba the White Lion.

http://www.tezuka.co.jp/

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Bring the funk
Took the new steed out for a ride on the NCR trail yesterday morning. That's why I got it for. To be a more rugged bike for riding the NCR or other bike trails around the area (BWI or Annapolis).

Things to know about this bike. It's a single speed and can be set to fixed gear. One gear. To go faster I have to pedal faster. To go up hills I have to grind them. It's weird, but I hope that it will help develop some leg speed and some strength.

So, the NCR is flat. I did 26 miles. And I wasn't even winded. Legs weren't jelly for this early in the season. I have to thank my work outs for that. At first it felt too easy on the ride, but I targeted a 15mph speed. Didn't get there because I had to slow down some.

It was somewhat cold also in the morning. I had to go back and get my jacket from the car. It warmed up around 10. Lots of people started showing up and the trail head was packed.

I think I can do this to PA and back. Next time, I'll go out longer. Earlier. Faster.

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Saturday, April 19, 2008
NCR

NCR
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.

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Quote of the Day [4.19.08]
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'll be fine."

Jeff Spicoli
Sent from my iPhone


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Link of the Day [4.19.08]
Official website for the official BrowserMetrics Japanes baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. Just the idea of a carp being a good team symbol/mascot is funny. Look at the other teams in the Nippon Professional Baseball league and they're all birds or something fierce. They swoop down and eat carp from the pond. Is it any wonder that they are stuck to the bottom of the standings?

http://www.carp.co.jp/

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Friday, April 18, 2008
PaddyWagon

PaddyWagon
Originally uploaded by browsermetrics.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 7:55:00 PM
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Quote of the Day [4.18.08]
"I propose that the federal government suspend all taxes on gasoline now
paid by the American people -- from Memorial Day to Labor Day of this
year. The effect will be an immediate economic stimulus..."

Republican presidential candidate John McCain

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Link of the Day [4.18.08]
Yesterday, for dinner I made some miso soup. I tried to synthesize my
own recipe. I cribbed most of it from the link of the day, but also
looked at the back of the package for some other inspiration.
Basically, it was silky tofu and frozen stir fry vegetables thrown into
a pot of boiling water until they are cooked. Add the miso, stir, let
it simmer for a few minutes, then server. It was alright, but was
missing something. I think it might have been the "dashi."

http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/recipe-of-the-day-nearly-instant-miso-soup-with-tofu/

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Thursday, April 17, 2008
This isn't subtitled
Doing a daily post whether it be link or quote of the day makes posting an actual item even more urgent. I don't want my "latest post" list cluttered with those lame titles. And they are lame. So I have to post something worthwhile. That hopefully some one will comment on.

Anyway, I've been watching some anime lately, and I must admit to not minding the English dub.

Whaat?!

Those anime-maniacs would be yelling blasphemy right now. They'll say that the English voice actors could not match the original japanese seiyuu. But they're too clannish and can be wrong at times.

I do eventually watch the anime I own over again with the original language and subtitles, but I like to watch the shows first in English to actually watch the anime. I don't want to be busy reading and not taking in the animation. Or seeing what is being shown on screen. If you're too busy reading sometimes you miss things.

The English dub is also good for multi-taskin while watching the anime. I can listen to the story while surfing the net or doing something else. When I watch in the original japanese, I have to either pause or rewind to get the gist of the present scene.

The recent anime I have seen have the English voice actors try to capture the original tone and performance their japanese counter part. I say they have done a good job for the most part. They've been matching tone and delivery very well.

One thing though, I find that I watch the anime that are television series or 30 minutes or less in the English dub first. Any movie anime, I watch in the original language. I wonder why is that? Perhaps, I like to think that the movie anime is more artful than a tv series.

Of course, I guess I'll have to learn japanese so that I can not worry about all this. Yeah, right!

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 10:31:00 PM
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Quote of the Day [4.17.08]
"Of course, Madam. This is the Georges V, not some backpacker's hovel."

The Concierge in French Kiss

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Link of the Day [4.17.08]
Was this the wrong call or what? Remember, the only successful Apple
product in the decade before the iPod was the iMac, the blueberry,
picture tube looking one. The iMac made a splash, but didn't budge
Apple's fortunes. It wasn't until the iPod that changed things around.
And when it was released for Windows, all hell broke loose.

http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
First day of the season
About 10 miles in 45 minutes averaging close to 14 mph around my normal, simple route: out to Soldier's Delight ride around the block. How did it feel?

Boy the working out since Jamuary really made this easy! Looking over my logs from last year and I am running about a mile quicker around the same distance. The hills weren't bad or tough, and almost didn't have to be used. I felt like I was using a larger gear.

One thing though was my form was awful. I may be somewhat stronger, I may be somewhat fitter, but my control of my bike was off. Breaking, shifting, and pedaling was off. It's going to take a few turns to get better.

Being fit also makes 10 miles somewhat easy. I might have to go out for an hour, and that means entering the scary forests. This will be a fun season.

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Quote of the Day [4.16.08]
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious;
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-
For Brutus is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men-
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause;
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him?
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Antony:Act III Scene II:Julius Caesar: William Shakespeare

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Link of the Day [4.16.08]
How does the health care system of other countries work? What do they
do right? What can the US learn from them? These are questions that
the PBS newshow, Frontline, tried to answer in their provocative
program, Sick Around the World.

Being one of the more wealthy of nations, it's surprising why our system
is so dysfunctional. Will we ever ensure that ALL citizens have access
to health insurance? Will we ever see the costs of it go down? Will we
ever break the tyranny that the insurance industry imposes? I don't
know. But to do nothing would suck.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/

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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
"Yakumo! Pass! Pass!"
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Quote of the day [4.15.08]
"Even businessmen, who rob and cheat and steal from people everyday,
even they have to pay taxes."

Who said this?

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Link of the day [4.15.08]
Happy tax day. At least that is what my iCal is telling me today is.
Hope you got a refund.

Anyway I'm starting a new item which I'm calling "link of the day,"
which is a link I think you should visit. It may be cool. It may be
interesting. It may be thought provoking. Or it may be none of these.
All I want you to do is click on the link. (I should just join google
ad words.)

Today's link is to my googleReader shared items. I keep trying to get
you to use a RSS feed reader. I use googleReader and it allows me to
denote a good blog item from my regular reads as well as share them with
others.

http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13986059648041625896

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Monday, April 14, 2008
Not delish
Currently watching Rachael Ray make some kind of shrimp scampi dish. She doesn't sound so good. She doesn't look to good. What happened to the energetic girl we know and love?

She's burning out.

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Sunday, April 13, 2008
5 cm/s
5 Centimeters Per Second is a short film anime about love and separation. The characters grow close, but slowly drift apart. They love, but can't make a lasting relationship. They are.

This so captures many of the feelings I have in my dreams. That, when I was young, I had fallen for a girl. That we had some sort of relationship that was. That as I never told her my feelings, they and her drifted away over time. Then we grew up and became older, mature, adults. And these dreams and feelings of love could not be expressed again because of their childish nature. Then I wake up wondering where she is, what she's doing, and wish to go back to those younger days. Yet, all that is left is the present and the future coming with no hope of re-establishing those days. And I feel sad.

The anime is divided into three stories following the character, Takaki Tono, as he ages. It shows the first blossoming of love and its end as it just started. Then it moves a few years to show him inspiring a surfer gal to love him, but not express that love. Finally, he is a programmer in Tokyo who may have seen the love of his life pass by. Regrets they have, but life is meant to be lived and only if.

5 of 5 stars.

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Saturday, April 12, 2008
The Birds II
Shit. Another set of birds have made my deck home. The questions from last time still hold.

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Boys love girls


I wonder if this is the real version of the song.

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#269 E La Nave Va
Post send off finds our gang, and in particular, Yakumo, adjusting to life with out Tenma. Seems that alls well that ends well.

Except for Harima who acts the loner.

Good for him. Good for Itoko-sensei for trying to knock some sense into him.

With this turn of events, does it feel like this series will last another several years?

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Thursday, April 10, 2008
queue myQueue;
Netflix queue is stuck.

I've been too busy watching School Rumble or The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.


Plus maybe I've reached my limit for wanting to watch a movie. I should just change my subscription to the cheapest one they got. I wonder what that is.

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GvG
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Melancholy
Here's my latest anime viewing: "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya."
Nothing can compare to School Rumble, for me, but this one isn't so bad.
It's science fiction and a very light touch.

I seem to be drifting away from mecha. Big robots are starting to bore
me. I like the romantic comedies or even some kind of comedy or even
some stuff. But the robots are getting played out.

Luckily, for me this one is just a plain anime. It's a novel in Japan,
so I don't think they'll try to translate it for the English audience.
Yet, it's going through as much change as other manga. It's like one of
young adult fiction stories you see in the bookstore. Too low for my
station? Yet, it's a fascinating tale. The first DVD is somewhat
boring, but the second disc delivers some bangs like a kiss. Nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Melancholy_of_Haruhi_Suzumiya

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Saturday, April 05, 2008
Leatherheads
George Clooney acts and directs the roaring twenties football rom-com, Leatherheads. George Clooney in a film set in the twenties should remind you of "O brother, where art though?" And that should remind you of his work with the Coen brothers and their love for staging an exact simulacra of a period in America. Then you find out that Renee Zellwegger plays a fast talking career gal reporter and this may be some kind of screwball comedy homage.

Then you watch the movie.

It's nothing like this.

Leatherheads completely missis the point of all that. Clooney, you would think, could've captured the magic of the Coens and served a throwback to screwball comedies, but decided to mix and match story and tone of the show. It was a mess. A romantic comedy that had no laughs. A grid iron story that lacked oomph. A sad spectacle as the final big game in the mud. It was 3-0 until the end. And it was a boring game. Same for the movie.

2 of 5 stars.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 11:24:00 PM
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#268 The Terminal
I'm all caught up with School Rumble, the manga and the anime as well.

I'm reacting very differently between the two mediums. In the anime, I'm rooting for Yakumo, Imouto-san, but the manga makes me hope for Sawachika Eri. Perhaps, it's the pacing of the read which gives more hints at what each character is thinking and provides more introspective moments. Or it's the fact that it's about 268 volumes that give a sense of what the author is trying to achieve.

Anyway, it looks as if the manga is coming to an end within the next few months. And it will be a bittersweet ending. I have to say that that is probably the only way it has to be. Of course, that's me wishing for this type of ending. Perhaps, the author is smarter than me and will make it more interesting.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 10:59:00 PM
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All your bases
As a packrat, reading the tips on Unclutterer scares me.

What if I needed that?

What if I have want to remember that?

What if I may use that again?

Perhaps we should have some kind of life lending library. Stuff on loan for you to use, but return in a week when you get bored with it.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 4:00:00 PM
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Friday, April 04, 2008
"I have a dream..."
Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King Jr., one of the greatest
Americans, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. Let's not forget
what his courage means to us and to our nation.

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let
freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom
ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the
heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every
mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it
ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every
city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children,
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free
at last!"

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:54:00 AM
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Thursday, April 03, 2008
"Bokura no sedai ga omoshiroku surun da"
I've been reading School Rumble online and I must tell you that books aren't dead. It pretty much blows reading these scans. On my laptop, I have to scroll to read a page. That sucks. Plus, I can't spend time looking over some of the art work. That sucks.

When will they get to this point of the story? Can't they just hire these fools to do their translation? They would be done by then.

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 8:08:00 PM
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You are not alone
What happens when in 2.0.1 they introduce the rotating keyboard?

http://www.mytouchkeys.com/

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Posted by: SoNSo1 | 12:11:00 PM
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