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Toradora: Highly recommended. 24 episodes with solid characters and quality emotional moments. At least compared to other anime, anyhow.
RideBack: Ending soundtrack was pretty. Series is short, at 11? 12? episodes. Interesting concept. Wished there the characters were more solid and the plot was better.
Eden of the East: Very nice concept. Has geeks, I approve. Opening and ending were both pretty. Short, at 11 episodes. Recommended. Could have gone so much deeper and asked about how humanity could become better, but so much more time was spent on chasing characters around.
The Daughter of Twenty Faces: I liked this. The main character reminded me of an ex-girlfriend. XD I wished there was more....
Kuroshitsuji: Was good, up until the end. At which point, I was like... WTF? No climax!
Soul Eater: Must watch. Long, at 51 episodes. Action series.
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Currently watching:
Full Metal Alchemist, season 2: Hey, it's season 1 all over again. And ZOMG, WHY HUGHES, WHY!!!!!!!!!
Pandora Hearts: Meh.
Skip Beat: Slow releases. Eh well. It's good.
07 Ghost: I just watch for the fighting-with-words. It's interesting and shiny. That's about it.
Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl that Leapt Through Space?): Good. The AI / flying spaceship brain amuses me often.
Melancholy of Haruhi Season 2: Meh. It's Haruhi. Episode 1 was full of Moe.
Shangri-La: Shiny. Lots of questions that don't get answered until episode 11 or so. Has an awesome transsexual character. Man, I wish I could be like her/him.
Hayate no Gotoku Season 2: Meh. I'm downloading this, but I haven't been watching it. Hayate's awesome, but Quicktime has been having issues playing these mkvs and I'm typically too lazy to pop open VLC / vlc has subtitle display issues, although I think the recent updates has fixed that.
K-On: Episode 1 was awesome. As was episode 2. But since I tend to watch anime late at night, it doesn't help that there's little or no action, so I tend to fall asleep watching K-On. Still, was downloading..... at some point...
Higepiyo: Hehehehe. That's all. They're short amusing episodes.
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I got a key cut yesterday. It was awesome - It took literally 21 seconds (the man was like, yeah, it's really quick. Here, time me, it'll be done in 23 seconds. I was like, "Woah, seriously?"). I didn't even have to take it off my keychain. Essentially, the machine holds both keys in a straight line. The original key side has a solid, unmovable pin or something, while the new key side has a grinding tool. So when you push both keys inwards, the original key is stopped by the pin, while on the other side, the new key is ground down to match the same point on the original key. It's hard to explain, you can probably go find a youtube video or something. But yeah, 21 seconds and $1.99 for a new key. It was quick and awesome. Also, that Ace Hardware store (@Menlo Park) has so much stuff, despite being so small. And they have bike stuff! And lube that's half as expensive as the local bike store's lube. x.x Mmm, time to go drink more water. I've got a itchy throat and a cough again. This is very unhappy. :( Tags: bike, keys, locks, sick
Current Mood: sick
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And they throw some awesome stuff away. Today, I managed to snag: -One DVD player -Two Laptops (both really old, but perfect to run servers / try linux on) -One Samsung PDA with an extra battery and an extra battery charger. -A few assorted AC/DC plugs -6? plates, some with chips off the edges. 2 bowls, and one larger glass bowl. -A cookbook -A haircut kit -One old and ugly looking DSL modem. -One metal lamp. Needs a lampshade. -One working bike that needs to be tuned up a bit. The brakes need replacing, but otherwise it looks decently functional. There was also a Dell desktop that was being thrown out, as well as yet another laptop, but those were so heavy (that laptop was reeeaaaallly old), I decided not to lug it home. Man, I wonder if UIUC kids throw away as much stuff. Although, I get the feeling I might have been looking in the graduate / professor housing area, since there were a lot of strollers and such in front of houses. Which might explain the older-looking stuff they throw away, instead of typical dorm stuff. I think trash gets emptied on mondays, unfortunately, so unless I feel like making yet another trip... meh. I think I made over 5 roundtrips to the Stanford campus, and at about 2.5-3 miles one way, plus wandering through the various parking lots to peer awkwardly around dumpsters... that's 30 miles? Meep. I almost wonder if I should rent a zipcar for an hour. Then I could snag larger things like smaller mattresses (saw at least two), the desktop, and other things... ...I'm hungry. Tags: collecting stuff, life, packrat, trash
Current Mood: accomplished
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So I wandered over to Goodwill yesterday, because they have a 50% off all non-barcode items and picked up a Nokia LD-1W. That's a bluetooth GPS unit. Checking Amazon, prices are at $60-something. I got it for $2. Probably because no one knew how to test it.. or even what it was. Took me a while to adapt a car Nokia charger to a 12V AC-DC unit to charge the poor thing, but it charged overnight and I got it working this morning. Got it to sync with my macbook pro: 1) Ran the bluetooth setup assistant 2) added it as "Any Device" 3) Passkey was 0000. The normal. 4) Then I configured it's serial ports, with "RS-232" as the Protocol and "SPP-GPS" (the only choice) as the Service. Ran Kismac. It recognized it immediately and showed pretty graphs of what satelites the GPS unit had found. Then I downloaded, compiled, and installed GPSd. And grabbed Google Earth and gps2geX (a gps to google earth tool). Started up GPSd: sudo /usr/local/sbin/gpsd -b -n -N -D 1 /dev/tty.NokiaLD-1W-SPP-GPS-1 and started gps2geX. Opened Google Earth and hit the "open in google earth" button in gps2geX and saw my location. Yay! Only problem: I don't really have a use for this, unless I go wardriving or geocache hunting... :\ Tags: geek, tech
Current Mood: bouncy
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Name: Benjamin Juang
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| In Life's name, and for Life's sake, I assert that I will employ the Art which is its gift in Life's service alone. I will guard growth and ease pain. I will fight to preserve what grows and lives well in its own way; Nor will I change any creature unless its growth and Life, or that of the system of which it is part, are threatened. To these ends, in the practice of my Art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for Life, when it is fitting to do so- looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, in that from which they proceeded... |
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