| 3:47am | Rara Eve Shinseki | | | | While I do understand why viewers do not enjoy ALI PROJECT opening themes, I somehow find them addicting in portions of the SKG op melody. Naturally, the sound is filled with some random synth noises and eerie background effects reminding me a bit of Halloween if I were to repeat portions of the track... |
| 4:00am | Toradora! Complete | | | | Ah, and good. After all the reflections [optional RSS], I am not sure what else to say about this delightful series. It was a lot of smiles, some doki-doki, delicious characters, and finished clean. I haven’t necessarily changed my thoughts on the nostalgia of it all, and I may never rewatch it,... | | |
| 3:21pm | Inverse Harem | | | | So I was recently catching up on Maria†Holic, and took some time for episode 11 last night. The thing I came away with is this concept of inverse harem. As we already know the definition of harem (thank you Akamatsu) and that of reverse harem (thank you shoujo), Father Kanae gives us a good entry... |
| 3:58pm | Pliability of a Rating History | | | | I want to express this as briefly and neatly as possible. I’ve written before about what differentiates a [fixed] point-based rating system from relative ratings (my rantish is nothing new by now), but I revisited my AniDB account the other day, glanced at my votes, and realized how completely... |
| 5:11am | Why, Hello Spring 2009 | | | | Oh Mah Gawd, she’s so lightning. Rather than do a Spring preview What is Spring really about? The lightning and shining of youth? nai nai nai what is Spring 2009 about? I have no clue [, but if you ask me later I'll probably say fantasy girls]oh well I’ll just give my take on premise appeal... | | |
| 5:03pm | Faith In Data Integrity | | | | Yes, I’m pointing at ANN or the Official page for プリンセスラバー！(Pr incess Lover!). This isn’t much of an issue, but makes me question who has the right info, and I’m assuming the Official page, and the Frontier pointing also was mentioned via presepe. Because I so love... |
| 6:20pm | Japanese Surname Get | | | | A couple weeks ago I was going through a Japanese workbook can came across some common names. For a moment I thought about learning them via flashcards, so today I made up a very small 20-card list. It was warming typing up the list, since the names are fairly familiar among characters and creators... |
| 4:35am | An Evening | | | | Yes, I’m sitting at home, drinking some Newcastle on my Spring vacation and feeling rather down that I didn’t quite enjoy any anime or manga this week My own fault really, as I wanted to be less productive, but somehow managed to fire-up over an xul application. Anyhow So google reader... | | |
| 3:42am | When I Mean Context | | | | This is a little dev-shot of a small XSL transform on some of melative’s API interface (the Action-Stream thingy). Basically, there is this event wrapper I built within the system, and it’s broken down into 3 sections (Action-Announce-Auto haven’t thought of a name for the 3rd). More... |
| 4:18am | Sweet 日本語 | | | | Just at random. Here are some very useful tools. Denshi Jisho The “Electric Dictionary” provides quick and generally easy lookups thanks to the simple interface. One of the best things I like about it is the linkage it gives to other resources but also the example sentences (though not all... |
| 2:21am | Seasoned With melative and Rant | | | | Earlier this year I wrote about using melative to leech data for season previews, but the ultimate issue has been whether the information is actually in the system or not. Unfortunately, this ridiculous one man show has to spit some hacks to make adding and editing title info “more efficient”,... |
| 5:33am | A Failed Context | | | | Where the twitter fails. For something that appears closer to the second model, but perhaps there is a better general solution |
| 1:04am | Memory Learning Revisited | | | | In my last post about spaced repetition software, I advocated Mnemosyne. I’ve thoroughly used Anki for the past couple weeks to see what the difference is and what benefit there is over Mnemosyne. I enjoyed the findings.. Anki is great, but I changed quite a few settings to get it to a simple... |
| 9:44pm | Backing Up With PAR2 | | | | Once in a while, the topic of DVD backups arise in #ab. Earlier this week natsuneko [or nekosasu] mentioned backing up some 300GB onto DVD. All is good in the world, but DVD’s do get scratches and depending on the media, may start to lose data blocks after time. Is there anything that can be done... |
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