WTF! It’s SNOWING out. That is so wrong. It’s almost May! It’s April showers bring May flowers. Not April snows!

First Adam, then John Robb, mentioned Zoe, so I decided to take a look.  This actually looks quite cool.  I’m considering taking a look at it, even if it does just support POP.  In some ways this reminds me of some of the things Creo is doing with Six Degrees.

Every once in a while the internet just blows my mind.  Not that it is anything special, it’s just the things it lets people do.

I’ve been getting a lot of fansubbed anime online lately.  Basicly what people do is get ahold of the a show or movie and they translate it and lay the subtitles onto it.  They they make it available online.  This has been going on for a while.  The thing that suddenly blew my mind was realizing that the show I’d just been watching (Chobits) had actually aired for the first time under a week before.  So basicly people are getting a copy of it right away, translating it, and putting it up online within days of it.  This means that we’re able to get a sampling of shows in almost realtime.

Of course the downside is now I probably will have to wait forever for these shows to come out on dvd here.

Ugs, I’m struggling this week. I don’t feel like working at all. I think some of it is allergies. In the last day I feel like they’ve suddenly slammed me pretty hard. Either that or I’m getting sick. I’m not sure which I’d hope for more ;).

Garrison Keillor. “I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”

[Quotes of the Day]

A cosmic extravaganza is unfolding in the night sky. Gaze west after sunset and you’ll see Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn bunched closely together. What does this rare gathering symbolize for you? It means you have a chance to intensify and refine all your uniquely Scorpionic powers. I suggest the following: Identify where your selfish desires overlap with the needs of your collaborators; penetrate surface appearances and explore what’s really going on beneath; and purge any bad, hurt, or twisted feelings that interfere with your ability to tap into the beautiful heart of your emotional power.

(– thanks to Free Will Astrology –)

Zannah has a link to a guide to getting laid in japan. I thought it was a pretty funny read myself.

It’s like Netflix, but for Video Games!  I may just have to sign up for this.

I’ve got to say that Chobits is quite cute, and has one of the catchiest opening theme’s I’ve heard in a bit. Thankfully I was able to download it yesterday. I’m getting deeper into Earth Girl Arjuna. I really enjoy it so far, but it tends to make me very pensive. Though I think that is a good thing. And it is one of the few things I’ve watched lately where I find myself so transfixed that at the end of the show it feels like no time has gone past.

It is once again making me think about anime making more of an entry into the US. I’d love to see something like Arjuna be released here, but I wonder how well it would do. At times it does get a little preachy, but it never seems to go overboard (at least for me, tolerances may vary.

On the note of things being released over here. I arranged to get two tickets for Escaflowne while it showing here. Supposedly The Brattle is getting it for a whole week. I’m quite curious about it because it is supposed to be quite different from the TV series.

James Thurber. “I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.”

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