Yet another stunning revalation from the New York Times this morning:

Use of Internet Is More Active at High Speed. People who use high-speed services to connect to the Internet from home have a much more active relationship with the online world than those who dial up. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]

Um, well duh. Have you tried browsing over a dialup line lately? It’s painful. Especially after having a high speed connection at home or work. The study I’d be more interested in seeing is how people use the net differently over broadband. I know that my usage patterns have varied a lot since I got it. I use the net for a lot of things I wouldn’t have before because of the improved speed.

Matt Groening. “Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.” [Quotes of the Day]

I had been waiting for Warner Brothers to re-release Batman Beyond – Return of the Joker. When they first released it on DVD they’d made a number of edits to make it more ‘kid friendly’. Needless to say, people were upset.

Friday I saw that it had finally come out and decided to pick up a copy. I watched it this morning and I have to say it’s quite good. It’s features like this that give me hope for american animation. For the record, I think there actually is a lot of good american animation, but there still tends to be the feeling that cartoons are for kids. So you don’t have a lot of animated featues targetted at an older audience.

AHhhh! I just saw a commercial for Cookie Puss and Fudgy the Whale. Is Carvel even still around? (It looks like they are.)

I dunno about anyone else, but Cookie Puss never looked that appatizing to me.

Oscar Wilde. “Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.” [Quotes of the Day]

Though their birthdays aren’t for a few days I want to wish my friends Bree and Susan a Happy Birthday. Last night there was a surprise party thrown for them that was lots of fun. I think my favorite moment was watching Bree’s expression when she walked into the bar and saw her parents there. Jill had called me yesterday afternoon when she was out with Bree and asked me to invite them.

It was also nice to get out and socialize a bit. I got to spin a nice housey set (It was nice to find out I could spin a set with almost no trance). I also got to meet a few new people who were really cool. I was even a good boy and slipped out a bit early so that I wasn’t up TOO late. Also, thanks to Chris for asking people to smoke outside (as well as for organizing everything). It’s really nice to see people just being aware that their smoking is really bothering someone.

One thing I love about summers in Cambridge is that there is actually parking. Once graduation occurs things clear out a bit for a few months. It’s nice being able to find parking right in front of my house after being out late on a Saturday night. It is almost unheard of during the school year.

I’ve had a bunch I wanted to post this weekend, but just haven’t gotten around to it. So there may be a bunch of updates this morning.

I’d like to welcome back Dave also.

Hot Damn. My Kimagure Orange Road DVDs finally arrived. I was a little surprised to see them arrive at home because I’d put down my work address as my shipping address. One thing I’ve just realized is that the episodes of this I had seen were from the OVA series. So these are all new episodes for me. Animeigo has even said they are going to remaster the discs to fix some issues with them. It seems they thought that people wouldn’t want to see the openings for each episode and so made them seperate. Understandably, people were a bit pissed off about this. Animeigo gets points in my book for admitting they screwed up.