Dick Werthimer. “The purpose of life is to fight maturity.” [Quotes of the Day]

Zannah mentioned how she loves KareKano and I have to agree on this. I watched the first DVD over the weekend and really enjoyed it. I wasn’t quite sure what to think about it at first, but by the end of the third episode I was hooked. I really like how they are telling the story.

Hopefully the next one will be out soon.

Anime Expo 2002 happened this last weekend and a bunch of shows I like were licensed (I only posted the ones I’m interested in/curious about):

• Central Park Media got Alien 9 and DNA^2 along with the rest of Utena

• Pioneer announced Mahoromatic (S1), GateKeepers 21, Ai Yori Aoshi, Chobits, and Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar

• ADV announced Rahxephon and Pretear

• Bandai Announced Argent Soma as well as the rest of the Love Hina stuff out there (ep 25, specials, and again).

There was lots of other stuff announced, but it was stuff I didn’t really know/care about. I’m psyched/bummed about Chobits and Ai Yori Aoshi, since this means they won’t be fansubbed as quickly if at all.

This morning I stumbled onto The Collective Unconsciousness Project. It looks pretty cool. From the about page:

The Collective Unconsciousness Project (TCUP) is not designed to be a finished project, but an evolving framework that is both created and changed through interaction with it. It exists as both and online community and personal space. It’s not as straight forward as an information driven website, but a nonlinear experience based on chance and the user’s interactions. The purpose is to view connections between our dreams.

Users can contribute to the site by logging their dreams. This has a double effect, both helping to grow the database of dreams that the project can explore, and creating a personalized dream log for each user. The explore section of the site is the realization of TCUP. This is an environment that allows you to travel from dream to dream in a nonlinear yet interconnected way — without being made fully aware of what those connections are, and without being in total control of the path you take.

Of course to use this I need to start remembering/recording my dreams.

I was going to post about the post referenced here last night, but fell asleep.

Yesterday I was thinking about moving my backup installation of Radio from my iPod to my G3. Unfortunately, Radio is very tied into the drive name it was installed on. There are some scripts out there to change it, but I was a little nervous about running those. In the end I decided to keep it on the iPod for the week.

Add this to my small wish list for Radio. Some kind of export option. In the future it is possible that I might have to move it to a machine with a different name and it would be nice if it wasn’t a big job.

Even with going to sleep early last night I just can’t seem to get motivated to get into work this morning. Four day weekends suck in that way. They’re just long enough that you start to get relaxed, but they aren’t long enough that you’d really consider it a vacation. On the plus side I did sleep pretty much all through the night last night.

From over on jennet.radio:

RAVE Act: RIP Live Electronic Music.  The RAVE Act, whose acronym stands for “Reducing Americans’ Vunerability to Ecstacy”, would fine people or companies that organize or host events “featuring loud, pounding dance music” up to $2,000,000, and allows promoters to be jailed for up to 20 years, without requiring officials to prove that any of the attendees actually possessed drugs…  [kuro5hin.org]

“without requiring officials to prove that any of the attendees actually possessed drugs” – you’ve got to be kidding! [jenett.radio]

The timing of this is great as I was at a house party last night with a lot of old raver types. Most of us don’t get out to parties much anymore, you’ll most likely find us at a club or house party these days. This has been making the rounds of the rave mailing lists I’m still on and we were talking about it some last night. I actually have not had a chance to read up on it too much, but I plan to later.

This is a post to make sure I didn’t just screw everything up.

Pablo Picasso. “Everything you can imagine is real.” [Quotes of the Day]

I just got done watching the latest DVD (#10) and the last episode on it was just amazing (Episode 39: Sakura’s Dizzy Fever Day). It was the kind of episode where when it is done you want to see the next one. We’re into the second season now, and I know the first arc finishes up in this season. At least I’ve got other things to watch to keep myself busy till the next one.

Next up: His & Her Circumstances