Samuel Johnson. “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” [Quotes of the Day]

Here they are just a tad late:

1. Where were you born? Hartford, CT at Hartford Hospital

2. If you still live there, where would you rather move to? If you don’t live there, do you want to move back? Why or why not? I grew up a few towns over in Glastonbury. I really only lived there full time until I was 15, then I went away to high school and college. I miss it some, but I don’t think I’d move back. The town has changed a lot since I lived there.

3. Where in the world do you feel the safest? At home probably. Either my apartment or my parent’s place. Or possibly over at one friend’s apartment where we’ve had a lot of parties.

4. Do you feel you are well-traveled? Somewhat. I have been all over the place, but there are still many places I want to go both in the US and abroad.

5. Where is the most interesting place you’ve been? I think that would have to be the UK. I went out there twice for work and each time I basicly had the weekend to myself. It was also really the only two times I’ve traveled on my own to someplace far away. Both times I had fun discovering London on my own.

It’s Four AM and the phone just rang. My heart started racing. Was this the call? No, it was just Exodus calling to say our site wasn’t responding. Now I’m shaking because I got a huge adrenaline rush. Bah

  
One of the other new shows I mentioned I’m watching is Saikano. I’m not quite sure how to describe this show. I first decided to download it after reading about it over on Automated Alice. The show has a fairly sad, but sweet feel to it. It takes place during a war, and is somewhat of a love story.

A friend of mine also told me that it’s also a manga and one of his favorites. He was quite happy with the translation to anime so far. he says that it caught the feeling of the manga perfectly. Here’s the blurb about the show from AnimeNfo.com:

Shuuji and Chise are third year student at a high school in Hokkaido. The shy Chise is finally confessing to Shuuji, and finally two of them are starting to exchange diary awkwardly.

One day, Shuuji tried to escape from a sudden enemy air raid on Sapporo. While desperately escaping from the air raid, Shuuji saw a scene that he could not forget for his life. He saw Chise, with a huge weapons which looks is part of her hand, shot the enemy fighters one by one. Apparently, Chise is the ultimate weapon with destructive power which is important for the war.

How can Shuuji face the reality that his love is actually the ultimate weapon with destructive power?

Thomas Neill. “Of those who say nothing, few are silent.” [Quotes of the Day]

British Inquiry Finds Doctor Killed 215 of His Patients. Dr. Harold Shipman, the suburban family doctor convicted two years ago of murdering 15 of his patients, actually killed at least 215 of them. By Warren Hoge. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

I think the thing that creeps me out about this the most is the was killing almost 10 people a year for around 20 years. The one line from the article that really got me was:

Judith Page, a patient of his who worked as a household helper, told investigators that Dr. Shipman once asked her if she had had the experience of finding a client dead. When she said “yes,” he asked if it did not give her a “buzz.”

So it’s not even like he was doing it to make someone’s life easier, he was getting his kicks from it. Ick ick ick.

An addition to my blogrolling list Ernie the Attorney. I started reading his law blog a while back and have been getting it in my RSS Aggregator and decided to add him to the blogrolling list tonight. Also, HOLY HECK! Codergurl is back! Welcome back to the land of the blogging.

I also pulled a few more off. At least one of which has a new link that I need to track down.

What will they think of next. What I find most surprising is that I don’t really find this surprising.

It’ll Be Called ‘The M.E.O.W. Show’..

Meow Mix cat food is apparently shopping around a TV program aimed at cats. Not cat lovers. Cats. CNN points out one of the flaws in the concept:

Lacking opposable thumbs, felines will have to rely on their owners to tune in to the half-hour show.

The other major flaw? It’s a stupid idea.

 

[Over the Edge]

A few new shows have started up in Japan lately. So far the first two episodes Witch Hunter Robin have been digisubed. One thing in common with the two new shows I’ve started watching is that the animation looks very well done. The animation style in this was fairly striking to me. I’m trying to think of what else it reminds me of, but not coming up with much. It’s a little like the one episode of Hellsing I saw, but not quite.

Unlike Hellsing, the first episode of this made me curious about the show. It doesn’t feel as dark as Saikano (I’ll post more about that one later), but it’s definitely not a bouncy happy series. Hopefully more will be coming out soon. If you’re looking for something new to view I recommend it based on the little I’ve seen.

Update: I just finished watching the second episode and this show feels like it has lots of potential. Once again I’m struck at how a lot of the shows from Japan don’t come right out and tell you what is going on, but slowly let the background get fleshed out over time.

I missed the first blog.meetup.com event, but I’m thinking about trying to get to the next one if I’m around.