Boing Boing posts about my favorite soda company I discovered them when I was living in San Diego. They have the most original soda flavors. My personal favorite is their Green Apple soda. But they also have really interesting flavors like Blue Bubble Gum. Cory writes about one of my favorite features of their sodas though:

Jones Soda, the Canadian soda-pop “microbrewery,” does teensy print runs for its soda labels, incorporating photos that soda fans have submitted to their site and voted on. Link Discuss

I always wanted to have a picture good enough to send into them.

Jones also produces the best named energy drink: Whup-ass.

Simeon Strunsky. “Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.” [Quotes of the Day]

I have to say that the Massachusetts Division of Employment and Training has one of the worst voice mail systems ever. I just sat through about five minutes of recordings only to be told at the end that they were too busy and I’d have to try again later. This was after they said earlier in the call that they were very busy and I could wait if i wanted to.

The part that was most annoying though is that I had to take the time to enter a bunch of personal information. Why the heck do you bother to take in that information if you aren’t going to even connect me in the first place. I was already annoyed because I was going to go to one of the walk-in centers so I could get out of the house. But their damn web site is broken so I can’t see where they are.

It’s 6am and it is 78 degrees out already. There’s something just wrong about that. The weather report says it will only get up to 87 degrees today, but I don’t know if i want to believe them. Tomorrow looks to be better, but we’ll see.

I have a ton of stuff to get done today, so don’t know how much I’ll be around. I really need to start writing lists of things to do. Or, at least start using my PilotiCal to show up.

I went up to NH to hang out with my cousins. Now that I have some time off I think I may go up there for a day or two later this week if I can get a hold of them. It would be good to get away from town for a little bit I think.

Karl Marx. “Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.” [Quotes of the Day]

Macworld has a review of OS X 10.2 up. It gives a nice overview of what’s included with it and how well it works. I think I agree with just about everything in the article. I’m loving 10.2 a lot.

Pablo Picasso. “There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.” [Quotes of the Day]

I just haven’t been sleeping well lately. I wish I was because I’m kind of sick of waking up in the middle of the night.

On the other hand this has let me exercise my p2p skills. I’ve been downloading a very impressive amount of digisubbed anime in a short amount of time. The anime fansub community is pretty interesting. There are two big things that are nonos. The first is charging for fansubs. Every interview I’ve read with a show creator has had the question “what do you think of fansubs and bootlegs showing up in the US?” In every single case they don’t mind at all. In fact they think it’s cool that people are taking the time to subtitle them and get the shows out to people. They insist that it be free though. The moment someone charges money for it they don’t like it anymore

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The second part is pretty cool too. Once a show has been licensed or is being distributed most fansubbers in the US will stop subtitling a show. The US distributers tend to not care about fansubs as long they aren’t in direct competition. This one I have somewhat mixed feelings about. A lot of times a show is licensed then sits around being produced for a year or more. So my own rule of thumb is to continue downloading stuff till it is actually released.

Lately I’ve been making my way through Hikaru no Go. It’s a show about Go. Yes, the game where people are placing little stones on a wooden board. Amazingly enough I’m finding myself very drawn into this show. It’s one I doubt will ever be released over here, but you never know these days. So far I’m only about ten episodes in, and kind of curious where the story is going.