Hand Maid May is one of those shows that is so cute I couldn’t help but love it. Yeah, it pushed the limits of the amount of fanservice I can take, but overall it was a fun show.

Now, the first episode of a 4 part OVA called Hand Maid Mai has been released. What do I think of it? I didn’t hate it. But I think it lost a lot of the magic that the original series had. The main character, Ozu Hideo, is working as an editor for an adult video company. He comes home drunk one night to find three cyberdoll maids named Ai, Mai, Mei who all look like old girlfriend at different stages in her life. The first episode was lots of setup and a little bit of plot involving the maids helping him finish up making a picture. Bits and pieces of this were humerous, but overall the fan service and at least one of the scenes just didn’t work for me. I’ll give it a second episode when it is released, but unless things change dramaticly I won’t be following this.

Oh, there are two cameos. At one point you see a certain girl leaning out her window on a ladder stretched between two buildings. And it appears that Sara is making some level of appearance (but I’m not sure just how much of one yet).

Chris Pirillo posts the rules of Blog Club.

The first rule of Blog Club: you talk about Blog Club. The second rule of Blog Club: you TALK about Blog Club. (3) When someone says stop or goes limp, the conversation has begun. (4) Unlimited links in a post. (5) One post at a time. (6) No shoes. (7) Conversations go on as long as they have to. (8) If this is your first night at Blog Club, you have to Comment. [Chris Pirillo]

Unknown: “Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.” [Quotes of the Day]

One thing that’s always annoyed me about the default behavior of Movable Type is that it both requires you to put in an email address and displays it. I have no problem putting one in if it’s never going to show up on a page, but I already got bit by the Radio comments stuff (my email address was sniffed out in days of me using it to post). As a result I’ve made a small change to how comments work. I do require that people put in their email address, url is optional. If a person enters a url it will print their name with a link to that url. If they just put in an email address it will just print their name with no link to anything.

Also, I know I could probably google for this, but how does this email encoding stuff work. In the end it’s still all plaintext. All someone has to do is pattern match off the character strings for ‘@’ and ‘.’. The solutions I’ve seen seem to feel more like security through obscurity.

Geek time again.

Being an old unix geek, one of the things I was psyched about with OS X was being able to use the terminal. Sometimes I live almost completely in the command line (except for web browsing). While browsing around the other day I ran across a page with a bunch of articles on the OS X terminal. The one I found most interesting was one on making .term files for Terminal. These are files that when you doubleclick on them open up a new terminal window and run the command you have specified. You can also specify window size and where to display it when it opens.

So what I’ve done is created a bunch of these for standard things I run in a terminal window, like listing log files and sshing to other machines. Pretty nifty.

I was just idly fooling around online when I got a pop-up ad for Noir. Damn, do those ad companies know me or what?

I’m not scared about this at all. As it is, I’m only mildly gratified that Noir is being advertised a lot.

This lack of terror scares me immensely.

When I went to the doctor the other day he perscribed me some narcotic cough medicine. As he says, “narcotics are the best thing to stop a cough”. He perscribed me something I hadn’t had before called Tussionex. It’s basicly hydrocodone with an antihistamine (i think, I’d have to go and doublecheck on that part). The problem isn’t the taste, it’s the consistancy. I’m used to cough syrup that is kind of syrupy and mediciney tasting. I’m not quite sure what the taste of this stuff is, but it’s not too bad. The problem is it’s thick, really thick. And it is kinda yellowish too. And it just doesn’t even look real appealing. Luckily it goes down quickly and seems to start working really fast. How come nobody can come up with medicine that doesn’t taste so icky (or have the consistancy of mucous).

Morgan turned off comments on her new blog. I wonder how many people who are more in the public eye have problems like this. I have enough problems here. I had turned on anonymous posting for a few days to see what it would be like and I just don’t like it. I like the person posting to at least have an identity. It seems so impersonal otherwise.

Has anyone run into one of these? I’d love to see one of the video game news sites have an RSS feed. I googled around a bit yesterday, but came up empty. Anyone know if such a thing exists?

While reading through the Chimera board this morning I found a link to a cool product called Bookie. It allows you to share out your bookmarks via Rendezvous. Pretty cool! Now the next step is to allow you to point it at a url with bookmarks in it. That way I could access my bookmarks from anywhere.