How about Hipster Bingo? And there’s also a site that randomly generates Hipster Bingo cards. Bonus points if you can can get a square from yourself. I should bring these out some Wednesday night, but we aren’t really a hipster kinda night. We’re more an old alcohol ex-raver kinda night. [via BoingBoing]

Tenessee Williams: “A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.” [Quotes of the Day]

I really don’t have much to say about this video for Satisfaction by Benny Benassi. Except that women who use power tools are hot. The song isn’t bad either, it’s got that kind of minimal Warm Leatherette feel to it.

I set up a feed for my anime blog over on LiveJournal. If you’re using LJ you can subscribe to ‘nonameanimeblog‘ and it should set you all up. Please remember that comments left over there do not get mirrored back over here, so click through to the article and give it a read (which you will want to do anyways since only excerpts of posts are sent over there). Enjoy! (oh yeah, when you first sub you’ll probably get a bunch of messages, don’t worry, the blog isn’t THAT busy).

I set up a feed for this blog over on LiveJournal. If you’re using LJ you can subscribe to ‘nonameanimeblog‘ and it should set you all up. Please remember that comments left over there do not get mirrored back over here, so click through to the article and give it a read (which you will want to do anyways since only excerpts of posts are sent over there).

Even though Anime Blog Muyo! beat me to the punch with a review I’ll post my comments on the show here now that I’ve had a chance to watch it through a second time. I’d been nervously awaiting the first episode of Onegai Twins for a while. I really enjoyed Onegai Teacher, but had been fairly disappointed with what they did for the special ‘bonus OVA episode’. It was like they took everything that made the show special and threw it out the window and tried to do more straight comedy. When I heard there was going to be another series I was hoping that it would feel more like the original show, but not like the OVA. Thankfully I wasn’t disappointed at all. I hopefully won’t say much spoilerish here, it’s only the first episode, so there really isn’t a lot to knowingly spoil.

As with most first episodes we get tossed into things without knowing everything that’s going on. We’ve got a teenage boy, Maiku, who seems to be living on his own with no parents in sight (gosh, where have we heard that before). He’s living in the same town the first show took place in, and we even get nice cameo appearances by Mizuho and Ichigo when he is at school. Next there is Miina, who has been hitchhiking to get to town after seeing the house she grew up in on a news report about UFOs. This house is (of course) also where Maiku is living. And last but not least we’ve got Karen, who is taking a train to the town for the same reason as Miina (as far as I can tell).

That’s about all there is to the first episode. There’s more details that I’ll leave for anyone watching to see. There’s one other cameo, but I’m still not quite sure if it is a cameo yet. I’m sure we’ll find out in a week or so. If you liked Onegai Teacher definitely check this out. It rocks.

CNN is always coming up with silly headlines, but this one is one of their best (the article is pretty humorous too):

Little robots in your pants

Making sense of revolutionary nanotechnology claim

(POPULAR SCIENCE ) — Dockers recently came out with a new brand of pants, the Go Khakis, which promise to keep your legs stain-free using revolutionary nanotechnology.

We couldn’t help thinking that Dockers might be using the word “nanotechnology” more for marketing muscle than for true scientific purposes, so we called its customer service line to ask a few pointed questions. Here’s a slice of the conversation. [CNN – Technology]

I can’t help it. I love seeing people toy with customer support people. There’s a point where scripts just don’t help much and I think they really need to be able to handle those times.

Wendy’s talking about her own personal privacy policy for her blog. I don’t really know how I’d explain. In general I’ll write about most things that go on in my life, but I do have definite limits. I treat my blog like how I’d talk in general conversation, and as such there are a number of things I wouldn’t talk about due to them being too personal or private. But even then a lot of it depends on mood. And, as far as mentioning people, that too depends on the context. Since I’m usually not posting anything that might be incriminating it isn’t an issue. And if I ever have any doubts I won’t mention them or ask them if it is okay.

Kasia asks “So what was your beginning in computers?” I can actually remember it well. Back in fourth grade I went to this place called Talcott Mountain Science Center (Holy heck, it still exists!) It was at the top of this mountain and they had a few different programs. I think the first I did was a week long one in astronomy. We learned all about astronomy stuff, and as a bonus the week I was there was when the first space shuttle landing test happened. Remember the one where it was strapped to the back of a 747 and they let it go and land? I remember the big concern being that it might hit the tail of the plane as it was released. But all went well. It was a cool time. The second program I went there for was on Saturdays and you could choose the area you wanted to learn about. Computers were a big draw, but I ended up doing a few things beforehand. I did an electronics class where I made an intercom set, and then I did a class in chronobiology which was very cool. And then I found the computer department and I was hooked. They had a PDP 11 there hooked up to paper terminals (what were those things called? Decwriters or something like that?), two Apple IIs, a TRS-80, and the Sinclair ZX81 (I think that was the model, I remember every time you pressed a button it would blank the screen and redraw it :)).

That was my first real experience with computers. I learned a bit of Basic to start. We’d make silly little multiple choice quiz programs. It was a blast. I loved going there. After that I didn’t have much exposure till I went away to high school at NMH. There they had a PDP 11 running rsts/e and I learned a bunch more about computers, even being a computer room monitor for my workjob. And my roommate had one of the first Macs. It was pretty damn cool. I kinda miss things from back then. It was a cool time to be a geeky kid.

Last night I went out to dinner with a handful of bloggers, primarily people who have been going to the Thursday night blog thing that Dave Winer does. Since he’s out of town we decided to just head out to dinner at John Harvard’s. It was a good time and I got to meet a number of new people, but it was quite loud so doing much talking was difficult. Though on the way there I walked past Pho Pasteur and realized that would probably be a pretty good place to go too (and less loud I think). Much thanks to Wendy for organizing this. Afterwards I wandered upstairs to buy two used CDs, then slipped off home to catch the first episode of Onegai Twins before sleep (but more about that over on the anime blog in a bit).