I’m just about done reading the Chobits manga and I have to say that it makes me even more disappointed with the anime. Not to give out much in the way of spoilers, but the manga is connected to another CLAMP work. And it also explains things a heck of a lot better. It’s a shame, because while the anime was good, it could have been much better.

Very nice. ICv2 is reporting that Witch Hunter Robin will be airing on Cartoon Network sometime soon. The only thing I don’t get is how they can describe it.

The stylish series, which has been described as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Meets the X-Files,” has demonstrated a strong appeal to the black nail polish and dark lipstick crowd as well as to anyone who enjoys a rollicking dark fantasy adventure, which combines teen drama with cool action sequences as the young protagonists take on psychic killers.

Um, “Teen Drama”? Uh, I don’t know that I’d say it has a lot of what I’d call teen drama. X-Files-like stuff is in there though, so at least they got that right.

Very nice. ICv2 is reporting that Witch Hunter Robin will be airing on Cartoon Network sometime soon. The only thing I don’t get is how they can describe it.

The stylish series, which has been described as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer Meets the X-Files,” has demonstrated a strong appeal to the black nail polish and dark lipstick crowd as well as to anyone who enjoys a rollicking dark fantasy adventure, which combines teen drama with cool action sequences as the young protagonists take on psychic killers.

Um, “Teen Drama”? Uh, I don’t know that I’d say it has a lot of what I’d call teen drama. X-Files-like stuff is in there though, so at least they got that right.

There’s something nice about a cup of coffee and a book on a Sunday morning. I’m curled up on my couch, finishing up some manga I’ve got, then going to work on clearing out the TiVo some until my friend Cheryl comes over to bring me to dinner. Sounds like a perfectly lazy day to me.

Evan Williams posts a link to the Blogger Knowledge Base, which answers the question “What to do if your Mom discovers your blog…“. Of course they left out my personal favorite: lie. “No mom, that must be some other Gregory Blake who lives in Cambridge, MA and has lung disease and is a DJ. I’m sure there’s tons of them out there!”

According to Dan Gillmor, AT&T has received a patent for a way to defeat anti-spam measures.

“A system and method for circumventing schemes that use duplication detection to detect and block unsolicited e-mail (spam.) An address on a list is assigned to one of m sublists, where m is an integer that is greater than one. A set of m different messages are created. A different message from the set of m different messages is sent to the addresses on each sublist. In this way, spam countermeasures based upon duplicate detection schemes are foiled”

Nice. Thank you AT&T. Though I wonder how effective that method would be. It doesn’t seem like it would scale that well.

I forgot to write about this yesterday, so here goes. Rehab for Friday was difficult. After not exercising this much for a few months it was taking its toll a bit. I found that I wasn’t able to work myself quite as hard as I did earlier in the week. I used the same machines as the rest of the week. 15 min on the recline bike, 15 min on the arm machine, and 15 on the treadmill. Now it’s the weekend and I’ll get two days off. I have a feeling next week will go a bit better.

My little boy is six years old, and heavily into Pokemon. The show, the cards, and made-up games; a day won’t go by without some discussion of what evolves into what.

We don’t currently have cable TV, but I still have some tapes I made of Saturday morning “Kids’ WB” from a few years back, including, of course, Pokemon episodes. In addition, I’ve been collecting the fansubs of the currently-airing Pocket Monsters: Advanced Generation, and watching those with Owen on the computer. (We’ve previously watched Tiny Snow Fairy Sugar and Angelic Layer and Earth Defense Force Mao-chan, as well.)

Team Rocket winds up with a Pokemon named “Sonansu”, which is named “Wobbuffet” in the English version. The thing is, “So nan ‘su” is a slangy way of saying “Sou nan desu,” which means “that’s the way it is.” In the show, Sonansu constantly pops up after one of Team Rocket’s pronouncements and echoes, “So nan ‘su!” — but in English, the same Pokemon echoing “Wobbuffet!” makes no sense.

I have to think (or hope) that if whoever was in charge of changing (or not changing — I think the decision to retain Pikachu’s name and voice acting was critical to the show’s success) the Pokemon names for the English version had known ahead of time of this one’s role, he or she would have picked “Yubetcha” or “Yahdatzit” for the name…