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  • Naruto on Cartoon Network

    Last saturday Naruto started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block of programming. For those of you who aren’t anime fans, Naruto is one of the most popular shows to come out of Japan in the last couple of years. Cartoon Network has a really random reputation when it comes to treatment of anime. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not.

    Given the above, I was kind nervous tuning in to check it out. I tend not to be a fan of dubbing, but realize that it is the only way that most shows will make it onto TV. In the end, Cartoon Network did a pretty good job. My biggest complaint was ‘why bother changing the opening and ending?’. The ones for the show are pretty good as it is (and some of the later ones are great). The voices themselves were okay, I think the VAs may have to grow into them a little, but hopefully that won’t take long. Very little editing. One minor thing that bugged me a little was that they edited out nosebleeds. Nosebleeds? They’re an anime thing. When a character sees something naughty or has perverted thoughts they tend to get nosebleeds. No, I don’t get it either, but I’m used to it.

    I’ve got it programmed into my TiVo as a season pass for now.

  • Naruto on Cartoon Network. Thumbs up?

    Last saturday Naruto started airing on Cartoon Network’s Toonami block of programming. For those of you who aren’t anime fans, Naruto is one of the most popular shows to come out of Japan in the last couple of years. Cartoon Network has a really random reputation when it comes to treatment of anime. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not.

    Given the above, I was kind nervous tuning in to check it out. I tend not to be a fan of dubbing, but realize that it is the only way that most shows will make it onto TV. In the end, Cartoon Network did a pretty good job. My biggest complaint was ‘why bother changing the opening and ending?’. The ones for the show are pretty good as it is (and some of the later ones are great). The voices themselves were okay, I think the VAs may have to grow into them a little, but hopefully that won’t take long. Very little editing. One minor thing that bugged me a little was that they edited out nosebleeds. Nosebleeds? They’re an anime thing. When a character sees something naughty or has perverted thoughts they tend to get nosebleeds. No, I don’t get it either, but I’m used to it.

    I’ve got it programmed into my TiVo as a season pass for now.

  • Wiki Madness

    Last night, in a fit of boredom, I deleted my wiki. Of course as soon as I had done it I wanted to find some new wiki software to run. I’ve played with tikiwiki and Moin Moin. Both were decent (and I’m leaning towards Moin Moin) but I figured I’d do the lazyweb thing and see if anyone out there had any recommendations. I think I’m looking for small and lightweight with access control, that has a fairly simple interface.

    On another note, I was trying to edit something over on Wikipedia the other day and discovered that some control key commands were intercepted by the site. Kinda cool, but when editing a text field in Safari you can use emacs controls for moving around and editing. Works great till you do ^e and suddenly find yourself moved to another page because it’s some wiki command. So the question is this. Anyone know how to turn it off? I tried searching around the Wikipedia site, but nothing jumped out at me.

  • Wow. Just Wow

    My mom posted a link to a post at nola.com which has an account of the hurricane and its aftermath at Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center. Rene Goux, the CEO of Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, writes about hurricane and the flooding of the hospital (it’s pretty much at the bottom of the bowl that is New Orleans).

    Conditions at the hospital deteriorated rapidly. There was no plumbing; the toilets were overflowing. The stench was overwhelming. None of us had been able to bathe for four or five days. The smell of sewage was nauseating and it was unbearably hot. We started breaking windows to give our patients some ventilation. At the end, we were reduced to one meal a day. We had no power at all for the last two days. None of the elevators were working, so we had to carry patients up as many as eight floors to the helipad or down to the boats. [nola.com: Memorial Medical Center Evacuation]

    The people working at that hospital deserve some kind of recognition for the work they did. They work in an intense environment as it is and this just sounds insane.

  • Hospitals in New Orleans

    Here’s an link to an posting from the CEO of Tenet’s Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. It’s pretty overwhelming.

  • Test Posting

    Here’s how you make a post.
    It’s FUN!

  • FSM: The Game

    Flying Spaghetti Monster: The Game. I loved it. It was better than cats. I’m going to play it again and again. Require Flash.

  • Sekrits

    Twinkies
    Nick posted a link to PostSecret. A site where people mail in postcards with a secret on them. Pretty cool. I keep wondering if I have any secrets to share.

  • New Orleans Photos

    My mom’s been pretty much glued to the computer every spare moment she has trying to figure out just how bad the flooding is by my sister’s apartment. She came across some pictures taken by someone taking a boat ride through areas near the apartment. There’s something really eerie about it all. It made me realize that most of the pictures I’ve seen of New Orleans on the news are focusing on places with people. There’s a link to a slide show of pictures at the nola.com link.

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    My neighbour and I took a boat ride through Uptown flooded flooded streets yesterday morning. Our route was as follows:boat launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel north on Nashville to cross Claiborne into Broadmoor. Right on Rocheblave. Return through Robert and Octavia back on Nashville. I took over 120 pics of the streets. Overall impression: news aren’t good. Water 5-6 feet high on the street, every home is affected starting two blocks past Freret. Dead body floating at the corner of Octavia and Rocheblave. Our house at 4900 block of Rocheblave has 3 feet of water. We didn’t even go into it. Pictures cover our route:Boat launch at Nashville and Freret. Travel north on Nashville, cross claiborne. Go into broadmoor, take a right on S. Rocheblave (we live on that street). Head out back on Robert, Octavia and Nashville. [nola.com]

  • Hagrid and Jesus

    Thank you McSweeney’s for providing me with such fun reading materials. Today we’ve got Things Hagrid the Half Giant Woudl say If He Served Jesus Instead of Harry Potter and A Letter from “The Power” to Public Enemy.

    From the first:

    “Speakin’ of cups runnethin’ over, laddie, mine’s be gettin’ a mite dry. How ’bout changin’ this ‘ere water into somethin’ a bit more, well, frisky?”

    “Why, if a fellow wanted ta get away clean, Peter-me-lad, all they’d have ter do would be ta deny they ever even knowed Jesus. Uh-oh. I shouldn’t eh told yeh that.”

    And the second:

    Dear Chuckdee, Flavor Flavor, Professor Griffin, and everyone else,

    Hey, guys! What’s up? Or should I say “what up”? Is that how you hippity-hoppers and homeyboys and gangerbangers are saying it now? Never mind. I’ll get right to the point.

    Do we have to keep fighting like this? Or, more specifically, do you really want to keep fighting me? I don’t mind indulging you if that’s what you guys want. It’s not hurting me, of course, since I am The Power after all. But I just wonder if you might consider giving it up. I mean, this has been going on for a while and I’m still very much here.

    Do you realize that you’ve been fighting me since 1989? (What a crazy summer that was, huh? Whatever happened to that funky drummer?) Now, that’s 16 years ago. Babies born that summer are driving cars now! So much has happened since then. Presidents have come and gone, the Soviet Union collapsed. But not The Power! Honestly, guys, I’d really like to be your friend and hang out with you at your rapping concerts. It’s time to put this behind us.