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  • Dear Geneon

    Please learn the difference between you’re and your. This is the second disc you’ve messed it up on.

  • Subtitles, Fansubs, and DVDs

    I’m currently watching the first DVD of Girl’s Bravo and just ran into a screw up of your and you’re. At first I didn’t think much about it, but then I thought a bit more and was quite annoyed. It is one thing to download fansubs and have to deal with poor grammar. I pretty much expect it to happen. But when I’m paying for a DVD I expect better quality control.

    That should be one of the big things for Geneon (who released this DVD) and other domestic companies strive for. Make a better product and people will have less of a problem paying for it. I should feel that when I am paying money I’m getting a superior product. This is already true with video and sound quality, but whoever is editing/doing QC on subtitles should at least know the difference between your and you’re.

    Idiots

  • Parents and Videogames

    I always enjoy Halley’s blog and today she posts about parents and video games.

    I rarely find parents who take THE TIME TO SIT DOWN AND PLAY the games with their kids. That’s what I’ve been doing for three years now. I stink at playing, but I know about a lot of games. Parents who don’t play think Tetris, Splinter Cell, Jak and Daxter and Halo are the same — and they are not.

    …

    As I mentioned below, even if you are a parent who has ZERO interest in actually playing videogames, please read the book “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson, to get a perspective on what a complex, artistic, challenging, educational excursion our kids are taking when they play. [Halley’s Comment]

    My sister is one of those parents who has no interest in video games. She watches the ratings of the games, but really has no idea about the content most of the time. To me it seems like issue of paying attention to what your child watches on TV. Just because a show isn’t violent or whatever doesn’t mean that you would want your child watching it.

    Then again, I don’t have a kid so I may not be qualified to say much about this. I do know that as a kid I would have loved it if my parents were more interested in the games I liked and wanted to play.

  • Fortune of the Day

    Found in my fortune cookie tonight:

    You won’t be bored for long! New adventures are on the way.

    I think I like the sound of that.

  • Personal Wiki

    I started an experiment today on note taking. I always have a tons of things I want to do/try, tons of things I have to do, and just lots of random information I’d like to keep track of. In the past I’ve tried all kinds of things text files (which I still use somewhat). But was thinking of new ways to organize. In the end I thought of using a Wiki and stumbled onto MoinX.

    For those not in the know, a Wiki is a web environment that allows fairly easy creation of web pages without having to know HTML. It also makes it easy to put in placeholders for where you want new pages to be. If you haven’t seen Wikipedia you should check it out for a good example of a Wiki.

    MoinX is a standalone version of a Wiki called Moin Moin set up to run on OS X. You run it and you get a blank Wiki all set to start editing. Pretty slick. So far I’ve just got pages for general ToDos and to start my list of 1001 Things. We’ll see how it progresses.

  • Speaking of Six Months

    I just got a great T-shirt that I’d ordered from Cafepress today.

    Tshirt saying I contain recycled parts

    To see what other products are offered, click on the picture above. And remember, being an organ donor is a good thing. Visit the Donate Life webpage for more information.

  • Holy Crap!

    It’s raining cats and dogs and penguins and armadillos outside! When will it end!?

  • Six Months

    Six months down, hopefully many many many many more to go.

  • Crappy Weather, Part 2

    I was kind of dreading driving up to Boston in the rain, and now I’m not driving up. I just got a call from my local pulmonologist asking me to come in for and EKG today (so that I can start pulmonary rehab tomorrow). And lunch plans didn’t workout so I won’t be missing that either. Of course, now I can’t get up there till Friday, which is kind of annoying.

  • Odd Double Feature

    Tonight I did a double feature of two movies. One I’ve watched many times already, and one that just came in from Greencine. First there was one of my favs, Shaun of the Dead. It still entertains and I needed a bit of that wackiness today. Then came Garden State, which came from Greencine, but which may be purchased soon.

    I liked Garden State a bunch, but I’m not sure I could say why. I also couldn’t decide right away if I liked it. I’m pretty sure I want to watch it again before sending it back.

    Together though, they were an odd combination that I’m not sure were what I was looking for. Maybe I should have done Shaun then Bubba Ho-Tep and saved Garden State for tomorrow.