| 1:28am | Year in Review: The Immortal Kurenai | | | | There is a particular joy in working on multiple posts simultaneously. There is also a perversion in reveling in the fact that working ahead of schedule I can actually choose which post to go ahead first. At the same time it’s a cheerful dilemma in choosing. Only if I am guided by such simple... | | |
| 5:22pm | 2008 Holiday Shopping List Part 1 | | | | Despite the title of this post, there will not be a part 2. I think. I’ve done this in previous years but sometimes it’s hard to come up with a full list, and it may be hard to follow up to a partial list. I guess I’m just going to link to some interesting items (mostly just CDs) I’m... | | |
| 3:43am | My Favorite Anime Is Better than Your Favorite Anime - 2008 Edition | | | | It is freaking December and I am not getting any younger. Memory flees like crazy prank caller who gave God a ring; or Jay Leno in the snow. I can’t tell the difference between Thursday and Friday, other than that I’m suppose to meet up with some people to see some anime movie on one of... |
| 12:27am | Ranking Anime Is a Ton of Fun, Silliness | | | | I’m not kidding. Ever visit a friend’s place and look at his DVD collection, only to see that they are alphabetized, after sorted by genre? And this friend has easily 500+ titles on his shelves? I have a few friends like that. One actually collects anime on DVDs, so it was a treat to see... |
| 1:04am | A Designer’s Dilemma | | | | In Japanese-animated adaptation of comics, an anime’s animation character designer’s role is to extrapolate the original character designs into formats fit for animation. At least, that is it in a nutshell. For instance, a popular manga simply is that, a manga. To then take the characters... |
| 4:15am | DTO DRM Versus Rental DRM | | | | I was just thinking, but wouldn’t some of the practical arguments against DRM be invalid against rentals? For one, when you say “rent” the implication is that of mere possession and not ownership. You “have” it but it’s not yours. Unless you are one of those people... |
| 6:45pm | The Retail High Striker Sings Aimo For Christmas | | | | There was a news byte on ANN today that caught my eye, where it listed the high rollers in DVD/BRD, CD and merchandise sales in anime-related categories for Amazon Japan. I presumed they did not combined DVD and BRD SKUs, and bunched LE and RE together. It wasn’t a very long time ago since when... | | |
| 5:33am | Nice Bodies | | | | Perspectives are what make all this noise about blogging and the words of strangers from the internet useful to me. That hass always been one of my favorite thing about the ‘net in general. It brings all different sorts of people together under some new banner, a new way to organize thoughts.... | | |
| 6:57pm | CLANNAD Is a Warm Blanket… | | | | like, on a chilly late-Autumn evening, cuddling to a cup of hot chocolate listening to the November rain beating down on your windows. There’s just a blanket separating you and the freezing path to a lower energy bill. You know better to doodle in front of the seemingly-warm glow of the TV for... | | |
| 1:10am | Nice Body | | | | What I learned from Kemeko Deluxe episode 7: 1. Comedy is a spice that is all too frequently missing in this year’s offerings. I mean it isn’t like there aren’t comedy anime every season, but I’ve just been dropping them because they don’t make me laugh enough. 2. Leek... | | |
| 8:27pm | Blogging: Stand Alone Indexing | | | | Who needs Ani-nouto when you can harvest the power of Web 2.0 and make your own? It’s like a salad bar. Google Reader always seemed like something that require extra coaxing to make this idea come true. Honestly a lot of Google feels like something stuck in eternal Beta land that while you know,... |
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