Cure Test.

I'm using MEncoder for the first time, and seeing how much bandwidth embedding my own videos will cost me. Ergo, this entry is more of a test than anything else. Nevertheless, I figure it's as good a time as any to ask if any of the post-Max Heart seasons of Pretty Cure have had any Cure White or Cure Black cameos. Y'all know where to find me.

Ueda Kana's cat is pure evil.

Just so you know, Ueda Kana is a blogging fiend. She doesn't update as much as, say, Hirano Aya, but she definitely updates a lot more than I do.

It's a trap.

I would never have seen this had I not been testing a new browser.

Just for the record, I shall never display ads on this site.

See also ENOZ.

Ah, nuts. So it's not the inverter. I hope replacing the CCFL is easier than it looks. On the other hand, fixing my busted minidisc player was a cinch. Yes, I said minidisc. I'll let you in on a secret: I like using minidisc because Sony's SonicStage software is a colossal piece of garbage and it makes listening to music an incredible pain in the ass. These arduous conditions will enhance your enjoyment of the music because you'll appreciate all the God damn work necessary to get there from here. It's sort of the same deal as with vinyl except on ephemeral media and without the benefit of high fidelity audio. Word.

[Update: IT'S A SONY.]

13:02:27< Evirus> I'm almost out of Haagen Dazs.
13:02:29< rq> strawberry?
13:02:29< Evirus> Yes.
13:02:29< rq> i had some coffee haagen dazs
13:02:29< rq> pretty good
13:02:29< Evirus> Speaking of which, I think I'm going to pioneer the next great blogging advancement: Previews for the upcoming blog entry. There will be more service-service, too.
13:02:31< rq> that doesn't sound that great

"Pete" writes:

What you capptured is actually a Logitech Marble, not a trackball. The surface of the "ball" is a touch sensor, like a laptop touchpad.

I dunno, it still looks like a trackball to me.

P.S. When are you going to have e-mail address in the "about" page?

Probably never, since last time I listed one I almost never received any interesting mail. Maybe I'll experiment with enabling comments for a while.

In other news, holy heterochromia, that page dates back more than five years.

I noticed you didn't mention the AYAKO DOCTRINE for Scrapped Princess, I must say even though Winia was a secondary character, it deserves mention.
-Epi

Ah, quite right.

< Shikabane_Evirus> Ho ho. https://twitter.com/Evirus
< albert> who is the momotato of anime twittering
< Shikabane_Evirus> I think ani-nouto quoted hinano's twitter, but I think hers is general purpose.
< Shikabane_Evirus> Anyway, I am totally going to blog about my AVANT-GARDE anime twitter, and ani-nouto is going to say it is a great or terrible idea, but regardless there will be scads of imitators afterwards and the episodic anime twittering movement will be all my fault.
< albert> unless the twitter fad blows over
< Shikabane_Evirus> I'm banking on the world's ever-diminishing attention spans.
< TheBigN> I'll be stuck keeping blogging to longer than 140 characters.
< Shikabane_Evirus> I bet nobody reads more than 140 characters of my blog entries anyway.
< Shikabane_Evirus> They probably just read the image captions.

< Shikabane_Evirus> Anyway, I am totally going to blog about my AVANT-GARDE anime twitter, and ani-nouto is going to say it is a great or terrible idea...

Normally I would but I'm so shocked by Nanoha (or, actually, Fate) that I am thinking anime is ruined for me now, what to say about blogging and twittering.
-- Pete

Most Nanoha advocates aren't objective enough to caveat their recommendations with a qualification acknowledging that the series is rather polarizing. Many will sidestep the matter by suggesting new viewers skip directly to A's which is widely regarded as far and away the best series of the trilogy.

I disagree in so much that I feel A's has its own flaws. Also, despite some very nice fights, they don't measure up to My-Otome levels of mahou shoujo thrashings in my view. In fact, I'm tempted to claim the first series is the best of the three, merely because I prefer the dynamic having Fate as an antagonist provides.

I maintain that the most provocative aspects of the Nanoha series are the unanswered questions that everyone seems to pass over. E.g. In re Fate's Final Offer and In re the Fate of the Numbers.

Naturally, I don't think the Nanoha series is sophisticated enough to have introduced these questions deliberately—a larger flaw in my view than the pandering fan service, towards which I'm entirely ambivalent.