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I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to.

Japan, I would like to thank you personally for this:

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Original seiyuu. Character designs translated extremely well into a more 'contemporary' animation style. Slayers Revolution, they're calling it, and I even saw something about them having planned not one, ( Read more... )

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So remember the Permesso di Soggiorno thing? That was due, like, a week ago? We just finally found a post office that would accept the application. And then we had to convince the woman, who spoke no English at all (luckily Leila knew the verb 'pagare' = 'to pay'), to actually let us pay. Yeah. She found out we were students and started ( Read more... )

No, really, they actually do say that. Constantly ( Read more... )

So apparently the Italian bureaucracy thinks that any foreigner who wants to stay here for a significant period of time needs not only a visa, but a 'permesso di soggiorno' which you have to get from the police. Which requires, in order to get an appointment to see the police, filling out and sending in many many pages of forms. Which are ( Read more... )

Hello, everyone. I suspect I'll wind up updating this a lot more frequently than usual for the coming month or so, because apparently the HTTP proxy they've got me using in order to connect to Teh Intarwebs here doesn't want to allow Pidgin (previously Gaim - renamed to match Firebird and Thunderbird, I suppose) the authority to connect the way it ( Read more... )

Okay, so today I went to lunch with a prospective student from MIT; she's interested in neutrino physics in particular and here I am in neutrino physics, so I and some other peoples took her out and made conversation and did the friendly social thing to try to convince her to come here. I'm making up for being conspicuously absent at both ( Read more... )

I actually own today's ROM Pit game. Except that mine is for NES, not SNES, and copyright 1991, not '89/'92... but whatever, it appears to be exactly the same game ( Read more... )

So yeah. Didn't go to Italy after all because the U.S. passport office is entirely peopled by incompetent bureaucrats with the intelligence of athlete's foot fungus. Which is a wretched waste, since priorities for the entire two weeks previous (I learned two days before I was supposed to leave that they wanted a photocopy of my driver's license, ( Read more... )

Happy Valentine's Day! to all of you out there who have a reason for it to be happy. (I love you, honey!)

For the rest of you, ( take the wisdom of Tom Lehrer to heart while you're cursing our names. )