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Darwin's Radio
So long time, no write, LiveJournal ( Read more... ) -
Essay Link
An essay on why we do repetitive things that we don't enjoy, how commercial banality insulates us from thought provocation, and the most recent Batman movie.
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New Album
Since I've promoted it on every other Social Network I belong to now, let me complete the trifecta, My musical group, Cliar Cu Buidhe, has put out a new album, Cliar Cu Buidhe Period, of all songs that either date to the Medieval and Renaissance period, or setting poetry from that period to original music. We have a promotional video you can ( Read more... ) -
The True Meaning of Christmas Cat Toys
So, a couple of years ago, I wandered into PetCo to pick up the usual pet supplies, and they had a big clearance on holiday themed cat toys. It was a lot of cat toys for the dollar, and so I picked up a package of red mice with green ears and red and green jingly balls, figuring that the cats didn't know the difference ( Read more... ) -
Anime out now
So most of the time if I talk about anime in this journal or elsewhere it is about some subtitled anime that I've downloaded off of the web, and which most people lacking the desire to go looking for bittorrents can't really check out on their own. This is a bit of a grey area with regards to anime companies, as on the one hand it is anime they ( Read more... ) -
Projects
Spending lots of time in waiting rooms while Bill is in appointments has put a high premium on finding things to read or do, and I wound up pulling out Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel once again since it was both conveniently in an open box, and something I had only read once and that several years ago. Shortly after starting into it I realized ( Read more... ) -
Decent discussion on To the Point
So I caught a bit of the radio show To the Point when running an errand today, and it surprised me by being interesting (I've rarely found the debates on the show interesting since it was just Which Way LA, and it was a full hour long). They were discussing the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which currently own something like 90% of the ( Read more... ) -
Most unusual current anime
While the truth is that there is plenty of strangeness in all sorts of anime, this happens to the extent that strangeness is no longer all that unusual. ( Cut for discussion of adolescents and underwear ) -
Best New Anime Series of 2009
I had an urge to do a top 5 list for 2009, but in most categories I barely have anything that came out in 2009, and my perspective would be rather pointless. There is however one thing I have seen a pretty fair percentage of for this year, and that would be Anime fansubs. Everything I will list has not made it to DVDs in America yet, to my ( Read more... ) -
Gratuitous Space Battles
That is actually the name of a new game for PC. I think a brief description will tell whether you are likely to enjoy it or not. You take spaceship hulls in one of 3 sizes: Fighter, Frigate or Cruiser. Each hull has a number of module slots, either standard slots which will take modules like crew areas, engines, armor, power generators, shield ( Read more... )