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Noragami Revisited
So after watching another episode of Ouran Host Club together over the weekend, my roommate asked about Noragami and we watched the first episode of that also, which she liked. We followed up with episode 2 this evening. So much for “I don't really like anime”... -
Loops
So in August I read all of “Hikaru no Go” in approximately two days. (This involved staying up all night reading through 10am one night, at which point I got cut off for a timeout period by Shonen Jump and well, it was time for work anyway...) Shortly afterwards I decided to see what the anime was like, with the intention of watching only a couple ( Read more... ) -
桜蘭高校ホスト部は素敵だよ！
So after finishing Rurouni Kenshin mid-June, I ended up reading all of Ranma 1/2 (which I didn't appreciate much in HS because it's unserious episodic silliness, but I have a newfound appreciation for unserious episodic silliness). Also, slowest burning romance ever, but Ranma and Akane are really cute. ^-^ Also, now that I'm paying attention, ( Read more... ) -
Decryption
Finally finished the last lesson in Genki Book 1 this week. (Genki is a college-level introductory Japanese textbook. I started on it like a decade ago, got about halfway through, then restarted a few times and never made it past lesson 8 until this past year.) It's been kinda neat to be able to pick out increasing bits of dialog while watching ( Read more... ) -
Rurouni Kenshin
Once upon a time... I showed up to two or three of the anime club meetings at my college. They would screen anime on a projector, and one meeting they did Kare Kano and one meeting they did Kenshin.
I don't really remember whether I saw a few episodes of the main series during this meetup or if it was another time, but they definitely screened the ( Read more... ) -
First Lasagne Recipe
Made lasagne for the first time today. Here's notes. It was a mix of different influences including the issue of "what's actually in the fridge", and also "I hate ricotta". (Went for "garlicky like tzatziki" for the paste therefore. Also it's more interesting that way.) Sauce
- Soffrito with 1 carrot, 2 celery, 1 small onion [roughly equal ( Read more... )
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Weekend
This weekend Dy came over midday, and we worked on our respective projects in the sunny living room for awhile while listening to some CDs, and then we went to a backyard barbecue party in Silicon Valley where we chatted with a variety of interesting people, and then we came home and I continued on my project while Dy talked a lot until pretty late ( Read more... ) -
Sewing the Darkness
Sewing shadows is tricky. First of all, they're hard to see, so pinning them together is a matter of trying to figure out where thin layers of "slightly darker" overlap to be double "slightly darker". And then you have to be extra meticulous on the sewing machine to make sure they're smooth and flat as they go through, because if there's any ( Read more... ) -
Library
So I walked into my childhood library this afternoon, because I wanted a place to work. And it was like stepping into the past. They'd changed things around and painted part of it purple, but I still felt exactly the same, and spent a good 5 minutes walking around the children's section being like “and I want to read that, and that, and that...” ( Read more... ) -
Blast from the past
This morning a friend messaged me to say she'd met a developer who got into CSS because of me. Apparently she also talked about my LiveJournal, and image maps, and my old website, and now I'm very very curious because afaik there's only two sets of people who know about my LJ: a handful of friends from school, and online friends linked to the ( Read more... )