The other vectors so far have been health-based, but this is of a different sort: What am I not doing, that I don't want to always have not done, so why not now ( Read more... )

So from the beginning of the month to yesterday, I was playing through the various routes of the Kanon visual novel. Today, I started watching the anime adaptation (2006 version), and... it is the weirdest goddamn thing ( Read more... )

Lately I've been listening to a lot of various versions of Rhythm Heaven songs online, and have been on a bit of a Japan kick lately anyway, so I tried checking out what sort of Japanese music Amazon had in its MP3 store. Hard to find what I was looking for by categories, but I did find this Listmania list that was quite helpful. I checked out ( Read more... )

This is nothing too strenuous. Certainly I wasn't going to try to start each day with a mile run. I'm out of shape enough that trying to do that would probably do some Bad Things. BUT I at least wanted to get a little something going to start changing that completely sedentary behavior. Mostly this was taking walks. There probably would've ( Read more... )

OK, so I've become really enamored by Kuratas. If you haven't seen the videos, here they are:

KURATAS - Suidobashi heavy industry
HOW TO RIDE KURATAS - Suidobashi heavy industryI love it for straddling the lines of awesome and ridiculous. A rideable robot that really starts to look like something out of Front Mission, down to the customizable ( Read more... )

These are not quite full recipes, but more templates.

1. Big Soup/StewI make a big batch of this once a week, and can eat on it throughout the week. Easy to take to work instead of packets of instant ramen or whatever. Basically: lentils, meat, and... something else. The lentils are bagged from Wal-Mart. Took a few tries for me to really get ( Read more... )

Of course, any attempt to improve health is going to have to take this into account. I basically started up the slow carb diet from Tim Ferriss's 4-Hour Body book. I'd dabbled with it before, but didn't have the motivation to continue. This time is different. Other than that it seemed like it gave people results, there were a few main things ( Read more... )

So I've recently written about my enjoyment of Katawa Shoujo, as well as how experiencing it so quickly I feel a sense of loss when it's over. This isn't the first time it's happened to me with fiction, and I tend to get over it--but where has that gotten me so far? Barring things like being a bit of an expert in incredibly niche fields, I'm ( Read more... )

So I went through the rest of the major paths in Katawa Shoujo.  Really liked it.  Unsure how much to attribute to various factors, though.  First, the individual stories themselves.  It's hard to see myself as intimately sharing myself with another, but there is a part of me that's romantic about romance and appreciates it in the right story.  ( Read more... )

So I recently played Katawa Shoujo, as it was free and I'd heard good things. It's a visual novel, so it's not very interactive or much of a game proper. Still, by being presented in game form from a first-person viewpoint, it accentuates my natural empathy and suspension of disbelief over what they'd be if I were seeing the same events as part of ( Read more... )