Archive for June, 2007

What ever happened to the block party?

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

So, I was just thinking to myself… In the neighborhood I grew up in, I can remember a couple times where the people on a given street would get most of the residents of the street together and have a big block party. There’d be like, big collective cookouts, lots of socializing, lots of kids [...]

NHK ni Youkoso! (Welcome to the NHK)

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Started watching NHK Ni Youkoso like … 2 days ago. Finished it just now. First of all, this is an excellent series. It’s got a cute romantic touch, it’s got action, it’s got inaction, it’s got a great ambling guitar melody, it’s got excellent character design and well-applied art styles. But what really makes this [...]

Dokuro-chan

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

So, among the random anime I’ve downloaded over the years that I’m starting to go through, I found this series “Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan” (“Club-to-Death Angel Dokuro-chan”). It’s a 4 episode OVA, and … well … you never can tell with those. They could be great, they could be terrible. This was … umm … yes [...]

The jobhunt…

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

So, got a rejection letter for the System Engineer position over at ECN. I can’t disagree … it was the job I didn’t really want. The ECN sysadmin who was supposed to be recruiting me seems to have decided against it, or something. Or just forgotten. Maybe he’s busy… I dunno. I decided about a [...]

Image of the day: puddle reflection

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I love reflections in things, especially in puddles and windows. Oh, look, here’s one now!