Halloween is over and, like a small-time addict, I'm already skirting my "No Christmas until after Thanksgiving" rule by sneaking peeks at Hallmark's ornament display and listening to my beloved Year with Frog and Toad soundtrack. (There's a very sweet Christmas carol at the end, which is okay to listen to early if it's part of a play ( Read more... )

The only advantage to feeling generally gloomy is that it reminds me that I saved a few last Natsume episodes to watch to cheer myself up. ::glooms::

Last weekend Two weekends ago was Anime Expo (need to work on getting these up faster), and I, perhaps unsurprisingly, attended.

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I love Natsume, but someone should really tell the author that if you tie a piece of paper to a tree, it will not get higher as the tree grows. It will stay in the same place. (Assuming it doesn't decompose entirely, of course.) Trees grow at the top, not from the bottom.

Hot damn. Check out one of the features that's supposed to be coming soon to Photoshop. It's like an autofill made of magicI know it's already Easter, but you know what's neat about Passover? Kosher pickles on sale at the grocery store. Mmmm ( Read more... )

I am reading this article about scurvy, and it is fascinating beyond all reasonable measure. You know how in the 1700s England figured out, hey, eating citrus cures scurvy, so maybe we should eat that on sea voyages? Turns out that, through a series of amazing coincidences that seems ridiculous and yet make perfect sense, by the early 1900s the ( Read more... )

If you did not already know (and you probably don't), Natsume Yuujinchou is the sweetest thing ever. It kind of feels like a very relaxing xxxHolic. The show's about Natsume, who can see spirits and demons and whatnot (your usual Japanese assortment), and the "Book of Friends," a book his grandmother put together when she was young. It contains the ( Read more... )