March Infodump
Stuff happened at work. I came up with a makeshift solution which could potentially save the company hundreds of dollars a year (:P) and increase our on-time completion rate. Yay. I was originally hired for a three month temp position. It's now been 2.5 months. A couple weeks ago (around the 2.0 mark) my boss mentioned to me in passing my "end-of-the-year objective". I think this is a good sign. Been doing a lot of SolidWorks at work and dreaming about it every night. I'd like a full day to use solely to organise work; my To-Do queue is slowing filling up with low-priority tasks. I wish I could trust what other people tell me; it'd save me so much work (and time). It's too easy to forget to eat lunch. On the other hand, there's a nearby boba place which has coconut milk tea.
The Spring 2010 anime season is coming up. Not very impressive for Spring, but better than the last few seasons. There's a chart as usual, but I'm not going to bother. I haven't been watching as much as usual anyway. Going to check out Angel Beats 'cause I usually like Key, and PA Works has potential. Going to watch K-ON 2 as well since the manga's entertaining enough. There are 2 Marvel related shows coming out. Will check out first episodes at least. The rest, as usual, depends on a mix of what I hear, the art, the premise, and how bored I get. I hope Durarara!! continues, though ep10 seems an awful lot like a pre-climax. Maybe there'll be two arcs.
Book-wise, gotten kind of burned out with high fantasy. Also low fantasy. And urban fantasy. I need a new SF series. Rereading the Giants series by James P. Hogan. First book was really good. Second book was very good. Third book was rather weak. Fourth book feels contrived. Fifth book is a bit too much preach and not enough substance. I think the reason I like his grittier books more is he's very idealistic so it needs some of that dirt to take the edge off the utopia (add the edge rather). The USSR, savior of the free world! If only those pesky aliens/time travelers didn't interfere with things. Weber's new book looks like a reversion to the old wordy style. Ah, for the old days where story-lines ended with big space battles; these days they start with space battles. Then the talking begins. But never talking with the opponents - talking with their own side reminding each other what the other side is going to think and how they'll react. Then do this again with every pair of characters, which is a lot of characters (thus conversations) given the cast list has been expanding for 20 novels and anthologies. But at least some of them die occasionally.
Anyone have anything to recommend? Non-porn, non-fetish material please. Yes, I am talking to you! (:-P)
The Spring 2010 anime season is coming up. Not very impressive for Spring, but better than the last few seasons. There's a chart as usual, but I'm not going to bother. I haven't been watching as much as usual anyway. Going to check out Angel Beats 'cause I usually like Key, and PA Works has potential. Going to watch K-ON 2 as well since the manga's entertaining enough. There are 2 Marvel related shows coming out. Will check out first episodes at least. The rest, as usual, depends on a mix of what I hear, the art, the premise, and how bored I get. I hope Durarara!! continues, though ep10 seems an awful lot like a pre-climax. Maybe there'll be two arcs.
Book-wise, gotten kind of burned out with high fantasy. Also low fantasy. And urban fantasy. I need a new SF series. Rereading the Giants series by James P. Hogan. First book was really good. Second book was very good. Third book was rather weak. Fourth book feels contrived. Fifth book is a bit too much preach and not enough substance. I think the reason I like his grittier books more is he's very idealistic so it needs some of that dirt to take the edge off the utopia (add the edge rather). The USSR, savior of the free world! If only those pesky aliens/time travelers didn't interfere with things. Weber's new book looks like a reversion to the old wordy style. Ah, for the old days where story-lines ended with big space battles; these days they start with space battles. Then the talking begins. But never talking with the opponents - talking with their own side reminding each other what the other side is going to think and how they'll react. Then do this again with every pair of characters, which is a lot of characters (thus conversations) given the cast list has been expanding for 20 novels and anthologies. But at least some of them die occasionally.
Anyone have anything to recommend? Non-porn, non-fetish material please. Yes, I am talking to you! (:-P)