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Watched the beginning of an anime called "Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad" last night and really enjoyed it. The story is actually about a teen boy in contemporary japanese city (well, Tokyo, really), as he stumbles around in the process of growing up, discovering all sorts of strange people and rock music. It was refreshingly realistic and hilarious ( Read more... )

Just heard it from another lj - a spinoff from Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (one of my favote DS games series), featuring Miles Edgeworth, is coming. Squee!
http://kotaku.com/377663/phoenix-wright-spin+off-features-walking

mmmm when caffeine fails, jelly beans keep me awake :-) it's especially fun to eat random colors in fairly quick succession

so i haven't been on the lj site in months - mostly because of being way too busy... with new job and other stuff. and today i am really tired because of staying up way too late last night and not enough sleep for the past 4 or 5. so my brain totally feels like a slug that is sticking to some sort of splintery surface, and my eyes burn (despite ( Read more... )

I know, i've fallen off the face of lj lately, and i don't really have time to catch up right now (but next week i will try). Now for the announcement ( Read more... )

Today on the drive home from work, a surreal experience. As I was driving eastward on the Mass Pike, everything looked normal in front of me - blue sky, green and orange road signs, red brake lights on the cars in front of me and the usual color pallette of cars and SUVs. I happened to glance in the rearview mirror and was shocked: the world in ( Read more... )

I have some tapes that I want to convert to mp3. Is there an easy way to do this? Physically i can connect the tape player output to the computer input, but what then? is there a friendly software to encode and divide up into mp3's per song ( Read more... )

last week finally got the replacement disk that played!

thanks, coraline, for your suggestion ;-)

Occasionally netflix disks arrive damaged - which in itself is not surprising given what the disks go through in the little envelope in the mail. Usually netflix sends a replacement quickly and that's that ( Read more... )