Howl's Moving Castle is definitely a Miyazaki film, bizarre but cool and inventive. Definitely a bit less trippy and a bit more expansive than Spirited Away; a bit less expansive than Princess Mononoke, but that's okay. An almost-excellent film worth watching.

Pros:

• Standard Miyazaki: good characterization, plot, humor
• Random kink quotient is very ( Read more... )

Strange thought running through my head when I woke up this morning ( Read more... )

It's quiet tonight. Lately it's seemed like it's quiet every night. Part of me is glad, part of me doesn't know what to do with itself. Already seem to have disappointed the fiancee - again ( Read more... )

There went the computer upgrade. Now things are looking a bit odd. Nicely faster, though.

Random detritus gathered while trying to move to the new computer follows.

Trailer for the 2nd new Doctor Who ep seems to be up (see "Video Player" link). The last human is an amorphous blob with eyes and a mouth. Wonder if I had anything to do with it... ah ( Read more... )

I've been complaining for years and years and years that I really was waiting for a PDA that actually had both a microphone and wireless capability (and also, optionally, a mini-keyboard). Well, 2 years ago that didn't exist. Maybe a year ago it would have cost $600, $700.

And now... only $250. I can do that. So I did. One mid-level Dell's-bad- ( Read more... )

Another candle to my nonexistent cake. Yay. Do I really care? Hell no.

So, this becomes my weird message set for the day.

1) I worked today, this being the first time in my life I've actually had to do anything on my birthday. I guess I didn't have to work, but I didn't have anything better to do, like celebrate or anything.

2) kitalamina got me a couple ( Read more... )

My official Xmas present to myself was the con trip, which will cost a decent amount of money. However, I also found out that I had a wee bit of a windfall going into the new year...

So...having $200 to spend, I spent it. On a boombox. But this isn't really an ordinary boombox. IN fact, it's pretty damn scary. It's also DutchBut basically what it ( Read more... )