Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
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10:03 pm - loscon anime
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Hey, anyone going to LosCon and want to help out with the anime room? I have the DVDs and permissions and schedule. We're running noon to 2am Friday, 10am to 2am Saturday, and 10am to 2pm Sunday.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
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10:44 am - happy Yumi
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Yumi has a newer engine with under 50,000 miles! From Japan! :) She seems peppy now.
current mood: happy
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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6:22 pm - poor Yumi
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Poor car is sad. Should have just had her towed. Now she needs engine help. A kind friend has loaned me a car for now.
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Monday, October 19th, 2009
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3:17 pm - Whale meat?
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I wasn't sure it said "Mmm whale" till I got closer to the license plate.
I'm at caltrain, waiting to go home, cause power is out for a while.

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
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7:59 pm - Gallery food & dog
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Enjoyed <lj user="yresim">'s art exibit. The food and Will (pictured) were cool too.

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Friday, October 2nd, 2009
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10:26 pm - Delicious caek
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12:14 pm - Silicon
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
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10:29 am - Testing phone email posting
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Thursday, September 24th, 2009
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10:20 am - Stuff to bring to pirate faire
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
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11:11 am - Converting video files for Palm Pre
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This may work for other phones with 480x320 screens, and could easily be adapted for others. I played around with mencoder and found settings that work to play video on my phone using the built-in codecs.
I wrote it into a bash script for Linux, but the settings themselves should work for Mac or Windows. For batch processing, for now I'll just run the command several times on different files with && between them, but more automation would be nice.
( script follows )
current mood: accomplished
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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2:04 pm - anime... horror
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Hi! So, I have volunteered to do anime for LosCon this year. LosCon changes a lot each year, so maybe this won't be a permanent commitment...
LosCon's themes this year are:
Friday: Horror Saturday: Dress Like a Pirate Day Sunday: Honoring Writers and Artists
Now the first two sound like themes I can easily fit with the anime room. Sunday... well, I'll think of something. I don't know if I can come up with enough licensed DVDs with anime about writers and artists, but we'll see. I could always go random or pick some other theme.
I've already done the pirate theme for BayCon. Horror... well, I can think of vampires, and Portrait of Petite Cossette... what horror-themed anime do you recommend? Thanks!
current mood: silly
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
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2:50 pm - Palm Pre review
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I typed this as an email and then thought perhaps some others would be interested. Also I have yet to find a Livejournal app for the Pre.
Also, internet at home is still down, so no anysize.org/canadia.info/etc. until Etheric shows up and makes it all better. I have set up a status page here: http://carhart.com/~ashi/anysize-status/
( long review ahead )
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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12:48 pm - 15/8/09 saiko!
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mmm Psycho Donuts has tasty vegan donuts now. They gave me a little bubble wrap to play with too. They even knew by my Soy Boy t-shirt which kind I wanted. They only have one vegan flavor so far. It has cinnamon on it. Mmm.

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Friday, August 14th, 2009
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6:55 am - 14/8/09 pretty car
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
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5:36 pm - 13/8/09 Opera practice? At Google.
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I'm being entertained more than usual while waiting for anime club to start. Right now they're doing a piece from The Marriage of Figaro.

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9:30 am - 13/8/09 honda tohru
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Monday, August 3rd, 2009
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6:10 pm - 3/8/09 downtown safeway
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
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7:47 pm - 31/7/09 Trepidation
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
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1:17 pm - Cross Game
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I've been a fan of Adachi Mitsuru's manga and anime since the 80's. I've been loving Cross Game so far, currently airing in Japan. I love how Wakaba is a main character, even though ( spoiler )
I wish Crunchroll would stream it, but at least I got them to put up a page on it in their library for discussion etc. :) http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Cross_Game
So far Adachi's only officially English translated works have been two volumes of his short-story manga anthology, "Short Program." I have a bunch of his manga in Japanese, and would gladly buy it in English too. His characters are likable and pretty realistic, though his character design is pretty far from realistic. :)
Happy Friday.
current mood: sleepy
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
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11:36 am - The good, the bad, the other
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Good:
Stuff to do at work Anime club tonight Weekend soon 40
Bad:
Doh, no lunch with son. 90 F / 32 C forecast for San Jose on Sunday Feel like I need a vacation, the kind where I relax 40
Other:
Car needs work soon Better mobile homes with same space rent for not bad money (example: 60k 2bd in Mountain View) 40
current mood: curious
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