The Ego's Nest

October 18, 2008

Visitin' Houston

Spending the weekend in Houston, paying the folks a visit. Should really have come a month or two ago, but work, anime, and just plain ol' torpor got in the way. It's about five hours down and five hours back, which is quite a bite out of the weekend.

Folks are doing well. There's actually a surprising amount of storm damage from the recent hurricane still being made well; tarps up on roofs and such. Folks are having to replace their roof, but it needed replacing and now insurance will cover it, so in its own way, it's for the best. A house on the next block took a pine tree through kitchen and bedroom.

Dad got a new laptop for work, which is a little ironic - he's 65 and retiring fairly soon (hope hope). It's a Panasonic Toughbook, and it's amazingly heavy, like picking up a laptop from the mid-80s. But back then it was just heavy components; with this sucker, the weight is -armor-, the sort of thing I'd want if I was going to go lugging it around with the 50-pound test weights. It also seems that all that metal works like a big honkin' heat sink... this thing heats up way less than other laptops I've used. Then again, I'm just running Firefox at the moment. It's not like I've fired up WOW.

On that note, I'm pretty happy with the recent WOW patch. I always enjoyed playing the warrior, but when you have a serious tank, doing anything besides tanking is like pulling teeth. After the patch, though, the amount of damage I'm doing is way, way, way up - it wouldn't be too much to say that it tripled, with the same gear. Now I can play it without thinking "you know, I could go get my mage and do this five times faster"...

Subtitling is going well. One volume of Lucky Star to format, then one left to time, and I'm down to the last episode of Ayashi, which I seem to enjoy directly proportional to how much Norio Wakamoto is in each episode. ;p

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at 06:21 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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1 I often hate his characters, but I have to say that I really like him as a seiyuu.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 18, 2008 08:49 PM (+rSRq)

2 Yeah. You wouldn't like Torii either, I expect. Only memorable because Norio is having so much fun with him (and because the writers let him bust the fourth wall a time or two...)

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 18, 2008 09:27 PM (C8UgX)

3 Friend of mine finally badgered me into joining him on WoW a couple months ago. Dumbass that I am I rolled a druid thinking it would be similar to the druid from Diablo 2 (not realizing that what I actually wanted was a hunter). Ended up just going with it, and now I'm 51 feral and it's a struggle finding free time to make any progress.

Posted by: Will at October 19, 2008 10:31 AM (oj5wx)

4 OT: According to that Saimoe Bracket picture you've got linked, the final 16 got picked two weeks ago. So what ended up happening?

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 24, 2008 04:33 PM (+rSRq)

5 It looks like so far Tsukasa and Kagami from LS, and Nagisa from Clannad have survived to the quarter finals, with Kirino from Bamboo Blade and Hinagiku from Hayate being decided last. There's a very real posibility that we have a sister-duel in the final.

Posted by: Will at October 27, 2008 05:27 PM (WnBa/)

6 Tsukasa and Kagami in the final would be awesome!

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 27, 2008 09:50 PM (+rSRq)

7 It's too bad they didn't hold off the Saimoe final until 11/4. I'd much rather spend the day watching the numbers tick away on this race than the other more depressing one.

Posted by: Will at October 27, 2008 10:07 PM (oj5wx)

Well, the quarterfinals are done, and it's Kagami vs. Nagisa on 10/30 and Tsukasa vs. Hinagiku on Halloween. Kirino and Tamaki from Bamboo Blade made a heck of a lot farther than I would have ever predicted, and Clannad managed to push three characters way up the bracket.

For the semifinals, there's very real chance that the Clannad and Hayate voting blocks join up to knock both the Hiiragi sisters out of the competition. Then both parties are fighting an individually weaker competitor in the final. I'd hate to see that, but it's a possibility.

Posted by: Will at October 28, 2008 05:27 PM (WnBa/)

9 It's a Hiiragi final! Now, does Saimoe track with the historical trend brought up in the OVA, or do we get a surprise upset?

Posted by: Will at October 31, 2008 10:44 AM (WnBa/)

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