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[10:17 AM EDT - Housewarming.]

Before we headed off to the house warming party, we headed down to pick up Hugo from some clinic thing. The lady who owned the place seemed really nice, and she had this dog, Pepe, who was very.. aggressive. It was a tiny dog, but it "challenged" each of us to try to take his little doll from him. (It was a pretty sturdy stuffed doll.) Needless to say, that dog's got teeth that'll make sharks cower in fear.

Anyway, off the to house party. It was somewhere down in the west end, in some renovated house (it looked a little grungy on the outside, but it was really nice inside) and met a whole bunch of people that I hadn't. After a few minutes just sitting around in the living room, one of the guys picked up a couple of tapes that was lying around on the floor, and the other guy in the room told him to stop playing with his Kare Kano tapes.

*blink*

What? I grabbed one of the tapes. It WAS Kare Kano! (Episodes 17-20 and 21-24.) *starts drooling* The owner of the tapes looked over and said:

"Oh, so you're an Otaku?"

I decided not to answer the question directly. (What was I supposed to say? "No, but I watch animé"?)

Anyway, he continued on to say that he hadn't seen these episodes yet, and was interested in popping them in the VCR. I told him that I had only seen the first eight (I think I've only seen the first eight), and the other guy just looked at me and told me that I was missing out on the funniest episodes! (I was? Holy!) Then, he started going on about these other episodes and said that, (spoiler warning!)

"..in this one they sleep together."

*blink* Oh thanks for spoiling that for me! (Gee.)

A little while later, Sarcasm (hime) wanders into the room and greeted us, saying something about making cookies. Later, after she noticed that I was staring at the Kare Kano tapes, she asked me how much I'd seen. I told her only the first eight, and she said,

"Oh, so you haven't seen the one where they sleep together."

What.. Ack.. Gah! Is everyone into "spoiling the plot" or something? (At least it wasn't anything new.)

After a few games of Fluxx (some bizarre card game) and some munchies (including those yummy cookies) I found out that the majority of the Fanboys were actually present at this housewarming party. (I had not seen any of them before.) One comment: They are definitely Otakus (in any sense of the word), and they are proud of it! Very much like the CSC folk that litter the front row of the auditorium during our shows. They spouted a lot of in-jokes that most casual anime watchers wouldn't be able to pick out. (Yes, I did get most of those jokes if you were wondering. No, no, don't comment.)

After munching on some homemade.. uh.. I forgot what it was called. Chicken in tomato sauce and vegetables (on rice). Sarcasm popped a tape of Outlaw Star into the VCR and we proceeded to watch a few episodes (three actually, too bad we didn't see more). Then it was time to go home.

Actually, it was pretty good overall considering that I only recognized two people at the party. They were all very friendly, and the house got filled up, but not crowded, which is a good number of people.

Anyway, KGL has an update up (something about Prada?) while Jax has a whole slew of entries talking about stuff from horoscopes to line dancing. (That "Bye Bye Bye" comment made me laugh out loud. Reminded me of the little choreographed dance routine during the last wedding I attended.)

Okay, enough with that, I've got a phone call to make.

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[1:41 PM EDT - Removing the Guestbook.]

I think I'll be removing the Guestbook sometime in the near future. It's basically a toy who's novelty died when I brought up the comment script. I'll be transferring the Guestbook comments over to the journal comments so those die hard comment readers can still find them (if they search for them). This should also reduce the clutter up in the nav bar. I've been meaning to prune the bar a bit, and I might get around to it after I do a little more fiddling somewhere else..

Oh, I did end up going to the library yesterday. I didn't find any interesting books however (the library near us is small), but one novel did catch my eye: Ringworld (by Larry Niven). I've been meaning to read that book for a while now and never got around to it. I've read a whole slew of Man-Kzin wars, but not this.

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[4:02 PM EDT - It's gone!]

I've completed removing the Guestbook from my site and moved the entries over to the comments. I'm glad that I really didn't have too many people using the thing (which was kind of depressing when I first put it up.. but hey).

Okay, I've got a house to vacuum, and some pages to fix, so I can't dally.

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[6:40 PM EDT - More "improvements".]

I've realized that a force reload of the main page will not always work when you're filling out comment entries. I changed it so that it will load the entry that you were commenting on in the main page.

Of course, those of you with javascript disabled won't notice a difference. (Unless it crashes your browser that is.)

So anyway, KGL has a new car, although she won't be driving it. That's.. about it.

Here's a quote from Steve Jobs which I figured I might as well put up (seeing that it's been up for a long time..):

"I used to think that technology could help education. I've probably spearheaded giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet. But I've had to come to the inevitable conclusion that the problem is not one that technology can hope to solve. What's wrong with education cannot be fixed with technology. No amount of technology will make a dent."

So do you guys agree? Disagree? I still remember all of those Apples and Macs that permeated our elementary and high schools. *thinks back fondly* Anyway, there's always people complaining how the education system is broken, and how our kids are stupid, and how we should do this or that to improve on the way we teach our kids. How do we teach kids that don't want to learn? How do we encourage kids that DO want to learn?

Uhh.. I think food's calling so I'll have to cut this short.

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024 @ 06:38:03 EDT

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