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New Years was fun.

I’m trying to make gluten-free brownies from a trader joe’s mix.  it’s mostly tapioca, brown rice, chocolate, and arrowroot (arrowroot flour, even.  Yeah, I was surprised too).  the batter didn’t taste terrible.  I have high hopes.

Every so often I consider buying a PS3.  I wouldn’t buy a new PS3, of course - If I were to buy one I would trawl Ebay until I could pick up a PS3 that was fully backwards compatible with PS2 games, because - really, why would I want to buy a gimped PS3?

If you are perhaps wondering how I avoid purchasing a ps3, I invite you to view below:

And there you have it, my flow-chart for determining whether Sony’s latest Fantastickal Electronick Gaming Device is worthy of a purchase.

As i sit here in the early morning, looking out my windows at the snow gently falling, two things come to mind.

1. Snow!  Pretty snow!
2. …aw man, getting to the airport tomorrow is going to suck, isn’t it.

reading bits and pieces about The Dark Knight, I am reminded of my favorite part of that movie (next to “want to see a magic trick?” of course…): when the large, tattooed inmate (he has to be Bane) tells the guard to “just give him the detonator, and let him do what we all know is the right thing.” and you are certain these people are scum, that they’ll destroy the other boat, and then Bane takes the detonator and tosses it into the river.  And you realize, again, that they’re humans too.  Sure they’re criminals, but having done wrong once doesn’t mean they’ll only do wrong.

I wonder if that’s the message Nolan was trying for with that scene?

You know that feeling you get when you look up the requirements of a paper, and discover, to your horror, that the paper is supposed to be a full two pages longer than you expected it to be?

Yeah, it’s not an altogether pleasant sensation.

If any of you are interested in seeing the fruits of my labor for my final project in my early modern drama class, feel free to head on over to this web page to embark on a choose-your-own-something based on the play The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster.

I’m pretty proud of it, but I also am notably biased. Go me!

let’s play a game. What do I have left in my kitchen?

1 cube steak
3 apples
1 bag of GF flour
6 eggs
1/3rd box of grits
1/3rd pound of bacon (maybe less)
1 box of taquitos, opened
4 cans of green beans
1/2 bag of pancake mix
2 kind of oil, olive and soybean
1 opened bag of cornmeal fish fry
1 unopened package of mozarrella cheese sticks
1/2 a gallon of milk
1 block of cheddar cheese
1 bag of potato chips, half-full
1 bag of corn chips, half-empty
1 box of gluten-free cereal, opened, almost empty.
1 box of wheat-free cereal that has malt syrup in it so i can’t eat it, goddammit kelloggs.
1 carton of sugar
1 box of cocoa
Salt.
pepper.

…this is going to be a fantastic couple of days

It’s a beautiful thing when I look out the window of my seventh floor apartment and see that.  Apologies for the low-quality picture, but it’s the only camera I had.

I heart snow.

Wild ARMS 2 is a fantastic game, and any fan of JRPGs should play it.

I’m only watching 2 things this season: Tytania, and Xam’d.  I’m on episode 16 of Xam’d (I’m watching 17 later tonight), and episode 9 of Tytania.

I was a little concerned about Tytania originally, because it seemed very slow-paced (fitting for a Japanese space opera, since they generally are plotted something like Molasses! The Musical would be). but I guess it’s not supposed to be a 12-episode series, and while the production levels are low they’re not low enough to hamper my enjoyment.  It’s all very derivative of Legend of Galactic Heroes, which is all well and good, because I haven’t seen that show, so I feel no need to compare every series about neo-feudal spaceborne empires to LoGH the way some are.

I wonder what would happen if Japan did a series that was on the hard end of sci fi, but still tending towards the far future - like Anime Does Alistair Reynolds, that sort of thing.  Mayb there’s something like that out there.  If there is, I do not know of it.

Xam’d is awesome and I love it and you suck if you’re not watching it.

Your Mileage, however, May Vary.  It’s a lot like Last Exile plus Eureka Seven For Grownups.  All the voice actors from Eureka Seven return, and I’m not exaggerating even a little bit on that score.  If you obsess about those shows you’ll be pissed because Xam’d is “totally ripping them off!” but if you loved them but don’t mind seeing familiar elements in something new it’s fantastic.  All it needs is music from Yoko Kanno.  Instead we’ve got the lady who did Fullmetal Alchemist, and it’s not bad, just uninspired.  Sounds a lot like FMA’s soundtrack, but with less bombastic brass stuff when people are shocked and/or vomiting.

Anyways, that’s my vices right now.