Live From Embers in Duluth, MN
Posted on July 22nd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 7:17 pm
So, I’m blogging live from Embers Restaurant in Duluth, MN, in as much as they’ve got free wi-fi. Probably an iffy thing from the security side of things, but sometimes you’ve gotta roll with the punches. Meanwhile, it’s been ok so far out here, and hopefully it’ll only get better. If nothing, I’m still connected, and enjoying a nice, cold, refreshing green tea. Good stuff.
Besides, any place where I can pick up the latest issue of Shojo Beat can’t be that uncivilized (the mall not only had a Barnes and Noble with full manga shelfs, but a Hot Topic too.) Yay for Nana and Absolute Boyfriend. Gotta love the shoujo. 😀
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Out of Town/Currently Watching
Posted on July 19th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:48 am
Gonna be in Minnesota for the next couple weeks. Expect my activity online to be spotty at best. To the AK people, you get two weeks sans me and my little bro! I’m certain some of you (all of you?) are ecstatic at that proposition. Who knows, maybe I’ll make it a regular thing. I’ve been feeling out of phase more and more lately anyway. Meanwhile, I’ll be visiting people my father and grandfather know. Note that I made no mention of me knowing people. Yeah, I know of them, but this will be the first time meeting a lot of folks, and the few I have met, I haven’t seen since I turned 7. Basically lots of introductions. Should be interesting. Might even be bloggable if I can find some free wifi or broadband.
Currently Watching (New This Season, Not Continuing):
+KamiChu – Best story this season. Calling it adorable is an understatement, but there is a really bitter sweet quality to it too. Very good writing. TV Asahi gets some pretty good shows through it’s doors. They aired Koi Kaze last year. OTOH, they ran SpeedGrapher this year, so it’s not like they are all gold. KamiChu is very good though, and highly recommended. It’s oddly credit-sequenceless, atleast in the first episode. Very different for a Japanese show.
+Ichigo Mashimaro – Best design this season. Really, insanely cute. A bit too ambient perhaps on the whole, but it works well enough. Prelicenced too, so I can already look forward to a 3 disc release outta Geneon. Besides, it’s does what it does well. “Cute, Pop and Loose(ly Organized)” as Geneon USA promo flyer says. Kinda weird how they aged up one of the characters though. I guess even Japan is getting flinchy about 16-year-olds who smoke and drink, or Geneon USA is worried about it. Not like it’s a mainstream show in either country, so I don’t get why they’d bother.
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Harry Potter 6
Posted on July 17th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:14 am
Like every other blog on earth, I’m talking about book 6.
This because I’m a nerd, and I already read it.
So as not to spoil, I’ll just say I can’t wait for book 7. That should be enough.
For Now!
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PS: EMO
Posted on July 13th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:13 am
I hate surveys on bulletin boards.
Well, more like I don’t like the introspection required. Ah well, amuse yourself with the answers.
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Now In Stores…
Posted on July 13th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:39 am
…Me doing embittered fan commentary on Sealab season 3. 11 minutes of my 15 down the drain. Ah well, probably as close as I’ll ever come to working with Cartoon Network, so atleast it’s something.
Meanwhile I hung out at Anime Kingdom and annoyed people intensely. I need to work on this CD. Outside of reviews (btw, should have a couple of those hitting Toon Zone sometime soon,) the CD is the only quasi-productive thing I can do right now, or atleast it feels that way. Certainly can’t just hang out. I suck at hanging out 😀
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Back to normalcy?
Posted on July 9th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 9:03 pm
Ok, even though I worked out what set of circumstances provided with the next of blue screen problems, I just decided to forget about it and reinstall – again. Seems to have worked this time… in theory.
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OK, my whole computer is acting up
Posted on July 8th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 11:56 am
Cause it seems just when I get one cause nailed down for the these bluescreens, another comes up.
All this crap just because my harddrive decided to bite the dust, or atleast get dangerously near that point.
Jeez, never had one blue screen in XP until all this decided to rain down on me.
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Nvidia Caused Me Distress Undue
Posted on July 7th, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 11:02 pm
Giving me the screens colorized all in blue
Their driver update nearly killed my box
Therefore I declare Nvidia doesn’t rock
Never had one blue screen with XP until this. Good thing I could roll the drivers back. Boourns to Nvidia.
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“Burn Berlin! Burn!” – Atari Teenage Riot
Posted on July 3rd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 3:11 am
Today has been a day of burning discs. Data recovery has been going pretty good though, so I get to rest easy knowing I won’t have to rework a bunch of stuff from scratch, most importantly my lyrics and music (which are now multibacked up, and it’s staying that way.) Now, to try to get some sleep. And burn macross zero off the dying drive. Wish I could, you know, BUY it, but alas, no dice. Even though it so should already be here and dubbed and on Cartoon Network somehow.
BTW, coming soon to CN: Evangelion. Meanwhile, parka sales in the 7th circle reach all time high.
But yeah, should be interesting to see how that turns out.
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“Breath with me.” – The Prodigy
Posted on July 2nd, 2005
Filed under: General — Karl Olson @ 1:18 pm
I’ve got my data backed up mostly. Looks like I survived this computer issue. Just by the skin of my teeth, but I did survive it. And I’ve got 2 songs worth of lyrics to show for it. Maybe this wasn’t such a bad deal after all. it helped get the album done, that’s for sure. Strange way of helping, but help nonetheless.