Chasing After Rainbows

(Warning: Technical computer terms used here). With electrical devices getting more complicated than what it was a decade ago, or even 5 years for computers, the "feel" of using them is somewhat different. Back when CRT TV was very common, the process of turning it on would produce some high-pitch sound before the channel you selected or last viewed appears fading in from a blank screen. When turning it off, I would see a flash of white light on the screen before it goes blank. Compared to today's more common LCD , LCD seems to lack these things, but is more pleasing on the eyes, takes up lesser space and consumes less electricity than the CRT counterparts. Speaking of changes, traffic lights and information displays like the route info on a bus have been replaced with LED displays (flip-dot for some of the earlier ones). For the latter, it previously used plastic signs that allow light from behind to illuminate it when it's dark. But the LED ones looks funny: could...

Out of curiosity, I went to search for things that I had put up. I normally don't do so because I don't need to. I typed "KOTOKO" (a Japanese Singer) at IMEEM search box and my playlist of it would be the very first thing to appear. I typed "asuna888" (one of my online nicknames) and obviously only my profile and one of my playlist would appear. Next up, using another search engine , I typed "autumn 2008 anime list". Well, mine did not appear immediately since there are more than 1.6 million in the results until I added "site:blogspot.com" (where this blog is hosted on) to it. Mine appeared 5 times, 4 of which are on the first page of the results, including one I posted earlier . I went to the Japanese version and typed "秋アニメ新番組" (New Autumn Anime) and mine would appear near the top of the third page, though the post itself is a year old. Add "site:blogspot.com" to the search terms would make that and a more rece...

(Note: For a brief description about the Autumn 2008 Anime by me, see an earlier post . For links to the official websites, check out the "New Anime" or "アニメ新番組" sections of my main and anime blogs) After watching several anime trailers in the past few days, I have mostly decided on what Autumn anime I would watch. There were some that had no trailers or were too short, but info I had found about those should be sufficient. Anyways, here's a modified list that Yukari posted on my anime blog . The ones that had been strikethroughed are where the trailers/description of the show sound so boring that I would fall asleep/absoultely not watch. I wanted to pick yellow or red to highlight, but some of the text are already in red and the background of the blog (at time of post) is light brown and may not be visible. List: 28 September 2008 (Sunday) Hakushaku to Yōsei - about a female “fairy doctor” who heads to London to see her father and meets a young knight-earl...

Left : Vector done earlier today Right : Pencil drawing of the same thing done 18 months (1.5 years) ago See also : This post If these two were to be viewed side by side, the improvements in the tiny details would be obvious. Besides what was already mentioned back in July , vectoring is better than drawing. Not only does the vector looks better, it also uses much lesser space for the raw version and can also be modified at a later date. Think of vector as the MIDI of image: they both only contain instructions on how to construct the output instead of the output itself and therefore take up much less space. With vector, I can easily zoom in to small details like the eyes or hair. With pencil, it quite difficult to do so without a magnifying glass or drawing the overall thing larger, the latter option would be impratical if a lot has already been drawn. Speaking of which, if a mistake were to be done in vector, I can easily correct it without affecting other areas, like what was mentio...

Since I was a child, I had been thought things without really knowing why or was given reasons that seemed reasonable back then. Now that I had grown older and know more than I knew back then, I have come to realize that some of them are for our own good without saying it directly, or are stuff that were not suitable or not ready for. However, there are also things that are just plain illogical or are based on one's belief on something non-existent and everyone else seems to be following it for reasons that I don't believe in. It's hard to say if I'm following trends or not, because I may follow things that happen somewhere far away but not the ones immediately around me. I don't know what you would see at the time you click on this link , but my blogs seems to have visits from a lot of places, mostly in North America, Japan and Europe. There are a lot of cities, but here are the places that I see most of the time: Mountain View, United States (I wonder if it's ...

(for your info, I did post something yesterday and mentioned that I am having a massive re-sorting the photos at Facebook . On top of that, I am also cleaning up my room and in the middle of vectoring .) For a list of the names of the Autumn anime and links to their official website (excluding OVAs), you can refer to here for the English names, or here for the original Japanese names. Some of the anime that are due next year (2009) on top of the Autumn 2008 ones can be found in the "アニメ新番組" or "New Anime" section. There are no anime carried over from the previous seasons for Autumn 2008, but there are returning anime like "Rosario and Vampire", "Clannad" "ef - a tale of ----." "Nodame Cantabile", "Shougo Chara!" "Jigoku Shoujo", "Vampire Knight", "Mobile Suit Gundam 00" and "Junjo Romantica". Compared to the earlier Summer 2008 or Spring 2008 ones, there are a lot of inter...

It looks like I need to clean the lens. Doesn't matter, the camera I took this from is quite old and most of the shots of the place were taken from my mobile phone which has a higher resolution. Taken at the 第１８回星蘭祭  at 早稲田渋谷シンガポール校. Okay, I am damn tired and only slept for 3 hours last night. On top of that, I was walking all over the place the whole morning and afternoon with no air-conditioning on top of the hot weather, except for the rooms in the above photo and while in transit. Most of the places I go to are not crowded in the morning, but was later jammed packed in just a few hours. I don't know if I should talk about the above later...