Category: general

Here’s a link to the full text of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which, as far as I can tell, does not make us Nazis.

Of course, I invite you to judge for yourselves.

Or not, maybe.

Lexington public schools just got a grant to have Chinese and Japanese classes.

Why did I ever move away?

Not that I’m in public school, or have children. But the environment back home for learning just seems to be on such a higher level.

Sigh.

You know, it’s too bad I’m not a good-looking actor living in Los Angeles. Maybe then my blog would be worth reading! And people would think I was awesome.

Really, it does seem that if you’re famous for something, people notice your blog more. Or at least make a bigger deal about your blog.

I’m famous for nothing, unless you count my ego, which I’m not really famous for either but my ego would like to think I am. Some fame, please!

I’m the Darkwing Duck of blogging. Chasing after the spotlight, and tripping over my own cape.

But can I truly say that I am “singed, but triumphant”? Or am I just singed?

I’ve given up wondering why I want to be famous. And I know that there’s a glut of blogs, and to stand out you have to be well-known already or a damn good writer who doesn’t waste a single post or someone who can make drivel like this interesting.

And normally all this doesn’t bother me so much, but what can I say? I’m pissy.

Can you imagine Bruce Wayne with a framed picture of Batman in his mansion? That’s all I’m saying.

I’m having one of those days where everything annoys me and I have no patience for anything. Fun!

It actually started when I got home, because I didn’t have any time to spare on emotions at work today :>

I figure it’s a combination of my going to bed late last night and stress over a new project at work. The project is pretty big, and looking at it from the beginning, it seems pretty daunting. But I know that if I just work at it piece by piece, day by day, it’ll get done. Probably with plenty of time to spare.

It’s just hard to imagine right now.

Regardless, I hope the crappy crabby mood I’m in will be gone in the morning.

[Edit 2006/09/28 11:07 p.m.]: Still crabby, and I have something of an idea why. It may not be what I said above after all. Of course, it could also be a combination of things.

Kobayashi Kaoru was handed the death penalty. It’s what he said he wanted!

This comes on the heels of the retirement of Justice Minister Sugiura Seiken, who would not allow the execution of death row inmates. A past Justice Minister shared also these beliefs.

We’ll have to see if Kobayashi gets his wish under the new minister.

Gundam voice actor makes appearance at Tokyo Game Show

During the event, Furuya [Toru] played the PlayStation Portable action game “Gundam Battle Royale,” which is set for release on Oct. 5, with three fans. Furuya finished second, prompting one of the players to comment, “You must be one of the new types of players.”

In the episode “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlatan”, Darkwing and Launchpad are hiding out in movie scenes to avoid a studio guard. For one of the scenes, they reenact the staircase swordfight from Neville Sinclair’s movie in The Rocketeer. The music even matches.

Darkwing Duck and The Rocketeer both came out in 1991. Good year.

(Disney tended to borrow music from its movies for its television series back in the day. I distinctly recall hearing themes from Beauty and the Beast in Goof Troop, of all things.)

The first 25 episodes. R0x0r.

I think I’m enjoying it almost as much as I did the first time around! You know, back when I used to obsessively tape the episodes in order, cut out the commercials, painstakingly label the tapes with those letter stickers that came with tapes back then, and then break the tabs on the tapes so no one could record over them.

(I later covered the holes with tape and recorded over most of the episodes with ReBoot, alas.)

There is one thing I forgot about, and that is the episode “Water Way to Go”, which is cool for introducing Steelbeak but intolerable due to the animation. Oh my GOD it sucks. I remember despising it as a teen and that loathing lives on today.

I recall there were several Tiny Toons episodes done by these same animators. I don’t know anything else about them, other than that they should never be allowed to touch a brush ever again.

It’s hard to describe why it’s so terrible, so I took some screencaps. Now you too can share in the horror.

Fortunately for you, these screencaps don’t demonstrate the full destructive power of these animators. After all, you don’t have to see the craptastic animation…just the mindblowingly awful art.

The plot of this episode isn’t really all that great either…maybe Disney just decided to put all the bad eggs in one basket ;P

[Edit 2006/09/27 12:36 a.m.:] According to Wikipedia, this was actually the first episode produced. Did the animation budget suddenly go up thereafter?

I find the production order very interesting. It would be cool to watch the episodes in an order that made sense. I just watched “Just Us Justice Ducks Part 1”, and it’s very confusing seeing as Darkwing hasn’t actually met any of the Justice Ducks yet ;P And yet this is apparently the order in which the episodes aired! Crazy.

Do I have too much time on my hands?

Edit: I now have the big one on my Active Desktop -_-;;;

I watched the end of Kyou Kara Maou again today, and thought I’d share some fabulous faces with all of you. Don’t worry; no spoilers here!

Click each image for full size.

Kentucky is seeing some severe flooding right now. The street where I grew up is essentially a creek now.

You can see some videos of that here at WTVQ (click “Watch Video”).

I actually don’t recognize anything from those images, so I’m not sure where on the street they’re standing. We used to live at the bottom of a big hill, with a beautiful creek running behind our backyard.

It flooded once when I was a kid. The water was deep enough in the street to take a john boat out and row around. And when the water was receding, it was rushing back to the creek through a ditch that ran between our lot and our next door neighbor’s. AJ and I weren’t supposed to go near it, but we did, and I slipped and started sliding down into the ditch. AJ pulled me out and saved my life.

Boy was Mom mad. :>

For more on the current flooding, check out WKYT’s coverage here. The video is 26 minutes long and covers a great deal of ground. Here are some pictures:

Here’s how WKYT’s radar looked an hour ago. It seems like more bad weather is on the way.