So tonight I hosted the Trent Anime Club while its founder, Laura was in an exam. I had fun and I hope everyone else did too. We watched some great shows!
Code Geass – Episode 5 – The Princess and the Witch
First was Code Geass. This is a series that we’ve been following so continuing it is a must. In this episode we meet some new characters, continuing the character building section of the early plot.
Baccano! – Episode 3 – Randy and Pecho Are Busy Getting Ready For the Party
Next we watched Baccano! This series goes from oddball to occasionally hilarious. The English dub actually suits it quite well as it is set in what seems like depression-era USA. Unfortunately I only had the subs on hand. Still, a great experience.
Outlaw Star – Episode 1
Outlaw Star came next on a whim. I had never seen it and I always wondered what it was like. It turned out to feel very much like something from the nineties. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing as these days you could consider it an element of style, I suppose.
Toradora – Episode 5 – Kawashima Ami
Next I showed a series that had previously been requested, but was set to be canned for our meetings. Toradora! stars the tsundere Aisaka Taiga who meets up with a rival, Kawashima Ami in this episode.
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai – Episode 1 – Reunion
This is a thriller with a twist. This episode centers mostly around three investigators as they try to unravel the happenings if June 1983 when a series of disasterous events eradicated an entire town. The clues seem to be locked in the mind of a girl who survived the ordeal only to be deemed insane.
It’s seems a bit odd to say, but it’s becoming more and more common as Linux distributions mature.
It’s true though, using bluetooth devices is just EASIER in Linux.
You plug in a dongle and it just works. You search for a device and it typically finds things right away. You select browse and it browses the files on your device.
I just struggled for half an hour with the same task on Windows 7.
Why must this be so difficult? It’s a standard damn chipset!
I can’t wait to try it out on my new laptop. After my bitter disappointment with Dell I picked up a Lenovo IdeaPad and have been very pleased with it. I’m just waiting for 9.10 to come out before trying it out on the new lappy.
So I finally received my refund from Dell.
Guess what? They only refunded the purchase price of the Dell, and not the interest, which at this point is a sizeable chunk of money from them dicking around for 5 months.
Best yet, when I called I was told that there was nothing more they could do. A complete refund had been issued and I should call Dell Financial, who do not seem to answer the phone.
You can be certain I’ll never buy a Dell and I’ll never let a friend buy a Dell ever again. The sting of a few hundred dollars of interest charges over several months will not go away. They will not win me back, ever.
Fuck you Dell; you suck. You had a chance to make this right and you completely failed.
So I went out tonight and took a series of shots with my Nikon D60 at f3.5 @ 18mm for 30 seconds with ISO varying from 100 to 1600 and Hi1. What all that means is I took progressively more sensitive shots of the stars and it ended up being a cool animation.
[Starry Night ISO Spread 1920x1080 (9MB)] [Starry Night ISO Spread 1280x720 (4MB)]
