Mosaic Fragments

I apologize in advance for anyone who finds this offensive for any reason.

So I was looking through coupons in the mail the other day, and I saw ( this. )

And my first thought couldn't help but be: They're looking for Harry?!

I know, I'm terrible.

Then a day or two ago I saw ( the picture of Bernard Madoff on the cover of Bloomberg Markets. )

And I thought: Wait a minute, ( that looks just like... )

The world is so weird sometimes.

ROFLOL: What if Gmail had been designed by Microsoft?

I thought the first iteration wasn't too bad -- I like preview panes sometimes, except when they're poorly implemented like in the "new" Yahoo! Mail. As someone who uses both Gmail and Outlook, I'm not really sure which is better. Hotmail, though, is another story entirely. I do have an account, mainly so I can bug my sister on Live Messenger, and I'd even consider using it sometimes . . . except they keep deleting everything in there for inactivity. D:

I love the part about the URL. Reminds me of the days when Passport got axed for trying to take over the world.

...alright, alright, back to work.

I just saw the craziest banner ad for Basilisk. It shows several of the characters one by one, mostly in pretty kick-ass poses. Then it says, "Click here to watch them die."

Most terrible. spoilerrific. advertisement. ever.



Okay, so it doesn't take more than the first episode to figure out how disposable people are going to be. And maybe it's good to have an idea of that beforehand. (It's kept me safely away from Elfen Lied, after all.) But still. Who is it going to attract?

The first volume of Tales of Phantasia comes out from Geneon this week. AnimeOnDVD appears still not to have caught the . . . slight discrepancy between their description of the show and what it's actually about.

In the hope that they fix it someday, at least when someone reviews it, this is what it currently says:

They needed a hero. . . So they built HEAT GUY J Android J was secretly built by the government as a special agent to combat crime in the oceanic city-nation of Judoh. While J initially appears to be human, the illusion quickly disappears in clouds of scorching steam when he fights. Together with his partner, Daisuke Aurora, the most dangerous criminals will soon find themselves on the run... from the underground legend known as the Heat Guy! From the director and staff that created the Escaflowne Movie comes a brand-new, action oriented cop drama!

Easily amused? Why, yes, I am.

[ETA: They've posted a review of the disc and fixed the description now.]

It's kind of like how a certain site that resembles AnimeLyrics.tv still has their song artist database all mixed up. Michiyuki (from LOVELESS) really isn't sung by Horie Yui, for example. Then again, my translation of Michiyuki is kind of broken and in need of updating (and I never did submit the artist info anyway), so I'm not going to link to it here. ^^;;

Translating song credits actually takes me some time because Japanese first names can have so many different readings. My new strategy is to Google the kanji and the furigana for surname if I can figure that out, since there are usually fewer possibilities. With luck, that gets me to a page that gives the reading of the full name. Yeah, you'd probably cringe at all the Japanese-Googling hacks I use.

Okay, now I'm just babbling randomly, so I will go away. I'll tell you why I'm so freaked out right now later, when the cause has passed.

In other news, I need a LOL-type icon. I'm sure I have some, but then I'd have to ditch something in my current collection.

Sister: *is playing Ragnarok Online, fighting monsters on a beach*
Me: What are those white ghost things?
Sister: They're seals.
Me: OMG, PEOPLE WHO PLAY RAGNAROK CLUB BABY SEALS!!

This is hilarious. Especially the review.

...yeah, I don't think there's much more for me to say.

Nobody plays video games when they're 7!

Okay, now go read the thing I just posted before this.