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I'm off to a small trip to DC for the Colbert/Stewart rally. Cheers!
It has been FAR too long since I've done one of these. Far, far too long.
Here are some exciting quick notes for your consumption:
* Google Image Search flagged all our images as being porn so we lost a ton of traffic from them. I screamed to high heavens about this on their webmaster forums and through their email contact form. Thankfully they unflagged a bunch of images in response. Or it could've just been random (probably).
* On a whim I bought Dragon Quest IX for the Nintendo DS. I'm a fan of Toriyama's art and have never played a DQ game before. So far I'm impressed by the story. I'm only 20 minutes into it but it's bustling with creativity and charm.
* I'm going to formally announce this a bit later, but informally for all you personal blog readers, a new anime site is joining our humble network. The site is AdvancedAnime.com. I've known the owner for many years. It's has a fairly big audience and hopefully we'll do some cool things with it.
* It's really hard on my energy level working full time. It's been six months now and when I come home from work I just want to sleep. Hopefully I'll figure something out to get back on track.
I'm reading a book about running by Haruki Murakami, who is a legendary Japanese fiction writer. This book though is more of a memoir.
Here's an interesting thought of his: If you're engaged in a long-term project, it's best to stop every day when you start to really get into the project rather than wait until you're tired/bored. This is because the next day your energy will carry over.
What do you think?
I'll be making a fairly crazy announcement fairly soon. @_@
In the past we've done theOtaku celebrity guest chatroom interviews with people like Kyle Hebert, Tiffany Grant, Crispin Freeman, and Richard Epcar.
If you could vote for one English-speaking anime celebrity to do a chat session, who would it be?
