“Emacs itself was one of about half-a-dozen dispatch-vector-driven editors developed circa 1971-1972, and is known to the world at large primarily because it absorbed the functionality of all the others before one of them could successfully absorb it. Emacs has been much like an amoeba from the very beginning.”
— Lum JohnsonThe quiet dignity of Morning Musume
This showed up on Takitumblr today, after being spotted on Twitter. It turns up in a lot of “wacky Japan” roundups going back years, and of course I immediately ID’d the color printer as Miki Fujimoto, a graduate of the Hello!Project School of Fashion. Seriously, who else are you going to hire to dress up like this?
Dear Apple,
Your recent announcement that 32-bit iOS apps will stop working in iOS 11 means that 58 of the apps on my iPhone won’t work. This includes all of my Japanese dictionaries, the best dice-roller app, quite a few paid games where your store policies give them no reason to do the upgrade work for free, the only decent barcode scanner (that is, it is both accurate and doesn’t auto-open store web pages to try to sell me what I just scanned), Google Earth, Hyperdia, all of AAA’s apps, and, perhaps most importantly, BrianAlarm, which wakes me with the gentle sound of Brian Blessed.
If I have to choose between iOS 11 and !!BRIAN!!BLESSED!!, guess who wins? 😏
There is a partial workaround, at least…
Please don't lose the recipe...
“Former hotel chef” Aoi Gotō is the latest in tasty dishes served up fresh by Japan’s gravure magazine/DVD industry. Age 22, so “chef” may be a bit of a stretch, but her bikini credentials are excellent.
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MasterCook scripts
Ongoing MasterCook molesting now up on
github. I took
advantage of the very restricted formatting of their XML-ish MX2
format to write cat/grep/ls tools, as well as a quick-fix for a common
format issue in files imported from MXP format. It would be trivial to
write those sort of tools for the XML versions, but working in MX2 is
handy for things you plan to re-import to MasterCook (since I haven’t
written an xmltomx2 converter yet…).
Wonder Woman
Worth seeing on the big screen, which is something I haven’t said about a DC movie in many years. For that matter, I can’t remember the last one I said was worth seeing at all.
Apart from some shots that were ruined by being designed for 3D (which I never bother with; I’m a Monday-morning-matinee cheapskate), I thought everything looked great. Gal Gadot gives an excellent fish out of water, coming of age performance, and the rest of the cast holds it together nicely. I even liked the child actors.
Amusing note: one of the previews for this film was Atomic Blonde, which was absolutely filled with ridiculous chick-fu combat scenes that required more strength, speed, and stamina than James Bond and Jason Bourne put together. Wonder Woman can fight against men that way; human women cannot, and I don’t see anything about her being a cyborg. Also amusing was the “fight like a girl” trailer for the new Transformers movie, which carried a message of grrrl power and nice tits, which is always important when you’re watching giant robots bash each other into scrap metal.
Update: The BluRay pre-release is currently #11 on Amazon. I think it’s a hit…
Cheesecake: sleepy
This one’s a bit of a stretch. And a bit of a yawn. And a surprising number of cats.
Easy as One, Tsu, Three
No chance for ambiguity here. When you’re going to つ (津市), つ Station is definitely the place to get off.
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Talk Talk, Titty Talk, Truthy Talk
DanSora 8
Talkiest. Boss Fight. Ever. (okay, “recently”)
Also, “As you know, Bob, this famous event that’s never been mentioned before not only explains the odd behavior of the character who was introduced last week, but will be crucial to the plot this week.”
Despite having leveled up to take on Busty Tamer, Aiz’s rematch with her is overshadowed by the rest of the party fighting The Monologer. After he takes his expository lumps, he’s written out of the story forever when Busty Tamer eats his heart.
Like much of what happens in this series, the action is an excuse to fill in the blanks about the DanMachi universe. It’s basically the novelist’s background notes baked into a cheesecake and covered with whipped cream. Lefiya is the cherry on top.
Speaking of Lefiya, she’s in full-on Action Girl mode in the fight, which compensates for her awkward-but-earnest girl-crush on Banshee whatshername. This chick really needs to get laid (see previous paragraph).
This is not quite an actual conversation from the episode:
“Bete’s a dick”.
“Oh, that’s just his funny little way.”
Eromanga-sensei 9
Note to Our Hero: just because you’re too shy to enjoy the view at the beach doesn’t mean you can deprive us of the opportunity. Next time, hold off a little before offering her the shirt off your back.
I am very disappointed that neither editor-san nor bookstore-chan managed to crash the Bikini Confession Party. Fortunately, Elf has bigger tits than I expected. In other news, Fifth Wheel Guy’s homosexual panic added nothing to the episode.
Doctor Who 10.8
Well, that was… better than last week without actually being good. I preferred the 2007 version.
