{"id":2976,"date":"2010-11-19T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2010-11-19T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T00:40:11","slug":"notes-in-passing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/notes-in-passing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes in passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I visited my family last week. While there, I spent more time watching American teevee shows then than I have in all the previous 30 years. My folks don’t have cable, so the menu was mostly ancient reruns. In my last post, I suggested that early televised anime was not very sophisticated. Well, compared to I Spy<\/b><\/i>, Dororon Enma-kun<\/b><\/i> is a brilliant example of wit, subtlety and charm. I endured about ten minutes of a drearily preachy episode of Dragnet<\/b><\/i>; I can’t think of any anime I’ve ever seen that was half as lame. Of contemporary series, I saw several “CSI” shows, which were slicker than, but not really much better than, The A-Team<\/b><\/i>. The highlight of each evening was Wheel of Fortune<\/b><\/i>, believe it or not, and at least half the time of that was devoted to commercials \u2014 the same damned noisy, stupid commercials, over and over and over and over again and again and again.<\/p>\n

There was also an awful lot of “news.” I have a low opinion of newspapers, but sometimes they actually do convey information. Televised news is too dumb even to be a joke.<\/p>\n

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National Review<\/b><\/i> doesn’t quite know what to make of Hatsune Miku<\/a>. I gather that there will soon be an English-language version of Miku; this is one of the very few reasons I have ever found to consider working with Windows.<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Here’s a nice piece of Taiwanese animation:<\/p>\n

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(Via Beneath the Tangles<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

I don’t have a car, but if I did, this is the “coexist” sticker I would prefer on my bumper:<\/p>\n

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(Via Dustbury<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I visited my family last week. While there, I spent more time watching American teevee shows then than I have in all the previous 30 years. My folks don’t have cable, so the menu was mostly ancient reruns. In my last post, I suggested that early televised anime was not very sophisticated. Well, compared to … Continue reading “Notes in passing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-M0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}