{"id":415,"date":"2007-12-25T20:39:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T01:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2007\/12\/25\/random-notes-2\/"},"modified":"2007-12-25T20:39:49","modified_gmt":"2007-12-26T01:39:49","slug":"random-notes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/random-notes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Random notes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some good news for Steven<\/a>: it looks like there are plans for a Strike Witches<\/em><\/strong> TV series<\/a>. I’m ambivalent, myself. The eight-minute OVA was perfect in its way (and perfectly absurd); a regular series, even if done well, is going to seem diffuse in comparison.<\/p>\n

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

I’ve got the week off. I’ve been reading Diana Wynne Jones rather than than watching anime, though, so I don’t have much to report. I have noticed that many recent visitors find this weblog through searches involving the terms “gothic,” “lolita,”, “Kei” and “Moyashimon,” which makes me apprehensive about the second half of the series. I suppose Kei does look a bit girlish, but I doubt that he’ll be as charming as Aspergillus<\/em>. (If I were to tell a young woman that she’s as cute as a fungus, would she understand that I mean it as a compliment? Probably not.)<\/p>\n

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

We have an uncommon event here in Wichita: a white Christmas. That happens maybe once in ten years.<\/p>\n

I considered posting a tune from the Sailor Moon<\/em> Christmas albums today, but I’m not sure that punishing your readership is a good idea. If you would like to hear some less-familiar Christmas carols, there are some MIDIs on my other weblog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Not anime, but geeky: mathematical needlework<\/a>; crocheting a Sierpinski triangle<\/a>; a how-to book, with projects and papers<\/a>. (The first link may be slow to load.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some good news for Steven: it looks like there are plans for a Strike Witches TV series. I’m ambivalent, myself. The eight-minute OVA was perfect in its way (and perfectly absurd); a regular series, even if done well, is going to seem diffuse in comparison. ***** I’ve got the week off. I’ve been reading Diana … Continue reading “Random notes”<\/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":[8,34],"tags":[659,670,684],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","category-whatever","tag-curiosities-and-silly-stuff","tag-news","tag-whatever"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-6H","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}