notes

[incandescens]

An absolutely splendid couple of days. Though most of the stuff in the first day's meeting went somewhat over my head, the second day (the actual clinical-code-tech as opposed to the more general department planning) made plenty of sense, and it was a delight to be with people who were clinical-code-experts like myself and knew what I meant when I talked about things, and could sympathise with my problems in getting coding organised and working because they'd had the same ones.

Ahem. Babble.

Other notes:

a) Good Chinese restaurant that we went to. No doubt will go again.

b) Okay, okay. One Piece is excellent and I need to get more of it.

c) The Persona manga which I got hold of (by Naotsugu Matsueda, translated into the French, straight trilogy which is set in the same universe as the games but takes place somewhere between timelines) was pretty enough and interesting enough but failed to really surprise me in any significant way, or to make me want to wonder about the characters afterwards. Still. Pretty. Not bad to have, not complaining. Just not -- more.

d) Botheration. If Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is, as it seems, the best thing on the current market in its style for the Gameboy, then any other game in the same line I get is going to be inferior by comparison. Sigh. Now we need "something else brand new but just the same and just as good".

e) Tonkamshop have emailed me to say my order's on its way. (French manga.) Finally. It's been a month. (I believe this is because they don't ship till the order's complete, and they don't bother telling you whether items on their pages are currently in stock or are not in stock and will need additional time to obtain.) They are unlikely to be getting many orders from me in the future. Well, unless I really can't get it elsewhere.

f) I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow. It's been a while since I did that. Fascinating.

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Pablo Neruda's I'm Explaining A Few Things. Good stuff. Strong. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/816.html

Comments

[jasonlblair.livejournal.com]

That poem is...amazing. Confident, solid.

[shiny-monkey.livejournal.com]

I second and third that (though without the Tolkien reference). kagenami brought me the manga while I was hospitalised (and drugged out of my mind!) and I was almost immediately hooked. Of course to this day I'm not sure that what I remember of those first volumes has anything to do with what Oda actually wrote/drew...

Still. I have a Thing for cranky teenaged boys, and Sanji and Zoro fit nicely into that little niche.

[incandescens]

It grows on one, it definitely does. (Even if the French have chosen to translate Sanji as Sandy, and Usopp as Pipo. Not sure why that last.)

On the positive side, the French _have_ translated up to volume 22. Bye bye, month's manga money . . .

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

I'm actually looking forward to work tomorrow.

*siiigh* Vicarious enjoyment of the new and shiny workplace vibes. (I dunno. The babble made perfect sense to me. No one here has any idea what I'm doing. :)

[incandescens]

Sympathy.

[zamiel.livejournal.com]

I've been tinkering with Onimusha Tactics. Not nearly as good as FFTA, admittedly, but a nice, pleasant diversion. XP imballance is kind of annoying, though. If a character doesn't hit a target, no XP for them. Annoying, indeed.

[incandescens]

Picked it up (it was going cheap) but haven't tried playing it yet.

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Yay for the shiny new workplace syndrom! :D And your babbling? I wholeheartedly sympathise, the only ones who understand what I do, are my immediate co-workers and then I have to cross borders to find any others...

[canaa.livejournal.com]

One Piece is delightful. :) The art style can take a little to get used to, but - it's absolutely addictive. ^^ Oda-sensei must have an interesting brain.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles looks pretty interesting to me... of course, it also looks like it's best as a multiplayer game, with a Gamecube and several friends. None of which do I have. :) Well, okay, I have friends, but not many readily available ones. ^^

[archangelbeth]

Good babble.

Somethingorother Peacemaker -- good anime? It's in this month's Previews catalog...

[shiny-monkey.livejournal.com]

Not Peacemaker Kurogane?

[incandescens]

Sounds that way, I think . . .

[solaas.livejournal.com]

If it's Peacemaker Kurogane, then yes it's good. I liked it a lot. Funny and a bit silly at first, then turns the angst up to 11. :)