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September 26, 2005Oh, it's late and here I am...
Really, I'd rather be just about anywhere else but downtown Los Angeles at 8 a.m. tomorrow morning--but for my apartment complex's code violations hearing, I'll make an exception. I've got a feeling--based on the fact that the city's official notice was posted above the mailboxes and gone a few hours later--that the landlord would rather not have us know about the complex's structural peccadilloes.
Oh well.
In other news, I downloaded what seemed like an excessive amount of drivers and codecs and new programs in order to watch fansubs on my computer. For some reason, the default setting on one such program is to have the image and the subtitles upside down. But now I have superfluous programs working at odds with one another--the image is right-side up, one set of subtitles is presented correctly below it, and a second set of subs (in another font and size, natch) is strung up upside down above it all. A little distracting, sure, but now that I have it all working, I'm loath to mess with it.
[guitar solo, during which I worked on something else and killed time on the internet]
And now it's 1:37 a.m. I'm not making it to that code violation hearing. Maybe I'll call back in a few days and see if they have any info in their files about it. Ack. My eyes are too tired to continue working, but my brain has the wanderlust. This would be a good time A) to know Braille, and B) have books written in it.
An amazing language, that Braille. I was thinking about it the other day. It's less than 200 years old. I wonder if it will evolve slowly into its next form, or if somebody will build the proverbial better mousetrap all at once and leave Braille antiquated over the course of a generation or two?
Posted by patrick at September 26, 2005 11:02 PM
CommentsSigh. Dude, you should have gone to the hearing, 'cause you could have made major hell for your landlord and financed a move to a non-ghetto apartment. Trust me... if it gets to the "hearing downtown" phase, what it really means is, "Slumlord is going to pay an assload of cash to each of his tenants if he doesn't want to go to jail..." Except if most of those tenants don't show up, in which case the city will say, "Oh, gosh. Guess there's no problem..."
(Slaps Pat upside the head with a big foam Shocker...)
Dude, this is LA -- one of the three cities in the world where the local electeds hate landlords more than tenants. Know it, love it, use it...
Posted by: Jon Bastian at September 27, 2005 02:58 AM
You've only got a few more months till your lease is up. Then you can move on to greener pastures--or, at least someplace that doesn't require swimming just to reach your car during the rainy season. Heck, the place I found seemed pretty nice...Or is it?
Posted by: Steph at September 27, 2005 01:02 PM
Now that's downright surreal. Someone in the legitimate US Anime industry watching fansubs.
To note, you came up briefly during my last trip to Japan. Kyoko and I were meeting with a friend of hers from high school. This was one of the few friends of Kyoko's I could relate to because she was not a stressed-out, over-sexed office worker. She instead is struggling to finish college and spends most of her no-studying time on video games (mostly RPGs). As there are wide gaps in my Japanese comprehension I'm not sure how you came up as a subject, but it was mentioned that you did voices (this was before you were also directing) in localized Anime. It really flabberghasts the average Japanese person that anyone outside of Japan would watch Anime, much less be a voice actor in dubbing.
I love suprising Japanese people.
Posted by: Mad Monarch Voards at September 27, 2005 03:26 PM
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