{"id":71,"date":"2004-06-30T14:43:30","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T14:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2004\/06\/2004_06_30_2243.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T01:33:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T01:33:15","slug":"random-thoughts-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/30\/random-thoughts-3","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts for tonight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A-DWTL Round<\/li>\n<li>Anime fiesta<\/li>\n<li>The best cockroach cleaner <em>bar-none<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Apple fever<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<h2>A-DWTL Round<\/h2>\n<p>We had another A-Days &#8220;round.&#8221; last weekend. For those of you who don&#8217;t know, A-Days is the alumni chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwtl.net\">Days With the Lord<\/a>. Considered to be the &#8220;unofficial&#8221; <em>College<\/em> days cuz it was started by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.admu.edu.ph\">Ateneo de Manila University<\/a> students.<\/p>\n<p>But Days politics is just useless trivia when taken in context of the round. Fact is, the &#8220;round&#8221; is just a gathering of friends <em>who happen to be<\/em> Dazers. What constitutes a round in our world? Basically, it&#8217;s a drinking session.<\/p>\n<p>Now how would I, someone who doesn&#8217;t drink, be involved in such an activity? Well you gotta figure that shit out on your own hehehe. It&#8217;s really fun to watch people get drunk.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, pics are at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/gallery\/thumbnails.php?album=50\">gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Anime Fiesta<\/h2>\n<p>Well I love watching <em>anime<\/em> (Japanese animation) cuz they blow any american production out of the water. And though Japan has its share of utterly <strong>lousy<\/strong> anime such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokemon.com\"><em>this<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/tahq.com\/cmb\"><em>this<\/em><\/a>, they also have really serious stuff such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,315,tjbtjv,rurouni_kenshin.html\"><em>this<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,70,pimdxv,berserk.html\"><em>this.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese have a very appealing &#8220;wierdness&#8221; for me, that&#8217;s what makes them able to pump out series after series of just about anything you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,727,bjjxyk,tennis_no_ohjis.html\">think of<\/a>&#8230; and even of those you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,721,mwmcsq,urotsukidoji_1.html\">can&#8217;t!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyways, my schedule finally cleared up a little so I had the time to watch some  series i&#8217;ve been meaning to watch\/finish. Thought I might share them with you. Feel free to click on the links for more information about each of them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,1072,afqppx,naruto.html\">Naruto<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,1243,ohjgii,kimi_ga_nozomu_.html\">Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,738,dnidgd,great_teacher_o.html\">Great Teacher Onizuka<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,880,rmksij,12_kokuki.html\">Twelve Kingdoms<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,1129,ydnqvj,macross_zero.html\">Macross Zero<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenfo.com\/animetitle,1270,xvewuf,peace_maker_kur.html\">Peace Maker Kurogane<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And since we&#8217;re talking about animation; I&#8217;ve <em>finally<\/em> watched seasons 1 and 2 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starwars.com\/clonewars\">Clone Wars<\/a>. I think it&#8217;s great that Lucas has given his blessing to produce such a series. It&#8217;s a bummer though, that he didn&#8217;t ask the Japanese to do it. So we&#8217;re left with <em>Dexter&#8217;s Lab on steroids.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Cockroach Cleaner<\/h2>\n<p>Being the audio junkie that I am. I usually keep a stock of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spraywayinc.com\/indmain\/709indmain.html\">Electronic Contact Cleaner<\/a> handy to clean the contacts of my audio gear. Little did I know that this fast drying, non-corrosive, no-residue-leaving spray is perfect to kill insects&#8230; particularly roaches. If you get a clear hit on a roach with this baby, I tell you they die in a matter of <em>seconds!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Funny though that I use it more for killing vermin than cleaning contacts. And at 7 dollars, I think it&#8217;s pretty steep for roach-killing.<\/p>\n<h2>Apple Fever<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just watched <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.apple.akadns.net\">Steve Jobs&#8217; keynote speech<\/a>. It just blew my mind. Now I can&#8217;t wait for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/powerbook\">15&#8243; Powerbook<\/a> to come. There are so much features in the yet-to-be-released &#8220;Tiger&#8221; build of OSX, that are so useful to me in the business perspective.<\/p>\n<p>Remember my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/06\/2004_06_12_1122.php\">post<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">GMail?,<\/a> well it seems Apple has developed a new search system called &#8220;Spotlight,&#8221; with the power arguably similar to Google&#8217;s search engine. And they&#8217;ve implemented it on a system-wide scale. In the speech, Jobs demonstrated how you can access virtually anything on your computer with Spotlight. If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmail.com\">GMail<\/a> was specific to e-mail, Spotlight can find <em>any<\/em> type of file with incredible speed efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I stll am a dedicated desktop PC user, as I really <em>need<\/em> some PC options that aren&#8217;t available on the Mac. But I must say, Apple is looking better every minute.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thoughts for tonight: A-DWTL Round Anime fiesta The best cockroach cleaner bar-none Apple fever<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,96,372,473,485],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anime","tag-apple","tag-dwtl","tag-general","tag-gmail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}