Just now I watched this TEDx presentation about learning languages quick. Chris Lonsdale claims you can become fluent in a second language in six months by following the principles he outlines in the presentation. To me it kinda feels like he’s just pointing out the obvious.
Damn screens
Today we paid a visit to a contractor, and got to see how animation drawings are scanned, digitalized and colored. Honestly I was just shocked at how ineffective and outdated everything is, and yet they manage to create content that we see airing weekly.
On the other hand I found it amusing when people who work on computers all day complained about how it tires the eyes. I don’t understand how that works. The last time I felt that looking at the screen tired my eyes was back a decade ago with a 15″ 60Hz CRT monitor, and the past few years I’ve spent more time in front of the screen than elsewhere.
It can be nice
I almost forgot how nice translating a nice load of stuff can feel. There were seasons when I had my hands full with 3-4 shows a day, but once the spring season ended last year, I started tuning it down, so by autumn the number of my running shows was halved, and last season I only had two ongoing. I was just about to forget how translating even feels (and I just made a fool of myself in front of the HR guys when I failed to instantly write down a word I’ve never (sic) used in writing before), so driven by some sudden urge I cleared a good bunch of episodes this weekend. Felt good.
The hunt for rare Macs, part 2
I thought if I already did one of these yesterday, I could as well do another today and call it a weekend. I checked the McD menu online, trying to find something nice and found a quite promising item.
The hunt for rare Macs, part 1
Someone shared a CH collection of McDonald’s stuff that aren’t available in the US. What a surprise (not), a good bunch of them are Japan-only. So I thought, let’s take advantage of where I live and hunt those available now down.
Way to go
Today the plan was that I’d go to the sushi place in the neighborhood and socialize with whoever’s there at this time (it’s friday night, so I had my hopes up). Except when I entered there was no one but an older lady who looked really surprised at me. That in itself wouldn’t be weird (after all I’m a westerner in a japanese living neighborhood), but instead of welcoming me, she started with a “what do you want?”. Now that’s weird.
The catch
Yeah I know it was too good to be true. Get an internet connection that is in theory faster than what I used the past three years, for half the money, and I even get a discount on my cell bill. Can you guess where’s the catch?
Legality and popularity
Let’s consider there’s an online outlet for anime – a streaming site, a fansub group or something along those lines. Let’s say that this outlet is insanely popular, and even catches the attention of the creators of the anime. Who, in some sudden urge of generosity, instead of sending a DMCA takedown notice or bringing on some costy lawsuit, offer to make the online releases official even. However, as soon as the service becomes official, its popularity vanishes in a puff. Why could that be? (In a more general sense: why do illegal services lose their popularity once they become legal/official?)
Second day
There are a bunch of things I’ve come to realize today.
First, that I’ll need to have three meals a day for at least this first month with the trainings if I want to keep up with this lifestyle without breaking my body (especially my stomach). How I could achieve this is the matter of consideration at this point.
Days before the first
So since my parents left I’ve been so busy as if I was already working at least. Every day I’d start out in the morning (my flat in Hikone no longer had curtains so I’d wake with the sun – nor a bed, by the way, so I was using a sleeping bag) and walk around all day long checking out stuff one after another on my list of twenty-something items, ranging from cancelling my internet subscription to getting a “hello present” for my new landlord.
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