Pale Cocoon OVA

I don't know how many of you have ever heard of Pale Cocoon. It's just something I had stumbled across and added to my HD a few months ago. It sat around for awhile and I've watched it a couple of times already so I decided to blog it. Basically it's an anime that takes place sometime in the way far ahead future, where people have to live below the surface of their planet with machines that stabilize and simulate an environment similar to earth's. Our main characters are Ura and Riko, who work in an archive facility that restores binary data and analyzes it for reference. I'll let you watch the rest of the video to find out and decide for yourself on the anime.




Below are some screen grabs for those who like pictures. My screengrab app isn't the best so I hope they came out good enough to view.

Slow days

I was working today and noticed that we had a huge slowdown at the airport. It's still unusual to me to see the airport so slow. I'm used to it being rush-time all the time there.




A few people mingling around before they board.



Outside the Southwest checkpoint.




I took this one a few days ago.




What's your airport like? Ever been there when it was slow like this?

Kagamin^^

This is a strange post for my first anime tag. I noticed this gif somewhere. I gotta admit, like lots of others who've seen Lucky Star, that you look over this scene on purpose because it's only a split second that Konata is messing with Kagami. Just thought I'd share it.

To see what's going on you gotta click the image, blogger won't allow standard gif animation for some reason...

Potion = 100HP

This is great. I never seen such good advertising before. I wonder though, what if you're really needing a pick-me-up for work? Do you still only get 100HP?




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Zeich Zeon!

You know I always wondered if mobile suits were in production in Japan during the war. It doesn't seem too out of the blue that Zeon was in fact a division of the Nazi power. Also the fact that the Japanese and Germans were collaborating kind of makes me wonder about the "secret missions" that went on during the entire theatre. Only time will tell if we end up building mobile suits and Gundams for warfare. It may even follow the cartoon series where some of us are fighting for peace and others just want to fight to "control earth." As insanely popular the idea, it's still a remaining fact that it's what many want, a real-life Star Wars experience or some sort of combat world of the future.

Till next time...




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As the City Burned

It's hard to know that destruction is in front of you
Yet you gaze at it with eyes wide shut.
It talks and glares and taunts you with death
As it consumes those that you find once distant from you.




An original poem by Jon.

My New Whip

Again not much happens around here. Only ordinary things...








That aside I wanted to let you know that I got a new car! WOOO! It's way different than driving the minivan I grew up in. (No offence to the van. I love you and all it's just that I practically grew up in you.) Anyhow I'll see about linking some pics of it here.


P.S. Man! HTML is really coming in handy. I know it's hard and all but I'm really gettin into it.


till next time!





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Too much going on

Okay so I've got a lot of random ideas going through my head right now. Which is probably why I haven't been able to do a recent post. I been just hanging around living life normally (if you can call my life normal). Doing homework, working on my business, and goofing off when I feel like it. Gotta go and play sometime right? Speaking of which, I went to Salt Creek with my brother yesterday and jumped in on one of the soccer matchees going on. Not many people showed up. What can I say, there's nothing better than a pickup game right? Right. Anyhow we jumped in and I was able to pull off an assisted goal. I scored it myself. One of the guys on my team smacked it off the wall (a very poor attempt I must add, oh well we had fun) and I finished it, placing it right above the keeper. He had no chance. I hear it's legal to smoke a keeper . . .


Anyhow, like I said earlier I haven't been able to post much recently. Just a lot going on in my mind I guess. I did notice that my friend and I haven't been able to hang out much either. I kinda miss it. Making beats and trying to act like we were in a band. Honestly though, that never gets old. I gotta write somethin' again . . . maybe, we'll see what i come up with.

Y'know up to a point I want to create like a whole community online or something. Something lots of people want to talk about. I know that animeblogger is good at helping people create those but I'm not all over the whole anime world thing. I'm not much of an otaku so I really wouldn't suit it out. I am however a part of another online forum. I won't say for sake of face right now. Just kidding. I'm a user of the Face-Full forums. Go ahead and figure it out. If you just had a dirty thought raise your hand *looks around*. It's not what you think. It's a paintball forum. I don't post much there either but it's cool to share thoughts and stuff about the sport. That's what it's about when you play too. Just go, hang out, meet pros, and play. It's a lot like soccer in it's physical sense. It's hard to play paintball now if you're not fit enough to run and slide around.


Nuff said.

'Till next-time. Catch you on the net.


-Jon



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It's only 11:21 . . .

It's about 11:21 PM right now on this 5th day of September. Not much happens at night. 'Cept of course the occasional street-race in the distance. I noticed it got a lot cooler lately. I'm okay with that so long as it doesn't change every five minutes. Then I would get sick and we all know how that is. For those of you who don't know, Chula Vista has been the victim of some actually very interesting heat wave patterns. I can't go into great detail but it's no Santa-Ana weather (if you've ever experienced Santa-Ana, you know what I mean). So here I am wanting to do something [that doesn't concern homework] and I end up downloading some programs for my computer to keep up with my assignments in school. I'm doing a web-development class that uses Dreamweaver CS3. I'll explain the CS3 for you, Macromedia got owned. Case closed. Anyhow I'm looking up some free programs and this is the lineup I downloaded:

1. Seamonkey:
This is a web browser/html editing client developed by our friends over at Mozilla. I still like Firefox and Seamonkey seems to operate on the same line as Firefox does with the exception that you can edit and view HTML right within the Seamonkey system. I used Seamonkey for about 5 minutes when I realized I had a problem. It would line up my code to the left every time I opened it, whether or not the code was formatted in any specific layout. Everything got pushed left and it became a pain to re-do my code every time.

So after another look around Download.com I came across my next piece of freeware,

2. Smultron:
Don't let the name fool you. Or the logo. The designer of this program did a really good job putting it together. I actually came to believe it was originally a Mac type program (Yes, I'm a Mac user. No, I don't like Vista). Aside from the looky-loo part of the program it handled really well. It featured a tag recognizing system that colors your code accordingly, much like Dreamweaver so you can see everything a lot better, and it keeps the format of the code you create. So if you made indents and such to put ease on your eyes (why wouldn't you) it stayed there when you opened your file again. What I found a little difficult about the program is that you couldn't really do a template with all the heading stuff at the top - but then after some familiarization with the program (about 2 minutes of clicking just to see what such-and-such does) I found that you can upload helpful templates with the heading stuff at the top! You may not get as many options as Dreamweaver, but Smultron definately gets the job done. Also similar to Dreamweaver's split-view-mode, you can view the changes you make to the code with a separate preview window. It's a bit of a pain, it being un-attached to the code window, but it means you can move it around to where you want it. The window very easiliy show the changes you've made as long as you save your file first, then hit the reload button in the preview window. There is a split view however it shows code in both windows. Don't know why I'd wanna do that. I'm only running Version 2.2.6 so that may be it. Smultron in a nutshell...


Aside from my habits of risking the life of my computer to discover new things, I stumbled across a new web browser. So on to my next review.

3. Shiira:
I really like the name of it clearly because I have no idea what it means. But that's just me. The browser itself is very on par with Safari and is just as - if not faster than - Safari itself. It's built using a popular Cocoa system e.g.: letting you customize certain browsing features like side drawers on the window for bookmarks and such. Although I have no idea what Cocoa or alot of other techno gumbo means I feel confident with this new browser. It gets the job done. There's a tidbit that bugs me though. When you download attatchments through yahoo mail, your file is labeled as "secure download". And from there you can add a tag to make it open in the appropriate program. I don't know if this goes for all downloaded files, but we'll find out soon enough. If I can't make you download this browser, just do it anyway. It looks cool, it's fast, it works, and heck, the logo rocks.


So here I am, 11:59 PM - check that, it's now zero hour... and I'm up typing for what I feel is a good cause. Ms. Naomi if you read this, I'll get to my homework . . . eventually. If I wake up tomorrow, I mean today, I mean, nevermind. I'm losing it and I'm typing with one of my eyes wandering off. So that was another trip into my mind. See you next time in the net!

Jonathan. out.




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This is a redo . . .

My name is Jonathan and I am 19 years old. My interests take me in a
few directions. As far as sports, I am not really conventional. I
prefer paintball and soccer as my primary sport interests. I don't
know of many other people that play paintball around here so talking
about it is a little hard. I'm not geeked out about it (yet) so I
don't really have all my favorite team rosters memorized. My first
experience with art came through a photo class at southwestern. I had
done a beginning b&w class and it sparked my taste. I like film but I
currently use digital media. I'm doing this class in hopes of putting
together a portfolio online, so I won't have to lug a hard-drive or my
computer around for others to see. I've only done a few things on my
own. I have a really basic knowledge of photoshop and want to improve
on that and get into my other adobe programs. I hope to get a better
knowledge of graphic design and other digital media. I currently have
a small business and hope to see it grow. If you'd like to see the
site you can visit http://www.tinyjukebox.com .
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=paintball+mag&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.face-full.com/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=paintball+photography&btnG=Search
http://www.paintballphotography.com/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=99+rooms&btnG=Search
http://www.99rooms.com

Last Day!

So today I had my last day of seasonal work at the airport. In case you didn't know there is this intern type program that the SAN authority is heading up allowing people who know people within the airport the chance to work there. Case and point. Oligarchy is wierd.

I won't be seeing any of my former employees for a long time. Dissapointing I guess . . . It depends on who it is. I had my run-ins with some of the other interns at the airport and they weren't all very cheery about it. I learned a few things about working in a "connection" related job. 1) Don't let people get on your nerves. They get big headed about it. 2) Keep a good attitude about everything. It keeps your enemies guessing. *cough cough* co-workers *cough* 3) Revenge is sweet but not satisfying. Story behind this one? Alright. One of the co-workers that I know takes their breaks tooooooo long. Need more help? They fall asleep while the rest of us work hard helping out the rush at the airline checkpoints. This same employee is well known by others within the airport for doing just that, taking naps and getting kicked out of checkpoints for not working properly. There are other reasons behind this employee's infamy. Right now we won't get into them. First we're going to name this employee, since it's a guy we'll call him Keef (yes that's how we'll pronounce it). Anyhow, Keef was napping one day with two other employees(unnamed) while I was assisting TSA at the Southwest checkpoint. The supervisor asked me where they were and I gave the usual "Dunno," answer. So the supervisor transferred me to terminal 2, checkpoint 5 to assist with an even larger line-up problem. On my way out of Southwest I noticed Keef and another employee face down in a cafe chasing sheep (yes sleeping). Out of anger I took a pic on my phone of them napping and resumed my march to checkpoint 5 to help out two other interns already there working hard. On my break I went into the food court area outside of my current checkpoint and was greeted by two Authority representatives. They congradulated and thanked me on my assistance to the big rush at checkpoint 5. I don't know how it happened but I brought up the fact that I snapped a picture of the sleeping employees. They looked surprised and really wanted to see it. I sent it to one of the Authority reps and he saved it on his phone saying that our boss needed to see it. I walked away a little boastful and somewhat confused. I didn't know how the boss would handle two of our other interns asleep on the job.

*Fast forward to today.* I found out that some of the other interns got wind of the sleeping employee pic. Word had spread that the boss got the picture from a security camera and that he had spoken with them about the incident. Inside I was thankful that it spread the way it did. My lesson there was that I can trust my higher-ups with my anonymity. Since it was the last day I trusted two of my intern friends the true story behind the "security camera" pic. I let them know that the camera was a mobile one. Me. I even pointed out that none of the security cameras had the proper angle to even spot them in the cafe (note to self: remind security operations to take care of a Southwesst blindspot in the system. end.). So my last day of work ended with some laughs. I'm now home and wondering why I haven't eaten dinner yet. Can't . . . put my finger on it . . . well this has been a quick tour through my mind. Hope to see you again next time.

out.


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