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Anime Detour 2009 Demo

the dojo (twin cities budokan) did a demonstration today, as we do every year, and it was fun. new hotel is hosting the Anime Detour convention and it's interesting how everying feels the same, yet all mixed up.

i'll be cutting during tomorrows demonstration and i'm hoping i do well cutting two tatami mats. i'm feeling good about it, but have typically done a single mat. so this is like an upgrade that will be more awesome. tomorrow will be the test. with me accident free luck. :)

went to the holy land to get some food afterwards (indian food) and it was most excellent. good food for a good price. Mmmmmm.

(picture does not include me as i'm not cutting until tomorrow.)

1.5 years = ? level

it's surprising how quickly time passes. it came up last night how long i've been practicing kenjutsu and thanks to blog posts i figured out it's been a year and a half. i guess i feel i still have so much to learn that i shouldn't be six months away from training for two years.

just a tuesday...

winter
lately the weather has been nice enough to melt the snow then it will get cold again and snow. now i'll have to shovel tonight as it's snowing, but there isn't a layer of ice under all the snow. i shall declare that a win.

reading
it's not going as good as i'd expected, but i am back to reading again. i'll do better once i finish the castlevania game for my ds. oh, how i love castlevania!

need vs. want
there's a difference? (yes!) maybe the want bubble has just grown too large and needs to be shrunk down. how many houses and cars do we have that are just too much house and car for what we need. a lot i'm expecting.

stupid cars...

conclusion
sometimes (mostly) a blog post isn't worth the .... (end transmission)

read more

things can be reduced and further reduced until you get to the basic idea. i've found a basic idea in getting some things accomplished. so i'll be doing some reading for a while. i'm curious to see how much i am able to read in a month.

reading.... attack!

ereader blurb

Something I posted to http://dvice.com/archives/2009/02/product_compari.php

I find the sony prs-505 useful for carrying around large books. It's just impractical to carry around a couple of computer books that are very thick. With an ereader I'm able to carry four books with me and it doesn't kill my back or crush my laptop (happened with my old ibook).

The books are cheaper in ebook format from amazon and sony. If I pay more for a paper copy of a book and loan it out to two friends who also loan me books it's much cheaper and I get to read more books. Much like CD's and letting people borrow them publishers are trying to get into a everyone pays to enjoy model. More money for them.

Adobe pdf files are great for books. I can read them on any computer and don't have to worry about if I'll be able to still see this file in a couple years. What does someone do to get access to all these books you are purchasing if your ereader dies? Get another one for hundreds of dollars? DRM means no ability to just view and read them on my computer if I need to wait till I can afford to replace my reader.

so much computing time

i find it strange sometimes how much our computers are used in everything we do. especially when it wasn't that long ago when computers were hardly anywhere.