Loving "Baccano!"

Things I love about it.

• The characters are colorful -- "Yeah, that was impossible. At least we did the next best thing, stealing the entrance!" "Guns? Guns? I hear guns! This is getting exciting! This is getting exciting!"
• The dialog is a blast -- "YesYesYesYesYesNoNoNo, Still no, Hell No!"
• The animation is excellent -- See Ladd Russo's initial fight in the dining car.
• The story presentation is a blast -- Three stories presented concurrently, containing some common characters. Many scenes get revisited from different characters' perspectives. Most of the story is presented out of chronological order; if it weren't different parts of the stories would spoil parts of other stories.

Other notable components:

• Set in the late 1920s/early 1930s.
• There's a lot of violence. You may or may not enjoy it.

A realization...

Rather than get a new domain for each idea I may or may not complete, I should get one short domain, and set up all those ideas on subdomains.

HDR of a Charleston alleyway

My second HDR result from the trip this past weekend. I don't have any more bracketed sets, so that's the last HDR from that trip.

Other interesting pictures from this past weekend.

Click through for descriptions on Flickr.

My first HDR that only sucks a little bit.

Mix tapes for driving.

So I'm making a pair of 90-minute-per-side mix tapes for driving, for listening to during a 15 hour drive.

Yes, tapes. My laptop's being repaired, and I don't have any other decent audio player device at the moment.

To make these tapes, I created a playlist of songs in Rhythmbox that I would be willing to listen to. I don't know how many are there, or how many minutes' worth of music is there. Suffice it to say it's a lot. I also threw in all of the ads and callsign announcements from Streets of SimCity, because they give me a chuckle. I have the playlist playing in Shuffle mode, and I have a dual-tape deck sitting between my computer and stereo syste, configured to continuously record, looping through all four sides of tape.

When I wake up, I'll pop the tapes out. They'll have six hours worth of music on them, and I won't really know what's on there and when.

This will be interesting...

Picked up a Wiimote today.

Picked up a Wiimote today. I don't have a wii. I want to see if I can get it working as a mouse.

The mapping I have in mind:

• As long as the trigger is being held, its motion will affect the mouse cursor's position. When the trigger isn't being held, the mouse cursor's position isn't affected.
• The D-pad will be up/down and left/right scroll events.
• The A button will be the Left mouse button. That leaves buttons 1 and 2 for Right and Middle.

Hopefully, that will cover most use cases. I don't really care for having the right and middle buttons there, but I prefer the D-pad for scroll events more.