Episode 24. Fateful Decision: Hitomi wakes up back on Earth. She realizes that she’s in a recap episode; with the replay of events, she also realizes that how much her best friend Yukari loved Amano. Hitomi gets signs from CLAMP, visions of feathers and then from her tarot cards. Allen realizes that his feelings for Hitomi are actually a projection of his siscon for the missing Celena who turns up home but later reverts to being Dilandau again and is retrieved by Jajuka. The war is at a standstill but Donkirk is confident that the mysterious element of Hitomi will return and set his plans into motion again. Hitomi does her re-run while Van takes off with Escaflowne towards the Mystic Moon and picks her up via the pillar of light but arrive in the midst of a battlefield.
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Lloyd’s reaction to Cecile-nee’s horror of a sandwich was pretty much my OMGWTFBBQ reaction to the Zer0 raw with the mistimed audio, odd crop, Japanese sub and audio commentary by some twat; all hail the REAL Zero Raws - there can only be one!!
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Got wind of this seminar, organized by the Creative Industries Observatory, via Anime Infatuation, and popped by Strand Poly yesterday. A quick rundown of my main takeaways and reflections on the presentations.
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of mine is when I’m trying to read a post and the text gets pushed down repeatedly as images load. [Add: Blog owners who don't realize this because the images are already preloaded in their browser caches in the course of drafting their posts, get a clue already please.]
This can be megas irritating when a post has a lot of images. It’s also particularly egregious since this issue can be easily overcome by adding ‘width=”a in px” height=”b in px” ‘ in the img src HTML tag or ’style=”width: Apx; height:Bpx;” ‘; I’m sure the CSS whizs will have even better suggestions. Inputting image height and width have also been incorporated into Wordpress rich visual editor.
Why oh why oh why doesn’t everyone do it? Come on, guys, gals and traps, it ain’t rocket science!
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I’ve been meaning to follow the examples of Adun and Stripey in consolidating my anime-related expenditure for 2007 (mainly for my own budgeting records and planning) but accounting for the August Japan trip has made it rather complicated. Have finally decided to split things up by product category; coincidentally-on purpose, DVD purchases were the easiest to compile since I didn’t buy any DVDs in Japan.
[Added: Total expenditure updated! I've decided to exclude the 'indirect' costs of the Japan trip such as air ticket, accommodation, food, travel to/fro Ariake etc. But with more pie charts! :P]
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