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Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Author: Karel Kerezman

  • One step closer to the ideal

    After a couple of days spent tinkering, breaking, unbreaking and tinkering some more, I can happily display the new journal-entry layout I’ve devised. What’s so great about it, you ask? The most important breakthrough is something you can’t even see: no longer is the layout of journal entries done by table code. The only table left is the calendar.

    This is simply one more step along the path to a fully CSS-driven layout scheme. The page should also render just a little bit faster in most browsers. Not to mention that I just plain like the way this looks better than what I had before.

    Pardon me while I bask in the dubious glory of my own accomplishments. Thank you.

  • esreveR nI s’gnihtyrevE

    Thanks once again to the creator of Monaural Jerk for showing me how to reverse-sort the journal entries. Now the newest additions will always be at the top of the page so you don’t have to scroll down to see if there’s anything new on a given day. Hooray!

    I’ve also learned how to make the “synopsis” data appear. This means that all entries with synopses (which would be all of them, mind you) back to the beginning of the database will be shown with little parenthetical comments.

    My next goal is to completely redesign how individual journal entries are displayed. Wish me luck. Send me cocoa.

  • Scan me, baby.

    Via Blogatelle, the blog cool enough to list Captain Rooba and Red Sugar in its Reading List, comes the Free Online Barcode Generator.

    I am not a number! I am a… well, okay, maybe I am a number.

  • T1 down, then finally up again

    Oh boy.

    Starting late yesterday and lasting until just a bit more than an hour ago, the T1 that feeds this website, www.entercom.com and a number of other servers in the building, was very very down. It appears to have been a problem at Qwest rather than with our equipment or Pacifier’s.

    It doesn’t help that today is a high-profile day for Entercom’s website. This does not make us (me) look good for insisting that we can host the website reliably. Oh well.

    In other news, I’m doing some tinkering with this site in an attempt to redesign and re-order the journal output display. (The center column, if you like.) Wish me luck as I dive headlong into things I probably have no chance of understanding.

  • Stay back, I’m a meme carrier.

    I am so damned cool. Thanks to me, both Tinkrbel and the Cosmic Babe are doing the Friday Five.

    Er. Tinkrbel’s site didn’t respond for me when I tried to reach it just now, but maybe it’ll work for you. Both of their most recent FF responses are more interesting than mine, so it’s worth the effort. Really really.

  • Bad (dub) Saban, bad (Sailor Moon dub)! No biscuit!

    Poking around the animemusicvideos.org forums I spotted a somewhat amusing little rant about the “quality” of the Sailor Moon English dub. Note that I use the word “quality” reservedly here.

    Anyway, on to some of the funny bits…

    Sailor Moon is at the top of my list for bad dubs. I would rather scrape my eardrums out with strands of barbed wire than listen to those horrendous voices. Even dub enthusiasts usually agree that Sailor Moon’s dub is the worst ever made, preiod, end of story. Even if you hate Japanese voices, and hate reading subtitles, you’ll find yourself thanking the heavens again and again that you don’t have to listen to the English voices!


    Our gentle fanboy then proceeds to dissect the name changes…

    -Sailor Mercury, Ami – It seems Americans can’t handle that her name ends in an I, so they changed her name to Amy.
    -Sailor Mars, Rei – Her name just had a spelling change, too. She’s Raye in the dub.
    -Sailor Jupiter, Makoto, has the most inexplicable name change of all. Somehow they decided that her name should be Lita… WHY IS HER NAME LITA????! WHO WOULD NAME THEIR KID LITA????! It’s like “Yo, I’m finna go to the store and get me a lita of soda!”
    -Sailor Venus, Minako. This name was apparently much too long for American audiences, so they changed it to Mina. In the actual show, Artemis sometimes calls her Mina to be cute, but her name is Minako, not Mina god damn it!
    -Sailor Chibi-Moon, Usagi, Nicknamed Chibiusa – Her name got changed to.. this is so classic.. RINI!!! WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT???! RINI!!?? HAHAHAHA!! To top it all off, they changed her Sailor Soldier name to “Sailor Mini-Moon”! What’s funnier is that they did this AFTER Austin Powers 2 was out! They should have known better! I can see it now.. Sailor Moon looking down at Chibiusa, all like “I will call her.. Mini-Me!”


    But that’s not all, oh no…

    Here’s some other inexplicable name changes!

    Umino – Melvin
    Naru – Molly
    Motoki – Andrew
    Jadite – Jedite
    Kunzite – Malochite (???!)
    Dark Kingdom – The Negaverse
    Queen Metalia – The Negaverse
    Black Moon – The Negaverse
    Planet Nemesis – The Negaverse
    MTV – The Negaverse (OK, just kidding…)
    America – The Negaverse (Get the picture?)


    Gee, you think he doesn’t like the dubbed version of Sailor Moon? Maybe? “I will call her… Mini-Moon.” *chuckle*
    AMV.org forum topic

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