All Things Chill

It’s so hot in Chicago. New unannounced mixset available. I had some time so I hopped on the stream on Dogglounge.com this morning. I could really get used to this ‘mixing in the AM’ thang. It starts the day off perfectly. Visit my mixset archives page (to be updated soon) [...]

We’re back at it again. Naruto 141 ended the story arch cleanly, albeit a tad abrupt. We also get a lil’ surprise in the end character development wise and realize that “It wasn’t a wasted mission after all.” Click and drag over the text below to read this episode’s summary.
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Arashii, Sasame’s cousin(?), [...]

Do you have a blog? MIT wants to know about your ‘blogger’ lifestyle. Make some science too! Click the button above to get your survey OOOOONNNN. Via Jacqui and Clint’s site.
You two are the most L33T3$T.
~Spec

I grabbed all my recent pictures from my phone via bluetooth onto the Mac yesterday when I remembered I took a video too (Quicktime required). Cute no? Anyway, I downloaded the movie clip on the pBook too and noticed that it was assigned a .3gp extension. Suprisingly, it worked in Apple’s Quicktime [...]

This is the official poster for Memoirs of a Geisha that was shown at a recent convention in New York. I edited the live shot (from here) and cleaned it up a lil bit for blog use. Hooray for Fireworks!
The first cut of Memoirs of a Geisha starring Zhang Ziyi was submitted to [...]

Whooray for Japan’s love for cooking culture! One of the most interesting anime around, Yakitate Japan (Nihonjin only) delivers hot, freshly baked animated episodes on the weekly. Here’s what Animenfo.com had to say:
Azuma Kazuma is a young baker. He has a dream that he will make Japanese bread, “Ja-pan”, which will be [...]

Hackaday.com has an interesting article linking to a how to on “Hacking the Technics SL1200/1210 mk2 Turntable“.
Yes, even the venerable Technics 1200 turntable can be improved. This simple, completely reversible, modification removes the automatic pitch lock from the mk2 model. If your decks have seen a lot of use the true zero point has probably [...]

I’ll get straight to the point: 50 personal Multiplayer to be available in Halo 3. Although it’s still a rumor, I’d love to see this happen. What, you think I’m making this up? Check Kotaku’s article my friend. It’s hand-me-down news from a friend’s friend’s brother-in-law’s uncle or something, but [...]

I’ve only been following 3 anime series lately, and I’m hungry for something else. Something in the ‘omgsocheezy’ genre. I follow the big three: Naruto, Bleach and Yakitate Japan. I do regular posts on Naruto, so I’ll spare you the details. I’ve also written about Bleach before (complete with series [...]

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Dear Little Green Man in my Ice Dispenser,
It seems as though all of my friends like crushed ice. I’m sorry for that. You got used to the ‘cube’ life. It was pretty sweet while it lasted, but times have changed. Hey, I don’t blame you for feeling betrayed, i take all [...]

Graphic taken from wvs.Topleftpixel.com. Exciting news! PSPhacker.com has an update to the PSP homebrew / cracking movement:
Just when your fingers are getting sore and your friends keep asking ‘Why do you have to switch memory sticks?’ Killer-X and the PSP-Dev team have answered our prayers with KXploit, a way to run homebrew on [...]

Just read it. Whole story from the Daily Herald.
Service remained sporadic Wednesday afternoon for T-Mobile USA Inc. customers around suburban Chicago after the wireless network experienced several outages over a two-day period.
A so-called “equipment issue” has been closing down handsets from minutes to hours, depending on the location of the user in McHenry, [...]

I had some time this morning to squeeze in an hour long mix before my day actually started. Visit my mixset archives page (to be updated soon) or follow the link below:
Lightly Lacquered Love with Special*Dark 06.22.2005 | 51.9 MB | Under 60 Minutes
It’s more than the usual deepness, so please [...]