Quote of the Day [6.26.08]

broderic on June 26, 2008

“One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn’t pulling it off. Like, her hair was red, but it was a little too red, y’know? And the other one, the tall, lanky one, his face was so blank and expressionless. He didn’t even seem human. I think he was a mandroid.”

Blaine, The X-files, “Jose Chung’s From Outer Space”

Quote of the Day [6.25.08]

broderic on June 25, 2008

“A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.”

3rd Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov

I”s Volume 15

broderic on June 25, 2008

These pages make me happy and sad. Go on. Break her heart. It’s the only thing to do.

Well, I just finished Masakazu Katsura’s I”s a second time. Yes, I read it a while ago on OneManga, but decided to read it again because Borders had all 15 volumes ready to be purchased. And so I did. It’s still an amazing read.

Ichitaka Seto is a fool in love with his classmate, Iori Yoshizuki. He’s also have to fend off the advances of Itsuki Akiba and Izumi Isozaki while hoping he doesn’t fall for Aiko Asou. You know, standard harem fare. But true love finds a way.

Ichitaka is a fool. He should’ve said something earlier, but then we wouldn’t have had 15 volumes to read. Iori is cute as a button, but needs to express her love for him as well. It’s damn near amazing that they did get together in the end. Itsuki and Izumi are there as road blocks. He’s a fool for entertaining them. Aiko almost, almost made it impossible for this story to have a happy ending. But the fool becomes the prince and makes Iori’s day.

I am a sucker for this story. And I am glad I read it a second time. Purchased it to help further getting stupid, sappy crap like this made. More, please, because it warms my heart.

Someday….

Quote of the Day [6.24.08]

broderic on June 24, 2008

“A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.”

2nd Law of Robotics, Isaac Asimov

Die, Flash! Die!

broderic on June 24, 2008

For those wanting Flash on iPhone, why? Not to be all snarky, but I don’t think it makes any sense as far as enriching your mobile web surfing.

Do we really need those pesky flash animated ad banners? Do we want to download a flash file just to see a commercial? I don’t know about you, but I don’t.

How about video? How about it? There’s already a youtube application and quicktime, while it doesn’t embed it on the web page it does launch a standalone viewer.

Games? Maybe. But with the appstore coming, and the free iPhone SDK, I’m sure you’ll find something to like.

So there are alternatives to Flash. You can live without it on iPhone. You already do. Live with that. Kill Flash dead.