A month a half ago, I drove home with my first new car ever; it was a Volkswagen GTI. I wanted to share my impressions of all the vehicles I looked at and, hopefully, offer some insight to other new buyers through my own experience. The process started late last year when I received my first lesson on driving stick shift from my uncle and culminated in me driving home my GTI over the Memorial Day weekend.
I’ve had a stack of unread manga ever since TRSI’s last Del Rey sale. With things getting back to normal post-vacation, I’ve had time to start working on that backlog. Tsubasa RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE, Vol. 7 was the first such title to come off the queue.
I’ve been jumping all over the place the last few days in terms of content. Anyhow, here’s my take on another anime DVD: Elfen Lied, Vol. 1.
I like to use Netflix to view anime that I either don’t intend to ever buy or haven’t decided. One such series is Elfen Lied. The series managed to garner a lofty #3 ranking of AnimeNfo’s top 200 ranking, which doesn’t really mean a lot, but I’ve found the site useful in the past when selecting new series to watch. After the first disc, I’m not convinced the series is any better than average; maybe slightly above, but that’s about it.
No, it’s not the next Dance Dance Revolution game. It’s the new firmware for my router. I recently lost my Linksys WRT54G wireless router to a lightning hit, and I was subsequently forced to replace it. I replaced my trusty WRT with the similar, but newer WRT54GL, also from Linksys. This provided an opportunity to re-explore the world of third-party WRT firmwares, whereupon I found the DD-WRT project, which seems to have overtaken the original Sveasoft firmware as the top third-party firmware for Linksys (and a few others) routers.
Vacation is now over and it’s back to work on Monday. Our last stop was Victoria, the capitol of British Columbia located on Vancouver Island. Victoria is smaller than Vancouver, though it is reputed to be equally beautiful. We spent a single day in the city, which proved too little time to do everything that we had planned.
