First Day on the New Job / Yogurt Incident / Noah and the Zombie Apocalypse

After much delay, my new job finally started yesterday. Unfortunately there's not a lot of me to do yet, and I don't really have my own desk yet, per say, but in a couple of weeks we'll move down to a different floor and I'll have stuff like a desk and a non-communal computer, and a regular schedule of things to do.

It turns out I haven't used Flash in several years, and the program has changed a ton.

N. and I have been ordering from Fresh Direct a lot recently. It's pretty good, for the $5 surcharge they bring delicious groceries to your door. Last time I screwed up, though, and instead of ordering four 8oz cups of plain yogurt, I got four 32oz containers of plain yogurt by accident. I can use a certain amount of yogurt up making fat-free brownies (ah, "No Pudge Fudge") and whole-wheat pancakes, but I still have about two and a half of these yogurt containers left - and the stuff all expires on October 8th. So if anyone's got any suggestions for recipes, I'd be glad to hear 'em.

Meanwhile, over Labor Day weekend N. and I went to our friend Q's birthday party, where Q took a nice picture of N. Below you can see how the flash really lights up his nose:

It is clearly the zombie apocalypse which N. fears in this photo.

We spent the rest of Labor Day weekend watching the anime Naruto based on the zeitgeist of Otakon and the recommendation of certain friends and coworkers. We watched 30 episodes of Naruto, and I can tell you that the first 20 episodes are completely worthless. Among them are only 10 episodes worth of new footage. There are a plethora of flashbacks, including one memorable scene where a character actually flashes back to someone having a flashback. At episode 30 Naruto improves significantly, however, it is still far from being a "good" show. When I confronted said friends and coworkers who supposedly like the tripe that is Naruto, they excused themselves by copping out and claiming to like the manga. The manga alone couldn't explain Naruto's popularity. Thousands of people download episodes of the Naruto anime every day. The show is so popular in Japan that it has reached episode one hundred - which is rare in today's anime industry.

I have a lot more complaining to do about Naruto, but you can look forward to that in posts to come.

Tokyopop mailed us again - we totally lost. So now if you haven't read Chronin yet, feel free:

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September 15, 2004 05:55 PM, Maggie said:

If it sucked for 20 episodes, why did you see so many??? Shouldn't you have stopped after the first 3 or 4? I would give you even up to 10. But 20? Good god! What kind of anime-badness resistance do you have?

Crazy!

(Yes, I'm still on episode 3 of Cowboy Bebop and it's still no good).

September 16, 2004 12:52 PM, Eugene said:

I stopped after episode 4 of Naruto... I could already see it becoming stale after a promising start.

Maggie, try giving Cowboy Bebop a few more episodes--it hasn't really become typical of the rest of the series yet because the crew hasn't been fully gathered by episode 3. If you still don't like it, well, it may not be your thing. But there are a variety of different styles and themes explored in later episodes so I'm sure there's at least one you will like. For instance, "Toys in the Attic" and Pierrot Le Fou" are totally different kinds of episodes (but they happen to be two of my favorites).

I had this discussion with N. For some reason or another, I can't stand most of the popular anime series that everyone is talking about. Just because everyone is watching it doesn't mean I have to, either...

September 22, 2004 11:41 PM, ET said:

Maggie- If you just don't like Cowboy Bebop then I recommend you skip straight to "Mushroom Samba" and call it done. Cowboy Bebop is fairly standard stuff in the "goofy characters have wacky adventures for a while and turn out to have Deep Unexpected Backgrounds" but doesn't come near the heights of the best ones when it's time to ramp up the seriousness factor. Ditto for Trigun, which is at least more entertaining.

My current favorite of this type is still Rurouni Kenshin, which manages to earn forgiveness for the silly Disenfranchised Samurai of the Season in the early part of the series with the amazing Kyoto Storyline.

September 24, 2004 10:54 AM, Erin said:

Evonne, you're totally cracked out.

I can't decide if Trigun is too silly or not silly enough. Either way I don't like it. It didn't help how I watched it out of order.

Maggie, I will sit down with you and watch the parts of Bebop that you ought to see. Although I don't know why you're bothering to even try, since you don't like anime and don't have much of an attention span. Maybe you'd enjoy "Magical Shopping Arcade Abenoshi" more. But you'd have to start with the second episode.

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