Archive for July 2006

19 Jul 2006 1225H

Terra Chips

These things are dangerous! Left alone to my own devices I would probably inhale a whole bag of these. I like that they use different kinds of relatively little-known starchy plants (well, people of color generally know about them: taro, batata, cassava/yuca, sweet potato), and besides the use of more diverse tubers, which is pro-biodiversity, [...]

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19 Jul 2006 1205H

Black Lagoon

It wouldn’t be entirely wrong to call this a derivative version of the classic Cowboy Bebop, except set in the real-world modern day South China Sea — it’s hinted that the location is approximately the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, around there — with some interesting, if improbable twists. . . .
Three fluently Japanese-speaking Americans [...]

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19 Jul 2006 1005H

Speed Grapher

In this hardboiled modern-day science fiction/fantasy/horror thriller, Saiga Tatsumi, a jaded former war photographer reduced to tabloid work, investigates a secret club of the rich and powerful, and becomes inadvertently imbued with the power to explode anything he sees through the lens of his camera. (I know. I hate it when that happens.) Now pursued [...]

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11 Jul 2006 2202H

A new day

…so to speak. I have installed WordPress 2.03 here as the first step in bringing myself back up to speed. I’ve used blogware in the past such as Userland Manila to develop web content management solutions for organizations like the Chicago Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, the Asian Community Online [...]

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