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efaardvark

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efaardvark last won the day on April 7 2024

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Anime

  • Favourite Anime
    Lots. Off the top of my head (and in no particular order)...

    Ghost in the Shell
    プラネテス (ΠΛΑΝΗΤΕΣ)
    Any "real" science fiction actually
    Angel Beats!
    Clannad: After Story
    Your Lie In April
    Pet Girl of Sakurasou
    境界の彼方
    しんせかいより
    Spice and Wolf
    ことうらさん
    FLCL (original)
    Any Miyazaki/Ghibli
  • Favourite Genres
    Comedy
    Fantasy
    Mystery
    Romance
    Sci-Fi
    Slice of Life
    Space Opera
    Rom-Com
  • Favourite Character Type
    Kuudere

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    Someplace between Santa Monica and Sedna.
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    Data systems engineer
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    reading (SF), electronics, science, engineering, space, computer programming.. and of course anime.
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Video Games

  • Favorite Video Game/Series
    Kerbal Space Program. Anything that you can craft or build in actually... Minecraft, Valheim, Cities: Skyline, Stardew Valley, Terraria, etc.....
  • Favorite Video Game Characters
    GLaDOS, Duke Nukem, Jebediah Kerman
  • Favorite Game Consoles
    PC Master Race - May our frame rates be high and our temperatures low.

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  1. Aaand the weekend is over already. :( 

    I never did get out to do the yardwork.  I did get some inside work done but it was too hot to work outside.  

    That's my story and I'm sticking with it.  :D   

  2. Welcome! Good times. Kind of the Sailor Moon era but some other good stuff in that range too. Koukaku Kidoutai, Aa! Megami-sama!, Mononoke Hime, Mimi wo Sumaseba (a favorite of mine that is safe for normies as well)... Also stuff like Armitage, but I guess they can't all be great. SF fan here too. Always looking for good "hard" SF titles. Just recently finished a rewatch of Planetes.
  3. I played this on the Wii! Great game. (Sequel not so much. Still ok but a completely different game.) I still have the tune in my "gamers" playlist on Spotify as well. There's a "night" version for that region too. Ballad of Benjamin (I like the storyteller songwriter thing, and Louis Dunford is one of the better ones in modern times IMHO.) yes. She's got an artist page on Spotify that includes Ash Again BTW. The Angel (North London Forever) Another one from Louis Dunford
  4. Given the type of people I work with, of course one of them had to go and ask a state-of-the-art AI to "read between the lines" on what the recent departure of the JPL director means.  It's a long read but I'm impressed at the report that the AI produced. Unfortunately while the AI did come up with several ideas on how to deal with the changes the content of the report makes the probable outcome(s) look pretty bleak.  Looks like the next few years are going to be a bit rough.

    https://gemini.google.com/share/013169bb980e

     

  5. 97F here. Much bright. Decided that was a good reason to ignore my own yardwork. (At least for now. I have until late this afternoon when things cool off to come up with another reason. )
  6. I feel your pain. My own passed away 2 years ago in March. Tomorrow is also Mothers' day here in the US.
  7. Tired and procrastinating. Also still a bit sore from last weekend's projects. (Getting old sucks.) Got a number of home improvement / repair projects and some grocery shopping that I need to be doing but just not feeling the adulting thing this weekend.
  8. I'd heard the manga was different but I haven't read it myself. The anime is fine though, at least the first (and so far only) season. If they ever do make a second season people might want to approach it with caution. Personally I hope they don't go that route. Daikichi is Rin's cousin after all. I'm fine with leaving it at Yukari + Daikichi & happily ever after.
  9. Um... no. You're thinking of something completely different. In the one I suggested cute kid Rin stays little while adopted dad Daikichi goes after the milf of one of her (elementary school) classmates. The series itself is mostly about Rin being cute and Daikichi doing new-dad stuff like finding a school for Rin and changing jobs so he has more time away from work. G-rated all the way. The only ... questionable relationship is between 70-something grandpa and his 20-something housekeeper/mangaka, but that happens off-screen before the first episode to set up the plot. By the time the series actually starts jii-chan is dead and mom is gone. leaving just jii-chan's daughter Rin to be adopted by jii-chan's grandson Daikichi.
  10. Would a Hyouka or Usagi Drop look interesting to you?
  11. I'm basically an engineer in a network operations center and data processing facility. My particular job is testing and maintaining systems that receive data from remote science instruments, process the data, store the processed data in databases, and provide access to the databases to scientist and engineers around the world. When everyone else was being told to stay home and work remotely I was one of the ones that had to keep going to work to make sure the network and data systems they were all using continued to work. No lava btw.
  12. It's actually the other way around. Level 1 is our highest level of support, 4 our lowest. 1 would be like "we're launching a spacecraft to Mars". 4 is more "this event is unusual and you should try to stay awake". Only level 1 supports require everyone's physical presence at work for the event. Level 2 and higher can be supported remotely or on an on-call basis. For that event we had about 30 mission-critical people in the same room and management didn't want to take any chances. The concern was not just for the event itself but that if even a few of those people were to get sick and be out for weeks then that could itself be a major risk if something were to happen that required the skills of someone too sick to fix the problem.
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