A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

Samurai Champloo is a guilty pleasure and the first TiVo season pass I've added in recent memory. WP isn't very clear on what the title means, but it sounds like it can translate to "Samurai Remix", which would make sense.

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I really like ZipCar. It occurred to me today that I've spent two months driving around other peoples' cars, without speaking to a single person about it at any time; all of my transactions, from signup to making reservations to paying my bill, have been over the Web. That's really great.

Rising gas prices might be very good or very bad for the company, depending. I hope it's the former, if it has to be either.

I just realized that if you were asked to translate Pullman's "His Dark Materials" into a giant-robot anime, you could do a passing job by producing "Neon Genesis Evangelion". The Eva kids have entirely different personalities than Will and Lyra, but Lord Asriel and Shinji's dad could easily switch places with nobody noticing.

This I realize as I make may way through the fourth DVD. I think this is the third anime series (of the countless that Andy has managed to introduce to me over the years) that I've actually liked enough to want to watch episode after episode. (What is the equivalent phrase of "page-turner" for electronic media?) The other two being Slayers (or at least its first season), and Child's Toy (ditto).

I've been warned that Evangelion isn't a very long series and comes to a very downtempo, "The Maxx"-like ending, and I really look forward to digesting the rest of it. (I quite enjoyed "The Maxx", for the record, ending and all.)