魔法使いの夜 has finally been dated. We’re looking at a September 30th release for this year at the moment. It’s priced at 8,400 yen which is about the amount I would expect from a visual novel. Since I’m going out of my way to mention the price, yes, I am considering picking this up.

This will probably be the first and last Type-Moon visual novel I read.

The epicenter was north of Ottawa but I felt it at work.

This pleases me greatly.

There’s a piece about this at The Guardian. Just do some googling and I guarantee that you’ll be touched by his story and stories about him.

Remy: I don’t know, does [ikebana] seem like something I would do? lol
Cynthia: i can’t even imagine you doing it haha
Remy: lol just answered that question
Cynthia: haha
Remy: really, odd
Remy: I would’ve thought it wasn’t so weird for osmeone like me?
Remy: but i guess not :)
Cynthia: hahah….yeah i just can’t picture it haha

If you’ve ever been on the edge over whether you should try ikebana or not, I’d highly recommend you give it a go. I just had my first lesson yesterday evening and had a really fun time.

If you like mysteries with psychological and/or horror elements and anime, please do check out 魍魎の匣.

Actually, I’m not sure if that’s really a good analogy or not, but anyway…

opafan48: i have an issue with eclipse, i cant stand its connection to ibm, thats why i try to mind it.. how would u deal with this issue?
rcjsuen: opafan48: Eh?
rcjsuen: opafan48: Could you rephrase that?
rcjsuen: opafan48: You mean you don’t like the fact that IBM has people working on it?
opafan48: rcjsuen, not exactly, i dont like its origin.. which is as far as i read is in ibm..
rcjsuen: Well, there’s nothing you can do about it.
rcjsuen: That’s like saying
rcjsuen: I don’t like eggs because they come from chickens
rcjsuen: well okay it’s not like it’s the egg’s fault…?
rcjsuen: and it’s not like you can suddenly make eggs come from somewhere else
rcjsuen: Eclipse’s origin is IBM, and that isn’t going to change
rcjsuen: if you can’t stand it…i don’t know what to tell you
opafan48: a fork would be nice though :)
opafan48: with less commercial backing
rcjsuen: well, it’s open source, no one’s stopping anyone :o
rcjsuen: so it sounds like your problem is actually the fact that IBM has ppl on it
opafan48: i dont even kno the ppl.. so no problem with that
rcjsuen: Anyway, if you want to fork it, go right ahead.
opafan48: unfortunatelly i dont have either the talent nor the time..
rcjsuen: So what exactly would happen if it had less commercial backing anyway?
rcjsuen: I mean if it bothers you that much, feel free to use another tool. :)
opafan48: well i tried intellij idea, which is more sympathic in this issue.. but their license model doesnt fit my needs..
rcjsuen: I thought parts of IDEA was under ALv2
rcjsuen: And ALv2 is even more lax than the EPL.
opafan48: well thats not enough.. without the graph api
rcjsuen: opafan48: It sounds to me like you just want free stuff?
opafan48: rcjsuen, sure i do..

Well, at least this person’s honest…

NoobFukaire1: a fork OF ECLIPSE?
NoobFukaire1: do you realize the magnitude of that
rcjsuen: opafan48: well i dunno what you want us to say here exactly
rcjsuen: you want a fork, okay, but you don’t have the time, okay…

Twenty or so minutes later…

opafan48: anyway i check vi
* opafan48 has left #eclipse

So if you were on IRC at the time, what would you have said to opafan48?

I ordered and sent the goods to my uncle’s place (for free ground shipping) and picked them up last week. They were about $270 USD but another $10 was tacked on for insurance purposes.

And before you ask, yes, I admit I bought them because of Mio.

I’m flying to St. Louis tomorrow and will be back in Canada on Monday. I’ll have limited Internet access throughout these couple of days I think but feel free to email me anyway if you want to ping me about something and I’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.