can you hear me ground control are you giving me permission to land

[solarbird]

GMAC says Washington State has the second-best drivers in the country behind Oregon?! That's a VICIOUS LIE and and THEY KNOW IT! [ETA: Apparently people think I mean "our drivers are the BEST!!!1!" Clearly, these people are mad, our drivers are wretched.]

We watched the first American combined showing of the first two episodes of Molly Star-Racer under the new name Oban Star Racers. There are 26 half-hour episdoes, produced jointly in Japan and France; the US release is a dub. Accordingly, it has many characteristics of a problematic English dub, and the first episode in particular was very rocky, with numerous dialogue issues, much too much premise stolen from Season One of Babylon 5, and visuals mostly lacking in comparison to the original trailer. Fortunately, much of that appears to have been a side-effect of a rushed story to get off of Earth, because once you get into the latter part of the first episode and into the second, everything gets better. The dub is still on the iffy side, but story, action, and characters all improve, so I'm hopeful about what comes next. Hopefully we'll see less asininity out of Molly's father, as little of the Avatar as possible, and nothing else out of her school back on Earth. Everything else looks like it should work.

And oh yeah, there will be more icons. Possibly tonight. ^_^


Spotted Rhodies

I think we've got broccoli and carrot sprouts already. I'm not 100% sure; we've certainly got a lot of somethings spouting and while some of them are clearly volunteers which will have to d13, most of them seem to be forming up in little rows. At this stage there's no way yet to be sure - the first pairs of pseudo-leaves all look the same to me. And with the increased sun we're supposed to this this week, things should be good.

Comments

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

Eh. Washington State drivers know enough to *lie* on an insurance company quiz. People in the Northeast don't give enough of a fcuk about it to even lie.

Cathy

[llachglin.livejournal.com]

I think what's going on is that real world driving requires deviations from a strict reading of the law from time to time. People take advantage of that fact to deviate from the law even when it's not advantageous to safe driving. People in the Northeast are more likely to interpret the law flexibly, which in some cases produces better driving and in other cases produces maniacs. In the Northwest, people are more civil and by-the-book, and may very well know the letter of the law better, but that causes its own problems.

[solarbird]

I think it's all LIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!! and our drivers are wretched.