Transformers

Looks like NRK beat me to it, but I’ve seen this film myself yesterday night. To be frank, I wasn’t really expecting a nice result. That is, because most Hollywood “conversions” from other franchises often end up being terrible (Street Fighter, anyone?). Nevertheless, having watched the animated series when I was little (it was good, despite some shortcomings), I was set on seeing Transformers since its original announcement. Despite not being related to the TV series, I found it to be rather good.

June 25, 2007

Publish or perish

The idea to blog about this common phenomenon came after I read a post over at Bioinformatics Zen on the matter of open science. There, Mike describes the situation quite clearly: mostly, you need a middle ground between complete secrecy and absolute openness. That said, I still think science should be more open, at least in the field of life sciences. Publication should be a way to let others know, benefit and also build upon your work, not just a way to obtain funding or improve one’s career.

June 24, 2007

A trip to the sea

Two weeks ago I went to a sea resort in Liguria, called Loano. While plagued by a cold, the hiliday was much needed to relax. Finally I’ve managed to scan the photos (I only had an one-use camera) and so I’ve put them online. Click on the thumbnail to get to the specific album. [ ![A church with a bell tower dating around 1200]({{ site.url }}/gallery2/d/502-2/chiesa_cappe_turchine.jpg?g2_GALLERYSID=b73011e3a690d45440b97c0dbdf8697c) ]({{ site.url }}/v/loano/)

June 20, 2007

Data handling

As the people who read my science related posts already know,[ I’m in the middle of doing meta-analysis]({{ site.url }}/2007/05/28/more-meta-analysis-difficulty/). That brought up a problem, so to speak, and it’s related to annotations.

June 16, 2007

ToAU Mission 35 - take 2

On Wednesday we tried Mission 35 again and this time was a success. Daman was not present, but we’ll do another run for him on Sunday.

June 14, 2007

Einherjar

Due to maintenance, we couldn’t do Dynamis on Tuesday. Instead, we settled for the new large-scale battlefield that has been added in the new update: Einherjar.

June 11, 2007

Aht Urghan Mission 35 - take 1

Yesterday, at an unusual late hour, I and my group attempted the 35th mission in the Treasures of Aht Urghan line. Preparation was the matter of watching a few (very interesting) cutscenes then we were off to a BC to fight a single enemy, a ninja (the name is a spoiler, so keep on reading only if you know what you are doing).

June 4, 2007

A small project

Since I’ve been aggregated to the AnimeBlogger.net Antenna I noticed a number of new visitors coming to my blog. I’m taking the opportunity (see post title) to bring the attention on a pet project of mine, which is also quite tied to anime.

June 2, 2007

Dancougar Nova DVD 1

477 Yesterday I got the first DVD of Dancougar Nova in the mail. As it’s a first press edition, there were two nice postcards inside (one of the Dancougar itself, one of Aoi) and the cover is reversible, again showing either the mech or Aoi (the one shown in this post, which is also available in the gallery). So what has changed from the TV version? As far as I can tell, not much as the first two episodes were the ones with the best animation (along with episode 12) , though the DVD cover mentions something changed in episode 2.

June 2, 2007

Underrated anime: The Skull Man

I’ve seen very little talk about this anime, inspired by a short story by Shotaro Ishinomori, despite its obvious quality. I’ve seen five episodes so far (out of 12) and I can say I’m quite impressed by the results.