"Dear Applicant,
Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your
application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code. [..]"
... when that mail appeared in my inbox an hour ago, I screamed for excitement. Accepted! Woooooo! This summer I will be working for ScummVM, writing a new bytecode decompiler for scumm scripts. It will be an interesting experience to say the least :)
Aaaaaaaaaah, this is going to be a beautiful summer!
What can I write? I feel speechless and somewhat drained of emotion. It's as if I've spent most of it on the second half of that anime I have been watching the past couple of days: Kanon, the 2006 remake by Kyoto Animation to be exact.
And it seemed like an innocent harem anime in the beginning too... except there was no slapstick humour and its male lead was not a klutz. He was just asshole enough for his harem to react in interesting and entertaining ways. I am no anime blogger and I won't spoil this for you. But heed this warning and don't take it too lightly. If you decide to watch this show, enjoy the first half of laughter and general lightness, but don't let it fool you: soon a series of character centric story arcs will emerge, each sadder than the previous one, gradually working towards a final, devastating attack on your male (if you are male, that is) ego with the obvious goal of making you empty your lacrimal sac under the pressure of overwhelming sadness.
I am spent. I am glad I watched this and I am starting to realize how much I regret having seen it all already. What a ride.. :) Oh! Maybe I should not mention it, but yes, it has a happy end.
I wasted today, tweaking David O'Toole's color-theme-cl-frame.el to be more clowney ("colorful"). I will not upload the tweaked theme ever. Ha ha ha.
[update: fugly color-theme-brx.el]
So, a friend has given me a heads up on some Google Reader developments today: it has improved. Never having tried any previous version, I opened the page, imported my feeds and.. decided to stay.
For now I will keep my Bloglines account, but I can already imagine me trashing it. Bloglines is great, don't get me wrong, but Google Reader has a few obvious things going for it (see Kiko vs Google Calendar).
