I know, I'm behind the times, but it is slowly sinking in to me that Sunis gone; that Sun Microsystems, the company of Andy Bechtolsheim andBill Joy, the source of NFS among so many other things, is no more. Whatpieces of it survive are parts of a software company.

I'm sad about this not so much because of the end of Sun the company,but because it underlines the end of an era: Sun was the last survivor,in a way the

I happened to stumble over an interview or two that gg (a fansub group) conductedwith a translator called Sam P, who works with Crunchyrollamong other places. So here's three links: the background , the answers fromSam P ,and then an additional chat later .Reading the whole thing has been interesting and has certainly givenme things to think about.

(This is somewhat belated, as I seem to be much better at writing downlittle notes about entries that I want to write than I am

Sora no Woto is the most interesting show I'm watching this season.Despite having a cast that mostly consists of cute girls and tellingfundamentally heart-warming stories, it's going in a more complex,deep, and serious direction than it initially appeared, and it keepssurprising me.

(I'm also pleased that one character's incompetence at her job was notkept as a plot point for very long.)

One of the interesting things for me is the intriguing and carefullymysterious setting,