In Thom Hogan's June 14th update ( now here ), he wrote:

Tonight's homework: document your workflow. Really. Write it down.Include everything that happens from pressing the shutter release tolooking at the final image (wherever it may have ended up, e.g. on awall, on Facebook, etc.).

I have some spare time today for once, since I already wrote today's techblog entry, so I feel like tacklingthis one just because.

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,

I quite enjoyed the original Darker Than Black , ending and all, butI'm still not sure what I think about the second DTB series because Istill haven't made up my mind about the ending. I'm pretty sure that thecreators intend for the ending to be considered a good one, but I can'tdecide whether it's a good ending or actually a disturbing and creepyone.

Apart from that, I liked it and it's a good series. It's

A disconcerting novelty happened to me a few weeks ago: my frontbrakes froze solid. As far as I can tell, I mean that literally; notjust that they seized up, but that they seized up because they werefrozen. As you might imagine, it was more than a bit disconcertingto squeeze the front brake lever and have it have no give at all,especially since the front brakes are the more powerful ones where you do most of yourbraking.

(This is not always the case for me

Nikon DSLRs have a reasonably smart automatic ISO mode, where you setyour minimum shutter speed and maximum ISO and when the camera has hitthe minimum shutter speed it starts raising the ISO. They are alsofamous (or infamous in some quarters) for not turning off Auto ISOif you go into Manual mode, contrary to what you might expect.

(What happens in this semi-Manual mode is that the camera works outits idea of the correct exposure and then attempts to get there purelyby changing the ISO.

Here is something that I did not see and understand until the last(aired) episode of Bakemonogatari smacked me in the nose with it:Bakemonogatari is really a love story. A romance, like Toradora.

And like Toradora, I think that it is a good one. It does not have alove triangle, because that's not the kind of story it is telling; it ismore telling the story of how two peculiar people come to fit togetherand to more or less understand each other.

I don

(Warning: mild spoilers.)

From Author :

Why did Kaede (Sakura) lose consciousness?

I concur that we don't have enough information. However, there seems tobe a striking pattern that Kaede drops out of the action just when hernose would otherwise be rubbed in the existence of Kampfers, and I doubtthat this is a coincidence.

I continue to think that Akane was not shooting seriously for whateverreason. Otherwise, she is an embarrassingly bad shot; has she hitanything meaningful?

(Since

In the Author style of brief notes on things that I ran into elsewhere ( via Author , of course): I actuallyfind the current lack of fighting in Kampfer to be pretty realistic.

All of the Kampfers are theoretically ordinary highschool kids whobasically got drafted against their will. It feels entirely right thatthey are generally unenthusiastic about actually beating each otherup, or even theoretically killing each other, regardless of what theModerators may want them to do, and that they would much rather hang outand talk with each