Prepare to be assimilated.

Most parents look forward to passing on their favorite things to their kids and I am certainly no different. Therefore the last few days have caused considerable joy for me.

It started on Saturday when my kids asked to watch the Anime TV show Slayers. As my Austin crew can tell you this is one of my favorite anime shows of all time. How do they know this? I subjected the poor gents to 1 and a half seasons of it. I say subjected as it’s more of a kid’s show then some of the more serious anime fair (Fox actually bought the rights but never aired it, fools). They soldiered through it, good friends that they are. I exposed my kids to it years ago, but they weren’t really into it. However, there seems to be a resurgence of interest as they not only asked to watch it they were asking for a specific SEASON and EPISODE. Truly I could not contain my joy. To add to this the very next day they asked to watch My Neighbor Totoro. They’ve seen the anime film easily 25 times (it doesn't hurt that it has a bus that is a cat). I’m surprised they haven’t worn out the disc (which would make both myself and them cry). Lisa just rolled her eyes and asked if I was enjoying the fact that I my kids were asking for anime, which of course I had to respond yes. Even when they started rewinding parts to giggle uncontrollably (which normally drives me nuts) I had to smile because they were giggling and re-watching one of my favorite shows.

But does the assimilation into geek-dom end there? Oh no. Most of you know I play World of Warcraft, a few of you know my daughter plays as well. And yesterday I was finally able to get my brother playing. You would not believe how excited my daughter was to play WoW with her uncle Eric. It was all she talked about. Heck, even though she didn’t end up playing in the same area (she’s much higher lvl) she was thrilled that she was able to talk to him on the headset. And my son, who previously wasn’t interested in WoW much at all now wants to play so he can play with his uncle too. He’s even suggesting that we need another computer so all three of us can play at once! I’m not quite ready to make that jump, though it did provoke discussion between Lisa and I as to when we should start thinking about getting the kids computers.

In the mean time I may have to increase my WoW gaming time so that both Hunter and Savannah get to play with Eric and I. It will be tough, but it’s only fair. ;)

All the cool people have one.

Grrr. Almost a month since my last post. That doesn’t fit with my intended update schedule, which was/is supposed to be at least weekly. It’s not like I haven’t had the content to write about either. This past month has been a veritable smorgusborg of events, which in retrospect seem entirely too much to have in just one blog. So, instead of rehashing things in the past I am going to push forward, ignoring (or trying to) the fact that I missed out on more than one amusing opportunity.

So, what is interesting at the moment? Well currently I am enjoying that part of my job is embracing new media, so I spent some of my time at work today browsing the web, twitter and facebook.

This actually was a bit amusing as unbeknownst to me I had several followers on twitter that were merely companies trying to get me to follow them. I also had the some individual following me who went by the title of animestalker. After doing the due diligence of checking out this person’s site I discovered that it was some individual that posts recent releases of anime titles. But animestalker? Really? In what state of mind was this person when they thought that title would be a good idea? And for that matter how did these people and companies even find me? I suppose they mined the interest part of my profile, but I’m still not terribly certain how they thought this would somehow entice me to buy their products. I sure as heck wasn’t interested in following the twitters from a random cheap arcade game site. So the companies got blocked and I am back to only three followers; my best friend, my cousin and a stalker (because all the cool people have one).