Okami imps

Noodling about with some possible research/apopheny. This originally started as part of a thread on the Okamiworld forums, but I'm gradually disengaging from the site out of despair wrt lack of wiki spamproofing.

The bssic question is whether the color-coded musician Imps in the original "Okami" game have any systematic connection to the traditional Asian elemental framework(s).

Very messy list format as I type/paste in notes; may attempt to summarize into table form later.( Read more... )

more library adventures

Vignette from last week: I am putting away DVDs (again). Two little girls are off to the side somewhere. One of them says to the other, "That lady looks like a vampire!" Their mom instantly shushes them. It didn't occur to me until some hours later: were they talking about me? I was wearing mostly black, but it had little flowers on it...

Vignette and retrospective analysis from today--

Context: I am continuing the weeks-long project of goosing the entire nonfiction section down the shelves to space things out between what had formerly been widely scattered empty/overcrowded shelves. This involves brute-force transfer of every single book at least once, depending on how much tweaking I do at the shelf cutoffs for Dewey logistics. A bank of computers is nearby.( Read more... )