Cleveland Trip

Jason visited Cleveland last weekend, so I drove over to hang out with him and the rest of the Case crew that's still in Cleveland. Here's a list of the things we did: ate at Tommy's (yum... meat pies), drank and got Taco Bell at 3am, saw Sin City (liked it a lot), ate at Luchita's (yum... mole), played cards, ate at Phnom Penh (best pad thai on the planet), got custard at Strickland's , played Puerto Rico .

I took a few pictures, which you can view on Flickr .

Anime Double Feature

Mark and I went to The Oaks Theater on Saturday night to see an anime double feature of Sky Blue and Appleseed . I really liked Sky Blue. The animation was gorgeous, with good integration of CG and traditional animation. The setting was imaginative, the characters were fairly well developed, and the plot was compelling.

Appleseed was more of a mixed bag. The animation was mostly beautiful, although the integration of CG could have been better. The characters sometimes looked incorrectly lighted and plastic-y due to the use of 3D effects. The character development and plot also left something to be desired. I didn't care what happened to the characters in Appleseed nearly as much as those in Sky Blue. If you are a fan of animation, then I recommend both films, but see Sky Blue first.

After the films we ate at Eat'n Park . This was my first time at Eat'n Park, which is something of a cultural milestone. It's not that the food is that great (it's like Denny's), but if you live in Pittsburgh you have to eat at Eat'n Park, just like you have to eat at Waffle House if you live in the South. I did find out that Eat'n Park has a midnight breakfast buffet from 12am-3am on Friday and Saturday, which is good to know.

AdSense Revenues Reported

Google recently changed its AdSense Terms of Service to allow users to report how much they are making by placing ads on their sites. It seems that Sam Ruby makes about $1/day and Mark Pilgrim makes about $9/day . Learning this has made me ponder placing AdSense on my blog to help cover the cost of my hosting. Don't worry though - if I do decide to sign up for AdSense, I'm only going to place ads on archive pages that are more than 30 days old. I don't want to annoy my regular readers, but I am curious as to how much I could make.