File > New Project - When Anime Meets Tech - Part 1

To anyone who knows me, it won't come as any surprise that I've taken it upon myself to do something that combines two of my greatest passions - tech and Anime.
I'd just started watching the 10th episode of Fairy Tail for the nth time, because I couldn't remember if I'd already watched it or not. :-/
Now, I could do the simple thing and keep a notepad entry of the episodes I'd watched, starting then.
OR.
I could build an application that would allow me to keep track of all the episodes ever created in the series and everytime I'd finished watching an episode, I could just probably tick it off the list and the change would be reflected in the database (I'm thinking as a boolean flag).  This could initially start off as a application hosted on my localhost and then later hosted on a web server.
Either way I wanted to pen it down for everybody to see, so that would add pressure on me to actually follow through and finish this. I've had problems following through with iplementing ideas before - either because of time constraints or laziness :D .

Not this time. 

Intended Technology usage - 
A Django based application for the list and the checkboxes with a database (SQL/NoSQL - Yet to be decided) at the backend to store the episode names and keep track of the "Watched"/"Yet-to-Watch" list.

Post two with the progress made will follow soon.

Ta for now .
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So, I watched Parks and Recreation.

Not the whole thing. Just Season 1, Episode 1.

For those of you who are newer to this scene than I was an hour ago, Parks and Recreation , or P&R, is a sitcom, that began in 2009. But I'm only just getting to it now. And there's a trailer video of the show down below. Yes, odd topic to start a blog with, a TV show review. But hey, there are only so many blogs you can read that start off with - "Today I started a new blog and I love it!".

No. I'm shaking things up.

So, as I was saying. I started watching P&R today and it was .. just only okay. I had had high hopes for it as I started watching it, after scouring through dozens of dead links and trying to download it from 6 torrents with no seeds.
Finally, I got lucky with this one link. No, I'm not pasting it for you to block it, my dear ISP.
I'd heard nothing but good things about the show - After all, it'd scored an 8.6 on IMDB and it was a brainchild of the same people who created The Office and Michael Scott was nothing short of hilarious. So obviously, I thought this would be just as awesome. Right? RIGHT? But sadly, my expectations were shattered because the show at the end of 20 odd minutes was just average.

Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, a government official in the Parks department is a 30-something person whose only dream is to build her own park (which she says will be her Hoover Dam). She's funny, yes. But not Michael Scott funny. Then there's pretty Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones) who gives Leslie an opportunity to do something with her life by telling her about the huge hole near her house into which her musician-bum-of-a-boyfriend had fallen. Amy then takes it upon herself to not only fill up this hole, but also build a park over it. Aziz Ansari plays Tom Haverford, Leslie's colleague, who is married but continually hits on Ann very obviously and predictably. As I watched the whole thing, the word "Yawn" resounded in my head even as it manifested itself on my face. The only thing the writers got right was the mimicking of the mockumentary scene. :-/ Aubrey Plaza (a P&R intern) , Chris Pratt (the aforementioned boyfriend) and Nick Offerman (Leslie's boss) play minor roles in this episode.

Reviews say it gets better. I sincerely hope so.

As far as ratings go, based on first impressions, I'd give it a 6 on 10.


P.S - Trailer :

Ta for now.
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