1 400 sounds like A LOT. In all my blogging I only made, lessee... 375 of them:

[zaitcev@lembas ~]$ find lj -name '*.txt' | wc
375 375 7044
[zaitcev@lembas ~]$

Although it does not count Advogato... That's another 188:

[zaitcev@lembas ~]$ grep '' arc/misc/Zaitcev.Advogato.diary.xml | wc
188 188 1880
[zaitcev@lembas ~]$

So, 563 posts since 2000.

Congratulations on the 400th, anyway. What did alert you to the number? Your blog software counts them?

2 Oh ke ke ke. Make it grep "<entry>".

3 Are you taking a look at Tutu? It has an undeservedly small audience and, as you note, a very cute duck.

4 Pete, the software keeps track of post count AND comment count, so it makes it real easy to know which/who did what when.

If you're curious, your 'ke ke ke' comment is #738.

HC, I saw the first episode on an ADV screener DVD about 2 years ago and thought it was TOO weird for me. Now, 2 years on, I'm considering it again. If nothing else, it's quite striking visually.

What do you think of the show, HC?

5 http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1267

ANN hystogram peaks at 2, with a reasonably smooth distribution of 278 votes. This is a very good sign, basically an Azumanga-level vote by the great unwashed, albeit upon a smaller total. Seems like a sleeper hit to me all right.

The only problem is the length. At 38 eps, the SDB's Second Heuristic works against Tutu. Not to mention, it's probably expensive.

6 Actually, it's 26 episodes on DVD. There were 24 15-minute eps and fourteen 24-minute eps; they combine two 15 minute eps into one full-length ep for the DVDs.

...or so I've heard.

7 ANN page says:
Seasons:
1. Chapter of the Egg (2002-08-16 to 2002-11-0
2. Chapter of the Chick (2002-11-15 to 2003-05-23)

This is 9 months of running, or 38 weeks. I dunno, do they show 15-minute episodes by themselves ever, or they always double them up to fill the slot (like, ahem, Dokuro-chan)?

8 OK, the collection at Neowing (aka CDjapan) has 6 DVDs, and the last one ends with ep.26.
http://www.neowing.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=KIBA-862

I welcome the American density in R2, because paying 5000Y for 2 episodes gets old pretty quick. On the other hand, 7140Y is $60 at today's rate. It's still 2.5 times more expensive than we pay.

9 I liked it. It's very stylized - in some ways, nearly as much so as Utena - but if you're in the mood for a cracked fairy tale, it's quite good. Like all good fairy tales, it has a sort of dream-like logic to it. Also, ballet. And the heroine _is_ a duck, so you've got that going for it too.