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- just started playing WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos. http://raptr.com/djotaku
- video did NOT kill the radio star. Radio is still around. MTV, on the other hand, no longer plays music videos. RIP TRL.
- Yay MD for the $170 electric bill credit!
- @harajukuroxy that stinks. My mom used to get a lot of migraines.
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- Nearly done with my latest animation
- @minimoniotaku: the old momma joke was hilarious
- Using akmod-nvidia, built the latest drivers for nvidia and 3D works again! w00t w00t! Blender here I come!
- Dagnabbit. Nvidia doesn't support Xorg7.4pre so no Blender for me for a while
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Apr
18
Awesome? Or Too Much Time on His/Her Hands?
Category: Linux, anime | 
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Someone decided to represent all of the Linux Distributions as Anime girls. What do you think? Does it represent the attitude of your favorite distro?
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Apr
13
Hello Kitty Hell!
Category: anime, sex, tv | Leave a Comment
Recently, a coworker of mine showed me the website Hello Kitty Hell. This is a website created by someone who’s wife sells Hello Kitty items. If there is a young girl or, occasionally, woman in your life who is into the Hello Kitty Phenomenon, you doubtless know how much crap there is that can be branded with Hello Kitty and her various companions. Well, you probably haven’t seen many of THESE products. These are, as far as I know, REAL Hello Kitty items and all of them were featured on the Hello Kitty Hell website.
So, first up is the Hello Kitty Shoulder Massager. Er….strange shape for a shoulder massager. Um you don’t think this is for…..I mean you can’t see anyone actually getting turned on with this can you?….um… All I know is that the first version sold so well, they’ve introduced this new updated version. Lots of Hello Kitty Fans with sore shoulders, I guess.
This one, I know for a fact, is not photoshopped. I actually saw this in a book about some of the strange fetishes that the Japanese have. I can’t get over the Hello Kitty in the tank with the band around its eyes. Seriously, how could anyone do anything in this Love Hotel? Incidentally, did you know that at one point in the past Nintendo ran Love Hotels? I wonder if they featured Mario and Princesss Peach?
The strange thing for me is the fact that they would have SO MANY Hello Kitty bras that they’d actually be able to open up a boutique store and be in business. Also, not only would they have to have enough designs, but there’d have to be enough customers to keep them in business as well. I just can’t understand it.
In a post with Hello Kitty in a variety of sexual contexts, I still think that this is the MOST disturbing Hello Kitty item in existence - the Hello Kitty Shotgun. That’s right, how could anyone go to the shooting range in their Hello Kitty shirt, undies, and shoes and not have their Hello Kitty shotgun? I don’t know, but if I ever got mowed down by someone wielding a Hello Kitty Shotgun, I hope they kill me because the psychological damage I’ll have (not to mention the ridicule I’ll have to endure) will be awful.
This is just a smidgen of the crazy, crazy Hello Kitty merchandise out there. To see more, just visit Hello Kitty Hell.
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Jul
23
Charlie Brown - Manga Style!
Category: anime | 2 Comments
Check out this link to see some really awesome shots of Charlie Brown - redone in manga style!
Here’s one sample:
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Apr
22
Bizzarre Stats
Category: Fedora, Others' Blogs, Photography, Site, anime | Leave a Comment
I don’t know wtf is going on with Google, but according to my web stats, 66 of you came here looking for info on anime conventions (this month alone). I’ve never talked much about them except to put up a picture of someone from an anime convention. It was this one or two:
Apparently there aren’t too many other blogs/sites out there talking about it or I wouldn’t get so many people coming here looking for it. The above pictures are probably responsible for the 32 people coming here looking for cosplay. (The second top search term) Another one that brought about 20 people here is the Order of the Engineer, which I blogged about the day I got it. Since then I haven’t mentioned it until today.
Other than that, the search terms mostly make more sense such as Fedora (since that’s what I use for one of my Linux computers. (Fedora 7 comes out soon!! About 1 month left + delays [they always have delays]) Civ4 also makes sense as I talk about it a lot. Well, not that much, but a decent amount.
But there are also weird terms such as “Lebanon to get DSL” which I have NEVER mentioned. And “Mario depressing” which I’m pretty sure I’ve never written. Perhaps Andrew blogged about Lebanon - but I don’t remember reading it!
While I’m talking about random stuff, check out Andrew’s Blog posts on Jack Thompson.
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Aug
6
Cosplay
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Cosplay, for the uninitiated, is dressing up as a fictional character; in the US it tends to specifically mean dressing up as anime or video game characters. Anime Conventions are known for the fans cosplaying and coming up with elaborate costumes which can sometimes take months to develop. I missed Otakon (Baltimore Anime Convention) for the second year in a row. I know it’s my fault for no longer having my finger on the pulse of anime culture in the US, but I was hoping to catch it this year to get some great cosplay pics. Instead I had to just linger in the lobby of the convention center and take some snaps. I took about ten shots and here are two of my better ones.
I guess there’s always next year. I’d like to possibly cosplay too, but do you think kids still know who Ranma is nowadays? What about one of the guys from robotech?
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Jun
22
I used to to love Anime. I don’t hate it now, but I don’t have as much zeal for it as I used to. Two things happened. First of all, anime is very expensive. Most DVDs have four episodes and cost $24 dollars. Usually it takes 6 DVDs to complete a season or $150 + tax. That’s a lot of money. Second, now that it’s mainstream it’s hard to tell the good anime from the bad anime. Back when I first started watching, it was just starting to become mainstream. There weren’t many titles available and whatever existed was pretty darned good. Studios couldn’t release crap over here or it wouldn’t sell. Basically there was awesome anime and hentai. Now there’s so much anime that best buy almost has an entire aisle dedicated to it in Ithaca. I remember when it was a few shelves and resided next to the porn. I hated being in that section. Now it’s usually by the sci fi movies.
But this is all just a long story to tell you that I subscribed to Animerica for three years. At the time I thought I’d always want to read about anime. But then I remembered why I had stopped subscribing to Electronic Gaming Monthly - both magazines talked about things in such a way as to make me want them, but I couldn’t have them since they were so expensive. Linux Format Magazine, by contrast, gives away all the software the magazine covers in an attached DVD. I think I still have two years or a year and one half on the Animerica magazine.
Animerica is owned by Viz, who gained the most fame for bringing Rumiko Takahashi’s work to the States, like Ranma 1/2. Viz gained the re-publishing rights to Shonen Jump, a wildly popular manga magazine in Japan. Shonen is boy’s manga - so it deals with stuff young to adolescent boys like. Viz also decided to just lauch Shojo Magazine. Shojo is girl’s manga. In Megatokyo it’s a running joke that Piro likes to read Shojo, which is all about “girly” things like love, does that boy like me, and “evil biatch” betrayal by the girl who stole your boyfriend.
Yes, this is all good and well, but what does it have to do with direct mailing? Well, in an effort to get more people interested in Shojo Magazine, they sent one to people subscribed to Animerica - apparently regardless of their sex. So now I have a copy of the first issue of Shojo Magazine. I wasn’t sure what to do with it, but now I think I’ll give it to my cousin. She is really into manga now and I’m sure she wouldn’t mind reading this magazine which even has tips on how to dress like the female characters in the manga.
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