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Added Easy Gravatars

super rats — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:59:41 +0000

Temporarily switching from the Comvatar comment icon to Gravatar via the Easy Gravatar 1.1 plugin. One nice thing about Gravatar is you can keep your icon across any blog that is Gravatar enabled. The downside is few people have one registered (register one!). I’ll see how it goes for a couple of weeks before deciding which comment avatar system to use.

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Whoops Darn Hosting Bills

super rats — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:25:00 +0000

I forgot to update my billing information with my host, so the site was down for a little bit. ^^;

And while I’m here…I increased the post width and body by 20 pixels. I didn’t notice anything broken in Firefox, but can’t say that for any of the other browsers since I don’t have them to check. I’m sure something in IE6 looks funny.

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Anime Top 10 TV Series

super rats — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:40:28 +0000

Guess it’s time to update the good ole top 10 list and any other post would just take too long. Filler! Yes, indeed:

Cowboy Bebop
Princess Tutu
Planetes
Kamichu!
Boogiepop Phantom
SuperGALS
Gunslinger Girl
Fruits Basket
Figure 17
Magic User’s Club
FLCL

That’s 11, I know. If I did this tomorrow two or three might be different. What changed since last year? Evangelion, His and Her Circumstances, and GitS:SAC bow out to make way for Magic User’s Club, FLCL, and Kamichu! Recent rewatches of MUC and FLCL helped, no doubt, but Kamichu! is not in any danger of falling off this list anytime soon.

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Busted Computer

super rats — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:50:01 +0000

Figured I’d give one of those hey this is why I haven’t updated post. My home PC is busted. It can’t find the heat sink so it won’t start, so I opened up the case and sure enough there’s this loose chunk of computer broken off and sitting on the motherboard. Plus that whole work thing isn’t helping. Hopefully, this weekend I’ll sort it all out.

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Hello Kitty, the New Mark of Shame

super rats — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:50:33 +0000

“Thai police who break rules will have to wear hot pink armbands featuring Hello Kitty.”
–Yahoo News

This struck me as funny ~~in light of the recent whirl of otaku navel gazing~~. So are Japanese cartoon icons the new scarlet letter? In Thailand, it seems to be for police who litter and arrive to work late. Not exactly in step with last weeks discussion, but an amusing aside. On a side note, whoever came up with Hello Kitty is a freaking genius or super lucky, but probably both.

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Rosanna’s Mystery Pantsu…Solved

super rats — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:36:11 +0000

When I posted the shoot for that Rosanna figure, everyone kind of had fun speculating just how her pantsu stayed on. Theories ranged from the perverse to the hilarious. Well, there’s actually a real world product. It seems a UK lingerie company sells something called the C-string, an undergarment without anything on the sides — the garment hugs the body to stay on target. Shockingly, it’s not just for women.

Saw the link to it on Jewaira’s blog.

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Anime Set in Hokkaido

super rats — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:41:21 +0000

I finished watching Diamond Daydreams (Diamond Dust Drops) for the second time the other day. After watching the series over two nights it struck me that I really like Hokkaido as a setting. I’ve seen two other shows where I enjoyed the Hokkaido setting, Figure 17 and Noein. Hokkaido just feels like it’s from a slightly different time, rather than being just some other part of Japan. It feels cleaner, less preoccupied, and somewhat more pastel. I guess I could say the same thing about anyplace with lots of cows, such as rural Pennsylvania, but it’s more exotic when the farm hands speak Japanese (nevermind that I watch these shows dubbed in English, I still imagine they speak Japanese).

Actually during one of the extras on the Noein dvds, the director mentioned that he chose to set Noein in Hokkaido primarily because he felt the setting gave it a very different feel than if he set it in Tokyo. I might be putting words in his mouth, but that’s the impression I got, that it would be harder to convey the innocence of their friendships if it were set in Tokyo. That and he wanted snow.

Even though Hokkaido probably isn’t all that exciting, I’d love to visit there someday. It looks pretty.

What other good anime are set in Hokkaido?

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Air News Makes Me Happy

super rats — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:21:47 +0000

After all the overblown doom and gloom this week about the status of anime in America, re the ICV2 article and the concern over some English dub-production being shipped to Odex, I’m happy to see some good news. Yeah, I don’t do news, so I’m not posting to inform you about Air being licensed (you already know it by now), just saying I’m happy is all. Sure I know nothing about it, other than it’s got pretty art. What’s got me in a good mood is it’s often been said it would never get picked up due to the cost and the market. Maybe this means R1 companies, or at least ADV, aren’t on as much life-support as some seem to think or maybe it doesn’t mean anything. Maybe ADV is nuts!

Seeing an impossibility turn possible is a great way to log-off my work computer and start off the weekend. Will have another figure photo thing on Monday or Tuesday. Whatever you do, have fun.

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Figurine Slowdown?!

super rats — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:57:41 +0000

It wasn’t more than a couple of weeks ago that I lamented the lack of pvc I wanted to get. The last month and likely the next will see only a few figure updates, unless I decide to do shoots of figures I never bothered to shoot (there’s like six or seven, but these are all four or more months old). But for the past week, it seems like everytime I check Ikimashou, Randall’s pointing to another figure to go on my pre-order list. I think I’ve added eight figures in the past week.

Note to the awesome figurine companies in Japan, please spread the goodness to all the months of the calendar year. Then again, this let the wallet breathe season might be a good thing. Anyway, things should start picking up again on the figure front soon.

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Style Change

super rats — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:56:50 +0000

I’ve modified the stylesheet of the Tarski theme so that the background is dark gray with light colored text, hopefully it isn’t too hard to read. Anyway, pictures look better when set against a dark gray background, which is why I changed the colors. Only downside is gray isn’t usually a “happy” color. If the dark background messes with your eyes, let me know.

Also, this is my first use of an “aside” and I think I have it so they don’t show up on the main RSS feed. If it does show up, sorry about that, I didn’t do something right.

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