The forecast said it would be raining in Baltimore during Otakon weekend. It didn’t rain and the weekend wasn’t gloomy at all. It was, in fact, quite comfortable the whole time for a fairly low-key but enjoyable Otakon 2008. I didn’t take any pictures at the con, so yeah, no cosplay shots or reveals on what some of the bloggers I met look like.
Instead of packing for Otakon and getting a good night sleep so that I don’t crash too early, I decided to install a new theme for HappySoda. Of course, it’s never a one button press operation. It’s 2AM. I started at 10pm. Still not done, the links and archive pages need some code to work how they did on my previous theme, so for now those are down. Search page is a mess too.
One of the widgets I wanted to install in the previous theme, but didn’t have the room since there wasn’t a footer, was Community Cloud. Basically, if you comment here the plug-in puts your online name and site for people to click. It’s sorted to appear randomly. Even if it winds up being useless, it at least does provide some linkage until I get the blogroll page straightened out. Check it out in the footer.
I swear blog maintenance itself is an obsession sometimes. I meant to shoot Ringo before leaving. Oh well.
Anyway, I’m probably going to skip taking a lot of pictures or doing any reporting down at Otakon, even if I am setup with Twitter. There’s so many people doing reportage that it doesn’t feel special to do it, so I’ll spare myself the hassle. Instead, I’ll see how fast I can spend the bag of loose change I cashed in for $213.52 this morning. Something tells me I need a Lucky Star coaster set.
A couple of days ago I watched that Genshiken episode where Kasukabe goads Madarame into investing in his outward appearance. The Genshiken crew were a little on the deep end as far as minimizing all other expenses, such as skimping on clothing, to be able to afford otaku gear.
Sometimes I wonder about the collective opinion of “they”. According to that mass of nobody in particular, Kujibiki Unbalance pretty much sucks. Maybe they are right and most of the people who watch it will bleed from their eyes, but I don’t know, as blasphemous as it may sound, I think I enjoyed it just as much as the episode of Genshiken that most people are getting this dvd for.
In an alternate universe, Kirijo Mitsuru motored south on the Pacific Coast Highway in her Boxster, the top down, deep red hair streaming like a banner in the wind. It was a holiday and she had no place in mind other than wherever the highway took her, but when she saw a beach up ahead she parked the car to enjoy the ocean view.
One of the new guys in my D&D 4E campaign brought over Dragon Half to watch while waiting for everyone else to show up. I’d never seen it before and it was fun to watch. Everything about it felt different from the stuff that comes out now, especially the character design and art style, obviously, but it’s kind of surprising how different the humor feels (and in some cases how similar). It just feels looser. It’s like there’s spaces for things, even though in Dragon Half it’s a constant stream of gags and hyper characters.
Mink is a dragon half, which sounds odd instead of saying half dragon. She’s crazy for Dick Sother, a multi-class singer/warrior, so overall pretty lame like a 3.x Bard, but is supposed to be awesome. Skip. A plot rundown just doesn’t really make much sense here. It’s a gag show, so plot doesn’t really matter as long as amusing stuff happens. It does. The end credits were kind of interesting in that it had cut scenes away from the credits. Not seen anything like that which I can remember.
