Monthly Archives: October 2010

Anime with guts

It’s been a month full of disembowelments. Firstly, my Japanese history class took two periods to watch Harakiri, a rather dark period film about poor Edo-era samurai, ritual suicide, bloody revenge and so on and so forth, and secondly I … Continue reading

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Somewhat Derivative Anime

I really quite liked Urusei Yatsura, which is fortunate because anime studios seem to keep remaking it in one form or another.  Tenchi Muyo was probably the best remake, swapping out the generally unlikable Ataru for a main character who … Continue reading

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I built a better desk.

I made some revisions to my workstation and realized that I hadn’t done a properly camwhory post in a while, so here you go. Big changes this time around: I mounted rails behind the desk and then mounted my monitor … Continue reading

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What is this I don’t even

Am I using that meme right? Because, well: I know I’m a bad man for saying something like this, but that sounds like a medical condition.  As in “Surgeon General’s Warning: Prolonged Exposure to Power Ring Energy may result in…” … Continue reading

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A tale of two MMOs

You know, the problem with riffing on Dickens for a post title is that it pushes the Lit Geek button, the one that says, “OK, now we go with the ‘It was the best of games, it was the worst … Continue reading

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Adventures with rsync

As so often happens, I went and made more problems for myself. See, we run a mixed environment here, a handful of PCs and two macs. Mostly the PCs are used for gaming, except for one laptop my wife uses … Continue reading

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