Author Archives: baudattitude

JLPT Madness 2007

Posted on September 27, 2007 by baudattitude

Well, I’m critically behind on my studying, and honestly I was thinking about wimping out this year, but – damn it – I’m going to do my best here. Signed up for the JLPT Level 3. It’s held December 2. … Continue reading →

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A Halo 3 Public Service Announcement

Posted on September 27, 2007 by baudattitude

Spoiler-free Halo 3 ending information follows – and this will be my last Halo-related post for a while because I’m starting to feel quite the fanboy. When you finish the campaign mode and watch the ending cinematic and are staring … Continue reading →

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Yay I can read the web again.

Posted on September 27, 2007 by baudattitude

…or, to put it another way, I don’t have to worry about the gits that make it their mission to post Halo 3 ending spoilers. Fortunately, it’s not as easy to spoil as “Snape kills…”, so every time I’ve run … Continue reading →

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Halo 3 Cat Helmet

Posted on September 26, 2007 by baudattitude

In our test sample, 100% of cats we tried putting the replica Spartan helmet on gave us a rather put-upon look and patiently waited for the humans to take the helmet off them. Note: We didn’t try getting our sample … Continue reading →

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No Preorder…

Posted on September 25, 2007 by baudattitude

…no midnight launch madness, no trading of my first born, my soul, or my cats… …just a matter of walking in to Fred Meyer this morning and asking “Hey, do you guys have the new Halo?” And getting a response … Continue reading →

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I got fan mail.

Posted on September 23, 2007 by baudattitude

So, I’ve done a Japan trip two summers in a row now, and the first time I got a request passed to me from one of my wife’s co-workers. She wanted some Japanese Pokemon cards for her 5 year old … Continue reading →

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I am good for the environment.

Posted on September 23, 2007 by baudattitude

OK. I’m not GREAT for the environment, or even really that good, because all I really did was take something incredibly wasteful and make it slightly less so. A few years ago, I designated one PC as the “Media” PC, … Continue reading →

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One downside to organization…

Posted on September 22, 2007 by baudattitude

I recently hooked up my TurboDuo again. Because I’m organized, see, and I can make a space for more game consoles that I’ve been neglecting. This was a great system when it came out. It combined a TurboGrafx-16, the CD … Continue reading →

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When I said…

Posted on September 22, 2007 by baudattitude

When I said I’d finished Trace Memory, that was a statement made of lies. I went back and played through it again. Turns out that I’d not only gotten the bad ending the first time, but by missing a critical … Continue reading →

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Japanese LeSportsac Store

Posted on September 21, 2007 by baudattitude

For those of you who are coming here from clicking the Tokidoki tag… I don’t really have much to offer you. But here’s a blurry camera-phone picture of a LeSportsac store in Japan, at the frightening-to-men “Women’s Theme Park” mall, … Continue reading →

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