What an adorable video! She has a good sense of rhythm. She seems to be on the mark the most with rotating some of her joints, like her ankles. That is actually generally harder to do, so I'm very impressed. It's very nice to see a cute girl with...
I will nearly always follow a manga by the chapter and an anime by the episode. However, I definitely prefer when I am able to procure an entire series in one go, especially with the omake that the full volumes have.
If I am given the choice between McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's, I'll choose Wendy's every time... in the US. I've been to Burger King and McDonald's in several Latin American countries, and thus far I'm far more partial to McDonald's. I fi...
Congrats on the venue! Knock 'em dead! I pronounce GIF as its individual letters, G-I-F. If pressed to pronounce it as a word, though, I use a hard 'g'.
The quality of this figure is amazing, but... Quite frankly, I've never seen more fake looking breasts. By that I mean that they look like they have overdone implants. Creepy.
I tried only allowing myself anime or games when I had reached certain goals for the day/week/month. It actually didn't turn out well at that time, because whenever I had a string of setbacks I'd end up doing nothing but work or zoning out when I sh...
In most parts of the US, owning a firearm requires nothing but a quick background check--and that's only if you're buying from a dealer. Buying from an individual requires no checks at all. Some US states have stricter laws which dictate regulation...
I started to listen to 松任谷由実 (Matsutoya Yumi) when I offered to track down some music for a Japanese family member who's been away from her music since moving to the US. 松任谷さん has been making releases from the 70s through the 90s! I have...
Danny, I see that your iPhone wallpaper is dithered. I don't know if you notice or not, but it was certainly something that bugged me when I got my iPhone. It turns out that any imported photos are dithered! I haven't found a general solution for...
For me, breakfast in the morning is fruit or fruit juice. The stomach produces different kinds of acids at different times, which are more adept at digesting different things. In the mornings, especially if I have to get up early, fruit is much ea...
I'm rarely out of reach of either my car or my laptop, so I end up using one or the other to charge my iPhone. I have another portable battery, but the form factor on this is nice enough to make me consider it. I can fit that right in my pocket.
Nifty to hear about the Mini running Ubuntu. I love Ubuntu, and it runs on all my desktop computers that aren't Macs. However, on the server I always use CentOS. CentOS isn't perfect, but it's something of a business standard and I don't feel like...
I've been enjoying K-On! a lot, but it's a mixed bag. The production quality is excellent, and when it does something right it's spectacular. I get giddy just watching the OP and ED. However, I feel that in its attempt to adapt and extend the 4kom...
It looks very, very nice. The hard part is, of course, balancing meeting initial interest with promoting other articles... Best of luck with it! It'll be interesting to know how it works out.
I look forward to this. I use the current page on my iPhone, but very reluctantly. I'd also be eager to read any comments on the development experience. I hope to start working on an iPhone interface for a particular platform I'm using after I get...
Danny, I had the same issue of public/private network myself, when using another app. Before we went to a VPN, my solution was to use ssh to forward the proper port from the client machine, through the firewall, to the server--the firewall allowed j...
I have my own mail server running Postfix for SMTP and Dovecot for IMAP/POP, and I access it with Mail.app on OS X (I use Kmail on Linux and Thunderbird on Windows). I have huge numbers of messages, and it's true they're all in separate files, but w...
I'm torn on this. Ideally, I'd prefer full feeds as it speeds up the acquisition of data--the very point of Atom/RSS! However, very long posts can be awkward or cause "bogging" in some RSS readers, Google's included (especially on me iPhone). I'm...
For a look at some of the problems of the Japanese health care system (not that other systems don't have their own problems) is the manga "医龍-Team Medical Dragon-". It was written by a doctor and medical journalist, and despite its rare but unnece...
US-based drivers have trouble porting their licenses because each state has its own standards, not all of which meet Japan's standards. That sounds ridiculous, but this is because the US used to be like the European Union (but that has changed as th...
Glad it was of help! I had the black screen problem, but only part of the time. Fixed after deleting the sleep memory and changing the sleep mode. It appears many others pegged that as the core of their black screen problems to, as I ascertain fr...
I had problems with my MBP sleeping... Sometimes it wouldn't, and no matter what it would take a long time. I don't know if it is related to your issue, but my problem is identified here: http://www.windley.com/archives/2007/10/fixing_macbook_pro...
The outfit looks great! Love it. That is also the least creepy Dollfie face I've ever seen. If they get any less creepy than that, I might have to take up the hobby.
Many people dropped Toradora assuming it was just another cliched tsundere-abusing-a-spineless-guy show. Fortunately, it turned out to not be that at all. That was a feint that led to a much richer show.
There are some great drinks in Japan. There are some AWFUL drinks in the US. That's because sugar tariffs and corn subsidies have resulted in artificially expensive sugar and artificially inexpensive corn... which has resulted in almost all soft...
No interest in fortune telling, here. I am the master of my destiny. And it's Back to the Future III. That series is one of the larger influences in my life. A little geeky, perhaps, but it was for the better.
Japan's railways are mostly privatized these days, actually. Still, these are ways to earn money, not just waste it. A few of them are artistic endeavors intended to bring attention to the company, but even more of them are flat-out advertisements...
I never did get too far into the practice of making coffee from beans because I can't stand the stuff. ^^; I do visit interesting, semi-remote places known for their great coffee, though. Right now, for example, I'm in the volcanic region of Guatema...
I'm really enjoying the Kemeko anime, for the most part. It really brings the manga to life in ways that just weren't possible on the page. However, it loses all subtlety in any emotional scene and with anything remotely sex-related. In the the m...
I think the glass screens look nice, but I can't work on them. I need to see my work, not my reflection. I was set to spend money on a MacBook Pro today, but the glass screen only thing killed that idea. Instead I'm buying the MBP I'm using now o...
For me, keeping the radicals that indicate the meaning of a character, or at least show it's history, are key in helping me remember characters and interpret characters that I've yet to learn. Older simplifications (like we see in kanji) tend to pre...
Personally, as some one learning kanji, I can't stand Simplified Chinese. The Japanese simplifications tend to be very natural and the radical etymology is clear. On the other hand, most of the uniquely Chinese simplifications seem horribly arbitra...
While I found Taiga supremely annoying, I enjoyed the heck out of the first episode. The characters are shaping up to be more than just cliches, which is why I was able to put up with it, so I expect the annoyance provided by Taiga to be severely r...
