It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.
Saturday, February 05
Off-Off-Off Model, Or, The Anticagliostro
This is billed as the worst animated car-chase scene of all time. I won't argue.
Which reminds me, I need to get mee.nu and mu.nu IPv6 compliant. Ugh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, February 06 2011 11:13 AM (PiXy!)
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Pixy, I've got a problem where the text entry boxes on the "new post" entry screen are running off the right side of the blog column (so I can't see what I'm typing when the cursor is over there). Did I poke the wrong setting?
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Sunday, February 06 2011 12:54 PM (mRjOr)
I missed this before, because (a) it sounds like exactly the sort of thing I don't care about and (b) I was dead in a ditch at the time.*
But instead it's (a) beautifully drawn and animated (well, the CGI is so-so as usual) and (b) bouncy.**
That's Miyuki, the wrench wench. Apparently she's only medium bouncy as things go in the series, so there's good reason to keep watching.
Also contains ducks:
* Of the past 27 months since the startup I work at as my day job went into open beta, I've spent 15 frantically trying to dig my way back to daylight, 6 dead in a ditch, and 6 just normally insanely busy. We finally have a full-time system administrator on the team, so things are set to improve this year.
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The ducks are surely a draw, but 32gb for a show about mecha playing basketball is a little too steep for me, seeing how I don't like either subject.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thursday, February 03 2011 04:52 PM (W8Men)
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The 720p version is one third that size. It's the TV version, where the 1080p is the Blu-Ray version, but apparently they turned the fanservice down for the Blu-Ray, so there's little reason to bother.
I'm not sure yet whether it's any good, but it's a lot better than I'd expected.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, February 03 2011 05:02 PM (PiXy!)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, February 02 2011 09:14 AM (+rSRq)
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From Nadia, she ran around with two henchmen who looked exactly like the pair in Fractale. Except that Grandis was a tall redhead, not a little brat in pigtails.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, February 02 2011 10:31 AM (PiXy!)
These two series, totalling 208 episodes, recount the story of 4th Lt. Chi, an advance scout for the Destructopods from the Chaos Dimension, who is covertly inserted into a normal family of Earth humans for reconnaissance in advance of the planned invasion.*
Plans go awry when Chi goes native, forgets her origins, and instead lives the kitten life. Pretty much; Chi can still be identified as an alien Destructopod because (a) after two years she's still kitten-sized, (b) she has the consistency and durability of vulcanised rubber, and (c) she has a tendency when startled or excited to lose fine control over her shapeshifting ability and sprout as many as eight additional limbs.
Also, she destroys Tokyo Tower.**
Twice.
Recommended. You will need to develop an extreme tolerance for the theme songs, or a quick finger on the fast-forward button, because you will be hearing them a lot.
* There is always a planned invasion. ** Possibly not the actual Tokyo Tower.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, January 02 2011 01:55 PM (PiXy!)
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Sorry to mention it here, but there's a spam invasion in main blog mee.nu (where periodic tables are).
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Sunday, January 02 2011 03:03 PM (9KseV)
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Thanks Pete. I also need to update it with stuff.
Last year was pretty much washed out as far as advancing mee.nu goes. Fortunately, next week we finally get a full-time sysadmin at my day job, so I'll be going back to what my hours were supposed to be all along (not seven days a week) and make some progress here again.
Now... Why has my little blog consumed 3.5GB of bandwidth already this month? Someone is downloading something...
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, January 03 2011 02:52 AM (PiXy!)
In Mad Men, the co-founder of the fictitious advertising company Sterling Cooper is something of a Japanophile and art collector. In season three, episode one, he has acquired Tako to ama, also known as The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.
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Also, thanks to Obama, the voters finally stepped away from the TV & stepped into the streets & organized as the mid-term elections showed. Plus, it woke up the Republican Party that they are not the People's Party any more & need to return to their original party platform.
Posted by: SilverFox at Tuesday, November 16 2010 04:17 AM (DTPOZ)
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The character descriptions are amusing, and the slot machine takes careful timing. I eventually managed to win a boiled bean wallpaper; that should confuse a few people around the office.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Monday, November 01 2010 03:33 AM (2XtN5)
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I got the peanut. Wanted the edamame one, though... thanks for this, Pixy!
Posted by: Wonderduck at Monday, November 01 2010 03:22 PM (vW/MM)
Warning 1: This is basically a spoiler-reel for the entire show. But you won't catch most of the meaning unless you've seen the show, so I don't know if it's really as spoily as all that.
Warning 2: If you're able to watch this that likely means you have Flash installed, and those cretins at Adobe have just managed to defeat the security on 99% of the world's computers again. Youtube is safe enough, but for general browsing you'd better get yourself Flashblock or something similar. Oh, and set PDFs to be downloaded rather than displayed in-browser, because, yes, they managed to introduce the same vulnerability into Acrobat.
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...and it will be two weeks before the patch! Go Team Adobe!
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Saturday, October 30 2010 05:20 AM (2XtN5)
2I really do like the AMV, even without knowing anything of the Princess Tutu storyline. Just very well edited, and the song is superb... even if you don't know Swedish.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, October 30 2010 03:01 PM (vW/MM)
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Now that you link back to that post, I'm sure I saw it when you first posted it, but it had completely slipped my mind.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, October 30 2010 03:15 PM (PiXy!)
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Nah, you could have seen it in plenty of other places... back when it first came out (2006), it was quite the sensation in AMV circles. It won a couple of awards at Anime Boston that year (Best Action and Best in Show) and has a 9.82 rating over at AMV.org with 180 opinions, so it's quite well-respected. I'm sure I'm hardly the only place that mentioned it.
By way of comparison, my AMV, "...Angel." has a 7.87 with 5 opinions.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Saturday, October 30 2010 04:21 PM (vW/MM)
