Looks like Goodsmile is pulling a Aprils Fool’s Joke. Their normal front page has been replaced with what looks like a website for a Ramen place complete with menu and prices. Didn’t know that April Fools’ Day was practiced in Japan all ways thought it was more of a Western thing.

Well after another long drive I am home again from Sakura-Con. I am dead dog tired and as usual when I’m this tired the old brain don’t work so well and getting this much of a coherent post together take more effort then a normal long post. With unpacking from the trip and checking my [...]

Got a early start today and drove about 10hrs. So may brain in not working to well. Also got to have an early start tomorrow. The hotel has Internet but only wired so going to make this shot and give my nephew his computer back. Will have more tomorrow.

Just found out about this and I am going to try to go. On May 3rd and 4th at the San Mateo fair grounds the editors of Make Magazine will be holding their next Make Faire. People from all over the US will come and show off what they make. There will also be [...]

Well here is what I got so far for my custom cover for the Ikki Tousen TV series. The cover is made to fit a 1inch (14mm) quad case. It a fairly simple design as covers go. I need to add a few more things to the back cover, playing time, region code, ect. [...]

Well not really Heaven but from the Jar o’ Pennies. Yep finally got off my lazy butt and got the jar to the nearest Coinstar machine. So I didn’t have to tote around the glass jar I dumped them into a doubled up paper bag, it weighed in at 34.5 lbs. So what does 34.5 [...]

Coming in June from Griffon is everybody’s favorite one eyed, Maid outfit wearing, fighter girl Ryomou Shimei. Ryoumou is from the anime, manga sensation Ikki Tousen. Ryomou is 1/7 scale and stands in at 23cm tall and will retail for 6,800 yen. She’s all read up for preorder at HLJ, Play-Asia, Kid Nemo, and [...]

Well with my Nephews in town for a few weeks there has been a slight change in plans for my week off from work. We’re going to Sakura-Con in Seattle Washington. The Slants a band I’ve talked about here before are going to have couple of show there. With any luck I will be [...]

The RAM upgrade for the Mac came in today and once I recharged the batter for my camera I took some pics and installed it. The whole process including taking the pictures took less then ten minutes.
The first thing you’ll notice if your use to PC ram modules the massive heatsinks that the chips have. [...]

Well now that I got a compute that will handle photoshop with bogging down like a cub scout with a 100 pound pack it time to start making DVD cases again.
The downside to collecting Anime is that a long series can quickly take up a lot of shelf space if you are getting the single [...]

Found this neat image over at Hunting the Elusive today and just had to download it. There is alot that you can say against Communism but they always have had goo propaganda posters, and they ad guys for M&M took the idea and ran with it. Not only did the copy the look of they [...]

I am one of those people who can sit down at the computer to do 15 minutes of work and an hour later still not have it done. For example I’ve been meaning to order more ram for the Mac for the about the last week or so after my bonus check came in. I [...]