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Posts from ‘June, 2009’

My Figure Collection

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In my random wondering over the net I can across a nice little site thanks to Dancing Queen. The site is Myfigurecollection.net (formerly Tsuki-Board.net). My Figure Collection is part inventory system and part social networking for figure fanatics. The inventory system appears to be pretty complete and if you can’t find your figure you can [...]

Learning Japanese Redux

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It’s started again. I’m once again trying to learn Japanese. I took a couple of semester while I was in Junior College and been trying on and off for the last several year to learn more on my own. This time around I’m using a multi-prong more of attack. I have some Kana Flashcards that [...]

Synth Saturday Roland Jupiter 4

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The Roland Jupiter 4 was the fist of Roland’s famous Jupiter line of analog synths and was among one of the first poly synthesizers. The Jupiter 4 is a four voice polyphonic synth with 1 VCO per voice. It also has a built in arpeggiator and and a pitch wheel that could be assigned to [...]

Symmetrical Docking Friday (Week 44)

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Well since we had the review of of the Galgrease Juliona Trans figure yesterday, I figured we would have a Galgrease Symmetrical Docking today. So I started digging though the Galgrease posters and only found one Docking image. Which is weird since the Galgrease series is pretty heavy on the female/female action in the second [...]

Review: Art Storm’s Juliona Trans

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Finally got around to do the figure shoot of Art Storm’s Juliona Trans from Masamune Shirow’s Wild Wet West GalGrease series. I did something a bit different this time as a bit of an experiment. I went with a black background and used the camera flash for most of the lighting. The only other light [...]

Artificial Tree

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Ok this may sound nuts but it is true. A professor at Columbia University, Klaus Lackner, and his company Global Research Technologies, are working on an Artificial tree that collects CO2 at a greater rate the the real thing. The “trees” uses plastic leaves that capture the carbon dioxide in a chamber, it is then [...]

New Hat Get

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It use to be that you were not fit to leave the house unless you were wearing a hat. Nowadays most people on a rarely wear one and if they do it is most likely a ballcap. For the longest time I did wear a hat on a regular basses. I rarely wore on for [...]