Archive for November, 2002

Fun with Logistics

Monday, November 18th, 2002

[11:43] |tonyq| Apparently there is no RT
[11:43] |tonyq| those lyers
[11:43] |jdf| sure there is. there are lots of rt’s. just not necessarily near that customer
[11:43] |tonyq| “there is a problem with an RT”
[11:43] |tonyq| “oh, like there’s no room?”
[11:44] |tonyq| “No, there isn’t one… And there won’t be until 2005″
[11:44] |tonyq| “oh”
[11:44] |tonyq| and they are just shy of a CO connection at 25 kilofeet
[11:44] |tonyq| sheesh

Geek MC

Sunday, November 17th, 2002

Imagine if you will put the Beastie Boys, the Four-eyes, and a lonely php-coder in a blender and poured that you got into an .mp3 file? You’d get MC Frontalot, I think.

I get odd flashbacks of playing an old 8-bit Nintendo with Slick Rick on the stereo. Disturbing? Maybe, but I’m entertained.

Rend

Friday, November 15th, 2002

Everybody loves monkeys, right?

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AccessUp

Wednesday, November 13th, 2002

I haven’t been there for a while, and look at how it has grown. AccessUp.com provides reviews and resources for anime and RPG computer games both old and new. There’s even a place where you can look at (poorly) translated reviews of a given product as seen by Japanese people with nothing better to do than review cartoons and video games. Outstanding!

Azumanga Redux

Tuesday, November 12th, 2002

I am pleased to announce that my collection now includes the entirety of Azumanga Daioh as currently available to the English-reading public. It’s one of the best situation comedies I’ve seen in a great long while, Japanese or otherwise. Bit fat thanks go out to the good people at Newlife Anime, A-F, and Ishin who brought this series to us rabid fanboy types free of charge.

With any luck the faceless corporate giants, US anime standbys, or up & coming freak-companies will start bringing entertainment of this caliber to the American public.

A lot of the puns require the Japanese language, but other than a handful of scenes I think that Azumanga Daioh is the kind of work that could turn things like Toonami around. Not that I have anything against DBZ, Transformers, and He-man, but… There’s not much to those shows that you can’t get from a whitebread American-cartoon cross-section.

Or maybe I’m just a freak. For your viewing pleasure, yet another sample strip.