Nadie is a bounty hunter, and a good one. Ellis is a fugitive with crazy psychic powers. Upon tracking Ellis down, Nadie sympathizes with her plight, and helps protect her from the various other bounty hunters on her trail. El Cazador de la Bruja tells the story of how they meet up and the various challenges they encounter and overcome seeking out Ellis’s mysterious past.
The Actiontec is a device that has been available at several retail electronics stores, including Radio Shack. It provides three means of connection, via Ethernet, 802.11b/g, and USB, which makes it rather appealing when you aren’t quite sure what kind of computer configurations will be making use of it. Other models are also available, including a bridge and a “triple-play” oriented gt724 model that are beyond the scope of this article.
To disable PPPoE on an otherwise-functional Actiontec gt704-wg, use the following steps:
Gainax is at it again. This past week saw the release of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the first new show of the season to properly grab me by the ear and drag me in. The first episode reveals to us a small village underground, where our protagonist, Simon, works drilling new holes for expansion of the settlement. Simon is an orphan, his parents having died in an earthquake some time ago. He’s gota headstrong buddy named Kamina that has dreams of traveling up to the surface, which the village elders deny even exists.
But as with all good Gainax titles, it isn’t the premise, or even the characters, that grab me here; it’s what Gainax does with them. No tedious exposition. No long brooding moments. No pandering to the intellect of the audience. Sequences where Simon is drilling are comical and stylized while still working to show us what he’s made of. Sequences where Kamina is puffing out his chest and trying to be manly walk the fine line between inspiring and laughable. Production values are excellent but not totally over-produced, in keeping with the tone of the story.
There are a couple of specific aspects to this show that get me thinking a bit. Kamina clearly thinks he’s the leading man in this story, what with his bravery, determination, and big ideas, yet Simon is the focus. This immediately makes both more appealing to me as a viewer. Something very similar was done with the character Balthier in Final Fantasy XII, and he was my favorite character in that whole game. This goes well past the normal self-interest you’d expect from any realistically-portrayed actor in a story. Where else has this been used, and was it effective there also?
The other aspect that has me thinking is the presence of giant robots. What the hell is going on when I’m liking giant robot shows? I may have to fire up some old Voltron episodes and do some soul-searching here…
Last month I installed a cute little WordPress plug-in called Search Meter. I figured it’d be neat to look back at March once I had a full 30 days of data to dig into. Despite the search habits of the handful of people that actually try to look at things on this webpage, I’m not in the habit of making movie reviews. Unless they fit into the broad “cartoons” category I’ve maintained for years.
300 is a silly movie. You may like it. You may not. I liked a lot of it. And not many people use the search tool in my navbar.