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Bought this yesterday. Now I just need a lounge chair in the shade and a drink with an umbrella.
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This is the one “souvenir” thing I brought back from Tokyo. After browsing floor after floor of anime figures in Akibahara, I found Ymir at Mandarake. Seriously - this place is 8 stories of manga books, DVDs, and figurines, and it’s just one shop among many. Crazypants.
Ymir* is a dwarven steel master from Queen’s Blade, a book-based combat game (and anime series and video game and…). Besides being an adorable girl that dual wields massive axes while being dressed as a pirate, she was the only character I found without huge, focal-point breasts. And no, it’s not because she’s a child, it’s because she’s a dwarf, duh.
Now she’s on my shelf, protectin’ my peripherals!
*If you are too lazy to translate the page from Japanese (try Chrome), you should know that “Ymir’s likes include Blast Furnace but dislikes are snakes.”
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![I’ve been wanting a netbook / small laptop for quite a while, but none of the popular ones have the power to handle the games and graphics editing that I do. I’d like to move to a situation where I completely eliminate my [insane gaming rig of a] desktop and instead just extend the little laptop to a 22”+ monitor when I’m at home. So I started shopping around a bit…
Then this happened.
You guys…<_<>_>It’s got purple lights!
11.6-inch WideHD 1366x768 (720p) WLED
Intel Core i7 640UM (4M Cache, 2.266 GHz)
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 800MHz
… Basically it trades off some of the power/graphics of my desktop, but is still completely suitable for my needs for the next good while.
Half of me is totally ashamed, the other half is STOKED.
It arrives July 8th.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l40vo87Gxu1qzong1o1_400.png)
I’ve been wanting a netbook / small laptop for quite a while, but none of the popular ones have the power to handle the games and graphics editing that I do. I’d like to move to a situation where I completely eliminate my [insane gaming rig of a] desktop and instead just extend the little laptop to a 22”+ monitor when I’m at home. So I started shopping around a bit…
Then this happened.
You guys…
<_<
>_>
It’s got purple lights!- 11.6-inch WideHD 1366x768 (720p) WLED
- Intel Core i7 640UM (4M Cache, 2.266 GHz)
- 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 335M
- 500GB SATAII 7,200RPM
- 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 at 800MHz
… Basically it trades off some of the power/graphics of my desktop, but is still completely suitable for my needs for the next good while.
Half of me is totally ashamed, the other half is STOKED.
It arrives July 8th.
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I <3 <3 <3 explodingdog, and I would have loved to send his cards as my obligatory seasonal mailing. Unfortunately, there’s a just a tad too much Jesus in these. Was “Seasons Greetings” too difficult?
Huge sadface.
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Finally! Presents for My Office!
The last scanner I had was passed down from my parents and broke a year ago. My monitors, on the other hand, are just now dying a slow death. One refuses to display color anywhere near accurately enough for photo editing and the other puts so much noise in black and white images that I’m constantly convinced I suck at PhotoShop. It’s time for some new tools.
Goal 1: Digitize all my old paper files and recycle the hard copies. Eliminate as much paper coming into & staying in the house as possible.
Goal 2: Archive all my old print photographs in high res, photoshop them up, and get them archived on flickr.
Goal 3: Have enough money left over to keep myself in summer ale during what will no doubt be an excruciatingly long and drawn out scanning & editing process.
My Choices:
- Monitor: Samsung 245BW LCD
- Scanner: Xerox Documate 510
Both these babies together, including tax & $25 shipping, were only $800 on newegg. That’s pretty sweet!
While I’d love to have an Eizo, $2300 for the same 24” LCD (albeit super-accurate and hardware calibrated) is just crazy talk. The only concern with the scanner is that there is one newer release in the model line, but if at some point I have to run a legacy environment in a virtual machine to save a few bucks, I’ll do it. I believe that’s called ingenuity, people.
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A Softer World
A Softer World is a [usually] gentle webcomic (webart might be more apropriate) which is releasing a new shirt at the end of the month bearing the design above. Got mine preorder style.
While I will avoid getting on my soap box here, if you think this is “counterproductive” or “untidy,” perhaps you should check out the Guns and Dope Party:
“We Advocate
- Guns for those who want them, no guns forced on those who don’t want them (pacfists, Quakers etc.)
- Drugs for those who want them, no drugs forced on those who don’t want them (Christian Scientists etc.)
- An end to Tsarism and a return to constitutional democracy
- Equal rights for ostriches.”
These days, my socio-economic-policitcal-religious tendencies lie so far off the beaten path that discussing them in polite company has become impossible for me. I’ve learned enough to forget everything I thought I knew when I got my degrees in more than one of the above hyphenated topics. And I think that means I’m finally getting somewhere.
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
*Unlikely to find your lost post using this but you can try...
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