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Monday, March 26th, 2012
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10:41 am - LepreCon schedule
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http://www.leprecon.org/lep38/Programming-Schedule.php
Friday
ART - nDCU: What works & what doesn't 3-4:30pm Palm E
FAN - PARODY FAN Dubs for Adults 9:30 PM - ?? Palm F
Saturday
ANIME - You Got Cyberpunk'd 5-6pm Colonnade
Ghost in the Shell, Armatige, Battle Angel Alita, AppleSeed, and more! “Man
and Machine”? “Man or Machine”?
FAN- PARODY FAN DUBS for ADULTS 11-?? Joshua Tree
Sunday
ANIME - Ticking For Deathklok 1-2pm Boardroom
From animation to albums to concert tours to comics to merchandise...A look
into Adult Swim's hit show “Metalocalypse”! Ends with a trivia contest— and
a prize!
I had to look up what nDCU is. Apparently DC Comics rebooted their universe last year.
Since I have never read any DC Comics (or Marvel), I have requested to be taken off that panel, heh. I will have to watch some "Metalocolypse" soon too...
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| Friday, February 3rd, 2012
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10:17 pm - Hi there.
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How's it going? I have been mostly posting on Google+ lately.
I have been invited to be a guest (program participant) at LepreCon38 this April in Phoenix, Arizona, area. I looked up some info from an old LJ entry and thought I'd say hi while I was here.
I am contracting at Fujitsu Labs of America and enjoying it so far. Take care.
current mood: full
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| Thursday, July 7th, 2011
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11:08 pm - comments
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Bah, the only comments from non-LJ users I get any more are spam. So I turned off commenting from non-users.
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| Sunday, June 26th, 2011
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8:59 pm - Fan Videos party at Renovation
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Oh right, I'm throwing a party in August at Worldcon in Reno. Perhaps I should look for fan videos to show again.
I last successfully held a similar party in Japan: http://anysize.org/~ashi/fan-videos-nippon2007/ (Melbourne didn't have space for me last year).
Any fan-created videos will do if it's in English or has English subtitles!
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| Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
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6:26 pm - Stuff I found today
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I cleaned up an old box today and found a 20-year-old student ID:
and a parody song lyric poster by "Public Anime" which I scanned and typed up the lyrics:
Public Anime. It's a parody of "Loser" by Beck. I even made a favicon for the page. :) The posters were put up at cons in the Bay Area in the early 90s.
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| Monday, April 11th, 2011
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2:58 pm - A little cleaning up
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| Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
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12:47 am - buried treasure
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I plugged in a computer I hadn't touched in years this week. I copied a lot of files off it, but found two nifty sections in particular.
I found the pictures I took with Chilli Dog from 2004, and a music replacement on the Noir OP with a tatu song I made at work in 2002:
So, does anyone want this computer? If not, I'll put it on Craigslist for $20:
Custom built tower PC, AMD Duron (900MHz I think), 768 megs of ram, 120 gig and 200 gig hard drives, cd burner. Ubuntu 10.10. Lots of space in the tower.
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| Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
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3:48 pm - toilet paper
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Since I got a toilet seat with washing feature, I haven't been using much toilet paper. I changed the roll on August 1, 2010, and put a bit of paper inside the roll so I'd remember. It ran out yesterday, March 29, 2011. It lasted almost 7 months! So the big pack I have should last me about 6 years. I hope it doesn't get too dusty.
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| Saturday, March 5th, 2011
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9:46 am - unemployed
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| Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
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6:45 pm - Nanoha Raising Heart Sounds
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Okay, I got some Nanoha Raising Heart sounds to go with the Nanoha theme on my phone. I got way more than I needed. :) I saved the audio from the episodes with my computer, trimmed, and did some fade in / fade out effects.
http://anysize.org/~ashi/nanoha-sounds/
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| Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
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12:09 pm
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So, having found a nice Nanoha wallpaper for my Sprint Palm Pre 2, I was no longer satisfied with it saying "Just Type" or "Boom, Action Time!"
I ought to figure out how to package the patch so others can use it, but I have other stuff I've been putting off... :)
Note: Nanoha's magical device, Raising Heart, says things like "I am ready, my master!" in perfect English, as delivered by Australian actress Donna Burke.
The wallpaper is from an iPhone theme downloaded from this site: http://newpspmoajo05.blog129.fc2.com/blog-category-30.html (Download link is just underneath the picture). Thanks to Google Image Search for letting me limit a search to a specific resolution!
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| Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
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9:24 am - My Anime Los Angeles schedule
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Hi! Haven't posted here in a while.
I will be a guest at Anime Los Angeles again. I am looking to add a few people to the Parody Fan Dubs panel.
Here is my schedule:
Saturday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Buying anime and manga from Japan
LP4 WORKSHOP - Philadelphia
Todd Allis
Cover: Online & Stores
Online:
For most searches, you will want the Japanese title of what you're looking for. Try Wikipedia or other sites to copy the Japanese title from if you can't type it in Japanese.
amazon.jp: You can click "In English" but still need some Japanese. Shipping is only express, so expensive. Buy a few things together and/or go in with friends so shipping per item goes down.
cdjapan.co.jp: The whole site is in English. Search in English. The prices tend to be higher.
auctions.yahoo.co.jp: It's all in Japanese, and you have to find sellers that will ship internationally (海外発送). You can use a site translation like Google Language Tools to help.
jlist: Site is in English. A variety of stuff.
www.bk1.jp: I haven't used it yet, but a friend recommended it. All in Japanese, cheaper shipping than Amazon.
kinokuniya.com: Site is in English. Search in Japanese. You can order by mail or see what's available in stores.
Stores:
In the Los Angeles area, there are Book Off and Kinokuniya, and probably others.
Book Off deals in used books, and you'll find it in Japan and L.A. Try it first for the prices.
Kinokuniya is in several major cities in the U.S. West Coast and East Coast, and Australia, Japan, and other Asian countries. They have a great selection. You can see what they have online. They will also order books for you, which can save you on shipping if you have time to spare.
Notes from the panel, stuff I'll be adding:
Stores/areas:
Asahiya
La Puente, general Asian stuff
Little Osaka: North of LAX off 405
Costa Mesa/Irvine
Go-between services
Celga
Linkuya
Online
Coming soon? Rakuten bought Buy.com
DVDasia
Right Stuf for figures
Mandarake online
Anime Jungle
Yes Asia
Feel free to add more in the comments!
Saturday 1:30 - 2:30 PM: Your First Trip to Japan
LP2 - Imperial B
Helen McCarthy
Tim Eldred
Todd Allis
"Join travel veterans as they guide you through do's and don'ts of your first trip to Japan."
My do's:
JR rail pass
Bring cash (yen)
Research before you go
Plan to allow for changes in your plan
Study Japanese
Go to onsen (hot springs)
Get a cell phone or rent one. Buying through gaijinpot or craigslist can be cheaper, but it's more work, and you won't know the number ahead of time.
Bring a GPS with Japanese maps, or buy one there. Your smartphone's data probably won't work in Japan. Walking to a place from a train station can be confusing.
Get out of the big city for part of the time if you can.
Don't:
Expect to use credit
Try to withdraw too much from an ATM at once
About my own first trip:
My first trip was in 2007. I went to Comiket and Worldcon/Nippon 2007. I stayed in Tokyo, Sapporo, an onsen at Touyako (Hokkaido), Kitakyushu (Kyushu), and Yokohama. My friends in Kitakyushu took me to see Mount Aso and Jigoku Onsen (Hot Springs of Hell), and Sanai Kogen Hotel & onsen in Minamioguni.
I spent a few nights on the train, which was pretty nice. I was surprised to find pay phones and vending machines, but few power outlets and no wifi. I watched a lot of "Letters from Iwo Jima" on a TV on the train, with Japanese subtitles for the English parts.
Rail pass was great, though I had to take and pay for a few non-JR lines. I loved the hostels, great prices and some good conversations with people from all over the world. I paid more for half of a party room at Worldcon than I paid for the rest of my hotels and hostels. Onsen was fun and relaxing. The hostels and cheap hotels had Japanese baths too. I so want one at home. Toilet seats with bidet/washlet were great too, and I have one at home now.
The Japanese I knew came in handy.
Saturday 8:00 - 9:00 PM: Parody fan dubs: Clips and discussion
LP6/DEMOS - Atlanta/Boston
Todd Allis
Gotta find/make some clips.
Nescaflowne battle from 14:00 is pretty funny.
Sunday 12:00 - 1:00 PM: What show or manga got you hooked?
LP4 WORKSHOP - Philadelphia
Todd Allis
For me it was Robotech, 1985. From there I went straight into Nth generation VHS tapes of raw anime and C/FO meetings and my own monthly anime meeting and club and fan dubs.
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| Monday, September 20th, 2010
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3:37 pm - post fixin'
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So... currently gmail is rejecting any email from anysize.org.
550-5.7.1 [208.74.178.225 1] Our system has detected an unusual rate of
550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect
our
550-5.7.1 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been
blocked.
550-5.7.1 Please visit http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to
review 550 5.7.1 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines. e8si10598206wfd.104
(in
reply to end of DATA command)
I don't have an open relay. I have SPF set up. I did have this postfix setting:
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 450
which I changed to:
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550
So now it should reject while a server is trying to send email, instead of sending a bounce (backscatter), which might be what Gmail had a problem with.
I could try just using my ISP's SMTP server for outgoing email.
Any other ideas? Thanks.
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| Thursday, August 26th, 2010
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12:56 pm - AussieCon 4
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Ah, the heat wave is gone, and I can think again. Three days left till I leave for Australia. If I haven't heard back about getting a party room by then, I won't bring my projector... effectively giving up on it. No sense dragging it around for no reason.
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| Thursday, August 19th, 2010
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7:48 am - Videos wanted for Fan Video party
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So... anyone have any fan videos you'd like to be shown at Worldcon in Melbourne? I can't guarantee anything, as I don't know yet whether I even have the party room, but if I wait any longer to ask, it will be too late to get the videos!
This will be quite similar to the English Language Fan Videos party in Yokohama in 2007, hopefully with an easier time getting in the door.
Entries should be in DVD format, or most any computer format will do. No VHS, Beta, LaserDisc, etc. Can be science fiction, fantasy, horror, anime, most anything about and/or by fans.
I plan to show a few anime parody fandubs of my own, probably later in the evening so they seem funnier. They were made late at night, after all.
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| Saturday, August 7th, 2010
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12:50 pm - Charybdis vs. the baby gate
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Since I changed her food, Charybdis has been fighting with Boo more. She has also lost weight. I put up a baby gate to keep them separated, but recently she has been able to get past it. I just found how how.
The gap she walked through is 2.75 inches, or 7 cm.
Warning: messy house.
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| Friday, August 6th, 2010
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9:45 am - Mini parade in SF to celebrate Prop 8 being struck down.
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I already shared this on Facebook but figured it should go here too. :) I went to San Francisco on Wednesday night and caught the parade in celebration of Prop 8 being declared unconstitutional. I got just a bit of it on video with my Palm Pre... It was like a mini pride parade. Enjoy!
current mood: happy
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| Sunday, June 27th, 2010
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12:19 pm - Tardis background painting
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This painting is from the 12th episode of this season of Doctor Who: The Pandorica Opens. That's also the title of the painting. It's behind a cut because it's big, and because it contains huge spoilers. I also think it makes an excellent desktop background.
I was unable to find it through extensive Google Image searching, and endeavored to screen cap it and put it out there myself. :) Enjoy.
( Pretty painting and spoilers ahead! )
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| Thursday, June 10th, 2010
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10:04 pm - phrase searching
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Ever come up with a witty phrase and then Google it, because you suspect it has already been done?
I do this pretty often. Tonight I thought of "where seldom is heard an encouraging word" and found over 500 results. Then I thought of "where the beer and the cantaloupe play" (600+) and then "homo on the range" (over 35,000). Hmm, I seem to be working backwards through that song, while getting more hits each time.
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| Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
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9:57 pm - Five Questions meme
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Ah, haven't seen this meme in a while. Respond to this with "interrogate my mind!" and I'll ask you five questions to answer on your journal and repost this with your own question-phrase. Or something?
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=91.7) wille_zur_musik wrote:
1. What's the model of your super-impossible dream car?
1976 AZ600 Honda Coupe. Make it an electric conversion, with an electric air horn cause people tend not to see them on the road.
2. ...least favorite meat product you commonly see around?
Chinese pork re-heated in the microwave at work that wafts around the whole office. Okay, that's more of a smell, but I have noticed it at another job and had to take a walk outside, heh.
3. favorite shirt's main color?
Black.
4. Where did you spend the most time, besides your own home and school, in 10th grade?
Church, church choir practice, anime club activities, and Adventureland Comics.
5. What is the velocity of an "LFB" shot from Erica's anger-cannon provided we are not there to see?
Hmmm... African or European?
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