Ok, the new season of anime has started in Japan, and I haven’t said much about the shows because I haven’t seen anything of much note yet. There’s been some shows that are looking to be decent enough to find possibly entertaining, like Clannad, Bamboo Blade (surprisingly), and some others ok but not particularly unusual. I was begining to think there wasn’t going to be anything as good as the previous season. And then Moyashimon comes along. It remains to be seen how good this turns out to be, but the premise and the first episode are off to a good start. So how’s this, it’s about a kid who can see germs. I’ve said in the past that you can find a manga about virtually anything, but I have to admit this is something I wouldn’t have thought of. So we have anthropomorphic yeast and their buddies having parties and whatnot. Trying to figure out where the character designs remind me of, perhaps Genshiken. He is entering college too. Anyway, I’m interested to see where this goes, and all the cute little germies, when you think about it I think it would be pretty icky to have this ability.
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After ignoring the car yesterday, I ran out side this morning to give that wheel a squirt of Kroil. Noticed a nice slick of oil under the engine. Guess that’s the leak Allen mentioned. It’s a pretty good one. Don’t know where its coming from yet, appears to be dripping from rear of block, but the engine is tilted so hard to tell. Looks even more like I’ll be swapping engines, but I forgot about the water pump deal, will have to figure out what to do with that. More details later.
The red AE86 Corolla has finally made it to docks, so I recruited Derek to help me pick it up from Matson. Some frantic calls to my insurance finally got me a copy of temp insurance minutes before Derek arrived in the bwop mobile. So jump in and it’s off to Sand Island. I show him the secret shortcut to bypass the Piikoi/Lunalilo St. mess and we make it onto the freeway in no time. It’s almost 3:00 so the traffic is getting heavy, but we see it still moving so once we get through the merge it’s moving decently. Decide to chance going to Nimitz under the airport viaduct and take the U-turn, then bam we hit traffic at the merge as a fire engine comes up from behind. Uh oh, this can’t be good. We crawl along to the Sand Island Access Road intersection to see one of the massive traffic light poles got a nice smush going. Nice one! Luckily we make it to Matson just in time.
Sheesh, look what happens when you cancel a ride, you go and buy bicycle toys instead. So what did I waste good money on this time? The latest bicycle light from NiteRider. Is this a guy thing? All the guys I know love flashlights. Back in the day, having a MagLite would put a swagger in your step. Getting yet another AA MiniMaglite stocking stuffer would never bum us out, you can always use one. When the tiny keychain LED lights came out, we thought it was a brilliant idea. You’ll find us drooling over finely machined pieces of manly agressive “tactical” lights that can curl the retina off your eyeballs with batteries that require fat wallets and last about as long as that money stays in those wallets. And then stadium light technology in portable form appeared, the first one to come out nicknamed the alien abduction light. If we were to find ourselves crashed in the deepest remotest regions of Africa confronted by aborigines ready to throw us into the evenings crock pot, what would we whip out? Well, lighters aren’t allowed anymore (did they change that again?), so it would have to be the trusty flashlight in the god fearing eyes! Perhaps its this primevel fascination, the defying of something so basic, darkness, with a creation of man, the flashlight.
Through the wonders of the Net, I’ve been able to watch the first episode of the live action TV series just days after it aired in Japan. I’m not quite sure what to think yet. I don’t think Hideaki Anno had anything to do with this incarnation, I believe its directed by a dude responsible for a bunch of current modern tokusatsu Kamen Rider shows. Perhaps its best going in not knowing anything and entering with an open, blank mind. But with how many versions its been through and originating from the mind of Go Nagai, how can an J-pop culture otaku not. Continue reading ‘Cutey/ie Honey The Live’
Someone tell me what have I done wrong?! Allen just called me with the wonderful words everyone loves to hear, “I’ve got good news and bad news.” Crp. There’s that alarm and remote start thing we talked about in email. Well, the truck delivered the cars fine to Matson dock. Matson guy was about to sign off on it, and no one’s really clear on what exactly happened, but the FX decided to go off on a jolly jaunt on its own. They managed to chase it down, someone jumped in open window & grabbed the e-brake and it was eventually stopped. But not before running into a Coke machine though. Sounds like damage is not severe, paint on bumper. They’re going to try and disable the alarm and get a new key made, it broke in the chaos, and get it back to Matson by Friday. It could have been worse. Sheesh, sounds like I better go visit jinja and get a blessing! And don’t install remote start in a manual tranny vehicle, and don’t let Circus City install it.
Okay, I haven’t written much about the ongoing saga of me and my cars. Well, after much delay, the “new” cars are on the way! yes, I said cars, as in plural. The original FX was carted off by the guys from Lost when they returned the Cruiser. So here is she is in her last days having donated most of what was worth keeping:
And so in an somewhat odd turn of “car”ma, the new Corolla’s are coming from non other than the guy who gave me the first FX16, which by the way was a great little car and ran way better than the second FX which got smacked around. The new ones were picked up Tuesday in Vegas!
So does anyone else see anything wrong with this? Driving in to work this morning, behind a City street sweeper driving, not actually sweeping. Dude tosses his cigarette butt out the window. I guess it’s job security, kinda like arsonist firefighters. I know it’s nothing quite that bad but still….
Dave having just gotten back from Japan, this past thursday dinner was definitely not going to be Japanese. So we went across the street from McBike to Chiang Mai. A quite popular Thai restaurant, and rightly so. Tasty food, reasonable price, nice atmosphere that’s not too stuffy not too casual, good service, conveniently located for us. Continue reading ‘Chiang Mai’
Here’s a good one from Roy. This past weekend they went to see latenight showing of Shoot Em Up. Afterwards they went to Zippys near the Dole Cannery Theaters. So their group is in the booth enjoying a pretty animated conversation about the movie. Needles to say, it was peppered with quite salty language. Then dear old dad in the adjacent booth confronts Roy and tells him to f*’n stop using f*’n bad language in front of his kids. WTF? Roy would remember more accurately what he said, but you get the idea. And keep in mind that this is past midnight. Well, kids learn best from parents, so I think worrying about them picking up bad language is pointless. Actually, I think his point was to teach kids how to be a moke. Ah well.