April 14, 2010

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I used the camera quite a lot today.

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My shipment from RACS arrived today and it included the Kurumu figurine. I promised a size comparison between that 1:8 figure and the 1:4 Haruhi.

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Haruhi goes up on the shelf, and Kurumu has a home on top of Deneb.

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Hash brown potatoes are God's food. When I moved to Massachusetts, there were two foods I missed intensely, and hash browns were one of them. No one there makes them. They do something called "home fries" instead, which are a pale, poor substitute. While I was living there, whenever I made a business trip back to the west coast, I always had hash browns for breakfast if at all possible.

But I never tried making my own at home until today. They're not as difficult as I figured they'd be. I did use too much oil, however, so they were a bit greasy. Next time I think I'll use butter instead of peanut oil, and less of it.

(The other food I missed? Tillamook cheddar cheese. People back east who think that Vermont cheddar is the last word on the subject don't know what they're missing.)

Back when Strike Witches was first airing, I wrote a post in which the theme was "Embrace the stupid".

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It looks like Funimation sure has done so. Or perhaps they're  just trying to sell the fact that it's a fan-service show. (But why, oh why, is it always Lucchini that they choose for the most egregious spread-leg shots? Yikes!)

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There's a famous chart about the show that appeared on 4-chan and some other places which catalogued each character in the show. They reproduced it on the inside of the DVD case art, up to and including a picture of each girl's panties.

They actually divided it in two, half for each DVD case. I saw one rather egregious problem: Yeager's weapon is stated as being "M1918 Browny Automatic Rifle". John Moses Browning must be rolling over in his grave.

Or perhaps not; the show did less violence to his legacy than it did to that of Chuck Yeager, or Gerhard Barkhorn, or... (Yeager is still alive, and I bet he's sick of hearing about this show.)

UPDATE: There were a couple of other things on that chart I really didn't care for. Yeager's country is given as "United States of Liberion". It's supposed to be Rebellion. But all the printed material coming out of Japan makes it "Liberion" even though that word doesn't mean anything, so Funimation was stuck with it.

They give Sanya's weapon as "Fliegerhummer". I dunno where they got that name. And why would a Russian be using a weapon with a German name? (Eila uses a German MG42 and Perrine uses a British Bren gun, but that's historically defensible.)

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1 Mmmm, hashbrowns....


Why fry them in butter when you can do them in bacon grease?

Particularly since, to get the grease, you end up with, you know, bacon?

I have also successfully hash-browned sweet potatoes, but you have to like sweet potatoes in the first place.

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"Winning the war...ON PANTS!"

That, alone, is nearly enough to get me to buy the set. At least download a few eps from Funimations $2/episode program.

Posted by: refugee at April 14, 2010 05:42 PM (auErC)

2 I saw one rather egregious problem: Yeager's weapon is stated as being "M1918 Browny Automatic Rifle".

I wonder if the fact that Browning is the only company mentioned that's still actually in existence has anything to do with it?  Copyright issues and all that...

Posted by: Wonderduck at April 14, 2010 06:01 PM (mfPs/)

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Why fry them in butter when you can do them in bacon grease?

Because I don't have any bacon grease. I bought some bacon once a couple of years ago, and ended up killing my previous microwave oven trying to cook bacon in it. Frying bacon in a pan makes a mess; the grease goes all over the place.

And the meme notwithstanding, I like the taste of bacon but not enough to put up with all that. Butter, on the other hand, I keep and use for my breakfast scrambled eggs, so it would also be available for an afternoon snack of hash browns.

(And please, no more advice.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 14, 2010 06:02 PM (+rSRq)

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Copyright wouldn't have anything to do with it. And it wouldn't be a violation of trademark.

I suppose Funimation might be concerned about libel, but I doubt it. (Also, I didn't think Browning ever had his own company. The BAR was originally manufactured by Winchester.)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 14, 2010 06:30 PM (+rSRq)

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at April 14, 2010 06:39 PM (+rSRq)

6 Ouch! Talk about lowering the BAR...

I'll have to poke my friends at Funi about this. They have hoplophilic friends who were not consulted. ;p

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at April 14, 2010 06:46 PM (pWQz4)

7 Here in Pennsylvania you can get hash browns or home fries; just depends on the restaurant.  And some serve both.  The problem is hardly anybody makes them the right way.  And even though I always specifically ask for them to be made extra crispy, and the waitress always says that's no problem, they never actually honor the request.

Posted by: AnthonyDiSante at April 14, 2010 07:35 PM (xJ4r5)

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