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November 29, 2011
Some random stuff
A reader just informed me that this year's SaiMoe winner is Railgun, Misaka Mikoto Onee-sama.
I just noticed a couple of days ago that Railgun's Saten-san has the same seiyuu as AsoIku's Eris -- and I sure didn't suspect. The voices don't sound at all alike to me.
Anyone interested in Russian guns? James says they're a bargain. And they aren't necessarily garbage, either.
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I thought that now that I live in America, I want something American. But I have an M-59 Mosin, that I got for $50. It's a cut-down on a 1942 war-time action, so it has no collector's value.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at November 29, 2011 10:14 AM (G2mwb)
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Just got my own Mosin-Nagant. Still haven't had the chance to go try it out, though. Cleaned a small lake of Cosmoline out of it over Thanksgiving. Hopefully I'll get a chance to take it out this weekend. Dad filled up the ammo panniers...
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at November 29, 2011 11:38 AM (GJQTS)
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I have all accessories: sling with dog collars, oiler, cleaning kit, ammo poaches. No bayonet.
You know what James neglected to include? IZh shotguns. Their O-U models were quite on the level of workmanship even internationally. I think those were one of the few things Soviets could export without enormous discounts.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at November 29, 2011 12:15 PM (wr9de)
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This might be a stupid question. . . but is Misaka *really* "moe"?
Posted by: metaphysician at November 29, 2011 12:58 PM (3GCAl)
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I don't think so. But it really depends on what you mean by it, and I think it's transformed from its original meaning to instead be "cute and popular".
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 29, 2011 01:00 PM (+rSRq)
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Pete and Avatar, you should be leaving those comments on his post, not on mine.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 29, 2011 01:02 PM (+rSRq)
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I shouldn't have left the comments open on this post. Closed now.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 29, 2011 01:02 PM (+rSRq)
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November 28, 2011
October 31, 2011
Figurine site
There's a site I've been following where the owner buys a figurine and then does a pretty comprehensive photo shoot of it. Unfortunately, he hasn't posted any new ones since last June, and I suspect he's given up.
There was another such site I knew about a few years ago but lost, which had a far more comprehensive collection of photos. And just this evening, while digging through some old files, I found it again!
They have so many photo shoots that they've divided them up into five different index pages: one two three four five
Some of them are NSFW. So beware.
They're divided by series, and you probably won't be surprised to learn that the single biggest group is from Evangelion.
Fate/TYPE-MOON is the second biggest and Ikki Tousen looks to be third. The Queen's Blade section is pretty big, too. But there are a lot of series which got figurines which I never knew about (the figurines) and some where I wonder what they were thinking.
For instance: why (oh why) would anyone want figurines of the girls from Higurashi?
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That was pretty......interesting. There were some really gorgeous ones but, geez! must everything be in a bikini?
Posted by: Jaked at October 31, 2011 10:48 PM (rsbGf)
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Higurashi was pretty popular a few years ago. Didn't stick, but for a while it was the mind-screw du jour.
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...must everything be in a bikini?
No. Some of them are out of their bikinis.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at October 31, 2011 11:03 PM (+rSRq)
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Great find, though. Not quite as nice as foobarbaz was, but awesome variety.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at October 31, 2011 11:08 PM (GJQTS)
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What gets me was the
School Days figs. WTH??
Posted by: atomic_fungus at November 01, 2011 01:56 PM (mhelx)
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Higurashi is getting a new series this season. As to why figurines of the girls, probably because they're really cute.
Posted by: muon at November 01, 2011 11:27 PM (JXm2R)
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That site... posted pics of a gashapon-size Desco.
Yay!
If only I could read the text to find out if it's a one-off hand-crafted job or something you can buy...
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While I was in Melbourne the weekend before last I found a store selling Strike Witches plushies, and I thought of you.
Didn't buy any, but I picked up a Lina Inverse keychain and a Yoko (from Gurren Lagann) cell phone charm.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 02, 2011 08:59 AM (PiXy!)
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I think I've seen pictures of those. They were unreasonably cute.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 02, 2011 04:30 PM (+rSRq)
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October 19, 2011
September 15, 2011
This image enchants me
APOD shows us a galaxy with a cloud of loose stars around it.
And when I look at it, I imagine what it would be like if one of those stars in the cloud above the galactic disk had an inhabited planet. That amazing spiral galaxy would fill the entire sky some nights. What would people on that planet think? Would they worship it? What would they name it?
(How did we English speakers end up with such an unromantic name for our own galaxy? "The Milky Way"? You must be kidding me. That was the best we could come up with?)
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The Greek creation myth for the Milky Way had Hercules tricking Hera into offering him her breast, and her spilled milk formed it. That's probably the reason for the name.
Posted by: muon at September 16, 2011 04:38 AM (JXm2R)
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August 27, 2011
Direct hit
Brickmuppet says that there was "a break in the storm about an hour ago"... which means he took a direct hit by the eye.
He also says that they are forecasting 16-21 inches of rain. I can't even imagine anything like that. But I believe it. The storm is sitting right on the coast, sucking water out of the Gulf Stream and delivering it like a conveyer belt onto Virginia. (And everything else.)
When I was living in Massachusetts, one time we had 6 inches of rain in one day, and there was ridiculous flooding all over the place. I was living in Arlington Heights, which is in a valley. The stream that owns that valley is tiny and usually runs about as much water as the creek in my back yard. But after that rain storm, it went out of its banks and started running down Mass Ave. Which was pretty exciting.
Even so, that's a mere moistening compared to what Brickmuppet is going through. The flooding is going to be terrible.
UPDATE: By the way, this video is amazing to watch.
UPDATE: I was wrong. It wasn't the eye.
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Imagine the sky falling. And falling, and falling and falling. During Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, I was in the "epicenter" of three giant meso-cyclones, essentially eddies in the wind currents, that it spun off. These parked themselves over the east and north sides of the city, and did not move for over 24 hours.
We had 36 inches of rain in those 24 hours, 24 of it in the first 12. No wind though. It just came straight down, so hard and fast that it literally could not run off fast enough. The bad part was no one expected it -- even NOAA had stopped making forecasts hours before it hit because it wasn't even a tropical storm anymore--it was a tropical
depression.
I was trapped in my house for two days; Dr. Heinous had to slog home through hip deep water to get home after being trapped all night at a bar.
Posted by: ubu at August 28, 2011 09:33 AM (GfCSm)
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That was some pretty impressive flooding. It got up onto our lawn before it peaked; our house was a little south of the San Jacinto, which ordinarily never ever ever ever floods. Neighbors down the street had feet of water in their houses. Some of the people in the subdivision had two stories underwater...
Took days to get the city back up and running, not so much because it all flooded (it didn't) but because the drains were so full that the bits that were flooded just didn't drain off. Most of the freeways were rivers. My brother went out to see one and got hit with a fire ant clump. (Moral, don't walk in flood water in the South!)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at August 28, 2011 10:53 AM (j42B4)
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There are worse places to be trapped. (Than a bar.)
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at August 28, 2011 01:32 PM (+rSRq)
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Once they run out of booze, morale starts dropping rapidly.
Posted by: Boviate at August 28, 2011 05:59 PM (RPpft)
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