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It's been one year since I put up this blog! Here are the tallies from my inaugural year, courtesy of Google Analytics:6,5001 Visits5,630 Absolute Unique Visitors10,824 Pageviews1.67 Average PageviewsPretty cool. This has been just a hobby for me,...

This week's owl comic literally took me 12 minutes to put together.

Been really busy this week, but I managed to slap these things together. I don't know what I would use them for though ... other than street fighting ...

A small sample of what I bought last winter...If you guys buy dvds like I do, then chances are you might have run into the same problem: whether or not to upgrade your favorites to the blu-ray format. I've already replaced most of my favorites (Matr...

Indigo Prophecy (PC 2005)Indigo Prophecy is the last gen predecessor of PS3 title Heavy Rain, developed by the same studio, Quantic Dreams. It's pretty fun and short once you figure out how things work.I'm not going to say too much about this game,...

I don't know if this xbox faceplate counts as breaking my New Year's resolution, since it falls under the "I really want it category", however it really slaps down the principle of common sense. Mine to be had for 49.99$ @ some online retailers, it...

My dearest olympic dream.

My friend asked me why I didn't get into Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. It's not that I haven't played it at all; I did ... for about 30 mins on my XBOX360. I told him it sucked, but he I guess he wanted more specific reasons, enough to suggest tha...

Andrew Lloyd Webber has spent the last decade creating a sequel to his version of the Phantom, and it's finally debuted in London. I found out about this by chance while flipping through radio stations. I don't follow Broadway type productions at al...

As you may recall, the original source was worthy of a post on this blog many moons ago.This one's gonna retail at 7800 yen, meaning somewhere around the ~90-100 range in dollars after shipping. I've been skipping on Mio figures, but this might just...

Glad I'm not in school anymore.

Every time elections are brought up.

The Cardsharps (~1594) by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.The topic loosely came up at work yesterday: when you see an injustice, do you call it out at risk to yourself or do you consign yourself to it?

I've always wanted to play the Max Payne series but never found the right time. Well, one Steam holiday sale later, I finally got to play them, 9 years later. This isn't gonna be pretty. Double reviews after the jump:  Max Payne (PC 2001):The orig...

For me, the holiday season doesn't end until Chinese New Years ends. Then you get into that long stretch of days and weeks before Easter where crazy crap doesn't seem to end ...

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Casper David Friedrich A man won't get anywhere in life until he's willing to overcome uncertainty. That cane is already pretty manly, btw.What do you guys think?

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Blame the guy at temetherian.com if you don't find this funny ...

The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (PC 2009)It's been ages since I've played a "point and click" adventure game, but Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition managed to kick start my interest in the genre again. If you're even remotely inte...

Anime Winter 2009 WrapupA little bit late, but these were the shows I watched last season: let's see how these did (versus my prediction 3 months ago).Hits:Kimi ni Todoke (Right: still the best show of last season.)A Certain Scientific Railgun (Neutr...

Anyone play any good RPGs lately?

Kenholic Top 20 Anime of the Past Decade FootnotesIn case you missed it, part one (11-20) here and part two (1-10) here.So these guys are somewhere in my next tier, ranging from 20-50, but without too much thought, I can't really place them exactly....

Baka to Test to Shokanju (Q1 2010)A rapid paced comedy/high school life/battle anime? Count me in. Students can summon avatars with attack/health points equal to their skills in a given subject. It's surprisingly good, actually, since the battle s...

Yes! Friday Adventure of Owl Comics are back!Everyone has something they want to show off now and then.