“Do innovation management on technology enablers” is one of the most unintentionally hilarious phrases I have ever heard someone seriously utter.
That is all.
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Yep, it’s that time again. Behold yet another DVD cover image. Because I’m much to lazy to figure out how to make screencaps, much less actually take the screencaps. And I’d probably finally have to install DVD player software on this computer. What do you think I’m made of, free time?
…all right. So I do write and anime blog and write fanfiction. So by definition I do have too much free time.
Anyway, on with the cover image, the cut, and then… an unordered list of my thoughts!
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Most webcomics, by my wholly unscientific survey, are fairly open-ended. They may have some over-arching plot, and possibly even an idea for an ending in mind, but most of them seem to be designed to run on and on, until audience and/or authorial interest runs out.
One webcomic I’ve been following, A Miracle of Science by Jon Kilgannon and Mark Sachs, is not such a webcomic. They set out to tell a single story, they did it well, and now it’s over. And there’s one less webcomic for me to read. (Fortunately, Jon and Mark are planning a new comic.)
If you haven’t read A Miracle of Science, I recommend it. It’s a nice sci-fi story. The authors call it “a romantic comedy revolving around an unlikely pair of police officers and an even more unlikely criminal, set in [a] world of Science Gone Mad.” I could give you a big long essay about why it’s awesome, but I’m lazy so instead I’ll just quote the line of dialogue that sold me on the comic:
“When you’re a recovering mad scientist, you’re always afraid you’ll lose control and wake up some morning with a half-built time machine in the living room and a plan to go back in time to pants Hitler.”
If that intrigues you, go ahead and start at the beginning…
I’ve mentioned before that I thought that I complained too much on this blog. I’ve decided to try to do something about that, so hence this series of posts, in which I strive to be completely positive, preferably about something that I think isn’t getting enough attention.
The first up is a manga that’s already up to six volumes released in America, Claymore.
Shikamaru of Leafninja, I salute you:
Episode 220 has aired in Japan, this marks the last Naruto episode. Yes, I know it’s sad. This is the last Naruto episode ever, it was a good run, the last two years have been beyond awesome. How can you forget the time Naruto peed on Ino or that time Akamaru went rabid and humped Naruto’s butt? So many awesome moments where Studio Pierrot took the series to the next level. Characters like Raiga and the multiple Houki’s, all fully-fleshed out characters with great emotional subtext and motivation. Who can forget the times Naruto took on powerful enemies and chose to attack them with kunai rather than Rasengan, or that time he chose to use Rasengan when his boat lacked a motor? Who can forget all those new exotic lands, like the Bear Country, with it’s power hungry Hoshikage or the Vegetable and Bird Countries, with their cross-dressing female leaders? Who can forget those evil groups full of powerful ninja, like Shinobazu, the Fuuma trio, the Kamizuru, the Criminal Brothers, the Shitenshounin and all those wandering ninja. Such a good run. We salute you Tiger Mizuki, may your orange fur never fade and may you cereal always be GRREEAAT!
Gah. It’s hard to believe just how many filler episodes Naruto has had.
The pedant in me is irritated that this is under the “Anime” category, but the sane part of me knows that having separate “Anime” and “Manga” categories would be silly.
This post is a sequel to my previous post of why I didn’t like chapter 340, though in patent-pending bulleted list “Thoughts On” format. As with that post, all real content is after the cut due to ZOMGSPOILERS.
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Probably not of much interest, but I felt like gloating over finally getting a scene I’d been struggling with together. I knew what had to happen, but making it happen without having any characters act stupidly was tough. I knew it was possible, but finding just the right chain of events and reactions to get me exactly where I needed to go took longer than I’d like.
I’m still not totally happy with all the fighting – tiny, inconclusive bits of fighting seem to be harder for me to write than full-fledged fight scenes – or with the scene I was complaining about before, but it feels good to have another scene with at least a first draft done.
Then I look at the 18 remaining scenes (not counting the not-yet-outlined epilogue) and I feel a bit less good, but such is the life, as the French would say.
Only they’d say it in a silly French accent. While eating a croissant. A snail sandwich on a croissant. And then they’d surrender.
We here at Small Eyes, Big Mouth are on the very cutting edge of humor.
So tonight my friend and I dug out the second Stratos 4 DVD:
As with the previous DVD, an unordered collection of my random thoughts, though this time written shortly after watching instead of weeks later.
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It seems like most of my posts here are about why I didn’t like something. I suppose it says something unflattering about me, but I find I have much more to say about things I didn’t like than things I enjoyed.
Ah well, enough introspection. Rant after the cut, consider yourself spoiler-warned if you haven’t been following the Naruto manga.
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