Posted by Asian Ed on February 6, 2010
Since I only talked about Yoko last week, I figured I’d give the new Figma arrivals some time in the spotlight.
The latest addition to the family include the Summer uniform versions of Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki. They’d arrived from AmiAmi, “The biggest internet FIGURE shop in Japan.”
Posted in Figures | Tagged: amiami, figma, kagami, loot, miyuki, tsukasa, yoko | Leave a Comment »
Posted by Asian Ed on February 6, 2010
For the most part, spam comments on my blog are uninteresting or just plain gibberish. Most aren’t worth anything more than just emptying out the folder and moving on. Every once in awhile though, something comes along and just makes me laugh…
Oh jesus you’ll not belief this. Our stupid puppy actually farted on my ankle!? I mean what’s the matter with this!? I nourish this thing and I end up with that in exchange. I even now can not really belief that. Anyway, you have several useful facts there in your posting. I knew Yahoo are going to take me to a few fascinating stuff today
. Alright should search for that pet now! Have a good evening you all!
It’s still a bunch of gibberish, but it’s funny gibberish. Kinda like that picture of spam musubi. Makes me want to go to Hawaii…
Posted in Computers and Internet | Tagged: funny, spam | 1 Comment »
Posted by Asian Ed on January 30, 2010
After seeing Radiant’s write up on his collection, I felt inspired to do something I’d been putting off for a little while. It’d been awhile since I actually took stock of what was in my collection and collected it all in one place (read: never). For the most part, my figures are organized by series, character, and type. There are a couple shelves that I can only label as “miscellaneous” since they have figures that don’t really fit in with any others.
Posted in Dollfie, Figures | Tagged: aria, belldandy, dollfie dream, fate, figma, Figures, freeing, haruhi, holo, kasumi, kokoro, kotobukiya, lucky star, max factory, narusegawa, saber, shana, tohsaka rin, yoko | 7 Comments »
Posted by Asian Ed on January 30, 2010
Yes, I know, it’s almost February, so isn’t it too late to do a loot post for January? Nonsense! all of the new toys featured here arrived after the new year (despite shipping in December).
I got two packages in earlier on, one from HLJ and one from AmiAmi. It was my first order from the latter, so was curious to check out their service level. So without further ado, let’s get to the goodies!
Posted in Figures | Tagged: figma, Figures, max factory, photography, photoshoot, yoko | 4 Comments »
Posted by Asian Ed on January 17, 2010
After a recent conversation with a certain Austrian Otaku about Home Theater stuffs, I decided it was about time to do an update of what I’m using at home. Since my last overview, I’ve made a couple changes and upgrades through the house. Some have already been talked about (like the TV upgrade) but others haven’t. Here we go…
The biggest change of late has been that I’ve finally retired Belldandy from service. After nearly 7 years of duties ranging from gaming machine to media PC to home server, it was time for her to be sent to greener pastures. The day I parted with her was pretty emotional, though I know someone will put her to good use.
In her place, I welcome Tsukasa into my home network as the bedroom HTPC. Sporting the same case used by Konata, her beginnings were conceived when I bought an Athlon x2 7750BE from someone at the office for $20.
After pairing the CPU with a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H motherboard, 2GB of RAM, and a Lite-on Blu-ray reader, she was ready to go into service serving up movies, music, and high definition content.
Posted in Computers and Internet, Hardware | Tagged: computers, media center, windows home server | 4 Comments »
Posted by Asian Ed on January 10, 2010
As I mentioned in my previous update, I was planning on taking Rin to today’s ball jointed doll panel at Ichibancon. I had some reservations about packing up such an expensive (and irreplaceable) item and taking it into public, but eventually I caved and came up with a strategy. Since the con was pretty small, I felt more at ease carrying her in for the panel and doing a little browsing afterwards.
I’m pretty happy I decided to bring her, as I got to meet other folks in the area that were collectors. It also gave me a chance to see what other folks do with their dolls. They’ve put a lot of work into the hobby!
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Posted by Asian Ed on January 10, 2010
I’d gotten word about a month ago that a new anime convention was coming to town. Billed as “the Carolinas’ first anime con of the new year,” it promised to be three days worth of exciting anime goodness. Since it was only a short drive from where I live, I decided to give it a visit. The organizers have dubbed this new foray into the American convention scene Ichibancon (www.ichibancon.com). It was held at the Great Wolf Lodge and Resort in Concord, NC, just a couple minutes north of central Charlotte.
Given that this was a startup, I didn’t set my expectations very high. The venue itself wasn’t extremely large, so space and attendance would be limited. With that in mind, I set off last night after work to sample the offerings.
Posted in Anime, Figures | Tagged: conventions, holo, ichibancon, loot | 1 Comment »
Posted by Asian Ed on December 25, 2009
Merry Christmas from Charlotte, North Carolina! Sadly, no snow here today, only rain. As with last year, some coworkers and I went to the Daniel Stowe Botanical garden to see the holiday light displays. I keep saying that I’ll bring a tripod or something with me to steady the camera, but alas, I forgot. It’s a step forward from last year, however, when I forgot the camera all together…. >.<
Posted in Life in general | Tagged: daniel stowe, garden, holiday lights, photography | 3 Comments »
Posted by Asian Ed on December 20, 2009
The past few months have been pretty eventful, though nothing in terms of figure acquisitions. I am, however, expecting a couple things in the near future, including a set of Summer Uniform Lucky Star Figma (Kagami, Tsukasa, and Miyuki), Yoko Real Image ver., and a bunch of BDs and DVDs from RightStuf’s 12+ Days of Christmas sale.
Black Friday also came and went, and while I didn’t actually go out, I did score a couple interesting items. The first of which came in the week before Thanksgiving…
Yes, that is a brand new DLP television in my living room. Just how big is it and how much did I pay? Keep reading…
Posted in Hardware, Life in general | Tagged: figma, ikea, media center, windows home server | 12 Comments »
Posted by Asian Ed on November 9, 2009
Yep, for your amusement, I had a conversation with my cat this morning. I think she was hungry.
…moving on…
I got home from work today and found a nice big box from RightStuf.com. I was expecting something from them today, but I didn’t expect something quite so large. When I picked it up, however, it weighed almost nothing. That pretty much ruled out anything like DVDs or manga, which meant that it could only by the ARIA lithograph that I ordered. Either that or it was a big empty box…
Ever since I saw the shipping notification, I was a bit puzzled. From the description on the item page, I really shouldn’t have this in hand yet…
Date Available – Dec 8 2009
Poster
Media – Poster or Wallscroll
Product Availability – Pre-Order, Not Yet Shipping
Posted in Anime, Neko Mimi Mode | Tagged: aria, art print, loot, neko, Neko Mimi Mode | 5 Comments »
