Funimation has announced that there will be an uncut Shaman King release. I guess they are working with 4Kids on this. It will be a dub and sub release. Yay! I was so worried that we’d only get a saturday morning cartoon-ized version of this. Thank you Funimation!

Do you really need to release some discs with the damn security warning stickers on every frickin edge of the case? It’s really a pain. Please stop. Thank you.

Seen on a LiveJournal I read, the Pink Lady and Jeff DVD Boxed set. Aie!

One of the projects I’ve been working on lately is scanning in all the old pictures my parents have collected over the years from various relatives. My grandparents in particular had a lot of old photos. While scanning pictures in this morning I came across a number of them that seemed to be of a flood. I noticed two of them had the processing date on the back of the photo and decided to do a little research. I googled for ‘Hartford Flood 1936‘ and actually came up with a fair number of hits. From one page:

On March 12, 1936, rain began falling across Connecticut. The state had already been covered with a blanket of six to eight inches of snow. Rains poured down for the next nine days and dropped up to fourteen inches on already saturated and frozen land. These incredible forces of nature unleashed on Connecticut the greatest floods in its history to that date. The Connecticut and Farmington Rivers and all of their tributaries became raging torrents. Ice flows added to the destruction. Water and ice tore out bridges, highways, roads, and railways. The dam at New Hartford burst, and homes and buildings were washed away or destroyed. Fourteen thousand people were left homeless, several were dead or missing, and epidemic disease threatened the population. The National Guard was called to action as the ravaging floods paralyzed business, traffic, communication, and home life, as the cities and towns along the rivers became the principal centers of destruction.

I think the thing I’m boggling at the most is how easy it was to dig up all this information. A few words into a search engine and I was greeted with gobs of information about this event. I still find it amazing, even after being online so long.

This is pretty fun. Design your own cereal box!

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I seem to have had comments and trackbacks turned off for the last day or so. Oops.

Gainax has announced a life sized, poseable Hikari doll from Konomini. I’m not sure what frightens me more. The idea that things like this exist, or that there are people out there who are probably anxious to own them. The dolls are made by Paper Moon, who offer a number of other dolls (including Sakura and Ryoko). Words cannot begin to describe how wrong I find this. What’s next? Real Anime Doll?

Johann von Neumann: “In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.” [Quotes of the Day]

Jack Benny: “I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.” [Quotes of the Day]

I really dig my iSight, but sometimes having it clipped to the back of my laptop feels a little limiting. Someone’s come out with a little stand to give your iSight much more mobility. I want one I think. There’s also one that just plugs into your firewire port, but I don’t like that quite as much.