Wait, what do you mean it wouldn’t be finished until 2011?! Well, fine, buy it for my birthday THAT year. Or Christmas. I’m not picky!

According to an over-a-week-old (zomg missed it!) Wired article, Future Robotics Technology Center director Takayuki Furuta fears that kids aren’t interested in robots anymore. (On what planet, exactly?)

So what does he decide to do? Build a Gundam, of course! At first he developed plans for a a 60-foot-tall version, but decided to scale it down to 13 for financial reasons, the wuss.

I don’t bother with a punchline, because Wired’s already got the best one:

He aims to have it working by 2011, when, ideally, someone will have created something for it to fight.

The Press-Enterprise has word of a group of Riverside, CA teens who are putting together a show they’re calling “Ramen Revolution,” an otaku special featuring LA-based band Thee Out Mods, Para Para dancing, humorous skits, and even human-interest stories relating to local fans.

Sounds pretty awesome, but it looks like it’ll only be on local LA television. Maybe we’ll get lucky and they’ll put it up on their website!

Current Mood:  Dadada

Why is this show so awesome? I know many people find it irritating, but I’m constantly surprised by how fun it is - the writers really know their audience. Yes, it’s really just a constant stream of inside jokes…but so are many Kevin Smith flicks and they’re still awesome.

In other news: my brand-new shiny laptop showed up TWO WEEKS EARLY, e.g. yesterday. I didn’t want to share her until I got stickers for her all printed and stuff. (I got into the habit of putting stickers all over my laptops. Don’t ask me how, I don’t know.) In the above picture, the computer on the left is Sumomo, my old Dell Inspiron 1100 which did me pretty well for four years. On the right, I introduce: Yuki. Bigger pic after the jump if you want to see what exactly those stickers are. Read the rest of this entry »

Current Mood:  Determined

It may surprise some of you that on top of the other dozen or so hobbies I dabble in, I knit. I’m not particularly skilled (e.g. I can’t do lots of fancy stuff), but damn if I can’t make a decent scarf at least.Sooooo I have decided to work myself out a muffler like the one Yoko wears in Gurren Lagann. Yes, it’s a muffler, not a scarf - note that you never actually see the ends of it. As far as I can tell it’s actually just a little tube. Unfortunately I can’t knit it as a regular tube if I want to make the stripes look right, so instead I’m knitting it like a regular scarf and then I’ll either sew it up in the back or maybe just find a way to clip it in the back. I’m not really sure yet.

But now, if I can just get a hair clip and sunglasses like hers, I could wander around AX with them without really needing to cosplay. ♥