The Red Comet

Fanboy in spaceEnomoto is a self-described fanboy of the popular Japanese anime series “Gundam” — a futuristic cartoon where humans wage battle wearing giant robot suits. In previous interviews, Enomoto has said that with Russian approval, he would like to dress up as Char Aznable, a popular Darth Vader-like character on the show.

Japanese entrepreneur to take space ride - Space.com - MSNBC.com

CHAR IS NOT DARTH VADER, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! P.S. I wanna be Athrun Zala, I wanna :3

Yami no Yoru ni

Yesterday night I experienced my first blackout in what must have been 6-8 years and I'm still not sure if the power is up yet. It's really interesting to note the human behaviors that occur during an unusual situation such as a blackout. As a tech junkie the first thing I did was check that my laptop battery was fully functional and that the power adapter hadn't short circuited. Only after that did I think to find a light source. After a while without much light it's surprising how the glow of LCD and LEDs can be comforting and that even the smallest glow from an iPod can make the night flow a little better. I ended up draining some of my laptop battery to test the data integrity of a DVD I decided to play in the darkness which turned out fine. What a night.

Last Ditch Effort

Microsoft hails 'strategic shift'Bill Gates presenting Windows and Office LiveSoftware giant Microsoft has announced a major push into online software services, in what is seen as a move to counter rivals like Google and Yahoo.

BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft hails 'strategic shift'

Looks like Microsoft is playing one of Sony's cards and jumping on the Online bandwagon; we all remember Sony's mp3 "innovations"? This move from Microsoft, however, isn't quite too late as Microsoft can still certainly buy their way into the software hosting service. The trick is the implementation and smooth switch between installed software to hosted software. Done right and coupled with Microsoft's Palm OS, this could present another strong online competitor.

Blood Red

Rejoice oh ye pitiful soul without light, I offer you the rose among the thorns in the form of two late blossoming fall anime. First is Rozen Maiden Traument the sequel to Rozen Maiden. From the looks of the first episode everything good is back from the original especially the great Victorian music. Next is Karin, a vampire themed anime that delivers a wonderful color palette among other things. Also, make sure not to forget about Jigoku Shoujo and Mushishi which are among the scarier of all the fall horror anime. Man those Japanese children give me the freaks.

FNN 11.04.05

TGIF, I'm beat from a week of hardship, strife, and anguish (OH THE HUMANITY)! Anyway, today I'd like to show off 2 new photos on Flaga Flickr:
1. Water Lily: Photoshop of a bishoujo with a lotus flower in the background, the flower was shot in Beijing, China.
2. Starbucks: And speaking of Beijing, China did you know there was a Starbucks in the Forbidden city? No, joke and no photoshop!
That's all folks for the pretty, and on to todays headlines:
3. MIT $100 Laptop: Revealed a model of the mini-miracle for underprivilged children of third world countries.
4. RIAA 2 Years LaTeR: Don't you hate the alternating CAPS? Well not as much as some people dislike the RIAA. Read how America's coping with their anger issue two years down the line.
5. Firefox Fanfare: Mozilla high in market share of web browsers shown by BBC analysts, but still far behind Microsoft IE.
6. Sony Screw-Up: Sony's hidden rootkit installation on music CDs is seriously screwing up the company reputation especially with males 18-30, i.e. the BIGGEST marketing demographic. Can we ever trust Sony again? Let's just say the PS3 had better be gooood...

Growth

To tickle the statistician in us all, one remembers my post on July 12 2005 entitled 1000. We'll it's been just shy of 4 months since that time and the modest spreadsheet has grown to 1200+. In an analysis that is based on a 30 day month, the result is d/d(t) = +1.666... addition per day. May the future of growth fulfill my "exponential" expectations. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

FNN 11.03.2005

Yo-ssu!
1. Princess Power: The succession of the next generation of Japanese Empresses is being called into question as debates still continue.
2. Google Print: The first of the Google book scan projects are online and, well not very interesting...
3. Doki Doki School Hours: Geneon to release Sensei no Ojikan: Doki Doki School Hours starting November 8th, waku waku desu!
4. Franz Ferdinand: Great singer who's single "Do You Want To" is the ending theme for Paradise Kiss.

Paranoid on the Interwebs?

I'm finished with what I call Lord Balmung of the Azure Sky's Super Awesome Guide to Anonymity and Network Security! I'm so modest. It should really help with those pesky little things that bug you about the internet; that or drive you absolutely insane!

Permalink:
http://www.geocities.com/laflaga/BOAS_SAG_TAANS.pdf

Chotto Yasumu

Hey guys, after all the halloween fun I've been having (sarcastic tone of voice) I'm taking a little break from the blog to write a feature length article on internet network security and anonymity. But I'll leave you with an unrelated tip, Open Office Writer has the ability to export documents in PDF format with a simple click. Handy, no?

Bwahaha

It's Halloween! Okay, since it's halloween and all I thought long and hard about the scariest thing to blog about. The conclusion I came to was very simple... my inner thoughts! So sit back, and get to know a little of what goes on inside Balmung of the Azure Sky/BOAS/Bo-san.
1. You gotta love the bishies -- bishonens and bishoujos; I mean everything has it's place and I'm no bigot. So without further ado, here's a list of the boys of anime which I think are cute: Fujiwara no Sai (Hikaru no Go), Athrun Zala (Gundam Seed [Destiny]), Haku (Naruto), Syaoran (Tsubasa Chronicles), Sai (Uta Kata), Arima Souichirou (Kareshi Kanojo no Jijou // His and Her Circumstances), and Yukimura Sanada (Samurai Deeper Kyo). To make things clear, I think the Prince of Tennis should be the Princess of Tennis FYI, also Sukisyo was just wrong. I'm not going to state my opinion on Maria-sama ga Miteru.
2. Animes that vicariously fill you with the feelings with a mother are among the best out there, I'm not kidding! Here's two animes that do just that, well kinda... Full Metal Alchemist, not really warm or fuzzy but definately over-protective. AIR, all of the above from zenith joys to empty despair. Oh, and .Hack//Legend of the Twilight Bracelet the Manga!!!
3. I watched Rozen Maiden, yeah what! All you other guys out there just aren't man enough to watch other men play with dolls.
4. Animes that made me cry feminine tears: Grave of the Fireflies, Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien, Full Metal Alchemist, Galaxy Express 999, AIR, Naruto (Haku), Da Capo, Mahoromatic Moto Utsukushii Mono, Memories Off 2, Rurouni Kenshin: Tsuiokuhen, Rurouni Kenshin: Seisouhen, Tenchi in Toyko (seriously), RahXephon, and Gundam Seed Destiny. That's all in recent memory.
5. Circus and their works such as Da Capo and Shuffle have totally ruined my perception of the female anatomy. Is slightly anorexic supposed to look normal? Well it's too late now, I'm so sorry Tifa but you could stand to loose 10-30 pounds. Yufie on-the-other-hand Uhmph.
6. I really am an equal opportunity hater in terms of OS (fan boys say what you may), Microsoft/XP sucks, Mac OS are for pricks, Unix is boring, and Linux is not friendly to end users. In short, none of them do everything I'd like; that's why I have two of the three, guess which one I don't have.
7. I was once asked by a girl to cosplay as Sakura to her Syaoran from Tsubasa Chronicles - I was flattered.
8. I can sing Shizukana Yoru Ni in its' entirety and often do so. TO THE TRUE SONGTRESS BONZAI!!!! I heart Lacus Clyne (that's the only time I'll use that particular vernacular).

Congradulations, Congradulations, Congradulations!

On your special day, you know who you are; congradulations old man.

Jikan ga Nai Desu!

Where has all my time gone? Anime, yeah that was a rhetorical question, but I was once asked "What takes up most of your time?", and I responded with some utter nonsense. After a while I thought about that question and the answer was clear "I'm lazy, so mostly I just watch a lot of anime". Anyway, this post isn't supposed to be a rant... Memento, it's a cool anime blog (in fact much better than this one) check it out. And fresh from the BBC news desk it seems that modern teenagers have much better spelling and grammer than their counterparts of yesteryear. Kewl mAn, us tottally rok! Oh, and on a side note patience is a virtue; anyone who waits for bleach once in a blue moon can tell you that! OH MY GOD, in his heaven; all's right with the world.

Apple, EVA, and more of the Flock

Inspiration, it's something that's seldom used well; and appifinies my friend, those are even rarer. Fear not for I have been struck with Shuffle! and the madness of Apple advertising. On a related note, I thought Apple had some gall with their Rosa Parks advertisement tribute or whatever.
Aside from all that Mac mischief, the 10th anniversary NGE OST was released recently entitled NGE: Decade. It's pretty good, I mean for a remix CD.
I've finally gotten around to trying out the pre-developer release of the Flock browser (I've been soo busy!) and I can say that it's pretty good. The blogging function is interesting and may actually make this business a whole lot easier. I'm not too sure about the bookmarks yet, and it's a pain that most of the Firefox extensions don't work with it. One extension that works is AdBlock but even that has issue with iFrames but handles website spam images beautifully. Look forward to a more complete review after a few days or weeks. For now I'd recommend anyone who isn't a total tech junkie to wait for at least the Beta release of Flock. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool browser but not close to finished.

FNN 10.28.05

Flock: Okay, it's been in alpha/beta or whatever release for a while now; but that doesn't mean everybody knows about it. So give flock a try if you'd like another web browser.
.Hack//GU Manga: it's going to become a reality, another item for my .Hack library I'm so excited.

FNN 10.27.05

Yasashiiburi da ne? Ma kimishiruna, daijobu desu.
1. Live Action Fireflies: NTV is adapting Miyazaki's Grave of the Fireflies into a live action movie. Grave of the Fireflies happens to be my favorite Miyazaki film, and I hope they don't screw it up for me again...
2. Obesity Office: It seems, at least according to that guy, that Open Office 2.o is a memory hog compared to Microsoft's office suit applications. Due to their bulky memory fingerprint the Open Office apps also suffer from performace lethargy. This has been a warning from your FCC Obesity advisor.
3. Google Meet Your Microsoft: In a recent interview, Bill Gates openly proclaimed Microsoft's ambitions to compete and beat the likes of Google, Apple, and Sony. What with you ask, idk maybe fairy dust happy thoughts?

Kyaa! Tessa?

I just finished watching FMPTSR over the weekend and it mostly lived up to my expectations. In other words I liked it a lot, but probably my most favorite part was at the end in Tessa's reaction to Sousuke's "Crude Words". Hear it for yourself here.

Motto motto!

More anime for u's, 1. Mushishi, weird fantasy creature world. 2. Solty Rei, robots and bounty hunters with the art style of Witch Hunter Robin; except brighter I guess.

(sigh...)...(X0

27 more Naruto fillers until Spring 2006, at this rate Cartoon Network will catch up.

Another Fall Flavor

Hear about someone else's choices for fall anime viewing at ANN. These guys are okay in my book. Of their picks, I personally like Paradise Kiss, Jigoku Shoujo, ARIA the Animation, and Ginban Kaleidoscope, as you all know and fear!

4K Happiness!

4K B**ches! Uh, ooh I am gooooooddddddd.... Mwahahahaaha