This is a couple of months old but the CGI animation is first rate. You can see it in HD on the Vimeo web site.
Year: 2008 (page 5 of 22)
I’ve picked up watching Gundam 00 Season 2 and the going is slow. I know it’s only the third episode but it’s really reminding me of Zeta Gundam. That’s probably an overreaction but if a Camille Biden clone shows up then I’m walking away from the series.
The other show I’m starting is Ga Rei Zero. It’s a horror show based on a manga. The basic story is that evil spirits are violently attacking people. These spirits can only be seen using special equipment or you need to be born with the natural ability.
People with this ability fight using weapons that have been “blessed”. The action is good and the animation is very well done. One on the people introduced rides a motorcycle and uses the wheels to attack “Category C” spirits.
It’s a horror anime alright. The entire team that is introduced to the viewer is massacred in the last 5 minutes of the first episode. That was an odd twist and I expected some of them to be revived in the second episode. That did not happen and I’m interested enough to see how the show plays out.
One of the things that I did not like about Joost was it needed a client to work. On my PCs that client frequently crashed so I uninstalled it and did not bother to try it much.
Now they’ve converted to a Flash based web page. I’ve just watched some of my favorite scenes from The Professional and a CSI episode. So far there is a brief ad before the show but it’s not intrusive. It went from a kludgy client to a simple web based service.
I don’t think I’ll watch whole movies on Joost but it just got added to my list of fun time wasters.
WordPress blogs are based on MySQL and all the dynamic content is stored in a database. After trying out plugins, odd themes, and generally screwing around, my database has items in it that I can’t even recall what they were or if I need them.
One way to clean out the database is to export the blog to an XML file. This will produce the posts, pages, and all the comments and not export the ton of junk in the database. This way I create a clean empty blog, add the users, set up the theme and look I want and import the data.
This produces a very clean installation. It also removes me as the author for the comments I’ve left on my own blog. The table wp_comments table has a user_id field that the XML file does not have.
What I wanted to do is run a MySQL command that will find all instances in wp_comments which match my e-mail address, and update that record with my user_id on the blog. I could do this one at a time using phpMyAdmin but that’s pretty inefficient, not geeky, and time consuming.
After some research I found out to run these commands:
$ mysql -p USE blogdatabase; Database changed SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_email = 'notreally@myemail.com';
That gets me the ID number for my user. Since it’s the first user created the ID is 2.
UPDATE wp_comments SET user_id = 2 WHERE comment_author_email = 'notreally@myemail.com'; Query OK, 113 rows affected (0.00 sec) Rows matched: 113 Changed: 113 Warnings: 0
This updates the wp_comments table so comments left by me using my e-mail address.
The report is in and apparently Governor Palin (or her husband, I can’t tell which) has abused her position. And it does not matter one bit. The folks who will vote for McCain only care about ethics, rules, and laws when it applies to Those Darned Socialist Democrats.
If anything this will solidify the base of voters who will claim that Governor Palin is the target of a political hit job. Any conservative who writes about Palin in anyway negative will simply get targeted as a not-country-first turncoat. That’s what Joe Six Pack says, anyway.
John McCain does show some signs of realizing what he’s doing, but he apparently still wants to get elected at any cost. I still believe that he’s not really this scare mongering talking head (I liked McCain in 1999). But this is his last chance and I think in the next 2 weeks we’ll see the McCain campaign full out the stops.
The second season of Gundam 00 has begun. No huge surprises yet but this season seems to be imitating Zeta Gundam more and more. I’m pretty sure we’ve just met the group that will be this series Titans.
I wonder how long it will be before Bandai produces a Master Grade 1/100 scale version of the Exia? The Exia looks like this episode is it, so that ought to make it a good candidate.
60 foot tall fighting robots. The kids and I will have fun watching this one.
Those 17 not-enemy-combatants that Pakistan handed to the U.S.? An emergency motion blocking their release was granted to the administration.
That’s not surprising; I expected that the administration would not have bothered with a court order. I mean, they could have just refused to comply.
This whole situation is ridiculous. If this is really an immigration issue, why not transfer them to an immigration detention center? Isn’t that where immigrants who are being processed for deportation go? That way it really does become an immigration status problem.
The Bush administration has already released over 400 prisoners to other countries. While the 17 do not have a place to go, keeping them in the U.S. gulag can’t be the right thing to do.
It would be amazing if these Chinese Muslims actually get released. The U.S. has admitted that they are not enemy combatants so I don’t understand what the risk really is.
When Senator McCain was running in the primary against George W., Karl Rove ran a dirty whisper campaign and W. won the primary. It was your typical get elected at all cost move and sadly it worked.
Now this?
“Our opponent though, is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
That’s some Maverick behavior alright. The statement is nonsense and the McCain campaign knows it.
Next up Palin will be saying things about his religion (he’s Christian), and his upbringing (he did not attend a madrasah), and his patriotism (his wife does not hate America).
I like how this is orchestrated to have Governor Palin spout this nonsense. You don’t want to have McCain dirty his dress whites after all.
Senator McCain knows this is his last shot for the brass ring. So scruples be damned, his campaign will do and say whatever it takes to get anyone to vote for him.
First they released a “McCain Wins Debate” ad a day early and now this.
ex·ag·ger·at·ed
–adjective
1. unduly or unrealistically magnified: to have an exaggerated opinion of oneself.
2. abnormally increased or enlarged.
I did not watch the debates but, you betcha, I’m dog gonnit, gonna read up on it.
The success criteria for each VP candidate was pretty low. I mean, all Governor Palin had to do was form complete sentences and she exceeds expectations. All Senator Biden had to do was not look across the room and shout “Are you kidding me?”
This is why I can’t really get into the debates. It’s just an extended ad.
