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Most parents with young school aged children know the Flat Stanley story and exercise. In our school, each child makes a flat, paper, version of themselves which is then mailed to friends or relatives. The flat children are mailed back along with accounts of all of the adventures they have had. It’s great fun which […]

There’s so much talk about how the US is losing its edge and how we need to improve our schools. Yet we seem to do everything we can to make sure that good teachers are discouraged and talented people are forever kept away from even considering teaching as a profession. The story that’s got me […]

In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, the gun debate rages on. This isn’t anything new, but this time around, the notion that armed students or professors would have prevented the massacre is getting significant play. Admittedly, it is plausible, and some might argue, even cool that some heroic student would have just blown […]

I remember growing up that when my dad took a newspaper into the bathroom, we were in for a long wait before he came out again. This is a tradition that I have continued in my own family, though my bathroom tends to be stocked with gaming mags rather than newspapers. Today I feel I […]

Yubisaki Milk Tea Volume 4 is out now and continues to cross all sorts of lines. I’m pleased and surprised that it has made it to volume 4. Without giving any spoilers, this volume features tales of duel attempted lolicon seduction, well sort of… And guys kissing guys, also with some qualifiers, which is actually […]

Found this linked on Digg, search warrant reveals that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung Hui did not have any video games in his possession. That kind of blows some big holes in accusations being raised by the likes of Jack Thompson and Dr. Phil, that violent video games had a part in this and other […]

I really didn’t get too much into the Nextel Cup race at Texas this past Saturday. I was happy that Jeff Burton was able to get the win because he’s one of the nice guys who’s been so close to victory over the last few weeks. So he and his team were really due for […]

Having played with Flash over the years and seen it become a defacto standard on the web, it was with some interest that I read about Microsoft’s Flash rival, Silverlight. My only complaint about developing Flash apps is having to buy expensive software from Adobe in order to do so. Microsoft has generally excelled at […]

Right now we have a strange juxtaposition of things in the media. On the one side of the page we have embattled Don Imus being barbequed for calling the NCAA Champion Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos”. While on the other side of the page, we have a triumphant Larry Birkhead celebrating his paternity […]

I got the shoes for the R Dorothy costume project yesterday and they fit! Women’s shoe sizes can be such a pain to get right sometimes because of inconsistency from style to style. But now over that hump, the real fun of finding a dress pattern to use as a base for Dorothy’s dress. I […]

At last I have gotten the go ahead to create an R Dorothy Wayneright costume for my wife for the upcoming Anime Central. That is, she agreed to wear it if I make it! ^_^ I just got the shoes today! Willowbrow is not a big anime fan, but she does like Dorothy, so I’ll […]

During some semi-random channel flipping last night, I came across an episode of Cheaters on G4. In this “reality” show, they follow around a lover/spouse that the other thinks may be having an affair with another person, that is, cheating. As near as I can tell, the entertainment value rests in the usually violent reaction […]

I was home sick today, damn damn DAMN! Despite the pain and suffering, during some more lucid moments I did manage to get some work done on my second costume for the upcoming Anime Central convention. It was during this work that I had a revelation.
If I’m going to be home all day, I usually […]

During the course of creating my first anime music video, I finally found a solution to a long nagging problem. The problem was that a while back, Windows Media Player stopped playing AVI files. Opening an AVI in Windows Media Player (WMP) would result in a blank screen and nothing. I scoured forums and web […]

After a very long wait, Neon Genesis Evangelion Volume 10 is finally out in English! I was pleasantly surprised to find it on my lunch time stroll to Borders. They probably had about 6 or 7 copies on the shelf, and perhaps more in the back, but after such a long wait, I didn’t want […]