Sunday, May 3, 2009
Fantasy Art
This is some great stuff...by artist Kekai Kotaki. Check out his website or blog, and my source for these was this blog.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
X-MEN, the 90's Animated Series
H
ere it is
AT LAST!! I have been waiting for this since the invention of the DVD! Disney bought the rights it seems (or inherited them, I don't believe that they originally owned it) and for the first time ever(!) the classic 90's animated series is coming to DVD! These first two volumes put the first 33 episodes (of the entire 76) on DVD and volume 3 has been rumored to be in the works.
I really can't describe how long I've been waiting for this. I even wrote Fox years ago to find out if they had any plans for it, they said they didn't have the rights (I wrote them cause the cartoon was on Fox) and they told me who had the rights. So I wrote them and they said there were no plans to put in on DVD any time soon. So here we are and on April 28, 2009 IT CAME OUT! So hopefully I'll get it soon...
Oh! the childhood memories! I have always enjoyed sleeping-in, and it was on on Saturday mornings at 10am, which meant I got to watch the best cartoon ever, AND I got to sleep in. Jodi would always watch with me as well. And thus began my induction into nerd-dom and comics. Now I can relive it, oh joy! Maybe for Father's Day...
ere it is
AT LAST!! I have been waiting for this since the invention of the DVD! Disney bought the rights it seems (or inherited them, I don't believe that they originally owned it) and for the first time ever(!) the classic 90's animated series is coming to DVD! These first two volumes put the first 33 episodes (of the entire 76) on DVD and volume 3 has been rumored to be in the works.
I really can't describe how long I've been waiting for this. I even wrote Fox years ago to find out if they had any plans for it, they said they didn't have the rights (I wrote them cause the cartoon was on Fox) and they told me who had the rights. So I wrote them and they said there were no plans to put in on DVD any time soon. So here we are and on April 28, 2009 IT CAME OUT! So hopefully I'll get it soon...
Oh! the childhood memories! I have always enjoyed sleeping-in, and it was on on Saturday mornings at 10am, which meant I got to watch the best cartoon ever, AND I got to sleep in. Jodi would always watch with me as well. And thus began my induction into nerd-dom and comics. Now I can relive it, oh joy! Maybe for Father's Day...
The Lord of the Rings
This is an amazing copy of Lord of the Rings. It's the 50th Anniversary edition, and contains the trilogy leather bound in one volume, with gilded page edges and a ribbon placemarker, a beautiful slipcover, some fold out maps and some copies of Tolkien's own drawings!! Definitely worth it... That's why it now finds itself on my shelf...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
No books?
No books? No books indeed!
By freedom of thought and speech I plead!
Would you remove boy's awe at stars and moon?
Or squirming bugs and shadowed goons?
Would you banish a girl from doll play and dress-up time?
Or girlie flicks and princess' whine?
Would you block the dreams of young entrepreneur?
Or block the harvest of farmer's manure?
Poor indeed we are without books, with commerce blocked and food restricted,
With dreams destroyed and all delight afflicted.
I would sooner give you a spell against money, that all your delights become for naught,
Than give you a spell to block the author's plot
I would sooner give you a spell against Sun and Moon,
than become the source of the writer's boon.
No books? No books indeed!
By freedom of thought and speech to thee I plead!
By freedom of thought and speech I plead!
Would you remove boy's awe at stars and moon?
Or squirming bugs and shadowed goons?
Would you banish a girl from doll play and dress-up time?
Or girlie flicks and princess' whine?
Would you block the dreams of young entrepreneur?
Or block the harvest of farmer's manure?
Poor indeed we are without books, with commerce blocked and food restricted,
With dreams destroyed and all delight afflicted.
I would sooner give you a spell against money, that all your delights become for naught,
Than give you a spell to block the author's plot
I would sooner give you a spell against Sun and Moon,
than become the source of the writer's boon.
No books? No books indeed!
By freedom of thought and speech to thee I plead!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
New Camera
Well, Amanda and I had to get a new camera. And I really mean that we had to! Over the years I have been using a great camera that has been through much, but as of late, has been less-than-reliable on picture quality.
In my very first area on my mission (after being in the country for about 1 or 2 months) I met a wonderful member who was going to be married to a member in the US and move there with him. They were both older and he was a widower and they had met online through one of those LDS dating sites. Anyways, I ask where he's from and she said California, so after getting more details it turns out that this brother lived in Rancho Cucamonga and was in Ken Kirtley's ward!! To make a long story short, they agrees to bring me a Christmas package when he came down, and I sent some stuff back with them for my family. One of the things in the package was my digital camera. The point of this story was to give you an idea of the age of this camera. This puts me receiving it around Dec. 2004.
(Here's the old camera):
Now more than four years of use (almost half of which was in company of a Missionary, so a lot of use), it has started to get old. It was a Canon PowerShot A75 and had 3.2 mega pixels.
So I have a Citi credit card that gets me great rewards which I can redeem through this thing called the ThankYou network. It's great and I have got some great stuff because of this rewards program. One of the most recent ones was 3x$50 Best Buy gift cards that we were going to use to buy Rock Band 2. Well when I got those cards, and we started looking for RB2, nowhere had it, and I mean nowhere! Within a 60 mile radius, we found one store (a Wal-Mart that had just received a shipment) that had a couple RB2's. The store was located in Riverside (about 30 minutes away) and Amanda, being the loving wife she is, went with me around 9:30-10pm at night to get one of these few RB2's. Obviously, we had left over gift cards for Best Buy now.
Then right after that, our camera started making funny pictures (there is a old vs. new at the bottom of this post) that were purple, grainy, and/or blurry. But this didn't always happen, just sometimes, and slowly got more frequent. Than, in our recent trip to Las Vegas (post on that coming soon!), every time we turned it on it was acting up and I had to shake it around to get the right picture quality. So even though we were going to wait 'till Amanda's b-day, we decided tonight to get a camera. We had already picked out the one that we wanted and just had to decide on color. Here is what we got:
It's a Canon PowerShot SD780 IS and is 12.1 mega pixels. We just got the battery charged but are excited to have a reliable, functional, and improved camera to play with and document our lives.
Old vs. New (please ignore the mess, we are in the middle of laundry):
For another example of the old disfunctionality see here.
Anyways, we love our new camera and can't wait to use it!
In my very first area on my mission (after being in the country for about 1 or 2 months) I met a wonderful member who was going to be married to a member in the US and move there with him. They were both older and he was a widower and they had met online through one of those LDS dating sites. Anyways, I ask where he's from and she said California, so after getting more details it turns out that this brother lived in Rancho Cucamonga and was in Ken Kirtley's ward!! To make a long story short, they agrees to bring me a Christmas package when he came down, and I sent some stuff back with them for my family. One of the things in the package was my digital camera. The point of this story was to give you an idea of the age of this camera. This puts me receiving it around Dec. 2004.
(Here's the old camera):
Now more than four years of use (almost half of which was in company of a Missionary, so a lot of use), it has started to get old. It was a Canon PowerShot A75 and had 3.2 mega pixels.
So I have a Citi credit card that gets me great rewards which I can redeem through this thing called the ThankYou network. It's great and I have got some great stuff because of this rewards program. One of the most recent ones was 3x$50 Best Buy gift cards that we were going to use to buy Rock Band 2. Well when I got those cards, and we started looking for RB2, nowhere had it, and I mean nowhere! Within a 60 mile radius, we found one store (a Wal-Mart that had just received a shipment) that had a couple RB2's. The store was located in Riverside (about 30 minutes away) and Amanda, being the loving wife she is, went with me around 9:30-10pm at night to get one of these few RB2's. Obviously, we had left over gift cards for Best Buy now.
Then right after that, our camera started making funny pictures (there is a old vs. new at the bottom of this post) that were purple, grainy, and/or blurry. But this didn't always happen, just sometimes, and slowly got more frequent. Than, in our recent trip to Las Vegas (post on that coming soon!), every time we turned it on it was acting up and I had to shake it around to get the right picture quality. So even though we were going to wait 'till Amanda's b-day, we decided tonight to get a camera. We had already picked out the one that we wanted and just had to decide on color. Here is what we got:
It's a Canon PowerShot SD780 IS and is 12.1 mega pixels. We just got the battery charged but are excited to have a reliable, functional, and improved camera to play with and document our lives.
Old vs. New (please ignore the mess, we are in the middle of laundry):
For another example of the old disfunctionality see here.
Anyways, we love our new camera and can't wait to use it!
Friday, April 17, 2009
I'm On A Boat
"Now who should I take?...Akiva...aaaandd...T-Pain"
Sometimes Andy Samberg really strikes gold with his Digital Short's on SNL. And the best part is...Now you can buy it on iTunes!! 19 tracks, and 8 videos for $11.99, I think it was worth it. Some of the tracks aren't so good (the ones without Andy), but it has things like D*** in A Box and Lazy Sunday, plus of course the above entitled track to "I'm on a Boat."
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Defiance
Defiance: The Bielski Partisans by Nechama TecMy review
rating: 5 of 5 stars
A truly great book and amazing true story! I really enjoyed this book and am glad I read it. It shows the courage of a people in a horrible situation and the story of the Bielski brothers and how they saved over 1,000 Jews during WWII in Belorussia. I can't really express words to pay tribute to there marvelous people. Here's some excerpts...
-"Tuvia was not interested in military glory. To live, to keep his people alive, to bring more Jews into the Otriad, these were his goals." (p. 109)
-"As a commander of a forest community dedicated to the preservation of life, Tuvia Bielski gave to the Jewish people many precious gifts: hopes, dreams, and their very lives." (p. 296)
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