First off, I've been trying to come up with suggestions to make at this coming Sunday's IU Anime Club planning meeting. We'll be planning for summer and fall semesters at the same time to let the people who won't be here over summer have a say in what we will be starting with next fall. I've come up with a few, such as Kamichu, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Kanon, and Beck.
One of my friends got word not too long ago that he'll be going to Japan as part of the JET program. Congratulations, Matt! Since he'll be gone for a while and is also graduating at the end of the semester, he sold off a bunch of his anime paraphernalia at anime club last weekend. Here's my portion of his stuff. ^_^
Here we have a rather large (31"x43") Last Exile wall scroll.
And here is a 1/7th scale figure of Tokiha Mai from Mai-Hime made by Kotobukiya. I can't believe he hadn't even opened it!Matt also gave me his old computer. He recently got a brand new laptop to take to Japan with him and since his old was wasn't working anymore (I think due to a bad power supply) he decided to give it to me. I have ordered a replacement PSU and hopefully can get it up and running soon. I plan to make it a dedicated Linux box partly because I want to and partly due to its age. It's an old PIII machine, with 512MB of RAM (not bad for the time) and a 20GB hard drive! There's no space for a second hard drive in the case, so I'll probably end up bumping that up eventually, but right now I just want to get it working. I haven't decided which distro to load on it yet, but right now I'm thinking either a Gentoo or Debian based one. I might opt for Debian-based since I'm familiar with Ubuntu, or might try Gentoo-based just as something to play with. I need something fairly stable right out of the box, though, since it probably won't be spending much time online.
On the linux front, I've been spending most of my time in Kubuntu recently. The few times I've had to boot into XP have been almost infuriatingly slow. I have never wanted to beat my head against my keyboard when using XP, until I began using linux. I never saw XP as being very slow, but apparently I didn't know what I was missing!
On a non-computer related note, preparations for ACEN 2k7 are under way. I got some fabric at JoAnn's only to have them charge me 3 times for one transaction. So i spent about three days getting that straightened out. -_-;; Anyway, according to the ACEN forums they are going to be mailing out the badges for the con in the next few days, a new service for this con that I think I'm really going to like. No more waiting the pre-reg line for me!
Well, have to get back to work on things here, so until next time.
On the linux front, I've been spending most of my time in Kubuntu recently. The few times I've had to boot into XP have been almost infuriatingly slow. I have never wanted to beat my head against my keyboard when using XP, until I began using linux. I never saw XP as being very slow, but apparently I didn't know what I was missing!
On a non-computer related note, preparations for ACEN 2k7 are under way. I got some fabric at JoAnn's only to have them charge me 3 times for one transaction. So i spent about three days getting that straightened out. -_-;; Anyway, according to the ACEN forums they are going to be mailing out the badges for the con in the next few days, a new service for this con that I think I'm really going to like. No more waiting the pre-reg line for me!
Well, have to get back to work on things here, so until next time.
