chaos!...more stuff...

Just catching up on all sorts of stuff... photo-records.
Here's that groovy jacket I've been wearing lately... Tacky zipper is in blue-green-red: the station logo for TVB - a well-known network in Hong Kong. My aunt sent this jacket over as a gift last year but I never wore it. Mostly I'm afraid to get it dirty - it's just so damn white!
These are the shoes I breifly mentioned a couple of weeks ago in the FusionAce blog. It's not evident in this photo, but the Phat Farm logo is insanely reflective in daylight. It's so damn *bling bling* that I'm almost embarrassed to wear them. After 2 weeks, I'm stunned they're still as white as they are.
Not a Robert Jordan fan... but a little while ago I happened on Conan the Barbarian as directed by Dino DeLaurentis (I think he directed it...) on MovePix. Gave me a sudden craving to read about the godfather of sword-and-sorcery... picked this up last weekend. So far it's been fun. A little juvenile, but I'm okay with a little escapism (hence the post about Power Girl's chest the other day).
I remember posting about winning Kasumi a while back but I don't recall actually taking a picture... so here she is at the front of my case. The angle plays tricks on the sizes but Yuna (the gun-slinger from Final Fantasy X-2) is actually the same scale as Kasumi. I picked up Yuna this afternoon using my discount-T-shirt... what a great deal. Also in this show: Sayaka from Mazinger Z, Maria from Goldorak (up in the back) and Major Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell (far back).
Finally, just wanted to mention for those keeping track: no, there wasn't any news about the lightsaber (whether a replacement or a repair under warranty). Rob says "to be honest, it's not looking good... but there's always hope and no news doesn't always mean bad news." I reminded him that time is rapidly running out on Master Replicas' limited warranty... he shook his head and ecould only sympathize with me.

Minor follow-ups: fans and props

Hmm... let's see.
Just check the order tracking option on the NCIX web site. Still haven't shipped that CPU fan I ordered. At this rate it'll ship and then it'll take forever to go cross country and knowing my luck it'll arrive in town on Monday morning... Labour Day. So I won't see it until Tuesday. Ugh.

Then again, maybe it really is slotted for shipping today and they just haven't gotten around to it since NCIX is on the west coast (it's late afternoon here but, y'know).

After being thoroughly thrown off schedule last night around midnight I had the urge to play with that defective (or just REALLY delicate) lightsaber. Dug it out from storage and plugged in a set of batteries. Worked okay but still, swing it hard enough and you see a portion go dimmer. Got over being disappointed to went to bed. I suppose I'll live, but I just wish I could get an answer from the store about when I might be able to expect a replacement.
I was digging around my wallet over the weekend and realized that it has already been a month since I bought the thing. Holy cow, what's up with Rob's distributor?! Like I said, at worst case I'll always have to treat mine with extra-special care, but I certainly wish I had one that worked right like everybody else's.

Lastly - finally got around to picking up Final Fantasy X-2 again. Damn it's been a while. I could barely recall where I was in the story. Still fun though and I got back into it fairly quickly.

Need to get milk, juice and other essentials tonight, but it'll likely be another session of PS2 after supper...

"Hooray for Boobies"

Back in 1991, I stumbled on an issue of Justice League Europe. It was part of a massive cross-over event or otherwise I would never have even thought to pick up an issue of that. Something about DC was uncool at the time. The only hot-commodities in DC’s stable was Batman thanks to the block-buster hit movie a couple of years earlier. But thankfully, with that issue I discovered and fell in love with a little-known second-stringer by the name of Power-Girl.

See, while it’s obvious that by design, she’s got a huge set of boobies, Power Girl was different from all the top-heavy females who catered to adolescent fantasies… she seemed to be the only one of those super-powered women who was remotely aware that her chest was unusually big. And I, for one, found that refreshingly original. DC was able to poke fun at the industry as a whole with a single panel in JLE Annual #2: Waverider had come from the future to scout for potential threats to his timeline and while Power-Girl “volunteers” to be scanned, she makes it very clear that he “better be careful where [he] touches her!” In one single word balloon, I found that to be the funniest damn line I’d read that entire year.

Alas, years would go by before I saw anything on Power Girl again. Either I was pre-occupied with the gigantic industry-wrecking X-Men revival of the day, or that eventually I just took a hiatus from collecting comics while I studied at university, Power Girl didn’t come around until just this last year when I happened upon the hardcover edition of the recent Superman/Batman series. She resurfaces in this story as a supporting character and again she knows she’s a fanboy’s dream…

(Sorry about the fuzziness; that's the trouble with trying scan hardbound volumes)

Anyway, more recently, (ie: today) I read the new “JSA:Classified” book and once again… well, besides being a strong reminder of how ridiculous women are physically portrayed in comics overall, I’m man enough to admit: sometime I just can’t get enough of seeing gags about boobies. It’s just better when Power Girl is involved.

PSP Wallpaper: Supergirl redux

Once a gadget-geek, always a gadget geek. And here’s some of the fun stuff you can do with the new Version 2.00 firmware update to the Sony PSP I mentioned earlier – choose a photo from your library to be you wallpaper!
Of course, best results are using the standard screen-size so that the wallpaper appear messed up. Here’s the Supergirl Windows desktop I posted last week, now reformatted to fit a Playstation Portable (that’s 480x272 pixels for those of you ready to play with an image editor). Good luck!

(Right click to save the image - Blogger seems to not want to create an HMTL link for small pictures - deal with it). I’ll post some more stuff later, I’m sure.

Updated: PSP v2.0 now available

Just a heads up for those of you who didn't hear yet. As of yesterday morning Sony finally released the version 2.00 OS update for Playstation Portable. The update offers security tweaks, support for more file types (for digital music and picture formats), a few cusomization features and tweaks to the media players), and a web browser.

Find info on www.ign.com - they have some articles in the PSP section talking about the new features.

This is just great... a new browser and no wi-fi hot spot to use it... Now I need to add item 9 to my wishlist: a wireless router. ^_^;;;