“There are two schools of thought on Nostradamus: either (1) he had supernatural powers which enabled him to prophesy the future with uncanny accuracy, or (2) he did for bullshit what Stonehenge did for rocks.”
— Cecil Adams, The Straight DopeRIP Vanity
Denise Matthews is the latest casualty of 2016. Not as politically significant as Antonin Scalia or as beloved as Abe Vigoda, but an important piece of my youth.
(via; as much as I preferred her sexy pics, I’ll leave that for another time out of respect for her beliefs)
[I don’t know who this young whippersnapper who turns up in iTunes searches is, but there will only ever be one Vanity.]
My new favorite cosplayer
Nice to see some people still remember the good stuff.
(via the never-safe-for-work Sankaku Complex)
Sous Vide and the Accidental Paleo Diet
A couple of weeks ago I bought the Anova Precision sous vide immersion circulator. Then I stopped off at Dong Vinh Restaurant Supply for some large plastic bins to hold the water, and Ikea for a few cheap accessories.
Since then, I’ve made terrific steak, roast beef, burgers, chicken breasts, eggs, and wings, all in convenient single-guy-living-alone serving sizes, and the larger bin will be filled with steaks for friends this weekend.
And, hey, it’s on sale on Amazon today for $140 instead of the usual $180:
Carry on, kitty
There’s nothing I hate more than a web site filled with animated GIFs that takes forever to load and spins up your CPU fans. So this one goes after the jump, even though it’s completely safe for work.
Lack of anime-blogging
I haven’t had anything to say about anime recently, because the only things I’ve watched so far this year are Bodacious Space Pirates on Crunchyroll (in convenient tablet form) and The Seven Deadly Sins on Hulu.
[gratuitous link to Elizabeth cosplay]
Y-shatsu
There’s nothing more confusing than a loanword that looks too much like another loanword. A “T-shatsu” is a t-shirt, so what is a “Y-shatsu”? A white (wai) shirt. I loved the head-scratching on the Hello!Project forums back when Reina Tanaka covered “Heya to Y-shatsu to Watashi”, trying to figure out what a Y-shaped shirt could be.
But Reina covering a Y-shatsu isn’t nearly as interesting as a Y-shatsu covering Ai Shinozaki…
(more revealing photos here; video and pictures from her lengthy new Maxim Korea shoot: video, part 1, 2, 3, 4, posters)
Snowball's chance in...
First snowfall in Okinawa in recorded history.
Anyone know if Al Gore was in the area?
