“I mean, if the shit has truly hit the fan, and I’m in a starving group of people and I say, ‘ladies and gentlemen I don’t know where the next meal is coming from’. Well if some idiot’s response is ‘I identify as…’, I’m finishing their sentence with ‘dinner’.”
— Krakatoa on survival of the mentally fittestAppreciating strong female characters...
…with boobie mousepads and naughty hug pillows. I confess I’m just glad that they’ve left Silica-chan out of it for now. For now.
That’s not the only Asuna merchandise available, of course; you can get figures and coffee mugs and cellphone straps and keychains and iphone cases and posters and coasters and throw pillows and t-shirts and dog tags and cosplay outfits (starter, endgame, and post-Fairy Dance) and sword and wig and tote bag and wtf is all this shit?!?.
Okay, sorry, had to get that out of my system. I wouldn’t object to the Immortal Object t-shirt, though, if it came in XXL (which, being Japan, it doesn’t).
Pirate merchandise
Bodacious Space Pirate merchandise, that is, including a calendar and your very own 1/1300-scale Bentenmaru.
[Update: in vaguely-related news, AsoIku book 16 came out last week. I really need to catch up on these.]
Dear Apple,
Apparently no one told you that cellular bandwidth isn’t free and unlimited. Perhaps they thought you already knew, what with this being the sixth major release of your phone OS.
Dear Sword Art Online production team,
If the anime concludes with the Fairy Dance arc, as it appears it will, I will be very disappointed if it doesn’t snow in the final scene.
(based on comments about how it ends and the presence of Kanae Itō in the cast…)
Dear APC,
When someone plugs a serial cable into one of your commercial-grade UPS units, the correct response is not to shut the unit off, interrupting power to the expensive device that’s being protected by it.
Homework matters, presidential debate edition
Um, wow.
Romney: "When the president took office, the price of gasoline here in Nassau County was about $1.86 a gallon. Now, it's $4.00 a gallon."
Obama: "Well, think about what the governor--- think about what the governor just said. He said when I took office, the price of gasoline was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression, as a consequence of some of the same policies that Governor Romney's now promoting. So, it's conceivable that Governor Romney could bring down gas prices because with his policies, we might be back in that same mess."
"But without the bun..."
“…your hands would be covered in meat and cheese!”
“Okay, we’ll look into that.”
