I like my Thinkpad, even though it's a little long in the tooth. I'd be heartbroken if the thing got stolen. So, I carry the thing in a nondescript backpack that doesn't look like anything special. This backpack has a padded compartment, however. Silicon Sports made it, and there are other companies making similar. I wonder if that laptop was being carried in one of those obvious "Steal me! I'm a laptop!" leather bags. You know the kind I'm talking about. --.\\-H--
>I hate FrontPage, when my boss isn't looking I >use emacs or Notetab on Windows boxes.
The only thing FrontPage98 is good for is converting Word documents to HTML. That's it. Period! !Puente! And even then, you have to open the resulting file in a text editor to fix a few minor bits of Micro-cruft.
I actually sat down to go through a tutorial on FP98 on Techies.Com, and I quit in disgust after the first few pages. Using FrontPage of any vintage to write pages is really, really bad form.
I have been a life-long animation fan. I am into animation not only from Japan, but from Europe and the US too. It is only in the US and Canada where animation is considered fit only for children.
In Japan, the animation industry is more vital by far than the live-action motion picture industry. It has to do with a lack of soundstage space more than anything else, although modern computer compositing techniques might change things there at last. I hate to be a broken record, but "Princess Mononoke" was the biggest movie in Japanese box office history until "Titanic" came along. That means that it wasn't just kids with their butts in seats there. Actually I wouldn't show "Mononoke" to anyone under 13...it's bloody, it deals with certain things parents don't like their children knowing about, like prostitution and different concepts of god other than that approved by the Southern Baptist Convention, etc. etc.
Even in Europe animation is not considered just kidvid. Animated features and TV series geared exclusively to adults have been produced for decades in Europe.
There has been progress over the years, but US and Canadian animators still have that Cartoons=Kidvid stigma to overcome. It's a damn shame. Animation is just...COOL.
I know I'm becoming a fsckn broken record, but if you want to see great strong female characters in a jaw-droppingly brilliant animated feature, go see Princess Mononoke.
Actually Miyazaki has been doing movies with strong female characters for literally decades. From Countess Cagliostro in "Castle Of Cagliostro" to Kiki in "Kiki's Delivery Service" Miyazaki-sama has been very cool. Look for anything put out by Studio Ghibli. "Kiki" is available all over the place because Disney did a very high-profile dub of it.
Also "Ghost In The Shell" has Major Motoko Kusanagi, another really strong female (well, she's mostly robotic but oh well) character.
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Kicks ass, no tentacles, great strong female characters, jaw-droppingly gorgeous. Buy it or rent it, it is absolutely incredible. Disney/Miramax listened to the fans this time and did the DVD release RIGHT.
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1.) Bannou Bunka Neko Musume Nuku Nuku the TV Series. I have episodes 1 and 2 and nothing else. No anime distributor currently gives a crap about it, and judging from the two episodes I have it is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen in Anime. It's a "Police Squad!" esque satirical takedown of every single Anime cliche there is. I think ADVision has first dibs on it but so far they have yet to take advantage of it. I have had this tape of episodes 1 and 2 for two years now.
2.) The Eva movies. Neon Genesis Evangelion the TV Series is out legitimately, and even aired on San Jose's PBS affiliate, but so far I have no idea who has rights to the movies. The TV series was a fsckn MIRACLE literally and figuratively. I want to see more.
If anyone has leads on these fansubs please email me...the spamblock munging is easy to figure out.
BTW folks the Mononoke Hime DVD is the total way to do it...Disney finally listened to the fans and came out with a class product 100% down the line. I hate the RIAA as much as anyone but fsck, man...English, Japanese and French tracks, choice of the Gaiman dubscript or a literal translation of the Miyazaki shooting script for subtitles...it's worth supporting, man! If someone gives this treatment to the two Evangelion movies I will buy them even if they fsckn cost $100/DVD. BOYCOTT ALL OTHER DVDS BUT BUY MONONOKE. Anyone who thinks Anime is about tentacle rape and giant robots needs to at least RENT IT. There is a reason why Mononoke Hime was the biggest movie in Japan before stupid "Titanic" blew it away...it's a masterpiece.
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I like my Thinkpad, even though it's a little long in the tooth. I'd be heartbroken if the thing got stolen. So, I carry the thing in a nondescript backpack that doesn't look like anything special. This backpack has a padded compartment, however. Silicon Sports made it, and there are other companies making similar. I wonder if that laptop was being carried in one of those obvious "Steal me! I'm a laptop!" leather bags. You know the kind I'm talking about. --.\\-H--
>I hate FrontPage, when my boss isn't looking I
>use emacs or Notetab on Windows boxes.
The only thing FrontPage98 is good for is converting Word documents to HTML. That's it. Period! !Puente! And even then, you have to open the resulting file in a text editor to fix a few minor bits of Micro-cruft.
I actually sat down to go through a tutorial on FP98 on Techies.Com, and I quit in disgust after the first few pages. Using FrontPage of any vintage to write pages is really, really bad form.
MK-H
Unfortunately this slump is hitting skilled bare-metal HTML coders and the mental midgets using FPExpress equally hard.
It's getting to the point where I'm seriously considering getting a job doing tech support. Eep!
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In Japan, the animation industry is more vital by far than the live-action motion picture industry. It has to do with a lack of soundstage space more than anything else, although modern computer compositing techniques might change things there at last. I hate to be a broken record, but "Princess Mononoke" was the biggest movie in Japanese box office history until "Titanic" came along. That means that it wasn't just kids with their butts in seats there. Actually I wouldn't show "Mononoke" to anyone under 13...it's bloody, it deals with certain things parents don't like their children knowing about, like prostitution and different concepts of god other than that approved by the Southern Baptist Convention, etc. etc.
Even in Europe animation is not considered just kidvid. Animated features and TV series geared exclusively to adults have been produced for decades in Europe.
There has been progress over the years, but US and Canadian animators still have that Cartoons=Kidvid stigma to overcome. It's a damn shame. Animation is just...COOL.
Michelle Klein-Hass
Associate Editor, Toon Magazine
Former Webkeeper, Animation Nerd's Paradise
Current Author, MsGeek.Org.
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Actually Miyazaki has been doing movies with strong female characters for literally decades. From Countess Cagliostro in "Castle Of Cagliostro" to Kiki in "Kiki's Delivery Service" Miyazaki-sama has been very cool. Look for anything put out by Studio Ghibli. "Kiki" is available all over the place because Disney did a very high-profile dub of it.
Also "Ghost In The Shell" has Major Motoko Kusanagi, another really strong female (well, she's mostly robotic but oh well) character.
---- Hey Grrl Geeks! Your very own geek news site has arrived!
---- Hey Grrl Geeks! Your very own geek news site has arrived!
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1.) Bannou Bunka Neko Musume Nuku Nuku the TV Series. I have episodes 1 and 2 and nothing else. No anime distributor currently gives a crap about it, and judging from the two episodes I have it is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen in Anime. It's a "Police Squad!" esque satirical takedown of every single Anime cliche there is. I think ADVision has first dibs on it but so far they have yet to take advantage of it. I have had this tape of episodes 1 and 2 for two years now.
2.) The Eva movies. Neon Genesis Evangelion the TV Series is out legitimately, and even aired on San Jose's PBS affiliate, but so far I have no idea who has rights to the movies. The TV series was a fsckn MIRACLE literally and figuratively. I want to see more.
If anyone has leads on these fansubs please email me...the spamblock munging is easy to figure out.
BTW folks the Mononoke Hime DVD is the total way to do it...Disney finally listened to the fans and came out with a class product 100% down the line. I hate the RIAA as much as anyone but fsck, man...English, Japanese and French tracks, choice of the Gaiman dubscript or a literal translation of the Miyazaki shooting script for subtitles...it's worth supporting, man! If someone gives this treatment to the two Evangelion movies I will buy them even if they fsckn cost $100/DVD. BOYCOTT ALL OTHER DVDS BUT BUY MONONOKE. Anyone who thinks Anime is about tentacle rape and giant robots needs to at least RENT IT. There is a reason why Mononoke Hime was the biggest movie in Japan before stupid "Titanic" blew it away...it's a masterpiece.
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