Bubble Bobble was our family's first NES game. I remember weekend mornings with my mom and my brother, switching controllers and trying to beat whatever damn stage it was that was giving us all trouble...
Loved StarTropics...also loved Maniac Mansion, if you've played that. Couldn't fit the damn meteor in the Edsel for some reason, and I just rented it...when I rented it again my file was gone, oh the pain. And DWIII, my first introduction to RPGs... Fun memories. It was fun having the NES this summer in my crummy little room. Fit the decor well.
Dude is right. I used to love Paperboy. Man...I actually brought my brother's Nintendo and the good games to the place where I lived this summer...little room, old TV, cranky system and a lot of cleaning fluid...my friends and I played Paperboy, the Mario games, all the cool stuff...Granted, we spent more time at my friend's apartment (since he has a Dreamcast ^_^) but it was a fun summer...
I'd be more impressed if this guy had Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (which I didn't see)...anyone else remember my game? My boyfriend hunted it up on Ebay for me this summer and I had a great time forcing him to play it...
Ooh. Siller than Maahn-goooh? I've got to hear it. I'll just pop on over to Sluggo's Iron Chef Sounds and..............no. wait. ^_^
Natto sounds just lovely. What on earth can you make with it? My favorite mystery ingredient was Konnyaku (I don't know if I'm spelling that right...)...it was like some sort of potato jelly but I'm not even sure if -that's- right! Icky stuff. Jiggled and slid around and...ick.
Yeah, Ota-san is cute. I think he was a sumo announcer before he started on IC...
I like how all the post-cooking interviews are basically dubbed the same. Challenger: "How do you think you did out there?" "Oh...all right, I guess." "Sooo....do you think you're going to win? "Yeah...I think I'm going to win."
Iron Chef: "So, how do you think it went tonight?" "It was hard work...but I think I pulled through." "You going to win this one?" "Yes. I'm, I'm going to win. Yes."
And the actresses...I do hope they are a little more intelligent than the dubs make them out to be! Watching Girl's Festival Battle was downright painful...
I'm at work, else I'd try to dig up a working link from my bookmarks...the FoodTV site is sucky and bland (of course) but at least it gives you an idea.
The deal is, you have this rich, foppish man (Chairman Kaga) who (so the story goes) spent his fortune to find amazing new cuisines. To do this, he built a giant kitchen, called Kitchen Stadium, and found four cooks who are the masters of their particular cuisines - one a Japanese chef, one a French chef, one a Italian chef, and one a Chinese chef.
The show itself consists of a challenger (usually top chefs from top hotels or restaurants), whose background is described in detail by Kaga before the show, coming to Kitchen Stadium and picking one of the Iron Chefs to "battle." There is a "theme ingredient" for each show - some of them are mundane (tofu) and some of them are relatively exotic (mangoes!), and both chefs have to create a meal (usually consisting of four to six dishes) that best utilize and showcase this theme ingredient within an hour. While they cook, the panel of four people (two people who are always on the show, then two celebrities, including one AMAZINGLY ditzy actress) make comments and talk about what's going on. Finally, the two celebrities and two other guests taste the food that the challenger and the Iron Chef have made in the hour, and judge accordingly.
It sounds so weird to describe it, and I know I have dissolved in laughter when I'm trying to tell someone about it more than once. The charm of it is that it's very serious, but it doesn't seem like it should be. Also, it's very exotic and just plain fun to watch. So check it out sometime!
There was an Entertainment Weekly article about IC last March, I think, and right now it's Food TV's second or third rated show - so quite coincidentally all the websites (and yikes! -all- of them, it seems...) get shut down?
Where on earth is the logic in this? I personally enjoy the show so much more now than I would have without the host of web pages, because I was able to go to ironchef.com and read all the charming little tidbits of information, because I was able to find the intro music and food unveiling.wavs for my startup and shutdown music... I wouldn't enjoy it half so much without knowing about Kaga's past (and his input regarding his outfits) and the previous Iron Chefs and Nobu and the judges and everything else...
Food TV's handful of pages ought to be updated -soon- at least. *sigh*
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Yeah, I'm worried about that too. I've read that Nelvana intends to release a subbed version along with the dubbed version, though, so maybe it won't be all that bad. I don't remember where I read this, though...Nelvana's site isn't exactly what you'd call helpful. Ah, we'll see...
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Since you've got a little girl, one anime you might want to look out for is Card Captor Sakura. It's going to be on TV this fall (right after Pokemon, if I remember what I read rightly, and I believe they will be calling it "Card Captors" instead...). It's a very cute series about a fourth grader named Sakura, who accidentally scatters magic cards all over the place. She becomes the "Card Captor" and works to capture them with the help of the Guardian of the Cards, Kero-chan. It's very creative - Sailor Moon, as far as I'm concerned, is pretty basic stuff - beat up bad guys, blah blah blah - but Sakura has to really think to collect all the cards. It's a very positive, colorful show that manages not to be insipid.
Well, look for it this fall. (And cross your fingers that they don't change Sakura's name to the threatened 'Nikki'...)
Yeah, that's fair enough. I can't say I was that impressed with the site either - after reading the book, I expected, well, something better. But then I don't think she sets herself up as a HTML programmer, but as someone who teaches graphic designers who are unused to the medium how to work well with it. In that capacity, she's very talented, and I don't think it's quite fair to dismiss her so quickly because her site is poorly composed.
Skim through one of her books sometime - the one I refered to earlier is very well-written and helpful. I wish I had known about it when I was trying to figure out some of these things myself!
When I first started my job as an assistant web designer, one of the first things my boss did was to give me a copy of Ms. Weinman's _Designing Web Graphics 3_, which was the book she used as a textbook when she taught web design at Georgetown University. The main thrust of the book is -not- teaching HTML...Ms. Weinman basically says, it's good to know how this stuff works, but it's less stressful to find yourself a good WYSIWYG editor. She works instead to help people learn to design useable, attractive web pages - and hey, couldn't we use more of those? She mainly works through her books, by the way. Her site is mainly used for examples and information about her products.
The site you link to is a very good site, sure. But there's no art to it, and that's what Ms. Weinman tries to help people learn - not HTML.
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Bubble Bobble was our family's first NES game. I remember weekend mornings with my mom and my brother, switching controllers and trying to beat whatever damn stage it was that was giving us all trouble...
Loved StarTropics...also loved Maniac Mansion, if you've played that. Couldn't fit the damn meteor in the Edsel for some reason, and I just rented it...when I rented it again my file was gone, oh the pain. And DWIII, my first introduction to RPGs... Fun memories. It was fun having the NES this summer in my crummy little room. Fit the decor well.
Dude is right. I used to love Paperboy. Man...I actually brought my brother's Nintendo and the good games to the place where I lived this summer...little room, old TV, cranky system and a lot of cleaning fluid...my friends and I played Paperboy, the Mario games, all the cool stuff...Granted, we spent more time at my friend's apartment (since he has a Dreamcast ^_^) but it was a fun summer...
I'd be more impressed if this guy had Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (which I didn't see)...anyone else remember my game? My boyfriend hunted it up on Ebay for me this summer and I had a great time forcing him to play it...
Ooh. Siller than Maahn-goooh? I've got to hear it. I'll just pop on over to Sluggo's Iron Chef Sounds and..............no. wait. ^_^
Natto sounds just lovely. What on earth can you make with it? My favorite mystery ingredient was Konnyaku (I don't know if I'm spelling that right...)...it was like some sort of potato jelly but I'm not even sure if -that's- right! Icky stuff. Jiggled and slid around and...ick.
Yeah, Ota-san is cute. I think he was a sumo announcer before he started on IC...
I like how all the post-cooking interviews are basically dubbed the same.
Challenger:
"How do you think you did out there?"
"Oh...all right, I guess."
"Sooo....do you think you're going to win?
"Yeah...I think I'm going to win."
Iron Chef:
"So, how do you think it went tonight?"
"It was hard work...but I think I pulled through."
"You going to win this one?"
"Yes. I'm, I'm going to win. Yes."
And the actresses...I do hope they are a little more intelligent than the dubs make them out to be! Watching Girl's Festival Battle was downright painful...
http://www.io.com/~sluggo/ironchef/ic wavs.htm had a .wav of Kaga saying "Mango"...only he said it like this:
"Maahn-goooh."
Funniest damn thing I've ever heard, I swear...
I'm at work, else I'd try to dig up a working link from my bookmarks...the FoodTV site is sucky and bland (of course) but at least it gives you an idea.
The deal is, you have this rich, foppish man (Chairman Kaga) who (so the story goes) spent his fortune to find amazing new cuisines. To do this, he built a giant kitchen, called Kitchen Stadium, and found four cooks who are the masters of their particular cuisines - one a Japanese chef, one a French chef, one a Italian chef, and one a Chinese chef.
The show itself consists of a challenger (usually top chefs from top hotels or restaurants), whose background is described in detail by Kaga before the show, coming to Kitchen Stadium and picking one of the Iron Chefs to "battle." There is a "theme ingredient" for each show - some of them are mundane (tofu) and some of them are relatively exotic (mangoes!), and both chefs have to create a meal (usually consisting of four to six dishes) that best utilize and showcase this theme ingredient within an hour. While they cook, the panel of four people (two people who are always on the show, then two celebrities, including one AMAZINGLY ditzy actress) make comments and talk about what's going on. Finally, the two celebrities and two other guests taste the food that the challenger and the Iron Chef have made in the hour, and judge accordingly.
It sounds so weird to describe it, and I know I have dissolved in laughter when I'm trying to tell someone about it more than once. The charm of it is that it's very serious, but it doesn't seem like it should be. Also, it's very exotic and just plain fun to watch. So check it out sometime!
There was an Entertainment Weekly article about IC last March, I think, and right now it's Food TV's second or third rated show - so quite coincidentally all the websites (and yikes! -all- of them, it seems...) get shut down?
Where on earth is the logic in this? I personally enjoy the show so much more now than I would have without the host of web pages, because I was able to go to ironchef.com and read all the charming little tidbits of information, because I was able to find the intro music and food unveiling .wavs for my startup and shutdown music... I wouldn't enjoy it half so much without knowing about Kaga's past (and his input regarding his outfits) and the previous Iron Chefs and Nobu and the judges and everything else...
Food TV's handful of pages ought to be updated -soon- at least. *sigh*
Yeah, I'm worried about that too. I've read that Nelvana intends to release a subbed version along with the dubbed version, though, so maybe it won't be all that bad. I don't remember where I read this, though...Nelvana's site isn't exactly what you'd call helpful. Ah, we'll see...
Since you've got a little girl, one anime you might want to look out for is Card Captor Sakura. It's going to be on TV this fall (right after Pokemon, if I remember what I read rightly, and I believe they will be calling it "Card Captors" instead...). It's a very cute series about a fourth grader named Sakura, who accidentally scatters magic cards all over the place. She becomes the "Card Captor" and works to capture them with the help of the Guardian of the Cards, Kero-chan. It's very creative - Sailor Moon, as far as I'm concerned, is pretty basic stuff - beat up bad guys, blah blah blah - but Sakura has to really think to collect all the cards. It's a very positive, colorful show that manages not to be insipid.
Well, look for it this fall. (And cross your fingers that they don't change Sakura's name to the threatened 'Nikki'...)
The Cherry Blossom Festival is a good page to look at, if you're interested.
Yeah, that's fair enough. I can't say I was that impressed with the site either - after reading the book, I expected, well, something better. But then I don't think she sets herself up as a HTML programmer, but as someone who teaches graphic designers who are unused to the medium how to work well with it. In that capacity, she's very talented, and I don't think it's quite fair to dismiss her so quickly because her site is poorly composed.
Skim through one of her books sometime - the one I refered to earlier is very well-written and helpful. I wish I had known about it when I was trying to figure out some of these things myself!
When I first started my job as an assistant web designer, one of the first things my boss did was to give me a copy of Ms. Weinman's _Designing Web Graphics 3_, which was the book she used as a textbook when she taught web design at Georgetown University. The main thrust of the book is -not- teaching HTML...Ms. Weinman basically says, it's good to know how this stuff works, but it's less stressful to find yourself a good WYSIWYG editor. She works instead to help people learn to design useable, attractive web pages - and hey, couldn't we use more of those? She mainly works through her books, by the way. Her site is mainly used for examples and information about her products.
The site you link to is a very good site, sure. But there's no art to it, and that's what Ms. Weinman tries to help people learn - not HTML.