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landrobot’s eye-rod exerciser III

January 17, 2008 – 6:37 pm

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landrobot’s eye-rod exerciser II-Happy Christmas All

December 24, 2007 – 10:25 pm

Merry Christmas and all that.

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Addicted to Technology or How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots.

September 11, 2007 – 6:12 pm

Guest Contributor Post
I’ve stumbled on a couple of articles recently that struck a chord with some sort of half thoughts I’d been having earlier in the week. When you’re as busy as I am half thoughts are all you have time for. So I had been thinking about this prevailing sense of non-specific […]

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More on Kid-Targeted Marketing: Burger King Execs Ought to be Ashamed of Themselves.

July 3, 2007 – 10:26 am

Mark over at Mark Ruins Dinner dares to ask the million dollar question:

“Isn’t this supposed to transform?”
That’s right, Have it Your Way at Burger King, except for the lame ass excuse for a toy we use to lure your kids here. That’s gonna come in the cheapest form we can hire a handicapped orphan Chinese […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in animation, the corporation, manga, image, media, economics, business | Comments (4)

Robin, The Boy Wonder, Shocked and in the Corner Again (and Again).

July 1, 2007 – 3:51 pm

This is for anyone who was disappointed at the lack of Batman and Robin content in the giant penguin story.
A couple of weeks ago, Boing Boing provided a link to this Collector’s Society thread:
Here’s a quote from the original poster:

“This thread is dedicated to all those covers that show Robin, the Boy Wonder in a […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in animation, manga, image, humor | Comments (1)

Greatest Arcade Games of the 80’s

June 12, 2007 – 7:51 pm

My older brother totally ruled at the local arcade. I got special treatment there just for being his brother. He used to have crowds around him when he played games like Dragon’s Lair, Tron, and Journey. (Pretty strange concept looking back at it!)
Check out this series on the Greatest Arcade Games of the 80’s (via […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in autonomous learning, animation, media, games, personal, technology | Comments (8)

Maid and Tsundere Cafes

March 13, 2007 – 8:55 pm

Alright. Somehow I managed to miss the plain old Cosplay cafe fascination, only to find out that most of the early enthusiasts moved on to something new a long time ago. Granted, I don’t live anywhere near Akihabara, which is the mecca for all things Otaku, but I felt like I was five years behind […]

By Steven Nishida | Also posted in human nature, economy, perspective, cafe, tsundere, strange, animation, manga, japan, cosplay, community, business | Comments (4)