NecroSpammers
Pixy (The great guru of Mee.nu) has done a fine job keeping the pernicious purveyors of processed pulled pork shoulder at bay. Occasionally, a singularly sharp spammer will succeed in sneaking his shameful solicitations into the sidebar, but for the most part readers don't see the vast majority of the spam comments.
The depraved, delinquent douchenozzels often comment on posts over a year old, and they tend to comment in the same posts over and over. The latest fusillade of frustrating fiendishness fell upon two recent posts and here, but mostly, they continue to flood this post.
What is it about Kannagi?
I apologize to you readers for venting my vexation at this venal villany by maltreating you with my maladroit metablogging...so here is some tangentially related anime art as atonement.
Kannagi is no longer being published in the US but DVDs still turn up.
This is Why Maintenance is Important
The former flagship of the Argentinian Navy, the destroyer ARA Santisima Trinidad turned turtle at her moorings last month.
...and took out a trawler in the process from the looks of it.
So you're called to student council room...
A good chunk of the Tank club is there.
What runs through your mind? A: " Am I in trouble?"
B: "What is the midget up to THIS time?
C: "Are they finally going to let the guys join the neat clubs?"
D: "What in the HELL is that picture on the wall? Seriously?"
It happens on Youtube with TOS complaints and bogus DMCA notices and occasionally on Twitter with Spam reports.
OTOH this could just be malware in an ad.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Feb 3 23:17:25 2013 (vp6an)
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I ran into that too, and just went anyway, depending on NoScript and my other stuff to protect me. and I had no issues. But conservative sites DO seem to get this a lot. I don't hit a lot of Left wing sites, so I don't know for sure if they're immune.
I find it interesting that two google sites are tagged as bad hosts.... BY Google.
Posted by: Mauser at Mon Feb 4 01:50:25 2013 (cZPoz)
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I've never gotten around to seeing the original anime. A few times when I went looking for it, all I found were what appeared to be sequels. Is the original version still available?
I am looking forward to this version, though I do prefer my space pirates to be a bit, younger...
Posted by: Siergen at Sun Feb 3 21:15:33 2013 (Ao4Kw)
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Siergen...why don't you have a seat over there....
While you wait for Mr. Hansen you can watch the whole 42 episode original series on Crunchyroll. Be advised it is as much a horror series as it is an adventure series but it's got Kei Yuki in it and she's legal and smart and cute.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Feb 3 21:38:26 2013 (vp6an)
3This Fan film I found linked to the second video seems to have scored some alternate footage, including some closeups of Emeraldis at the 51 second mark. Never quite pictured her as the latex type, but it's... nice.
Posted by: Mauser at Mon Feb 4 02:01:56 2013 (cZPoz)
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In the pink skinsuit? No, that's Kei Yuki the ships third officer.
Here she is introducing Tadashi, (the Audience Identification Character) to the ships cook.
Note that unlike some other shows the male lead gets a skinsuit too.
Here they all are asking the important questions
The important answer is "NO!"
Emereldas is captain of another ship entirely.
Note that except for the last OAV series, which is (sort of) a sequel to the first series, the "sequels" are all actually re-imaginings with completely different universes and similar characters.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Feb 4 06:38:43 2013 (vp6an)
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I've always wondered -- is Kei Yuki from Harlock related to Yuki from Starblazers/Yamato? Or are they just drawn alike?
Posted by: Suburbanbanshee at Mon Feb 4 08:33:55 2013 (cvXSV)
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Kei Yuki and Yuki Mori are completely different and the series are in separate universes. Both women are Matsumoto designs though.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Mon Feb 4 08:48:20 2013 (vp6an)
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Matsumoto is one step above Tezuka when it comes to character design. And his long and lithe females have long attracted me to his work (although the potato people have a counterbalancing effect).
I've been curious to see his debut work, "Sexaroid", although not because of the title.... well, maybe a little. But 1969 vintage anime isn't really a hot commodity these days.
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Feb 5 04:50:49 2013 (cZPoz)
Yet More Linky Luv
A collection of links, mostly political is below the fold.
For those unenthused about such matters here is a completely unrelated picture of some cute girls with cake and Pocky and tea...and Zipatone.
CGwC&P&T&Z are Yuno and Maya from the Hidemari Sketch franchise.
Being a founder of a startup here in silicon valley, I can comment on Spengler's essay. In the EDA business (Electronic Design Automation) everyone expects to get bought by one of the large EDA companies. No one expects to go IPO. Why? All of those wonderful laws the democrats passed after the fake energy crisis. Once you pass the small business threshold and enter big business, the cost of doing business goes up prohibitively. Further, the extra burdens placed on IPO's in the last 10 years, make it much harder to go public. The net result is we all (if we are lucky) join the collective. We get paid for our stock or get new company stock, stay the minimum required time and leave. Those of us with the energy, do it all over again. The unintended consequence is we build bigger and fewer large companies. Just what the democrats like. As Amity Shlaes pointed out in "The Forgotten Man", bigger companies act more like the government and are easier to manipulate. Resistance is futile."
The Spengler column: http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/11/07/if-you-believe-in-staples-clap-your-hands/
the big problem right now is that we need 100 Facebook IPO's a year right now just to make good on the recession and we are not going to get them.
Posted by: J Carlton at Mon Feb 4 22:29:32 2013 (i0RQw)
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J Carlton. Thank you for that comment and the links! You very succinctly conveyed what I was trying to.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wed Feb 6 15:42:08 2013 (vp6an)
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Your welcome. Ever since I was "restructured" out of a job, I've had a fair amount of time to catch up on reading stuff like this. It beats running around and looking at all the "for rent" signs.
Posted by: J Carlton at Wed Feb 6 16:04:00 2013 (i0RQw)
An Amazing Saturday Afternoon
I headed to school this afternoon around two to make use of the language lab. As I cleared the tunnel I heard a PSA on the radio. The Virginia War Museum had some special guests today from noon to three. I decided that school could wait and drove the 45 minutes to Newport News. I just barely made it, but I got to meet Mr. Williams here, who graciously let me take his picture and patiently answered my many questions. They were breaking down, so I had the considerable honor of helping him, his daughter and his three comrades break down their display and load it into their cars.
During World War 2, Mr. Williams flew red tailed P51s in Italy and Germany. He is one of the last of the surviving Tuskeegee Airmen.
I certainly didn't agree with him on a lot of things, but he was a likeable character who seemed to be decent and principled.The nations political discourse is much diminished by his loss. Additionally, it should not be forgotten that long before his entry into politics he was serving his country at the Battle of the Bulge.
Mayor Koch with the tombstone he bought some time ago. which contains the last words of Journalist Daniel Pearle "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish." It also
contains a prayer from Deuteronomy: "Hear, O Israel: the
Lord is our God, the Lord is one,"
10 Years
Great things are not easy.
They require great people to take risks.
While we mourn there loss we are fortunate to have had such people as this...
May we continue to be so blessed...
In happier days, Leslie Fish eloquently captured the hope so many of us had when the great ship first took to
the sky.
'Foundation of our future, courier of dreams..'
We should let that be the
epitaph of the ship and her brave crew; an inspiration to do still
greater things, for if the boundaries of the future are allowed to be
set by the risk
adverse, the timid, those unwilling to take risks...or far worse, those
who
would presume to forbid others from doing so...then our future will be a
dark age.
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Brick, you really should read Wayne Hale's accounts of Columbia's last launch and entry. You might make it through his posts without tears forming; I couldn't. It's here.
Posted by: JT at Fri Feb 1 08:48:48 2013 (iStSI)
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Meant to add that the first post of the series is dated August 14. It's heavy, heavy reading. Ad Astra, Columbia....
Posted by: JT at Fri Feb 1 08:51:26 2013 (iStSI)
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I have a collection of Space Filks, titled "Minus 10 and counting", a reference to the number of astronauts lost at the time it came out.
But Franklin by way of Bill Whittle, if we trade too much for Safety, we will not have the liberty of space. Like all great human endeavors, we must pay for it in fallen heroes.
Posted by: Mauser at Fri Feb 1 09:08:12 2013 (cZPoz)
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A: " Am I in trouble?"
