Monday, April 28, 2008

Festo AirJelly blows my mind!

This is probably one of the coolest inventions I've seen in recent memory. How it controls the amount of helium and rises and falls also confuses the living daylights out of me. Don't know what I'm talking about? Watch the video. My eyes are still popping out of the sockets.


Via Endgadget

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Clannad meets Pokemon. Result? Entirely too cute for it to continue existing

Yeah, so those of who check Kotaku on a regular basic probably already saw this. For those of you who don't, watch this. It's a fan made combination of Clannad with Pokemans. You, uh, might wanna brace yourself for cute overload.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

I has ustream show


New Naruto Game Animation blows my mind!

As most of you know, I am most certainly NOT a Naruto fan. At all. But after seeing some stills from the upcoming game, Naruto: Ultima Ninja Storm (commence eye roll manuever), I had to see what this thing looked like moving. I found a trailer on Game Trailers this morning. I have to say, despite my apprehension to play a game with the word Ultimate used so prominently in it's name, this looks amazing. It's the first time where, were I not paying attention, I could easily mistake this for the best hand drawn animation ever!

Check it out:

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Best Viral Video of 08!

Ok this video wont imbed correctly, so here is the link. This is the funniest thing I've seen so far this year. I thought it was real for the first minute, then was like WTF?

Dreamworks Bought the Rights to Ghost in the Shell


"DreamWorks has acquired rights to the Japanese manga "Ghost in the Shell" with plans to adapt the futuristic police thriller as a 3-D live-action feature."

Tell me that doesn't excite. Just try and say that without smiling. Yeah, I didn't think so. This is definitely exciting news for all of us Batou loving nerds who have been waiting for something awesome like this to happen. Oh, and did I mention that the movie is being produced and directed by Steven Spielberg?

Granted, I'm not the biggest Ghost in the Shell fan, but I definitely thought it was a cool concept and it's a perfect candidate for a live action adaption. This gets me excited for a couple of reasons. First of all, it means that more and more studios are realizing the potential of turning animes into live actions. And second, I really hope this begins a trend. There are at least two anime live action adaptions I know of thus far, including this one, and so far they both sound awesome. (Yes, I'm a DBZ fan. So sue me.)

Now they need to start doing a few other good anime live actions. Then I'll be happy. =D

Via Variety

Monday, April 14, 2008

Koreans steal Jim's love of guitar.



I officially HATE Zach Kim, I don't care that I've fav'd his videos on youtube I just hate him...

New Macross, also Jim steals Austen's also.

Well its April, that means its almost summer, also, for Anime geeks its the new season for epic goodness. And thus the screen from Macross Frontier. Thats right kiddies an updated Marcoss for your Robot-Plane-Robot.....plane needs. Here we see a giant robo-biomecha thing holding our poor, poor VF-22 Valkerie pilot for crushing time... Episode two kicked total arse, I'm totally getting this series until it gets licensed, because all Macross and Robotech do... Its just a matter of time...

Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Too Much Mac Time


Sorry everyone. It's entirely too easy to post videos to youtube for me now.

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Mac Get! The Video

Butt Chat Premiere!

In celebration of the new 24" iMac Tyler and I started a new podcast called Butt Chat! It's us, talking on our butts! Enjoy it! http://www.youshare.com/view.php?file=ButtChat1.mp3

Friday, April 04, 2008

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Thats right, I'm the best Rock Bander EVER. Also software update.



If you've heard the buzz already this isn't news at all. But if your just wondering how good Jim is at this game, why after only 3 tries consisting of a 97% and a 99% we get the 100% Thats right folks, Jim got the flawless victory award, its actually called the "Flawless Performance-Guitar on Expert" achievement. Too bad its only worth a mere pittance, 10 gamer points LAME!

Also the new update to the software on Rock Band is perfect, gone are the days of playing the same song over and over and over until you die of boredom. A new in game music store has been added, reminiscent of Guitar Hero where you buy the extra tracks, only with -=sigh=- you hard earned REAL monies. I like the preview feature so you can hear the song before you buy it and possibly regret it... The fan caps have been reworked to let non expert players advance further in career mode, hopefully we will beat the game now Frank, and see if there are more songs we don't have lol.

I don't know if its me being retarded, or they made hammer ons and pull offs more like a hybrid between GH1 and GH2. On the new Boston song I downloaded, More Than a Feeling, I'm having trouble with them... We shall see as I play harder songs, I may be getting my timing off as Ashley's TV permanently screwed with my brain with the 35-55ms delay! Oh hey I know I'll blame the guitar for now, and then when the new one comes I can still blame that one, and next Tuesday when I get the wireless one, yet ANOTHER guitar to blame for my lack of skill...

Posting with my touchpod

lolololol I'm posting from my very own touchpod! Super awesome! Also this keyboard works pretty good even with my fat fingers.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

You have GOT to be kidding me...

Okay, so as many of you know I just recently bought an iPod nano. It was the 8GB version and was $200. Not bad and I enjoyed it... until it freaked out lost battery power... long story. Anyway, I returned it and bought a Touchpod... which was pretty much the coolest return experience in my life. Well... sort of.

Anyway, so I'm checking the Woots and lo and behold, today's Woot is an iPod nano, 8GB...... for $138. What. The. Crap.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Austen is a gullible idiot. Also, Frank is a jerk


The title pretty much says it all. Here is a text message conversation that happened earlier.

Frank: Well I'm officially going out with someone now.
Austen: What?! Who?
Frank: Her name is April.
Austen: Who's april? you're talking about dating her? Seriously?
Frank: Yeah. Her full name is April... Fools! Lololololololol!
Austen: Lol you're a jerk.


...... Yeah. Shut up.

BLAST THIS DAY!!!!!!

Why oh why won't THIS really happen? Only with a gooder cast? And directed by Peter Jackson, of course filmed in New Zealand....