Last update: 30-11-2022
As the title implies, this page is for miscellaneous, mostly anime-related stuff that needed to go somewhere. It's also a good excuse to use the "Floppy" logo, since this is a depiction of the kind of snuggly horror inserted into children's anime shows.
| Anime reviews | Game addictions | How-I's | Some anime humour | Reviews: Music | Reviews: Hardware | Reviews: Homegrown | Rants |
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Anime reviews:
These are writeups from the all-weekend animethons organized every so often by some very dedicated Dutch anime fans, giving an impression of all the anime I managed to catch while still more or less awake. As the titles show, the first three were originally cc'd to Gatch fans (hence the chatty tone and emoticons). Some corrections have been made, and footnotes provided for relevant information I discovered later about the series and films reviewed. Spoilers included. (NB. there were some rewrites of paragraphs that were total nonsense, but I think the reviews still show a progression from total anime newbie to not totally anime newbie.)
It bears repeating that the sometimes stiff criticism of the anime shown is not meant to disparage the organizers of these animethons! Their aim is to show what's being watched in Japan, and as I've said in the third writeup, it so happens that the Japanese do watch crap. Tastes differ, and when I dislike a show, I may still enjoy gag comics parodying it. In all, the time spent watching any anime is never completely wasted.
- Night of the Great Anime - Why Gatchaman is Superior to other Anime :)
- Famicon III - Anime, some of it actually superior to Gatchaman
- Anime '99 - Very vaguely Gatch-related anime write-up
- AnimeCon 2003 - "Anime Strikes Back"
- AnimeCon 2004 - "Back to School"
- AnimeCon 2005 - "Magic and Mystery"
- AnimeCon 2006 - "Romance"
- AnimeCon 2007 - "Fun and (video) games"
- AnimeCon 2008 - "10th anniversary"
- AnimeCon 2009 - "Mental Maniacs"
- AnimeCon 2010 - "Masters and Servants"
- AnimeCon 2011 - "Children of the Night"
- AnimeCon 2012 - "Apocalypse Cow"
- AnimeCon 2013 - "To Udder Worlds"
- AnimeCon 2014 - "Summer Games"
- AnimeCon 2015 - "Do NOT try this at home"
- AnimeCon 2016 - "All aboard"
- AnimeCon 2017 - "Marieke's Magical Miracle"
- AnimeCon 2018 - "Queens of the Round (s)Table"
- AnimeCon 2019 - "AnimeCon Goes South"
- AnimeCon 2022 - "Flower Power"
- Nishicon 2022 - "Nishicon's Bizarre Adventure"
- AnimeCon Classic 2022 - "The Roaring Twenties"
Game addictions
Not big enough for a separate webpage, but will fit nicely in here: info and opinions on games that have been played into the small hours. The most addictive game of all, The Sims, does have its own page, accessible via the button on the right-hand side.
How-I's
Emphatically not how-to's, as everyone has their own way of doing these things, but possibly helpful to someone.
- How I scan doujinshi - BW
- How I scan doujinshi - colour
- How I capture soundbytes
- How I fixed the booting problem after a kernel update in openSUSE 11.3
- How I make Vulture tiles
- How I cleared the dust from a Packard Bell's ventilator
- How I cleaned under the touchpad buttons of an Acer Aspire laptop
- How I made a second Vista partition on my Acer laptop
- My attempts at electronic banking on older computers
- How I beat eczema in a tricky spot
- How I recovered files deleted by PeaZip
- How I made jigsaw puzzles to play on the computer
- How I used JavaScript to manage links and iframes (unfinished)
Simania's Miscellaneous page starts with a sort of how-I on making seamless Sim wallpaper using a prepared, colour-reduced image and a QuickBasic script.
Some anime humour
"Some" is right: there's not much of it, and it will only be added to when I have a giggle moment. Up so far:
- Wolf's Rain - character info (pic): the four main characters in a nutshell.
- What they won't say while they're on the air
- Assignments
- How Tsume got his scar
- Assignments II
- Toboe's guide to survival
- Adopt-a-stray
- Cifer disagrees with the capture guide (pic)
- Shorter introductions (pics)
- What they won't say while the game is running
- Worst fears
- Favourite foods
Reviews
These are to express appreciation - or not - for a miscellany of things that I've come across but can't say enough about to give them their own page.
Music reviews
Hardware reviews
- "Nobody Knows the Lemons I've Bought"Homegrown
- Info on whatever I manage to grow.- Edibles from the garden
- Tomatoes
- A tomato mix
- Seeds (has links)
- Germination and other info (has links)
- Food - non-garden
- Odd pix
Rants
Called into existence when a government pamphlet so nearly provoked me to the kind of terrorism it claimed to be protecting me against, that I thought: the buck stops here, I'm going to say something about this.
Old rants - retrieved from backups.
The Dutch - obviously, rants only.
- How the Dutch do things, part I: the Dutch Against Terrorism
- How the Dutch do things, part II: Dutch racism
- Dutch racism - addendum
- How the Dutch do things, part III: bleahmigration
- How the Dutch do things, part IV: Amnesia Day and Oppression Day
This world I live in - does it sound as if there'll be anything but rants?
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