Site Updates

3/31/12 - Well it's the last day of March, but I finally got all of the GoDaddy transfer and exodus completed. Their support of the censorship in the SOPA bill has not gone unnoticed. Giveing up freedom of speech in exchange for fighting piracy is not worth the cost. Now I can finally return to site updates, applying some jquery tricks and updating the pokemon list generator.

1/01/12 - Highschool of the Dead, Kampfer, Queen's Blade, and more importantly the Haruhi Suzumiya movie have been added to the anime list. I just finished HSOTD and it was surprisingly awesome! I hope they make a second season very soon.

11/15/11 - The Pokemon List Generator is now linked directly from the main menu, for anybody who needs to create a treade list. Trigun: Badlands Rumble and Robotech: The First Robotech War added to the anime list. I should get them watched and reviewed sometime over the holliday season.

10/11/11 - Today marks the installation and beginning of this site's exposure to the awesomeness that is JQuery! /trumpets

9/25/11 - Pics from this year's rennaissance faire posted on the Personal Pictures page. It was a good year and my bro even got to see his first faire. Good time for all. It was also neat to catch some of the newer performers on their second appearances. Nice to see them back.

9/10/11 - The Pokemon List Generator is operational, at last. It's currently in need of a few aestetic tweaks, but allows the user to select haves and wants, check whether they're shiny or not, input individual notes on each pokemon, track screen name and friend code, and additional notes. The user then gets a formatted image list of all their trading goals and what they can offer in return.

Sidenote: I've been seeing artwork and discussion about the show Durarara for quite a while and catching every episode that I can on Cartoon Network. I am overwhelmingly disappointed. It's the same feeling that I got when watching Gantz, Akira, Air, and what little I've seen of Higurashi. They have such great potential and then squander it for a "hip shock factor". It's infuriating to me. Sigh.

8/29/11 - I have been working on a trade list generator for pokemon to help with online trading. it will list what people have and are looking for, along with details and the matching monster sprites in a preformatted, easily discernable way. This is in reaction to an increase in the amount of trades that I've been setting up through forums online. More info to come on this.

I should have some more anime posted soon. The original Voltron/Go Lion has been added to my collection and must be watched soon, as well as finishing up watching Negima and playing Makai Kingdom before Disgaea 4 and Diablo 3 come out. In follow up to an earlier post about Summer Wars, it was awesome and should not be missed. One of the best one shot movies I've seen in years. An all around great watch.

6/01/11 - Added Honey and Clover, Dragonball seasons 1-5, Eden of the East, Haruhi Season 2, Samurai Champloo, and Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha to the Anime List. Hopefully I'll even be able to watch them and get reviews written soon.

5/04/11 - Finally getting back around to site updates after getting away from WoW for the most part and getting back into Pokemon... Updated my personal pictures page with 25 new pics from the 2010 Minnesota Renaissance Faire. They turned out pretty good this year. It was a really good time. I can't wait to go again this fall. I also added Summer Wars to the Anime list. Picked up the film but haven't had a chance to watch it yet. Purchasing all of Ranma 1/2 has really slowed down my watching. There's sooooo much!

3/26/11 - Angie has been pumping out the artwork lately. You can find it on the Friends' Art Page. Check it out, she's got some cool OC.

2/01/11 - This last weekend finally saw me finishing Popotan as well as the first season of Negima! Popotan pulled in a 6 due to some loveable characters and eye candy, but didn't pull out any grand schemes, or ground breaking plot twists.

Negima, on the other hand was great, and really got me sappy eyed by the end, right before pulling out the happy ending to rate in at a solid 8. Thirty-one side characters didn't seem too much, at all. I started watching the second season and the animation is amazing so far. It does seem to depend on previous knowledge of the characters, a bit, but shows promise to surpass the first season, with ease.

1/14/11 - A new sketch of Totoro was just added to the Fanart Page! This character's been too cute, for too long, for me to avoid drawing him any longer. This might end up being a color work eventually, but for now I'm very happy with the sketch, even minus shading.

12/24/10 - I just finished and posted a sketch of Elisha Cuthbert in the sketch section of my Artwork Page. Check it out.

Thanks to the holiday season, I'm getting plenty of shows watched. There should be Anime List updates very soon. Negima is next on my list. I'm psyched!

11/30/10 - The last of the pre-christmas self shopping brings new additions to the anime list. Links and information for Negima!? Master Negi Magi, Tsukihime, and a movie I got for a dollar deal called Submarine 707 Revolution are posted already. Look for reviews coming soon.

11/29/10 - A recently completed sketch of Charlize Therone was added to the sketch section of my Artwork Page. Check it out. I'm very happy with how this one turned out. Very few Photoshop corrections were required. Photoshop: Correcting asymmetrical eyes since 97...ish.

10/08/10 - Due to a great bargain bin find at Rightstuf.com I just added Negima and Popotan to the anime list. Popotan has a rating already. I can't wait to watch and post a review of Negima. First I will be plowing through "The Slayers: Next". A review of "Origin: Spirits of the Past" was added to the list too.

10/04/10 - Information for RahXephon, seasons 3-5 of Case Closed aka Detective Conan, and Slayers Evolution R added to the Anime List page, as well as the final review of Godannar. It had a pretty cheezy ending, to match the rest of the series but it was a fun watch. This puts the anime collection over 2k episodes officially!

9/26/10 - Review posted on the Anime List of Coyote Ragtime Show. It was a pretty big disappointment. Started off as a strong Cowboy Bebop / Outlaw Star clone and just fizzled into terribadness 30% into the series. More Anime List updates later today!

7/16/10 - The anime list is updated with the new purchases mentioned in the last post. A new website has been added to my portfolio recently. I will give the full details when I hand over the keys to the owner. During the implimentation I got to see a lot of the power of new CMS packages. This site may go that direction as well. I've been coding by hand for so long, these things are just too easy to ignore completely. It would speed up changes and improvements greatly. If nothing else, I have been experimenting with a new gallery add-on so the pages dedicated to picture content should get a massive improvement in the near future.

7/8/10 - Due to a recent anime splurge at a nerd store in Des Moines that a buddy recently found, there will be quite a few new additions to be added to the Anime List shortly, including Nadia, Coyote Ragtime, Cyber Team in Akihabara, Godannar, Saber Marionette J, and Chrono Crusade! I'll have at least Godannar reviewed very shortly. Gogo giant robots and ecchi!

6/28/10 - Got the site moved to a new domain and it's now being hosted with many more capabilities for expansion. The only downfall was that about a month's worth of updates were lost. I know there were at least 3-4 comments around birthday time. Oh well, some Anime updates, Yugioh CCG tips, and walls should be getting updated soon. The site search was broken. I am working to replace it with Google's search. Unfortunately that means that there will be ads on the results pages but I'll format it to look nice and not be distracting.

In addition to a great birthday celebration and seeing lots of wonderful friends, some new pets were added to the family. I nabbed a fish tank, 3 Glofish, an Albino Rainbow Shark, and two Snails. Named in order they are Belldandy, Urd, Skuld, Rimmer, Cthulu, and Sheppard. I hope ya like the mix of anime and scifi nerdery ;)

5/14/10 - A model kit for Wing Zero Custom from the Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz movie showed up and I have been officially distracted. The first few pics are posted on the Toy Model Page. This one will probably have to wait till early june so that it's not taking up my table and attention when preparing for the big birthday bash. It's a master grade so it'll be more difficult than the last. Should be fun and turn out really great looking according to the pics on the box.

5/8/10 - Darker than Black has arrived! It is an absolute MUST WATCH! It's added to the Anime List page along with two Detective Conan aka Case Closed movies. The biggest announcement is that I ordered my second Gunpla model. It's a Master Grade Wing Zero Custam from the Endless Waltz movie! Hopefully it'll arrive in a week or two.

4/22/10 - Lucky Star showed up! Hurray for it coming off of back order. I'll watch it and get a review posted soon!

Reading up more on Gunpla (Gundam Modeling) revealed a new technique to me called Panel Lining. Basically it's outlining the separations between the metal panels on the model to make them stand out more. I spent a few hours tonight adding them to the Destiny Gundam. The results are exquisite. Check out the three new pics on the model page.

4/14/10 - The Anime list has had entries made for the addition of Ponyo, Inuyasha: Season One, Grenadier: The Beautiful Warrior, and The Slayers: Revolution. I am very excited to catch the new Slayers season. Far as Grenadier goes... well who can resist Boob Reloading gunslinging chicks!?

I finally finished watching The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and got a review posted on the anime list as well. I must say I understand all the fan based hype. This series is great and has me chomping at the bit for the second season to come out and maybe actually get some sort of conclusion. I am so glad that the second season has come out in Japan and been confirmed for translation by Bandai.

4/06/10 - While home sick I cranked out the Toy Model Page. It is also listed in the site's menu. For now the Destiny Gundam is the only one there. There are 27 pics to see the build process and many of the finished product. I'll be putting together an old P-51D Mustang and F-14 Tomcat model for nostalgia reasons but after that should be getting back to mecha. I hope to track down some Master Grades and maybe even a Perfect Grade eventually. Though they're pretty pricey.

4/02/10 - Got sidetracked by a gift from my infinitely awesome brother who just got back from Japan. He nabbed me a model of the Destiny Gundam. A page dedicated to models should be created soon under the Art menu.

3/17/10 - The Anime List has been updated with additions for the final disc of Genshiken 2 and I finally picked up My Neighbor Totoro. I'm so excited to finally watch these. I'll be picking up and reviewing Darker Than Black and the Dragonball seasons shortly. Reviews should be posted soon.

3/01/10 - Nabbed the second season of Dragonball GT and added it to the anime list. Things have been slow lately due recovering from the hollidays. I should have some more walls and reviews soon.

1/20/10 - Christmas gifts are in and the Anime List has had entries added for Season 1 of Dragonball GT, Origin: Spirits of the Past, and the complete collection of Case Closed, aka Detective Conan. I assure you, they look great on the new TV ;) Honey and Clover, the third disc of Genshiken 2, Code Geass R2, and the rest of the Dragonball series remain on the "to buy" list, which narrowly remains smaller than the "to watch" list. This list was also reduced as we plowed through Tenjho Tenge and Gravion, which both have been added to the Anime List as well.

My cousin introduced me to a great new series that I'm dieing for the box set to come out in March. It's called Darker than Black. It's absolutely amazing. Easily one of the best series I've seen, probably since Full Metal Alchemist. I highly recommend you check it out.