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Assorted Goods From The Reverse Thieves

August 19, 2010 in Uncategorized by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

A big package arrived Monday from the Reverse Thieves. I’d won it by commenting on the latest Speakeasy episode post (it was about SPORTS!) with a suggestion that they talk about light novels, which I guess they kind of already did as part of a different episode about manga & anime adaptations.

Here’s what was inside (and what I know have to deal with):

A cabbit backpack with ear pockets.

DVD singles of Chrono Crusade. Now I can make that Pilot Speed AMV I have an idea for! [I already had 2 (TWO!) copies of vol. 1 and one of vol. 5 so those might be giveaway fodder.]
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Haruhi Box Set Recommended in Sac Bee

July 15, 2008 in Uncategorized by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment


I was reading The Sacramento Bee (my local newspaper) today when I spotted the above – the Haruhi DVD collection being mentioned in the Scene section’s To-Do List. It’s kind of odd to see something like that there but I guess it’s worth mentioning to the greater Sacramento area, some of whom might be willing to give it a chance. I don’t know where Rachel Leibrock saw rumors of a film adaptation – maybe she was referring to the second season?

Also: Addict-O-Matic can be kind of cool depending on what you are searching for.

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From Aug. 1999 Animerica: “Be An Anime Missionary” Plus Some Cool Ads

February 24, 2008 in Uncategorized by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments

I was looking through the old Animerica issues I bought at Sac-Anime and found a short focus piece in the August 1999 issue: “Be An Anime Missionary”. Some of the advice Tom Root gives for bringing your friends into the fray may be dated with Battle Chasers and FFVII references but other elements are still viable such as the diversity in convention attendees. Reading this and the other issues I got give me a sense of where the fan community was nine years ago; actually I have one from December 1996 when laserdiscs were being sold at $45 a pop alongside VHS sub or dub releases. For some reason, I enjoy reading about the American market before it really began to grow. Anyway, I also found a couple neatly worded ads, which I put after the cut.
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Untimely Renewal Letter from Newtype USA

January 23, 2008 in Uncategorized by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 1 comment

I got home from classes about an hour ago and found in my mailbox a letter from Newtype USA. “Oh great!” I thought, “this will probably explain how the transition to PiQ will work!” The first sign that there was something odd was that the return address was in Maple Shade, NJ, and not Houston, TX. I opened the letter and found out that it was asking me renew my subscription since I have two issues left. What?!?
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Anime Blogs Ranked By Readability

December 7, 2007 in Uncategorized by Tom Langston (calaggie) | 14 comments

Yesterday I found an online tool called the Blog Readability Test from a post on Evil Avatar that is supposed to test “what reading level is required to understand your blog”. I assume it applies some kind of reading-level algorithm after searching the front page of whatever website you type in; Mental Floss [via Game|Life] thinks it’s likely an implementation of the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Formula. I guess the results could be interpreted as an indicator of whether you should simplify or tune up your writing depending on if you are targeting a particular audience and who that audience is. The below results were obtaining by entering the main site addresses so readability results will very likely vary among individual full-length posts.

WARNING: This is not meant to be criticism of any particular blogger(s), but rather just as a interesting post about artificial classifications of writing. So don’t flame me, blame the formula!
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