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Let me tell you a story about towels. Towels are awesome and useful. They are one of the few items that you use every single day of your life, if you wash yourself that is. And they are also one of the things I am a complete nut about. Allow me to begin my tale of towels by showing you a picture of my previous two generations of bath towels and my new towels which just arrived today.
After what is perhaps years of dawdling I finally picked up Ikaruga for the GameCube today. When it first came out I saw that it was an innovative space shooter. And I love space shooters. But I wasn’t going to pay full video game price for a space shooter with so few levels. So I waited until the price dropped. Well as it goes every time I was in a video game buying mood Ikaruga either didn’t show its face, or I had something better to buy. So now that I’m super-bored I finally decide to actively seek this game out. Its not like there are any other GameCube games I’m gearing up to buy besides the new Zelda coming much later this year. Apparently, this game was much harder to find than I first anticipated. I remember seeing it all over the place back in the day, but the only place I could find it on the net was ebay. Well, today I finally got a copy in the EB in the mall. I had checked there before, but maybe I missed it or they just got it in.
Speed Grapher is the big new anime to watch this season from Gonzo. I saw a trailer for it a few weeks back, but all it revealed was that this was a potentially good show. Today I acquired and watched the first fan-subbed episode of this new anime.
My Linux history is long and varied. I started with failing to install Caldera, then successfully installing RedHat in 1999/2000. In 2001 I decided RedHat didn’t support my hardware properly and went to Mandrake for 3 years. Granted I was dual-booting and mostly using win2k, but I learned a lot. Then in May 2k3 I switched up my whole computing situation. New computer, new distro, and windows was reduced to a Steam-machine. I settled on Gentoo, which I use to this day.
So when I played Smash Bros. Melee I noticed some interesting characters in the figurines gallery. The description said it was from a game called Custom Robo. I soon learned it was a somewhat long running Japanese only Nintendo series of games where you build customized robots and fought them. I had to get this game.
