I’ve never heard of this game, but then I’m not a gamer, but this is really neat traditional-style Japanese music, played with authentic instruments on a traditional stage.
Author: Captain Nerd
“Jimmy Carter is the best-case scenario”
I really like reading and watching Stephen “Vodkapundit” Green, he pulls no punches and makes you laugh while he does it. Â His latest take on “I Wonâ„¢” and the dawning realization that he’s not enough of a leader to even be another Jimmy Carter: “Jimmy Carter is the best-case Scenario”
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Tilt-shift experiment number 2
Now that I found a good tutorial on it, this may work out better. Adjustment layer, clipping mask, gradient fill and gaussian blur for the win! I did this in 1/10th the time it took the previous version, and I think it works a little better.
Oh no, Russian guy mauled!
Mauled by CUTENESS, that is!
Just a little Photoshop experiment on an Otakon 2011 picture…
Thought I’d try out my Photoshop “skills” (as if I had any!) to see if I could take a photo from my set of Otakon pics and try to simulate the “tilt-shift” effect. Â True tilt-shift involves a fancy $1000 lens, but since I’m not going to have one of those in the near (or even distant) future, this should be the next best (cheapest!) thing.
This should be a small image, clicking on it should bring up the full-sized one, if this works right.
99 year old grandma, video game pro!
So cool! Umeji Narisawa of Sendai, Japan, 99 years young, plays her favorite videogame, “Bomberman”, like she has every day for 26 years! In Japanese, videogames are called “famicon” (ファミコン), which is Japanese shorthand for “family computer”, because it’s the computer that the rest of the family plays with, as opposed to the all-business PC (personal computer, pasocon, パソコン).
Narisawa-sama first started playing the game after she saw her grandchildren having so much fun, so she tried it herself. Now, she plays about two hours every day, and she says it keeps her mind sharp and her fingers nimble enough to be able to thread a needle (see the video link, don’t worry about not understanding the Japanese, just watch the faces and hear the audience reaction). She has played so much, she can easily beat the game, getting to level 50 sometimes twice a day.
Now, if you do the math, she’s 99 now, and she started playing 26 years ago, so that means she was 73 when she started! She’s proof that you don’t have to stop trying new things, just because you think you’re “too old.” It’s just a state of mind, and if you keep a young mind, you won’t really get old!
Here’s the video:
Obamacare stifles hiring, thanks to the Flatline Administration
The economy isn’t dead, it’s pining!
Mark Steyn calls this “the dead parrot” economy, after the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch. Despite the apologists for the Flatline Administration constantly ranting about how the economy is really and truly out of a recession, (No, this time we really mean it! Really!) businesses still aren’t hiring. This report shows why, and with what suspicious timing, the jobs aren’t there.
“It’s not pining, it’s passed on! It’s rung down the curtain and joined the Choir Invisible! This, is an ex-economy!”
Maru the cat, and his friends the boxes
Maru, a cat in Japan, really loves to play with boxes, especially climbing or jumping into and out of them, over and over! If you check the other YouTube links, he’s done this ever since he was a kitten, and his owners have videotaped his antics for a few years, now. This video shows Maru as he encounters boxes that are way too small for him, and how he reacts to them. The bottom line is, Maru the cat really, really loves his boxes!