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Miku Hatsune — Broken Neck

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Jamie Spong in the field of Pictures and Stuff I've Bought.

Oh dear.

Miku had a bit of an accident this morning, as you can see.

Anyone know how to fix her? Anyone know someone who’ll do it for me?

Great to see that she’s still in high spirits.

Musicians are always doing crazy things in the name of publicity. This accident may give her career a boost.

I call this one “Making The Best Of A Bad Situation”.

I’m going to close this post with some inspirational words about how we all have problems in our lives that seem like a major inconvenience but are actually a blessing in disguise. If life gives you cream, make yourself some cream soda. No, wait. More like, if life gives you… Gah. Motivational lecturing is one thing. Putting it into practise, well… Concentrating on short-term stuff takes about as long as the long term stuff and produces fewer gains. Advice for life, right here and exclusive. ㋼

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A Technically Minded look at MVM’s FLCL Collection

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Jamie Spong in the field of Anime and Stuff I've Bought.

Wondering why this blog hasn’t been getting as many page views as I’d like, I postulated to myself that perhaps the problem was that I wasn’t updating the blog. In order to remedy this, I started typing the words that you are currently reading.

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So I’m going to be taking a look at that FLCL DVD set released in the UK a few weeks ago. I pre-ordered this one from Amazon back in January using a gift card. I hate gift certificates, but Amazon’s gift voucher implementation is (grudgingly) one of the best: When the FLCL collection was released and Amazon hadn’t received any copies (and still haven’t to this day), I cancelled my order and placed another with Play.com. Amazon automatically gave me back the credit for the gift certificate which I was able to apply to another pre-order I’d made without having to place the order again. (The contents of said order can wait for another post.)

We watched the series over a period of about a week. We do most of our viewing on a Yamada DVX-6700 (which, to date, is the best DVD Video player that I have used), but we had to watch the last disc on Brother’s iMac due to the general television area being occupied. It was Brother’s first time watching the series, but I’d seen it several times (in both Japanese and English variants). As such, I’m not going to bother talking about the show itself. Maybe I’ll get Brother to do a write-up.

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