Archive for April, 2011

The late bird misses the worm

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

I subscribe to Rightstuf’s newsletter, and I saw the NIS America announcement that Toradora Premium Ed Box 1 was sold out at wholesale level (meaning that NIS was out of inventory for this title).  And I checked that Rightstuf still had 12 copies left on Friday nite.  I had came home late, and needed to get up early.  So when I dropped by again Saturday to make a purchase, Righstuf was also sold out.

I guess I’ll have to wait for the full box set to come out whenever.. .  >_<

Still on Crunchyroll

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

I mentioned back in November that I started subscribing to crunchyroll.com, as an anime subscriber.  I’m still on the roll (can’t help myself LOL) 4 months later.  I agree that anime studios should be able to get revenue from whatever source they can, and if an anime streaming service like crunchyroll can offer some revenue stream to these companies, then I want to do my part by being a paying customer.  Besides, I find that there are more than enough current/ongoing and old anime shows on the site that makes it worth subscribing to.

Back from the Dead. . . Not Really

Sunday, April 17th, 2011

Wow!  It’s been 4 months since my last post.  Got 9000+ spam comments waiting for me to delete.  Guess they could wait a ‘lil longer.  LOL

4 months is pretty much an eternity for a blog to not get an update.  My excuses are the usual—work, work, work.  And taxes.

Some people online believe that blogging is dead, that twitter and other instant postings are the new ways to communicate.  I personally disagree, because if you invest the time to make a post, it should more insightful than a knee-jerk reaction to whatever happened 10 seconds ago (and as an aside here, it’s been so long since I wrote a post that it took me 10 seconds to remember how to spell “seconds”  T_T).

In addition, I’ve been blogging in one form or another since around 2000 when Pyra Labs’ Blogger site was around as an independent company.  So I guess that makes me a bit biased in the blogging vs. twitting debate.

Long live blogging!

[I hope to update this blog at least once a month.  Yes, it's a very modest goal (considering I work 7 days a week) but I would like to start small and build from me.  It's a sensible approach, no? :) ]