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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Canada Day!

Happy Canada Day, everyone! I've almost finished my Canada Day comic, which features unsolicited appearances from some Canadian webcomic folks who are totally great! Please look forward to it and have a safe holiday.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Sealand Awesomeness

Today I saw an Italian summary of Hetalia episode 21 that described Sealand as "il piccolo Sealand". Apparently this means something like "little Sealand" or "the tiny Sealand", so in addition to being very appropriate, it contains basically the greatest adjective you could possibly use to describe Sealand ever. I now give my official approval to any language where the word piccolo is an adjective that can apply to micronations, because that is just too awesome.

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Monday, June 15, 2009

俺様日記

Follow-up. Well, it looks as if the Hetalia character CDs got pushed back in favour of producing one for Prussia. (He's called プロイセン, which is Preussen/Prussia, but is still around in the post-WWII comics and calls Germany "West", so most readers think he represents the Eastern part of Germany. There are two Italies, one for north and one for south, as well.) I'm kind of amused by Prussia's characterisation, but if the more minor characters are getting albums, I'd rather hear Canada or Lithuania than most anyone else. In fact, they seem to have so much in common that a Canada-Lietuva duet would be awesome. Evergreen maples! And an album for Chibitalia and/or HRE would be so cute that everyone who heard it would die of cuteness disease, so I kind of hope they don't record one. (By the way, I finished watching the first season of Clannad the other day, so I'm working on a post about it for Xylophone Forest. And hopefully I'll be able to continue posting about G Gundam now that I'm done with the SAT.)

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Saturday, June 13, 2009

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Oh, no! Emo! T...the "England Character CD" that I was awaiting so happily... It...it got delayed... And the others did too...Russia-san's and China's aren't even coming out until next year... I understand that the production company is having all sorts of difficulties, but... They were able to release Italy, Germany, and Japan on schedule...so this seems kind of unfair... When I tried to buy the second print volume of the manga it was sold out...when I tried to buy Italy's character CD it was sold out even the day before release...so I should have expected something like this to get in my way... But when I was preparing for the standardised aptitude test recently, I told myself that if "It comes out right after the test, so I'll buy the England character album as a reward if I work really hard"... That was because whenever a new episode of Hetalia came out, I felt so happy watching it...And even when I was taking the exam and was so nervous that I felt sick, I calmed myself down with this memory... It probably sounds pathetic that I motivated myself with anime goods...or that I'm this disappointed when they're delayed...but... It's because of Hetalia that I've learned so much about the world, and become a much kinder person...it's a very precious thing to me...I think Hetalia is a lot more than just an anime... So this seems...rather sad... BAWWWWing concluded

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Mint, Mint

Well, the package manager for Ubuntu Jaunty Jackelope went jibbly. Twice. (Alco is still using the previous version because I didn't upgrade her, but Niamh has been in bad shape for a while.) Much backing-up and reformatting has ensued, and now I am trying out Linux Mint for him instead. So far, it's been working quite fine. It's a lot easier to work with multimedia stuff now, but I do have some problems with the way they've fiddled with Firefox search plugins, and I really, really wish I could uninstall cowsay (unfortunately, it's part of an important system package so I can't delete it). On my first login, my very first action was getting rid of the Mint-style menu and replacing it with the standard GNOME menu (Applications, Places, System)- I used Windows since I was a little kid and got over it in about a day, but I used Ubuntu for about one year and now I freak out if I don't have a panel at the top of the screen. Strange. (Incidentally, I have to take a standardised aptitude test in a couple of days, and am currently so nervous that I can't even form a coherent metaphor. I'm just pink as a pistol!)

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