Otaku Dan: The Life of an Anime Fan

I finally got my brand new Android phone. I decided to go with the LG Optimus-T, mainly it was in my budget of $200 USD. I refuse to sign a 2-year contract that will only screw me over like it has happened to me in the past. Come on in and check out what's inside.

As for accessories, it's pretty basic. I tossed out the cheaply made headphones because I have a bluetooth headset. I do like that the data cable is also the charger because it cuts down on having a ton of extra cables that get missed placed. It's also nice that it includes a 2 GB micro SD card.

As for the list of apps that I'm currently running:
Chrome to Phone (sending websites from my computers to my phone)
Android 2 Cloud (sending websites from my phone to my computers)
DropBox (For my files on the go)
TweetDeck
Skype
Crunchyroll
ScanLife (QR code scanner)
CNN
Wake on Lan (Turning on and off my desktop from anywhere around the world )
Utorrent remote (managing my torrents)

Damn, my phone looks even better with the mobile version of my site running. If you want to check out the mobile version, just scan the QR code on the right side bar with your phone. You must have a QR reader in order to scan it.

For the first time ever, I'm happy with the phone I have. It does everything that I expected from it with ease and it feels like an actual phone in my hand and not a child's toy. Damn, I'm slowly turning into an Android fanboy.

In this episode of O-Talk, we have a big discussion on con horror stories with the many guests we invited on to the show.

Note: this episode was recorded on 6/07/11


Sites mentioned in the episode:
The opener is Seize the Daylight by ParaDox
House of Pavonine
How a Girl Figures

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Oh man, I was not planning to watch or even review this movie but, I feel obligated to do it. I discovered the Yu-Gi-Oh! 10 Year Anniversary Movie and I had to see it. This must have been the funniest anime movie I have seen in a while.

Back in 2008, I did a figure photo shoot of Sonsaku Hakufu from Ikki Tousen. This photo shoot was really crappy. At the time, I was using a cheap $50 USD camera that had not macro feature and no anti-shaky hand feature. After many years, I decided to go back and redo the whole thing. I hope you enjoy.

In celebration of Durarara!! airing on Adult Swim, I decided to feature a wallpaper gallery on it.

I'm incredibly happy that Retro Game Master is finally being released as legal stream on Kotaku. For those who don't know, Retro Game Master, known in Japan as GameCenter CX is a Japanese television show where Shinya Arino plays 8-bit and 16-bit Japanese games. It sounds simple, but it's not, he is giving a time limit to beat the game and did I forgot to mention that he is not a gaming expert.

At the surface level, it is just an hour long show about a guy trying to beat old school games. However, it's about a man trying to overcome a challenge and we see his struggle documented on film for our amusement. Seeing Arino reaching the end of a level that he fought for hours, you will fell happy and excited for him. While seeing him fail when he is so close to taste the sweet honey known as victory, you will dread and frustration for him.

In japan, RGM has 15 season with over 120 episodes released so far. The first season focused mostly on video game companies and the challenges varied from old to modern games. After the second season, they started to focus more on the old school game challenges. The odd thing is, Kotaku released episode 29 as the first episode. I can see why they did it because episode 29 is Ninja Gaiden and that game is known to be one of the the hardest games ever released for the Famicom/NES.

I highly recommend this show for everyone to watch, it's a fun and simple show that anyone can enjoy. one more thing, if you like the show, you should consider getting the DS game based on it. This game is freaking amazing and a while back, I did a review of Retro Game Challenge.


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I love jazz and anime theme songs. When I discovered Rasmus Faber Presents Platinum Jazz on Youtube, my ears were in heaven. They happen to do jazz covers of popular anime theme songs in a beautiful manner. Come on it and check them out.

Lately, I have been having cellphone problems. At the moment, I currently own the Nokia 5230 and it have been a horrible experiences for me. After being happy with it for the first 3 months, Nokia released an update for it and all hell broke loose. Touch screen is not responsive at times, the screen whites out, sometimes static sounds will come from it, and it turns itself off and on. I must get a new phone, and an Android phone looks mighty fine right now.

It's the return of Weekly Picture. Now that I'm on vacation, I have more time to take pictures and focus on my photography. For those who don't know what this is all about, these posts are like a weekly journal for me that I share to my readers. I also share some experimental photography techniques that I'm trying out. by the way, the first picture in this post does not mean anything. It was added to take up some space.

After 2 years, I finally got new glasses. I like these frames because they are more mature looking than the last pair I had.

Do you see this beautiful mouse pad of Kanade from Angel Beats!? Do you want to buy one just like this? Well, don't because it's a piece of sh*t. I recently got this crappy mouse pad expecting it to be awesome. First of all, it does not have a foam or rubber grip, so it ends up slicing around my desk. Second of all, its nothing but a sheet of glossy plastic, so if you have an optical/laser mouse, it wont work. To make it worse, the thing curled up in less than 2 days. If you ever plan to buy a mouse pad from Broccoli Company, stay away from them.

I'm done buying cans of compressed air for dusting. They can ruin electronics such as cameras if the freon comes out, the bittering agent is horrible if it gets on your hands, and you end up wasting a lot of money buying them. So, I ended up getting a Giottos Air blaster. It works amazing and you can get some exercise from it too.

Recently, Gamestop had a "buy two used games, get the third free" sale. I ended up buying New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Pangya gold for the PSP, and WTF: Work Time Fun for the PSP.

While driving back from Gamestop, I got inspired to take some pictures on the side of the road. This photography style is known as lomography.I currently don't own a lomo camera or a camera that has it as a preset, however, I found a Photoshop tutorial for it.

I really like how the second picture came out.

For this week's 2D Girls Gallery post, I'm featuring my favorite character from Project Touhou, Reimu Hakurei. I hope you enjoy this post.