The story behind the pants actually go like this: They sent out one of the team members to arrange new pants for the team for this olympic, he came back with those, mostly as a sort of joke. But they team liked it so much that they figured they'd play the joke on the entire world. :P (or at least so our papers say!)
- Daniel Bruce
yup, not nice. Thinking actually not to sleep at all as i will only be tired after few hours sleep. Perhaps next night the dreams will come then..
- Neya
from fftogo
People know Gintama is the funniest anime ever. But what most folks don't know is that Gintama's also one of the most violent anime ever. When gin-san gets serious there's no stopping him. Screenies from epi 61 which is the last epi of the benizakura arc #gintama#rocks
The Benizakura arc is just the start and the tamest of all the violent arcs. This is followed by two 'Yoshiwara' arcs each one more violent and blood curdling than the previous.
- vijay
Ah! it parodies it?! I'm definitely watching all the episodes, then! :)
- directeur
nah. Gintama is nothing like Bleach. Bleach is purely endless fights that have nothing new to them. Gintama has the greatest fights you'll ever see and also comedy that will KILL you with laughter. Plus Toilet Humour. Gintama has TONS of Toilet Humour.
- vijay
directeur, here's one of the Saint Seiya parodies --->- http://bit.ly/fLeBA This is in the middle of a ultra serious fight where they are trying to free Elizabeth from the evil politician LMFAO! watch it and then watch the full epi. KICK. ASS. STUFF. :D
- vijay
Gintama's the only anime that'll make you tear up with laughter right in the middle of some of the greatest and most violent fights you'll ever see. It's made of pure, polished awesomesauce.
- vijay
:D THANK YOU!!! Gonna watch it right now!!
- directeur
LOL! it's 10 times more hilarious when you watch it from the start 'cause everything makes sense, and just when you think it's predictable, they throw in this parody bomb :D
- vijay
GRRR!! I'm so eager to watch 'em all! The first 3 epis already crack me up and I guess it's getting funnier and even more surrealist in the next epis
- directeur
So, you are recommending ? I'm more of a Bleach kinda guy , is it good for me, too ?
- Alemsah Ozturk
Ne, Vijay! I remember you posted something about gintama and hemorrhoids :D Where is that post???!
- directeur
absolutely. Gintama's the greatest anime ever. And unlike other anime it doesn't have a stupid story that the hero HAS to pursue for the anime to make sense. Gintama is just the daily life happenings of a samaurai, an alien girl + her pet and an otaku. And that's where things are so clever. Since there is no set storyline and no goal for the hero, stories are incredibly creative, funny and riveting. Gintama's the greatest anime man has ever known. Recommended a 1000 times over.
- vijay
the more anime you watch the more you'll enjoy Gintama 'cause they parody everything from Abu-san(http://bit.ly/1alMtk), which has been going on for 30 years to Naruto (http://bit.ly/4sSe6p)
- vijay
ah crap! the naruto parody image is too big for FF and FF resized it down! uploading to photobucket now...
- vijay
here you go --->- http://bit.ly/1DCDmE Gintama parodies of Naruto's Kage Bunshin no Jutsu and Kakashi's Sharingan :D This is the epi where they are forced to cut the Supreme Emperor (shogun's hair) 'cause the barbershop owner ran out when he found an episode of abu-san manga was missing and the shogun comes into the shop. (shogun likes to tour the city in disguise to know the life of the commoners) :D episodes 151 and 152 are EPIC.
- vijay
the same shogun comes earlier in epi 83 where they play a game of "Draw the Straws" .Straws have numbers and the one with the longest straw calls out a number and that person has to do what the winner says. Well things turned out like this --->- http://bit.ly/1wZDqc and they inadvertently find out that the shogun isnt really a... *ahem*... 'shogun' down there LULZ!
- vijay
ah! finally found it directeur! here ya go! Hattori, the hemorrhoids Ninja! --->- http://bit.ly/yqcOO
- vijay
Yay! Thank you! :) You know how childish I am, sometimes, all the time :p
- directeur
Gah, thanks for extending my To-Watch list with even more! =p
- Daniel Bruce
Daniel, watch the first 15 epis of Gintama and you'll ditch every other anime you've ever seen till date 'cuz they don't stand up to Gintama's level. That's what I keep wishing (that other anime had the same maddening levels of awesomess that gintama has) after watching about 2500 episodes of anime over the last 5 years and finally stumbling onto Gintama by accident this year --->- http://bit.ly/3hMKg1 EDIT: WRONG LINK. CORRECTED NOW.
- vijay
Well I'm more of a cyberpunk/mindfuck anime fan, but I do enjoy the occasional violence anime, so this ought to be good. =p I would like to suggest Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei (very funny humour/parody anime) and Battle Programmer Shirase (about a deliquent hacker, also humour/parody), they're pretty damn awesome, and fairly short in terms of episodes.
- Daniel Bruce
Daniel, this is not pure violence. It's a LOT of comedy + the right amount of violence. And if you like Zetsubou sensei then defintiely check out Gintama as it has the same style of humour but done a lot better. Also check out Bakemongatari (which is from the Zetsubou sensei team themselves). I did a screenie post of 'Bake' yesterday here --->- http://bit.ly/2ei7Hq
- vijay
Gintama's absolutely WHOOPING Bleach's ass in DVD sales for September --->- http://bit.ly/kSvCV After 4 years people are FINALLY! finally, getting to know the awesomesauce that is Gintama
- vijay
"Why are the News Networks so uniform? Why are they so synchronized in their propaganda that they do the same daily reports often in the same order with the same catch phrases? Because they all work for the same masters."
- bcultral
from Bookmarklet
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My 1.5L Thermos, a level, a cordless drill, walldog screws, paper towel, business card holder, pen cup, a CD, scratch paper, and Eucerin hand cream.
- FFing Enigma
Your meme crashed my phone while I was trying to take a picture for it.
- Jandy
Crap! And I just cleaned my desk yesterday. Hopefully there's enough detritus still on it to make it interesting. :)
- Hookuh Tinypants
Cordless drill huh, with all the other "special" products you've posted today this could be misinterpreted.
- SteVe C
Are you undertaking office remodeling? I don't usually think of drills and levels as office supplies...
- Jandy
Dave and I put up the whiteboards at work today (two of them are in-shot). He didn't feel like carrying the drill back to his truck, so I got stuck with it until I go home.
- FFing Enigma
@Tina - you ARE a tool...lover! ;P Sorry, this picture made me do it!
- JA Castillo
Jason, you have NO IDEA. Dave and I are opposites in many ways, but we share two equally expensive and addictive passions: office supplies and tools. My first Christmas present from him? A Dremel with the 112 piece accessory set. LOVE!
- FFing Enigma
"One of the unique features of Clojure is that the core data structures are persistent (immutable with efficient structural sharing). This includes data structures Vector and Map that are mutable in most other languages. To be useful, operations on persistent data structures need to have performance characteristics that are similar to their mutating counterparts; e.g., the cost of random access on a persistent vector (put/get) needs to be comparable to random access to a mutable vector. Clojure manages to achieve this. Here we focus on understanding the Clojure implementation of Vector: PersistentVector."
- Karl Rosaen
from Bookmarklet
I don't believe it when they say this data structure "manages to achieve" "comparable performance" to random access on Vector. I suspect it's at least 10 times slower, which I consider outside the realm of "comparable". It's probably about as optimized as you'll get for a mutation-free data structure in Java, but...
- ⓞnor
yeah, probably not as fast, but to be anywhere near as fast and not have to worry about concurrency issues as much is pretty cool. it's possible that persistent data structures + stm is to locking what garbage collection is to manual memory management: not as efficient in all cases but worth being rid of the complexity. TBD whether it end up being as big a deal
- Karl Rosaen
"This sight is optimized by Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer 4.0... Countdown to the Millennium: -3367 days" http://www.broward.k12.fl.us/country...
I'm almost tired of trying to convince her that she has pro-level skills in graphics/photography/etc visual stuff so that she could make living of it... help me to make her accept her talent! :)
- Jemm
That is great seriously. Very Bubble Bobble esque
- Rob Brammeld
Thank you Rob, I hope it made you smile ^__^!
- Neya
It sure did. Really should get around to scanning some of my line drawings/doodles and either making them ink like in photoshop or pen tool round them in Illustrator. I am forever doodling.
- Rob Brammeld
This always surprises me but clearly AT&T just didn't care enough to put mobile nano\femto-cells in place before the event. Maybe the covered the venue itself but the flash mob nature of the evening sessions\parties might just be too hard to prepare for. In any case this is going to become an increasing problem as high bandwidth data use kicks in - the infrastructure to support it needs to be a lot more capable than that needed for standard voice.
- Joe Mansfield
Stephen Walt: isn't it likely that Obama will follow the advice of the AIPAC operatives whom he appointed to the highest levels of his administration? Re: "I don't have anything to add at this point, except to say that it will be interesting to see what Obama does."
- Sean McBride