The first thing that I saw, as I checked the news this morning, was “Heath Ledger Dead”. I was like WTF! He’s such a promising actor. He shone in roles in movies like Brokeback Mountain, A Knight’s Tale, heck even Ten Things I Hate About You. And I heard he absolutely rocks as The Joker in Dark Knight. Now he’s gone. That’s that for his acting. That’s that for The Joker. Sucks.
So what can I say? She’s gorgeous… drop-dead gorgeous. She’s primarily vinyl with some ABS parts. Definitely, designed for mass-production. Molding and paint job is top-notch though. There is no mistaking her for anyone else.
As expected, she’s eminently poseable being equipped with Kaiyodo‘s Revoltech joints. To aid in more life-like poses, she has four spare hands. There’s also a stand for those unstable poses.
Sadly, she only has The Spear of Longinus as an accessory. But then again, if you’re Rei, do you need anything else? Go see the anime if you don’t know what I mean.
All in all she’s great. There are many like her (including Joy’s). But this one is mine and she’s the best :P
Thanks again Joy-joy!
Check out the photos here.
After a long long time, I finally got my own French-English dictionary: The Oxford Color French Dictionary Plus. Aside from a French-English and vice versa word dictionary, it also has other helpful features like a grammar guide, letter writing guide, and even an SMS/texting guide. Nifty to say the least.
Yesterday, I played badminton again after a long hiatus brought about by the holidays. And I didn’t just play, I played hard. So today when I woke up, my muscle were screaming in agony. Someone (Marcinko?) said pain is good, it lets you know you’re alive. Oh yes, I do feel so alive. Argh!
The Eee is a diminutive device. It is around an inch thick and about the size of A5 paper and quite light. But it seems well-built and quite robust. The screen is small but quite usable especially when applications are in full screen mode. The keyboard is also small but still quite usable. The 900MHz processor is not too powerful and the 512MB RAM not too big but the response of applications is quite snappy. The storage is a (surprise!) small at 4GB, but quite fast since it is solid state (i.e. flash-based). If you need more, you’ll need to use external storage via up to three USB ports. But then again, most everything are stored online these days. Speaking of online it has both wired and wireless network interfaces.
But here’s the killer: It’s Linux-based! I know what you’re thinking. That it would be a complex beast. But no, it is actually seems quite easy to use. It has two mode: simple mode and full mode. In simple mode you’re presented with a very simple tabbed menu with large icons that even a grandma would like. Full mode, on the other hand, is the traditional Linux GUI with access to the applications you expect including my favorite: ssh. Oh yeah!
Do I like it? Hell yeah! But being new to the market, it’s still a bit expensive for my liking. But if someone were to gift me one, I wouldn’t say no. The black one please!