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Sunday, November 30, 2008

My New Anime Work Station



As of a few days ago I put my anime business revenue to good use by upgrading my work station here at home. I upgraded to a nice 19" LCD monitor, got a new video card and I kept my old monitor for the duel monitor setup. I'm loving it it and though I wish I got more done, with my job only going to be about two full days a week, the day has come for most of my efforts for here and my anime store plus the continuation of my artwork, Flash animations and games, anime.fm, my personal blog, contests and many more. Damn job has been such a pain so I do hope I can fire my boss once and for all soon. Loving being able to work from home and hence this new setup.

The figures up on top of my desk are (from left to right) Needa, Kotobukiya Tifa, Mirei-san and Yuffie by Kotobukia. On the shelf you can see Figma Mikuru and a few other small figures.

Next I need a wiredless mouse (again, my last one broke) , an oppai mouse pad and I should use my regular camera for these types of pics...not my iPhone.






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posted by princetrunks @ 8:10 PM


Sunday, November 16, 2008

An Otaku on Party 105

I'm a few days late on posting this but on Thursday Danielle and I went to a neat event hosted by one the local radio stations here, Party 105. as some of you might have remembered from the past posts, we became finalists for the "Get Hitched on the House" contest where we could have gotten our wedding for free.  I do thank some of the fans here for the votes but unfortunatly we didn't win.  The winning couple got over 1100 votes which I would assume was waaaay more than what we got. No matter.  It was a cool event were we were able to mingle with some of the radio celebes here.  Danielle and I did mangae to grab a quick spot on the radio though.  Three couples were chosen to answer this question during Nikki At Night's Lady's Lounge; "Do you kiss on the first date."  We were the last couple to answer and while the other couples stated that th guy tryed, I just said "She kissed me."  All in all in was cool to get a few seconds on the radio.  It's true  Danielle actually kissed me on the first date. I guess I should ask you guys this qustion, do you kiss on the first date? 

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posted by princetrunks @ 7:05 PM


Thursday, September 11, 2008

My 9/11 Story

As most of you have probably heard many, many times today, today marks the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Being that I'm in New York here on Long Island, I can't help but to write about it. About 500 people from my area died that day, people who were just at work on a nice, clear morning who didn't know what was to take place. There's a make-shift memorial of the Twin Towers just a block away from me on a neighbor's front lawn. It's been there since about a month after the attacks, and everyday, while the world and even this country kind of forgets 9/11 throughout the year, except for today, I continue to salute it and remember. I also didn't forget that al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden and most involved are still out there along with the evil known as extremist religious fundamentalism that is the root of this act like this and acts similar from the past, present and future...even though it almost seems the US has forgotten this with its mindless Iraq war and thinned out troops in the lands of our real enemy.

I was just starting my senior year in high school. Within a week's time of being there I already knew my packed schedule with almost all AP classes was to be way too much for me being I was also working full time as a semi-manager at Friendly's Ice Cream. This website was maybe just a few lines of HTML code on my web design class computer or just a sparkle in my eye. I was getting a bad case of "senioritis" and wanted the immense free time I could have for anime drawing and my site if I cut the AP courses. As each bell rang I threw in the towel to each AP course but it wasn't long before I heard the commotion in the hallways. At first people thought it was just a freak accident and some misguided small plane hit the towers. Then, shortly after the second plane hit, the worry began to creep in. I was handing the books to my AP biology teacher while she viewed the image of the second blast on the classroom's computer. It was then that we were told to sit and listen to the radio report live. I was in a state of disbelief. When they said one of the towers fell I thought they meant the large radio tower on one of them. I never thought they could have possibly meant that one of and then shortly later that both of the enormous Twin Towers were falling to the ground. Middle of the radio broadcast the bell rang for the next class and everyone was on their cell phones. Practically my whole family was in eastern Long Island with my mother being a stay-at-home-mom and my father being a home business owner so I didn't have a cell phone then nor did I have reason to call my family. I still can't get and will probably never forget the image of all the students of Newfield High school in the hallways. Many were crying and scared on their cell phones as they tried to reach loved ones. It was utter chaos, sadness and confusion. There were many who didn't and never will.

At the same time my fiancee, Danielle of whom I didn't meet till March of that school year was worried about her father, Alex who was just a block away from the towers. Alex told me the scenes were something he wouldn't forget. Many didn't see much of an issue with the first plane but when the second hit, he said everyone began to panic. He was fixing parts of a building nearby when he saw the explosion with paper flying everywhere. Shortly after he heard loud thuds hitting the ground around his building but those were not debris but the bodies of those who jumped from the tops of those 110 story buildings. A site I doubt will ever get out of anyone's mind.

So, on this day, 7 years after it all happened, I was driving to my chiropractor's early in the morning and this year like every year at about 9:00am a surge of sadness hit me and I began to cry for those who lost their lives. Many of my friends lost a loved one and in me still burns the anger for Osama Bin Laden and all like him. If given the chance I'd take no second guess on deterring al Qaeda any way I could whether it be to destroy any possible computer system they have or just simply break their faces in. So while the world remembers 9/11 today, I will continue to salute that Twin Tower memorial near my house everyday like I have for the past 7 years and may all my condolences go to all the families of those lost. If given a chance I will defend their honor and I know many of you would too.

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posted by princetrunks @ 4:45 PM


Sunday, August 10, 2008

Rare 3rd Picture of the Montauk Monster


I know, here I go again with this Montauk Monster thing. Not otaku related but I live in eastern Long Island so its big news here. The picture above I only found through some semi-deep searching online of it. Most of the pictures shown are of the two I'll post below. The 1st picture that's on my previous post is the most popular but this one is barley seen and it links the two pictures mainly circulated around. This is because in this picture you can see the red part of it on the upper right that's not in the grayish second picture but in the original picture. Picture number 2 and this one shows that this was probably a wild boar or we are all being conned by some hoax. It could also be Gannon from Legend of Zelda....see I still kept it anime or video game related.

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posted by princetrunks @ 3:36 PM


Friday, August 1, 2008

Montauk Monster Washes Ashore, Yet The Worst People Supposedly Have It

I know, this isn't exactly anime news but this simply had to be shared before it gets forgotten. Yesterday on the local news there was a report of a demon that washed ashore on Long Island's Montauk Point, roughly 2 hours east of my home. What is being dubbed as the "Montauk Monster," this unknown thing is simply disturbing. At first look somebody can maybe guess it was a dog or something that washed ashore...but look closely and you will see that it has a beak!

Now for a little bit of Long Island knowledge..right offshore, east of Montauk is an island called Plum Island, this island is completely restricted and is known as a government poison and I believe animal testing facility. It could very well be some sort of experiment done there or something. CBS news aired it but was very quick on the story...they said they simply weren't sure what it was and that it could have been a fake but they never stated what happened to the body. It was taken away and that's it!

Anyways, us otaku always watch anime about akuma (demons) and shinigamis so could this very well be a real demon or some unknown creature. What's your take on it?

-Image through google when you search "Montauk Monster"

-Video Below from CNN... don't have audio since I'm at my job computer ^^ so I have no idea what they said on it. I first saw it on CBS yesterday.



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posted by princetrunks @ 3:15 PM


Sunday, May 18, 2008

Long Island, USAs 51st State?

I know, not exactly an otaku topic but being that I live on Long Island I just had to write about this. Many people know that the New York State government has been anything but reliable. From the new Amazon tax, the scandals, overpaid Suffolk Police, gambling Fire Districts, overtaxed towns due to school money mismanagement; Long Island has alot of garbage to deal with. Add the failing US economy and falling dollar, unless you make 90k+ running your own business, most people are simply leaving the island. The lack of elderly and young people on the island has prompted some groups to help keep people here but as schools continue to teach people to be a bunch of cubical-slaves in a fixed and shaky $40k(maybe) 9-5 job, don't expect that to happen all too soon.
The newest plan to help Long Island is to actually turn it into the 51st state. This might seem like something rather shocking but its not far off from impossible. Suffolk County Comptroller, Joseph Sawicki stated the very reasons for this on News 12 just a few days ago. This isn't some internet hype, Long Island wants to break from New York State! Sawicki stated that of the $8 Billion Long Island sends to Albany, $3 Billion never comes back to us. Breaking free from New York State would most likely solve a bunch of issues. Many people here at a least in Nassau and Suffolk County usually say we are on Long Island and not in New York when we talk to out-of-towners.
Financially speaking, Long Island would benefit from it but don't expect Albany to give up their cash cow all too easily. It legally can happen since LI has 2.8 million people making it the 19th largest state if this happens. Of course, this is by far an issue that the Supreme Court will have to deal with.

In the picture above you can see the proposed Long Island State Flag with the four stars representing Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, Suffolk Counties and the forked strip representing the two forks of the island in LI's dull orange and blue colors. Below is a map of Long Island so to answer the common question. "Where the hell is Long Island?" Official story on News 12 here.

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posted by princetrunks @ 2:36 PM


Monday, May 5, 2008

Macgyver Film In the Works


Back in the late 80's when I was no more than 7 years old, Macgyver, was one of the shows I used to watch in-between Atari 2600 and NES sessions. I do remember there being a full length feature back in the day but it looks like there actually will be a high budget movie in the next year or so. It would be cool to see Richard Dean Anderson play the part again after all these years.
For those of you that might not be old enough to remember this show; it was joked about briefly in Family Guy with Peter giving Anderson a letter with a paper clip straw and a rubber band. More on gizmodo.

(For anime fans who might be confused, this is in no relation to the anime, The Guyver)

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posted by princetrunks @ 8:00 AM


Thursday, April 24, 2008

New York's Amazon Tax Law & Other Tidbits



Here's yet another kind of off-topic item but I'll mention the Anime Store's connection in a bit, plus it has a bit to do with me of all people...well sort of. If you are in the US, you might have heard about the "Amazon Tax". New York State just passed a law that it now has outside retailers charge sales tax to customers in New York state so that they then pay New York for the transactions. Basically, New Yorkers are being forced to shop locally or be taxed. This law is a complete violation of a Supreme Court ruling so we'll see where it goes. The ruling has caused discussion on the local news at News 12 here on Long Island and one of the key speakers is actually my boss in my part-time job. You can see a mug shot of me here at the company's site which I am sadly the webmaster of!! The only reason I say "sadly" is that I have tried to fix the site's 1997 look but office politics prevent me to do so and the site is shown a number of times through-out the talk ~_~;;;
The company I work for has been in business on Long Island for 54 years so they benefit from this new tax law. The anime store here does too, but I honestly feel that New York is overstepping their grounds. If the video of the live talk goes on youtube, you'll see it below.

(I promise, you will see some anime girls and stuff in the upcoming blog posts. ^ ^;)

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posted by princetrunks @ 7:14 PM


Monday, March 31, 2008

The Sushi Diet



For the past few weeks I've improved my health by switching to an almost all sushi diet. There are three reasons why I did this. One, like any otaku I'm crazy for anything Japan related; two, I'll be marrying into a Japanese family so I better get to like it and three, I needed to improve my diet. For at least a year now I've been getting recurring migraine headaches. This is due to the stress of still having a mindless boss over me (but not for long ^_^) and due to past abuses to my body with all the places people had me travel to while working a mindless job. I got into the nasty habit that many American's get into in which we eat only one or two times in the day and almost all of it is fast food. First off, I never got fat thankfully. My genes apparently blessed me with hyper metabolism but that didn't stop symptoms like fatigue, headache and overall sick feeling. I do own a health company so I use the vitamins and very healthy sugar-free anime-style energy drinks. These do help but my main meals were few and contradicted the very healthy stuff I was putting into my body. Subway was a bit of help but still not enough. Then three weeks ago I started to buy sushi from the local restaurant near my 9-5 slave plantation..I mean job. Since them I've been eating sushi and even making my own to save money (more on that in a future post). Eating mainly sushi and maki rolls has improved my mood, gave me more energy, helped improve the performance of my vitamins and stopped my migraines. Now I'm no doctor and everybody's health is different but maybe there is a reason why the healthiest people on the planet eat like this.

If you have any good or bad sushi stories post here and also let me know your favorite type of sushi or maki roll. My favorites are shrimp tempura roll and crazy roll for example.

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posted by princetrunks @ 11:14 AM


Monday, March 17, 2008

The Dollar is Less than 100 Yen...Japan Tender Looking Sweeter


It appears that we might have to start converting our dollars to Yen the way things are with the American economy lately. The greenback is now worth 95 yen and if I'm not mistaken... only a few years ago it was about 140 yen to $1. If any of you otaku keep up with economic news, the Federal Reserve once again cut interest rates due to Bear Stern's fall in liquid assets. In layman's terms, the US central bank added more money to the system to prevent investors to sell their stocks like a bunch of crazy store liquidators which would have lowered the stock market. All lowering the interest rate does is keep wall street happy in a fake sense of accomplishment. For the rest of the country, it means that the dollar, as you see, lost more value since there is more "fake" money in the system. This raises gas prices and causes everything to get more expensive therefore hurting everyone else. To be honest, I'd say abolish the central bank, back the dollar by gold and have banks be responsible for their mistakes so we all can continue to grow as technology makes it that every person counts now.
Anyways, I think I'm going to stash a few yen when Danielle and I go on our Japan honeymoon in a year or two from now becuase by then it'd be worth more than the dollar at this rate.

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posted by princetrunks @ 10:24 AM


Thursday, February 21, 2008

Pieces of Shot Down Satellite Falling near Long Island



Speaking of "crashes"... looks like the spy satellite that was just recently shot down had bigger chunks left than expected. Just a few minutes ago about 5-7 streaks were in the air over our home in Selden, New York. These are definitly from the satellite that was blown up. Pretty creepy stuff. I know this isn't really anime related but if anyone from any other part of the Earth is seeing the same thing, drop a message. There are about 4-5 army helicopters flying near by and nothing yet on the news so this is the first I believe anyone is speaking of this. Above you can see the crappy photo I took of the streaks near the moon in the sky. A few more more overhead in crossed paths too. I wonder if any hit the ground o_O.

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posted by princetrunks @ 7:44 PM


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