Old Stereo:


New Stereo:


I will miss having a cassette player but the ability to properly play CD's and hook up a portable music player outweighs that lost feature. Being able to scan through the radio bands and save presets without a struggle is a great improvement.

• 14:49 An investigation of patterns related to the odd springing up of Class of 2013 univ. groups on Facebook: bit.ly/10YKp #
• 15:07 'A Christmas Story" is on cover of SacBee's ontv. What is the seminal Xmas film for today's kids: Polar Express? Narnia? Jingle All The Way? #
• 15:28 Phantom Hourglass is still retailing for $35? It came out last October! Mario Kart DS going for sim. price - came out in Nov. 2005! Yeesh... #
• 16:23 Niners win, Raiders win, Detroit loses badly (maybe next wk vs Packers?), and a heart-breaking just-inches-short loss for the Eagles. #
• 16:31 @lelangir It is very unlikely for the Lions to win next week but there is a slight chance for a W if they, somehow, make it a kicking game. #
• 17:36 It's a good thing I counted up my Xmas moment posts rather than down because I might just call it off tonight. Already two days behind... #
• 22:07 Formal "I give up" regarding 12 Days of Xmas, with some leftover moments: ping.fm/2SVNa #

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• 15:34 Hunter X Hunter Set 1 shipped late last night (finally!) #
• 15:37 The closest Five Guys to me are in Carson or Cerritos (Calif.) and in Beaverton (Oreg.) - both very far from Sacramento. #
• 15:43 Just read in Diggnation show notes that Comcast WILL be rolling out an (overdue) bandwidth meter to customers in early January. Cool. #
• 18:13 Tardy Two Cents on Credit, Crunchyroll and Comments: ping.fm/SjuV0 #
• 19:58 Watched "Childrens' Hospital" in one run. It has its moments. #
• 20:33 Eff it - no xmas reflection post today. Halfway done with this project but struggling with latter half. Need to catch up on stuff faster. #
• 21:19 @scottfrye Fruits Basket was like that with a 4-disc series. Guessing that those are dual-layer DVDs if it has great visuals. #

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• 06:25 Small sign that AnimeVice is making a foothold for itself: ANN cites AV in Manganovel "Daily Brief" (week-old news!) - ping.fm/hUSQ8 #
• 06:31 Our 7-19 Sacramento Kings (sigh) were used as the main thread in NY Times story about select drops in NBA attendance: ping.fm/lQDgx #
• 16:02 Retweeting @ShawnElliott: Everything you never needed to know about anime: tinyurl.com/2wepm7 #
• 16:23 Grammar nitpick: I am tired of hearing 'of X awesome-ness' and 'of X goodness' as lazy catch-alls for "quality". Vary your terms of praise! #
• 16:30 Going to Best Buy to help Dad pick out my Christmas present: a new car stereo for my old Volvo. #
• 19:57 Fortune cookie: "Remember three months from this date. Good things are in store for you." Hmm. Mongolian BBQ = packed; Circuit City = lame. #
• 21:15 I'm thinking of selling my two Guitar Hero PS2 guitars as well as GH2 & GH3. What would be a fair price for the lot? #
• 00:59 "Day 6" post finished in the first hour (to me) of Day 7: ping.fm/mMaka I promise number 7 will come later today. #

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• 14:48 I found David Bowie on Spiralfrog last night, downloaded a few albums, and am listening to them now. Too bad SF still uses PlaysForSure DRM. #
• 16:51 Flipped over the Emotion Card I got from Bandai's AX booth. The Japanese video release of Saber Marionette J To X Act 1: 10 yrs ago today! #
• 16:53 Took some pictures of it. Front of the card: tr.im/2g5y - here's the back: tr.im/2g64 #
• 19:22 watching Million Dollar Password because it's a game show and it's not bad. #
• 20:43 Wow, I go play demo of Strong Bad Telltale game #1 for 1 hr and shit explodes. No mention of the ICv2-CR interview?: ping.fm/jW4ym #
• 21:06 Those who have linked to Scott's essay on Digg: you do know you can link to individual comments, right? #
• 21:36 Day 5 post - not the best but it does the job: ping.fm/JyhdF #
• 22:00 Got around to emailing my press application for Sac-Anime. Also eating pumpkin pie ice cream. Mmm, I can even taste the crust... #

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• 14:14 Retweeting @justinmcelroy: Dear Internet: It's Time To Get Pumped: tinyurl.com/6jm736 then tinyurl.com/32zz82 #
• 15:51 Day 4 post done and it's a short one: ping.fm/PydXp #
• 16:19 Huh, my EDGE card expired last month. No big loss. #
• 16:50 @icystorm I seem to remember a few good reaction posts to its release (ca. August 4th) so maybe a cut-together of those could suffice. #
• 17:57 @jpmeyer Aware of that, but the "before" timing makes for an easier time than during travel rush? Blame @Canon2D for starting the tradition. #
• 19:52 @owen_s Yes, every so often when I read a memorably funny tweet. #

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• 13:29 @lelangir My Kobato post was actually for Day 2, just happened to finish it at a very late time. (I'm falling behind like last year...sigh.) #
• 13:45 Considering doing a series of 12seconds reaction videos during Funi's upcoming 10 day licensing binge. #
• 13:51 @animealmanac True, but I intend to use the other seconds for succinct analysis. Perhaps express my personal opinion using a sheet of paper. #
• 14:31 Heh, just lol'd at the wide gap between opinions in Borderline Hikikomori's winter preview over Marimite S4. #
• 21:00 Renewed my old domain last night & just found something I want to wax about outside Google Reader notes so it'll be an non-anime blog post. #
• 23:19 Xmas Day 3 moment post is up and it's from Hyakko (what, I like it!): ping.fm/McHvE (ping.fm site screwed up a little...) #
• 23:24 Letterman is a good late-night alternative when Daily Show/Colbert Report are on vacation and even worth watching the rest of the time. #

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• 12:17 Hubbub ANN Nanoha review reminded me of the Meta Anime Review Project: www.animecritic.com/_metareview/ (No updates since October.) #
• 12:38 Wrote something about yesterday's Bandai announcement: ping.fm/tAL5A It was my first short-term (5 min.) test of post scheduling. #
• 13:11 @concretebadger Argh, they don't deliver across the Atlantic. Oh well. #
• 14:20 @PatzPrime So, double their campaigns from Jan 2007 & May 2008. I wouldn't be surprised if at least one won't come stateside until 2010. #
• 14:36 About to watch "The Happening" with my brother. #
• 16:55 Thought the movie was so-so. Mark Wahlberg and watching the deaths frame-by-frame were the best parts. #
• 20:11 Successfully transferred My Nintendo account into Club Nintendo after resetting the password and digging out my username from old e-mail. #
• 20:30 @animealmanac I'll have to wait and read the whole thing but I hope the CR part does not consist of the same old complaints. #
• 20:33 @animealmanac Oh, almost forgot, last week's Rica 'tte Kanji post was a pretty good read. #
• 20:41 @chrisgrant Yes, sucks. Can't re-enter the games either since they've already been registered. #
• 20:45 Luckily, I hadn't previously registered my family's Wii and Wii games so I can at least get SOME "free" Club Nintendo coins. #
• 22:45 Finished with reflection post for Day 2: ping.fm/axvX5 #
• 22:57 Checked Insight stats on JP Inside Xbox video (had Clannad trailer) I put on YouTube in August. There was a spike on Dec. 9th of 400+ views. #
• 23:14 Ya know, Bush had an eventful presidency - some moments recalled less happily than others. I'll never forget the 2002 pretzel incident... #
• 23:54 Now the Club Nintendo site has marked some of my previously registered DS games as 'to-dos' but I still get the duplicate PIN error. Rrrrr. #

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• 15:41 @lelangir I'm finishing mine up, it should be done within the next hour. #
• 16:00 @animevice Teleconferencing? #
• 16:03 @spongbros The manga has been localized into English as "Black God". #
• 16:10 Oh, Laura Bailey is playing Kuro. She'll be a guest at Sac-Anime next month a few days after this premiere. How convenient. #
• 16:21 Oh, I should have figured it would be a Sunrise title, considering their prior licenses of Gundam Wing, Outlaw Star and Code Geass. #
• 16:30 Unfortunately for me, Comcast doesn't carry iaTV in Sacramento. They dropped it from San Francisco's listings in July: bit.ly/hIxC #
• 17:09 12 Days of Xmas Day 1: A Tragic Account of War - ping.fm/TWStU #
• 20:48 Saw a bit of VGAs when it was streaming earlier b/w Joystiq's liveblog webcam. Will watch West Coast feed to check if Stiller is bleeped. #
• 23:30 Looked at the Bandai-Kurokami press release and somehow 'simultaneous' means Korean broadcast is 1 1/2 days after JP broadcast. o_0 #
• 23:42 Ah, I think the press release had a typo!!! Bandai's landing page rightfully has the same date (Jan. 9) for the Japanese & Korean premieres. #

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• 13:46 I was disappointed to wake up and not have college football to watch, but luckily college basketball is filling my Saturday sports void. #
• 13:54 Day 0 post for 12 Days of Xmas Round Two: ping.fm/HEzpT #
• 14:20 So Bandai is now calling tomorrow's announcement 'historic' in addition to 'very unique'? They sure are building this up.... anyone going? #
• 14:51 @omonomono I honestly wouldn't rule it out, considering what happened at their Otakon surprise panel. #
• 17:23 Watching the Heisman award show (for some reason) and the beginning of Gladwell's latest New Yorker piece came to mind: bit.ly/vqiY #
• 20:41 Just tried out @otakusecret's anti-hotlinking image using Google Pages and, well, it works! #
• 00:32 Manually adding a buttload of feeds into Google Reader, just so my shared links will be formatted correctly. #
• 00:34 In the process, I'm noticing that a fair number of blogs in the ANano Directory haven't posted in a year or more. Just an observation. #

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