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Maybe it's because of the situation I'm in, but I love it when I find out about husband and wife blogging teams. It's encouraging to know there are other couples out there doing the blogging thing and making it work.
There are lots of DIY / home improvement blogging couples who do amazing work together, but it's especially interesting when I find a blogging couple where at least one of them blogs about the inner workings of their business– real numbers, strategies, and technical info that I can then take and apply to my wife's blog.
Everyone on this list is miles ahead of me in terms of their blog and business. That's a good thing for me. I need to seek out others who are currently where I want to go.
Well not to delay it any longer, here are the three blogging couples that I have learned the most from…
Jeff & Mandy Rose
I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff (like real world physical meet space) last summer when his family was in Pittsburgh visiting one of Mandy's blogging friends. Mandy knew my wife Abby and invited our family to spend the day with them at the Pittsburgh Zoo. I connected with Jeff over my past and his current financial advisor career. At that point blogging wasn't very much on my radar or I'm sure the conversation would've been much different!
With many blogging couples, the husband rides in on the wife's coattails and takes over the technical and business aspect of an already successful blog (that's me!) without ever having built an audience themselves. This is not the case with Jeff. He runs a wildly popular personal finance blog and is frequently called on to give presentations at some of the biggest blogging conferences across the country. His wife Mandy has a beautiful mom / home decor blog, and together they write a third blog, Dollars and Roses, which includes income reports and detailed blogging "how-to" type articles.
What I've learned From Jeff and Mandy
Jeff and Mandy are masters at personal branding. Let's face it, it's easier to connect with people than companies or even brands. We are human and we respond best to people; their faces and stories. People talk a lot about branding but Mandy and Jeff are their respective brands.
I've heard advice before that goes something like this; "take yourself out of your business. A future sale is easier if you are not so connected to your business. A domain name with your personal name is a bad idea. Blah, blah…" I don't buy it at all. I like to follow people. I pay attention to what people are doing. I don't care at all about big corporate brands.
Mandy and Jeff understand this. Take a look at the landing pages of their respective sites:
After you read their blogs, listen to their podcast, and watch a few of their videos you feel like you know them. Trust me, this isn't easy to achieve. It takes putting yourself out there and being vulnerable to the internet world. It's not for the faint of heart and may not be for everyone, but if you can pull it off, personal branding can pay dividends for your business.
Bjork & Lindsay
Lindsay is the talented blogger behind Pinch of Yum. I seriously can't get enough of the amazing food photography on that site. It's just absolutely gorgeous! Unfortunately I don't know how to cook anything besides eggs and bacon so all I get to do is look at the pictures. I also appreciate their full transparency with their detailed income reports. Lindsay also just took the plunge into full-time blogging. You don't want to miss her post all about it.
Bjork is the behind the scenes technical guru and strategist who writes for Food Blogger Pro, a membership site for food bloggers. While I'm clearly not a food blogger, his content is useful for many niches. He makes the technical challenges of running a large blog seem manageable. Bjork also blogs about various monetization strategies that he and Lindsay use on Pinch of Yum. If you want to learn about ad networks, affiliate income, and your own product sales, you don't want to miss the Food Blogger Pro blog.
What I've Learned From Bjork and Lindsay
Sometimes it's easy to get into the 100% creative mode and ignore the business opportunities that exist in a growing blog. Fortunately Bjork doesn't overlook any opportunity. If you can make a few dollars from from 15 different channels it can certainly add up. In the case of Pinch Of Yum it has added up to more than just a few dollars. Take a look at all their revenue streams in their latest income report. Abby and I are trying to incorporate as many revenue streams into her blog as possible.
Bjork and Lindsay have also taught me that design and photography matter. We live in a visual world. People have first impressions (right or wrong) based on the visual appearance of your blog or website. Pinch of Yum and Food Blogger Pro nail the design and photography on both of their sites. Lindsay even wrote an eBook on food photography.
Jason & Lisa Leake
My mother-in-law discovered 100 Days of Real Food this past year and has completely changed her eating habits because of it. Lisa's site has a massive audience with 1.3 million Facebook fans and millions of visitors to their site every month. I can't even comprehend those numbers!
For that reason I'm thankful Lisa's husband Jason started Pro Blog School. I'm learning a lot from him on how he manages advertising for 100 Days of Real Food. Jason was also recently featured on a Microblogger Podcast. Even the interviewer seems speechless when hearing some of the metrics associated with Jason & Lisa's blog.
What I've Learned From Jason & Lisa
I recently watched a webinar hosted by Jason Leake and he went into some detail about his ad network earnings. He also wrote a detailed post on Pro Blog School about how they make money from 100 Days of Real Food. He mentions that they make 55% of their blog income from ad networks! This is a complicated subject with lots of differing opinions but I trust Jason's success and experience. He manages his various ad networks through an ad server which allows ads to compete on price for space on his blog. Wow! This is something I need to do for Abby's blog. Jason has mentioned that after he started using an ad server and premium ad networks, his revenue really jumped.


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Picture Pages: Nose Penetration Allowed
Michigan's running game wasn't quite as bad as it looks in the stats, as they had some good gains wiped out by phantom holding penalties, but it warn't good. One of Michigan's main issues was not getting the Akron nose tackle blocked, but when this happened the guy in the backfield seemed only partially at fault, because Michigan was asking him to do something very tough.
Here's a play at the end of the first quarter. Michigan has just shifted various players around and gotten Akron to do this in response:
That is a massive gap between their nose tackle, who's "shaded"* over Miller, and their end, who's outside of Jake Butt. Michigan decides to run at this, which seemed like a good idea at the time.
*[ie, lined up between the center and guard, closer to the center.]
Michigan's going to run a stretch to the wide side of the field, and get a loss out of this. I know. So. Akron's got about seven guys in the box. Michigan has two uncovered OL to the playside plus Kerridge. This should be easy.
[After the jump, it's not going to be]
Upon Further Review 2013: Offense vs Notre Dame
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan was split close to evenly between shotgun/pistol/under center. Notre Dame, meanwhile, was in a ton of four-man fronts until late, when they went back to more of a 4-3 look. Here you can see Shembo with his hand down and a 1-3-5 technique split to the strongside of M's formation:
I know I've mentioned in the past that Notre Dame's defense is not really all that different from Michigan's, and this game was a good demonstration of that. ND prefers over fronts when they go to a four-man line since their SAM equivalent is Jaylon Smith, a fast light bugger. I guess that's kind of a big difference. The point is: ND runs a lot of four man fronts.
Here's ND's 3-4:
The DL are head up on the Michigan OL, with the SAM over the TEs and Smith is over the slot.
This is the pistol. Pew pew:
Another 4-3 over from ND.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: QB Gardner, RB Toussaint on almost every play. Derrick Green got in for two, I think, and M lined up Norfleet as a back once. The line was the starters the whole game, but when Lewan got poked in the eye, Michigan sent in Magnuson, not Braden. Lewan returned, so Magnuson didn't get a snap. He's your #3 tackle it appears.
Williams, Funchess, and Butt all played plenty; Williams went out with an injury, came back for a few plays, and then left permanently. At WR, Gallon (obvious) with Chesson and Jackson rotating more heavily than Reynolds, who may still be dinged. Excepting the Norfleet package early, the slot was always Dileo. Michigan never had more than two outside WRs in the game. On passing downs they filled out with Funchess and Dileo.
[After THE JUMP: slicing and dicing goes both ways.]
Picture Pages: False Mesh Goofball Punish
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Michigan had seen enough of Notre Dame's maniac linebackers by the second quarter to expose their aggression. On their drive after ND had kicked a field goal to make it 17-13, M opened with four straight runs.
The one tailback touch in there was a one-yard loss on power. A Notre Dame linebacker shot the gap, meeting Kyle Kalis two yards in the backfield, and Toussaint bounced it outside without having any hope of doing something out there. The other three plays all worked because they used Devin Gardner's legs to punish the overcommitting Notre Dame defense. Each of these plays could have been a 35-yarder.
The sequence:
- Michigan fakes inside zone, has Gardner run for 7.
- A false zone read keeper breaks outside for 35.
- Toussaint stuffed for loss of one on power, holding on Houma.
- Inverted veer keeper for nine, phantom holding on Miller.
One of them did go for 35. We discussed the veer keeper a bit in the last picture pages post: it sucked a Notre Dame linebacker well into the backfield and may have been a touchdown if Funchess didn't spin around.
The opener is an interesting play; it follows.
Michigan has it first and ten from their 37 and comes out in a pistol 3-wide formation. Notre Dame goes with their 3-4. (I swear ND was mostly a 4-3 team in this game.) Shembo is tight to the LOS over the tight end with Day next to him. ND has two deep safeties and Jaylon Smith in the grey area over the slot.
Michigan will show inside zone, with quickly aborted doubles on Nix and Tuitt forced by the usual hard reaction by the ND linebackers.
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One Frame At A Time: Notre Dame
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- devin gardner
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This whole sequence—Hoke trying to call a timeout as Gardner barely gets the play off, Gardner scoring, Hoke shrugging—is spectacular; the ever-so-subtle smirk at the end just kills me, though. However, is this even the best GIF of the week? Hit the jump to find out my choice and vote for your favorite.
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Picture Pages: Hopped Up On Goofballs
I wish I'd remembered that Bob Diaco linebackers play like they're hopped up on goofballs before the game. Here's the mesh point on Michigan's first offensive snap:
One ILB is almost to the line of scrimmage and the other is a yard back. This is way closer than almost any other team will be, and it is absolutely consistent. ND linebackers fire hard on any run action.
For the most part it's worked for them. Michigan won the Denard after Dentist game despite getting ten yards on eight tailback carries. ND's defense last year was lights out. Notre Dame's hyper-aggression at that spot has been a problem for Michigan's run game for the last couple years, as they haven't had effective counters. Their main one is the waggle, and we all know how that worked out last year.
Not much changed in this one early. Michigan's tailback running game was drips and drabs because of a lack of an effective counter trey. (You know, that play they showed against Central where Taylor Lewan pulled to the backside… ineffectively.) The longer runs they did acquire were almost entirely Fitzgerald Toussaint forcing errors out of ND safeties. For example, the UFR chart on Toussaint's early 14-yard sideline run has four minuses for bad blocks and no positives. Yikes.
Let's get a baseline in this one and see how Michigan responded later. This is a second-quarter zone stretch in which Michigan puts two tight ends to the top of the screen; ND responds with a rare three-man front (they were a 4-3 in this game that occasionally lined up in a 3-4 as a curveball) with a safety walked down:
This looks like a called blitz but in practice it's difficult to tell the difference between an actual blitz and the playside linebacker hauling ass at the first gap he sees. It's just alignment. Notre Dame got some TFLs out of this gap-shooting, and even when they didn't those linebackers forced Michigan to disengage from double-teams on Tuitt, Nix, and Schwenke early, with predictable results.
Meanwhile, the backside linebacker would ignore any cutback possibilities and flow parallel to the line of scrimmage at approximately the same rate the tailback did:
The overall effect is six guys at the line with one hovering behind for cleanup and that overhanging safety able to provide quick support. Even when Notre Dame screwed up this was mostly effective.
A moment post snap, Michigan opens up a gap as they go to double the two defensive tackles:
Note that the backside players on the ND DL are stepping away from the play, which they can do because the MLB is jetting into the gap they vacate. This also allows the backside LB to flow as he does.
Some of this is tough to see, but in this frame:
- Miller has disengaged from Nix in an attempt to cut the charging LB, which he does not do. He does knock him off balance somewhat, possibly contributing to his overrun of the play.
- Meanwhile, Glasgow and Lewan try to handle two guys who have disappeared from the frame: the playside end and charging safety.
- Both tight ends have locked on the playside LB, who is the force player.
- Schofield chases the MLB, who he has no angle on, but could still block if Toussaint cuts back.
A moment later the LB flashes into the backfield wide of Toussaint and runs by; playside end got his legs caught up in traffic and ends up falling, pancaked. Both tight ends are still on the force guy:
This is one of them gap things?
Except it's got a linebacker in it.
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Notre Dame got away with at least a couple errors here. The playside end ends up underneath Glasgow on the ground and they spent a linebacker blowing past Toussaint to little effect. (They did get Miller down but offenses will take one for one trades.) If that can happen and Michigan picks up three yards you can tell that it's tough sledding.
Tough sledding. The goofballs approach makes life tough on offensive linemen, who have to make split second decisions to leave guy and then try to block a rampant guy with tons of momentum before they are ready. This is tough, and Michigan didn't do a good job of it.
Toussaint could put his foot in the ground here and make a cut. Schofield is chasing that linebacker and you occasionally see the blocking develop such that the tailback can make a hard cut upfield behind that OL and suddenly make him relevant. Right about here…
…if Toussaint goes hard north and south aiming for the hash he may shoot past that linebacker and into open space. That's why Schofield keeps following that guy despite not having an angle. It may not work, but you're at least giving yourself a shot. Toussaint had a good day overall; here I think he missed a cut.
The offensive line… I punt. They had a very tough first half against this line, and these linebacker gap-shots don't help. Miller just barely throws off that linebacker if he does anything, but then again that linebacker zips past the play he's moving so fast. If that guy can't make a play, can the OL make a play?
Meanwhile Glasgow gets a pancake that is probably aided by the ND lineman tripping on the blitzer's feet; Lewan ends up putting a safety on the ground. Points for them. This one was a lot better blocked than some.
Funchess is very frustrating. On this play, the linebacker to the top of the screen is obviously the force player*. Butt obviously has him kicked out. Funchess continues to block the guy the whole damn play instead of releasing downfield and getting a hat on the safety. There is no way this is right.
Meanwhile, on the single inverted veer Michigan ran, Notre Dame hyperaggression bit them as one of their linebackers roared up a gap and pursued Toussaint, as did Tuitt. Gardner pulled and got a nice gain. It could have been a lot nicer, but Funchess turned around again:
Also not right, as with Kalis headed to the outside the linebacker is the optioned guy. I know Michigan's blocked guys who are supposed to be optioned before; even if that is the nominal plan, nothing good ever comes of turning 180 degrees when you're a blocker.
That left no one to take the only guy standing between Gardner and a touchdown:
I guess it's better that the play wiped out by a nonexistent holding call was nine yards instead of a thirty-one yard touchdown?
We just saw this happen against Central Michigan; it's closing in on a pattern. Funchess remains a tight end in name only. The mental stuff is more bothersome than any lack of technique. All he has to do on some of these plays is vaguely bother a guy and Michigan can break a long one. Hopefully he makes some progress here in the next few weeks, but the relative prominence of Jake Butt in this game is not a coincidence.
*[IE, the guy who sits on the end of the line and accepts a kickout block. He positions himself such that if the back tries to bounce it outside he either gets tackled for has to take such a circuitous route that by the time he gets the corner for guys are waiting for him. Since things usually go badly—very badly—for the defense if the force player is not doing his job, he is limited in how dynamic he can be what with throwing blockers away and getting TFLs, so doubling him is useless.]
Michigan did exploit this, eventually. You may notice that I'm not complaining about how Michigan didn't adjust to this. This is a tease.
One Frame At A Time: Central Michigan
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- dennis norfleet
- derrick green
- devin funchess
- devin funchess and the world's most unfortunate cramp
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- drew dileo
- dymonte thomas
- fitz toussaint
- jarrod wilson
- jeremy gallon
- kyle kalis
- kyle kalis intentional murder spree
- mario ojemudia
- one frame at a time
- taylor lewan
Football is back, and major props go to drum major—and Belleville native—Jeff Okala for nailing the traditional back-bend in his very first game:
I love that the BTN showed large portions of the pregame show; they had three(!) different camera angles of Michigan touching the banner. This one's my favorite:
Of course, I'm sure you want to see GIFs from the actual game. For Kyle Kalis and Devin Funchess setting their phasers to "kill", Taylor Lewan dominating with however many arms he pleases, epic ninja Hokepoint, and much more, read on below the jump.


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I know the dangers of using pressure treated wood to build raised beds (chemicals leaking into the soil), but what about just painting? I am going to be purchasing a couple of 2 x 10 x 16, and would like to not only "weatherize" them, but also add a touch of so as to not to have to look at white timber all summer. Would an oil or latex based paint be safe? What about Krylon? |
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Here is a link that might be useful: Raised beds with treated lumber
- Posted by belgianpup Wa/Zone 7b (My Page) on Fri, May 6, 11 at 15:17
Odd article, that one. He's talking (2009) about a material was was banned from sale several years before. Why didn't he discuss then/now current methods of pressure-treated lumber? Looking further, I find that he paraphrased an article from a 10-yr-old Kitchen Gardener Magazine. The new treatments are said to be safe, but that's what the earlier PT people said, too. Lying is fine in business now, standard operating procedure. But when a newborn baby already has over 200 foreign chemicals in its body, I think that's too much, so why add a little more of everything? Now, going back to the original question... Krylon is basically a cheap paint that tends not to last long with wet, hot/cold temp changes; it peels and looks ugly. Cedar used to be good, but they harvest the trees so young now that they haven't aged enough to build up the protective oils. I've used them, and they didn't last much longer than fir. BUT if you use a coating on it like people who have cedar houses, that might be a different story. If you know of someone who has a cedar-faced home that still looks new (not the grey aged look) after several years, just stop and ask them what they use. What really works and what advertising says can be two completely different things. Epoxies may be an answer, but you'll have to do your research. The link below can get you started. You might go to a well-known paint store that just sells paint products, like Sherwin-Williams, Benjamin Moore, Rodda Paint, Dunn-Edwards, Kelly-Moore, etc and talk to the people and see what they might advise. Be sure to tell them what you're using it for, and that you need a non-toxic product. Forget places like Home Depot and Lowes, their employees don't know diddly, but won't admit it. Sue |
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The difference in PT lumber from before 2003 and after (when it was deemed safe for use in vegetable gardens) is the use of arsenic in the lumber. PT lumber sold today isn't supposed to contain any arsenic, and is supposedly safe for gardening. That said, I have to agree with belgianpup's point. 2003 was the heyday of Christine Whitman's EPA under the Bush administration. Regulations were freely bought and sold. I used PT lumber this to build my beds this season, and just in case, I lined the wood with plastic sheeting. Didn't go crazy, just stapled a 1' wide strip of plastic against the wood as a barrier between the wood and soil. If I grow any extraneous limbs, I'll let you know. |
The natural wood will fade quickly. Personally, I like the look of old wood. Somehow it makes the garden look more organic. We had a lucky 'find' of some scrap plastic - 30 mil thick. It was so hard to cut, my husband had to use his circular saw. We used scrap lumber (we live on a old farm and have plenty of that around) 2x6, 3 rectangles high. I lined just the vertical insides of the bed with the plastic to help keep moisture in. |
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1 The Ancient, to the dearly beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth. | 1 The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. |
2 Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that thou mayest proceed prosperously and fare well, as thy soul doth prosperously. | 2 Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. |
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4 I have no greater grace than this, to hear that my children walk in truth. | 4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. |
5 Dearly beloved, thou dost faithfully whatever thou dost for the brethren: and that for strangers, | 5 Dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, even though they are strangers to you. |
6 Who have given testimony to thy charity in the sight of the church. Whom thou shalt do well to bring forward on their way in a manner worthy of God: | 6 They have told the church about your love. You will do well to send them on their way in a manner worthy of God. |
7 Because, for his name they went out, taking nothing of the Gentiles. | 7 It was for the sake of the Name that they went out, receiving no help from the pagans. |
8 We therefore ought to receive such: that we may be fellow helpers of the truth. | 8 We ought therefore to show hospitality to such men so that we may work together for the truth. |
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11 Dearly beloved, follow not that which is evil: but that which is good. He that doth good is of God: he that doth evil hath not seen God. | 11 Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. |
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nekoyaki | 10-12-14, 2:55 AM
=IALC Newsletter= Halo halo semua member IALC, mohon maaf menggangu jika menganggu tapi kami ingin coba sampaikan beberapa hal yang berlangsung di IALC saat ini Pertama adalah Voting Best Summer 2014 Anime sedang kita selanggarakan, bagi teman teman yang sudah menonton dan ingin mendukung anime favorit di musim itu silahkan datang dan vote~. Berikut link threadnya, IALC Vote Anime Summer 2014 Terbaik Lalu selanjutnya adalah Grup LINE IALC! beberapa waktu yang lalu kita coba buat untuk mempermudah komunikasi antar member dan ini berhasil, ayo bergabung di grup LINE kita bagi yang memiliki smartphone ataupun android user di PC. Dan ini link threadnya, IALC LINE Group Sekian saja newsletter untuk saat ini, semoga teman teman dapat ikut berpartisipasi di kegiatan yang sedang kita adakan ini. Jika ada pertanyaan jangan sungkan untuk bertanya di club ataupun lewat kami admin dan officer. :3 |
Alfyan | 06-17-13, 6:09 PM
Well it might juggle between anime and gaming which happens to be a lot :P Oh well whatever rocks your boat I'm always here anyway lol which ones are you going to play then? I just recently started playing Final Fantasy 8 and quite hooked
Its addictive right? Ahh that is a shame, although I won't mind the lagg much :O Ahh that is indeed a hinderance.. Shame that really happens though >.> I can't even play above 100+ latency lol. Yes I'll take a look at it to see if it appeals to me :) Went ok to say the least lol Haha yes that is correct :P I'm studying Geography :) I have added :O yonuskun! |
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natsuzora | 06-15-13, 10:57 AM
Happy Birthday!
Saraph | 06-13-13, 7:05 PM
Happy birthday! Writing you a day earlier, but I would most probably forget about it tomorrow. ;)
Alfyan | 05-20-13, 7:06 AM
Ahh well.. My delay is even longer >.> I'm so sorry!!!
I never realised you replied back until now :O sorry for the delay! Ahh oh well at least your fine :P Doing great atm lol yes I'm still playing it haha although I have stopped for a month due to exams etc. Haha yeah I know that is why I normally play pubs :P lol you will find out eventually ;P it changes a lot so there are probably new items you don't know about ;P Is it still in beta then? I've been playing War Thunder as well :P haha time is never a friend if you have this much to do :P haha same, although if its from the 80's like DBZ its respectable |
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natsuzora | 11-12-12, 6:34 PM
Lately I've been playing these, Little Busters!, Rewrite, AIR and Zelda Spirit Tracks.
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I'm sure you'll come up with something eventually.
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Hello, it can be hard to decide and find something to use when making a profile.
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Alfyan | 08-02-12, 4:26 PM
Not really.. I found Baka To Test and School Rumble funny though ;) TTGL is more concentrated on Mecha, Action and definitely adventure. If you enjoyed Full Metal Panic! Then I guess TTGL would suit your taste as well.. however for me I quite liked FMP but not TTGL :S
I understand what you mean though, I quite like watching new airing anime compared to the old ones, but during the time when I'm up to date with the new ones I tend to watch the old ones as well ;) It doesn't matter to me really as long as it is good to watch etc xD At least you know what I mean by experiencing it yourself xD I know right, but it is unique to have a main character like that.. Mirai Nikki is actually quite good ;O it's not actually Yuuki's fault that he got dragged into the game :S I actually understand his feelings at the start, but yeah he does get more aggressive after a certain part of the story; for which I won't spoil :) Same, it's like sunny then it rains in a matter of few minutes ;) we get the same here! Well at least you can substitute gaming with anime xD I know how you feel though, how about playing some old PC games that you used to like? Yes! It is so addictive :P I can play it for hours straight; I never get bored of it either for some reason. Hmm I don't think so really.. depends.. Have you told him what overpowered items there are in particular? I see :P please do then ;) |
Alfyan | 07-12-12, 6:48 PM
No problem! My lates are later so don't worry about it lol
TTGL is quite a mixed anime for me. The anime style is not to my liking, it's like half assed animation with some fighting scenes occurring; but I don't understand what is happening since the animation style do not allow me to follow it. It's like rough, unclear and low quality Also the worst part is Kamina's personality.. frankly I hate him and he annoys the hell out of me, thanks to him he puts me off watching more episodes of TTGL However I like the story development and I'm interested to see what happens later on, although I will slowly progress through the anime one by one until I get annoyed with Kamina and stop for a bit So yeah it will take me some time to finish it, but that anime is certainly not as good as it is hyped.. I don't see what is so good about it >.< Haha I guess that fact really do pass people sometime ;) but either way you live around the equator so your climate is hot and wet all year round! Now that is what I call progress ;D good to see your making the most out of your summer! I've started a lot of summer anime and enjoying most of it, especially Tari Tari, Kororo Connect and Sword Art Online I'm going through that, my gaming in TF2 and also one old anime series all through summer.. so hopefully summer would go slowly for me :D Have fun with Code Geass by the way! Please do tell me what you think of the anime you watch |
Alfyan | 06-25-12, 7:39 PM
That reminds me I still need to watch it ;)
Hmm, probably the same experience I'm having with Gurren Lagann lol, Comedy and Romance are surely the way to go ;) Haha shame :P nothing to be excited about though lol if you travel in the Northern hemisphere at December- January or go to the Southern hemisphere at June-July you are sure to go to it :P I'll try to mix it up a bit, but I will still be trying to go for anime more than socialising :P |
yui_iwisawa | 06-24-12, 12:50 PM
Okay,are you reading any manga?
What are your fave games? |
Alfyan | 06-19-12, 3:36 PM
Truly no problem ;) Glad you liked the message! I didn't but It mentions it on the friends birthday tab on the site homepage ;) I always want to say Happy birthday to my friends ;D
So it's not like I remember the date though :( That is a shame, I guess we switch our addiction between anime and gaming and right now your in the gaming side :) *Same with me* although I'm still making some progress in anime, just not as quick as I want it too thanks to my gaming :P Yeah same for me, since they are both time consuming hobbies I guess alternating between them is really difficult. Nothing much except for the fact that I have officially started summer woo! *Pops Champagne* I have much more time for anime and gaming now ;) so life is good atm! |
yui_iwisawa | 06-16-12, 7:54 AM
Happy Birthday!!
Sorry i'm a bit late Hope you enjoyed it |
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Happy Birthday!
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The Boy by Betty Jane Hegerat
April 2011, ISBN 978-088982-275-7
In 1959 Ray and Daisy Cook and their five children were brutally slain in their modest home in the central Alberta town of Stettler. Robert Raymond Cook, Ray Cook's son from his first marriage, was convicted of the crime, and had the infamy of becoming the last man hanged in Alberta.
Forty-six years later, a troublesome character named Louise in a story that Betty Jane Hegerat finds herself inexplicably reluctant to write, becomes entangled in the childhood memory of hearing about that gruesome mass murder. Through four years of obsessively tracking the demise of the Cook family, and dancing around the fate of the fictional family, the problem that will not go away is how to bring the story to the page. A work of nonfiction about the Cooks and their infamous son, or a novel about Louise and her problem stepson? Both stories keep coming back to the boy.
Part memoir, part investigation, part novella, part writer's journal, The Boy, is the author's final capitulation to telling the story with all of the troublesome questions unanswered.
Among the things I like best about this book is its steady, sure-handed tone and style. Hegerat's unconventional approach to its subject – what turns a boy into a killer, applied obliquely to the case of the last man hanged in Alberta, Robert Raymond Cook – yields truths that otherwise could be only guessed at. We'll never know any answers for sure, but Hegerat's meditation gives us a different, useful, and wise angle.
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Delivery by Betty Jane Hegerat
October 2009, ISBN 978-088982-257-3
A Crack In The Wall by Betty Jane Hegerat
April 2008, ISBN 978-088982-240-5
The characters in A Crack in the Wall share a strong sense of home, whether it is a lifelong sanctuary, or a shell as fragile as the person who inhabits it. A young kleptomaniac ventures outside the shaky walls of her self-imposed confinement. A middle-aged woman pragmatically disposes of a houseful of pets in Calgary before returning to the Maritimes to embark on the next phase of her life. An elderly woman is forced to share her room in a nursing home with an old enemy. The stories explore the vastly different ways in which people deal with blows to the foundations of their lives, with loss. In the title story, "A Crack in the Wall," a perfect home fractures after the death of a child. And in another, a grieving husband finds the house haunted by ghostly messages attached to the frozen meals left behind by his dying wife. These are ordinary people, abundantly flawed, often recognizing, but still clinging to their weaknesses.
A Crack in the Wall takes the reader on a voyeuristic walk down suburban streets, a glimpse into open windows at people yearning for what was, and making their reluctant peace with what is, and what will be.
"Betty Jane Hegerat is a gifted and compelling storyteller. She deals in ordinary people who lead ordinary lives, but by some unobtrusive narrative magic, her people become extraordinary."
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Refreshingly unpretentious, A Crack in the Wall draws out detail with an easy momentum that avoids the excesses of myopic realism… Simple and precise, Hegerat's style elegantly explores the inner lives of characters struggling against expectation and inevitability – themes that are once maddeningly complex and mundane … Hegerat herself is a long-time Calgarian and her penchant for recognizable landmarks reverberates as strongly as her characters' attachments to the comfort of their own, often disintegrating houses … Hegerat's stories' clear voices and familiar obsessions make them at once artful and sympathetic.
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Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, twelve-year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away. His new foster parents, Wilma and Ben Howard, are determined to make their home his for life, but old habits are hard to break.
Wilma takes Corey to the Calgary Zoo for his annual visit with his birth mother, despite her discomfort about Tina Brinkman and the fever Corey is pretending not to have. When Corey goes missing at the zoo, his two mothers are forced into an uneasy truce in the search for their son.
Running Toward Home reveals the complex relationships surrounding a foster child, and the fine line between protection and standing in the way of life lessons. For twenty-four hours the Calgary Zoo becomes the entire world, and the lines between the nurturing instincts in animals and humans become blurred.


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Here are a couple photos of a "bull dogger" from back in the day. I've gotten away from this style and gone with the wide brim...one in camo and one in orange.