June 16, 2003 - Monday

Well, not exactly a Nekobox comic, but a comic I did nevertheless. With Fanime next weekend, I'm going to be busy this week, so, I won't have time to put up a comic. Instead, enjoy the comic I made for Fanime... the first page is listed above. The rest of the pages can be found by following the following links: Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Enjoy!

[^Young^] - 1:53 AM PDT

FANIME RULES

[^sukedachi^] - 12:43 PM PDT

Yes... Fanime Con. is right around the corner. I shall be slaving around for media, marketing, newsletter staff and assistance with the Nekobox booth. Sweeeeet. I'm looking forward to it. I've recently got my hands on two different comic series that are blowing my mind. Dark Crimson (Urushihara, Satoshi) Parallel (kobayashi, Toshihiko) Great stuff. I'm gonna hunt some more issues down at the con. Gots to thank George and Amanda for coming over so often these days. Its always good to be surrounded by people who care (or at least people who don't get upset with me complaining about life all the time... ha ha ha lol *jk) We need to start up a forum about that animated Dog that Kingger put up a few days ago. Isn't it sooooo cuite. I hear some people say its really scary looking. Well hey if your head was twice the size of your entire body... then you'd be scary lookin' too. So be nice :p Cool, lots of people showing to the convention. I'm looking forward to kickin' back with Vaz. We seem to have a number of things in common these days. (not to mention "Underpower" ROCKS) Everyone, Give Master Young support. That man is Hardcore. Boy is up at all hours of the night and day workin' his kitten butt off to get you (YEA YOU... you who's reading this right now) Product that you'll enjoy. The Nekobox dealer's table at Fanime is going to Rule. Look forward to it. and remember to sleep. Cause there wont be much of that happening this upcoming weekend. - Mori Yori

[^sukedachi^] - 12:44 PM PDT

OK, I got the oddest compliment today.. it wasn't a direct compliment though. I was at the Blockbuster near me and some kids were at the check out line and I was browsing the games section and I heard one go: "Hey, you know who that looks like?" and I was expecting him to go "he looks like a chick!" but in actuality, he finished that statement with "He looks like that guy from Tekken! That Lei guy!" That was cool. In other news, my kitchen table blew up today. I was using it as an ironing board. It's a large glass table, about 3/8 inch thick... and the directions for the color iron-on shirt thingies said to iron them on a hard surface; no ironing boards. So I didn't wanna do it on my wood table, because it might scorch or burn... and I thought the heat necessary to damage glass would be easily in the thousand degree area, so I thought the glass table would work. I got through about half the shirts I needed to make and the table just blew up. How sad. I cut my foot, but other than that, there was no damage. Go figure. Time for a new table.

[^Young^] - 10:51 PM PDT

June 17, 2003 - Tuesday

"Nekobox - we're willing to blow up glass tables to get you cool stuff."

[^SEan^] - 10:25 AM PDT

June 18, 2003 - Wednesday

Poor Neko-foot. In other news, Wil Wheaton is a Switcher. Well, at least he's bought an iBook, an iPod, and wants a PowerBook now :)

[^Louis^] - 2:07 PM PDT

June 19, 2003 - Thursday

What does the "i" stand for anyway? I bet many of you have stayed in hotels and perhaps ordered room service. And when you're done you leave the tray out in the hallway for us room service guys to pick up when we do our tray runs. I've seen many interesting and gross things from the left over food left on the plates. Sometimes interesting coloies of mold. Once I picked up a plate with some really fuzzy strawberries. They looked so cute yet deadly. Mold is an interesting thing. However what I didn't like today was the nice diaper I found on one service tray I picked up. I mean GEEZ folks! Throw that thing away elsewhere but not on room service tray. I had to isolate the tray and consider it a biohazard threat. It's a good thing that we have industrial sanitizers. I had to toss out the plates and silverware and linen that was on the tray cause they were infected. Well, I guess it could be worse. I mean maybe someone can puke on the tray. Let's hope no one does then I'll have to incinerate the tray. But please, throw your diapers away in the trash. I am not paid enough or trained to handle biohazardous material. Gosh, I love my job~! Maybe the "i" stands for idiot? Man, I'm gonna get lynched for this. I mean, why would people swtich to istuff? Maybe they're idiots and can't use PCs well. IdiotMac, idiotPod, idiotBook. Man, I'm really gonna get crap from people. Ok, I'll try to make things better here. Maybe the "i" stands for incompetent. Oh shit! I did it again. Man, mac users are gonna come to my house with pitchforks and torches. I better just shut up. Actually, let's see how much hate mail I get from mac users. Let's just see how many people are out there who love to shove ideas down peoples throats. Go ahead guys, I'm an easy target. I won't fight back. My arguments will always have flaws and have nothing to back them up with. Go ahead and shoot me down for easy uplifting life bonus points to make yourselves feel superior and validated. Yeah, I'm cannon fodder man. And I'll even post up your e-mail here so you can show your friends, loved ones, family members, co-workers, church members, online buddies, and pet hamster how great you are. Why did I post this shit anyway? I'm gonna get my ass kicked.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 12:07 AM PDT

The "i" is a gimmick. Yes, it's lame. Yes, it's stupid. It's for dumbass people who seem to reach out for the shiny piece of tinsel caught in the thorns. It's as stupid as the "e" trend... err, no offense to "e-chan". ^^;; It serves to taking money away from the stupid and putting them in the hands of the slightly-less-stupid. However, those new machines aren't bad. Going the way of *NIX deserves a second look. They're pretty smooth and they have their benefits. In light of what you said, I'll consider them as "Book" and "Pod." Fair enough? :3 I'm not a convert, but I'm not ruling it out as a "computer illiterate solution" anymore as I used to. The hardware is pretty top-notch, and they've finally wised up and made the software more powerful for the power users, so I say that the "computer-after-my-next-computer" might be a Mac (the next will be a hardcore gaming machine--and Mac's haven't gotten anywhere near there, yet) ... but that largely depends on it's software maturity and base. It's not bad now, but I don't intend to buy into the "guinea-piggism" that's going on now (that Louis has tried to recruit me into) nor the blind over-zealous fanatacism that has seems to plague Mac users (something about "defunct cult groups" sounds similar...). I'm taking a wait-and-see attitude with confident potential. After that, the respect will be well deserved. As for this letter-trend thing that is business-speak (and leaves a bad taste in my mouth), why don't we start a revolution of our own to fight back that garbage? Examples? + slap a large "i" sticker on your (real) trash can and tell everyone it's one of those new fangled "iTrashCans" or "iDumpsters"... guaranteed to be emptiable on demand! It even has an RS-232 port on it! Hell, if you want, screw on IEEE-1394 ports, USB 2.0 ports, and even an UW-SCSI port for good measure! Oh! Don't forget power! + slap an "i" sticker on your left shoe that's white, an "e" sticker on your right shoe that's candy-light-blue and call them "iLeftShoe" and "eRightShoe", respectively. In this case, no ports because they're "wireless" or "Wi-Fi enabled ^_~"! + slap an "e" on your cubicle wall, because it's "different" than your typical cubicle wall, because this now new "eCubicleWall" increases "productivity", encourages "synergy", and is overall "cost-effective" because it does what the other cubicle walls do without added cost! Why? Just claim that it has "Bluetooth" and they'll walk on by, satisfied that they got to hear another cool-sounding buzz-word. o.O Then once we've gotten those "squirrelly" people to jump on this bandwagon, then we can start introducing the other letters to keep them on their feet: + slap an "m" on your car. It'll now be an "mCar", short for "my car"... because of course, it *is* your car. That has an added bonus of wearing out that stupid "my" bullshit naming scheme as well! + slap a "c" on your sunglasses--but be sure not to obscure your vision--and call it a "cSunglasses" or "cShade" or "cVis" (be creative!) because you know they are just so cool! + slap a "p" on your bush or tree. yes! they are now "pBush"s and "pTree"s! ^_~ We'll sidetrack to using obscure symbols, like deltas (for new things and sharp things), ankhs (for life!), and maybe even some pictographic characters (asian, arabian, cyrillic--for exotic!). (I shall forego the examples here.) Then we go to multiple letters! + "meCar" for "my excellent car" as the new wonderful upgraded version! + "ieShoes" for those white-with-blue-striped shoes! + and for that larger than usual metal can that handles "The Right Amount of SHit" AND that empties 20% faster than other metal cans because of it's revolutionary limited size, the "trashCan"! Look! We've gone full circle! :3 I hope you've enjoyed this moment of educational enlightenment. Good night and farewell. Thank you for your support. This rant has been brought to you by the letters--oh f*** off! ENOUGH WITH THE LETTERS ALREADY! Signing off.

[^A-sama^] - 4:50 AM PDT

True dat man. Word.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 2:47 PM PDT

June 23, 2003 - Monday

No comic due to Fanime Con mind destruction. And Young is undoubtedly feeling like he's been beaten with the exhaustion bat(tm) for three days straight. Though a good time was had by all.

[^SEan^] - 10:45 AM PDT

I feel the need to reply to the 'i' question. It's a marketing tactic. It builds brand recognition, just like a naming theme. It works because if you know one product, but not another, just knowing the name tells you about the product. Like Final Fantasy games. Not a single ounce of continuity between most FF games, right? Apple started with the iMac, and had a hit. So they followed through with iTunes, and then iMovie, then iDVD, then the iPod, iPhoto, etc. It's not any more stupid or lame than giving all the machines in a network cluster a name from a certain TV series; it makes it easier to remember them, to associate them, and to differentiate them. It would be stupid for all the Apple consumer products to have totally different and unrecognizable names, because then Apple couldn't leverage brand recognition. As of now, here are the Apple products: iBook, iPod, iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, iMac, iLife, iSight, iChat, iCal, and iSync. It's easy to make fun of it, but that's partially because it works. They do effectively cross promote each other, the same way that each Final Fantasy promotes all future (and past) Final Fantasy games, even though they are mostly unrelated. Is it stupid? If you think it is, I guess so, nothing I can do to change that perception. Apple also uses the letter 'e' in eMac, and the letter 'x' in XServe and XServe RAID. They use the term 'Power' in PowerMac and PowerBook. It's supposed to suggest that X is for server or industrial use, Power is for professional use, and E is for educational use. I suppose the 'i' is for personal (I) use, or something. If someone wanted to copy Apple's brand technique, I would suggest something like using 'My' instead of 'I', so you get MyBook, MyTower, MySoftware, etc. Gets the same point across, even if it does look stupid.

[^Louis^] - 7:08 PM PDT

June 24, 2003 - Tuesday

Lots of things start out sounding stupid or silly, and after a while they become cool or just a part of the lingo. For example, a band named after a small, hard shelled insect. Or American "Football" where your foot only touches the ball in specific situations. Or car names.

[^SEan^] - 10:08 AM PDT

I think the only objection anyone has towards Macs, or their "i" series is the zealotry and 'elitism' that Mac users often get and the campaigns they run to try and 'push' people into buying Macs. I don't think anyone has an objections to the letter. Just my 2 cents.

[^Young^] - 11:51 AM PDT

Just like Alias Wavefront trying to push Maya and get everyone jumpin' on the Maya band wagon. As for Fanime, chunky cosplayers in skimpy outfits pretty much sums it up. Next year, I'm gonna come in a thong and cosplay as the Thong Ninja! My special attack, Butt Flosser.

[^o0Kynger0o^] - 1:15 PM PDT

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