Some members on an anime forum I frequent had a topic up showing off their collection and how they watch it, so I figure I should post it here just for the hell of it:

Behold! The Hall of Anime!

Actually, the nearest shelf contains my housemate's anime DVDs. The further shelf houses my girfriend's and my DVDs. Two-thirds of it is mine; I have maybe about 10 boxes of non-anime. Here's a picture with only my anime DVDs in it:

My Anime Collection: Look how it stretches into the darkness!

No, my new hobby hasn't taken up all of my time that I haven't watched anime. I'm still watching, just not having enough time dedicated to blogging it as much as I used to.

Hopefully, I can get an update out this weekend.

Fledge posts about his blogroll and triggered a few thoughts on my end1.

1. 1. Somewhat treading on the tenth blogging cliché (via)

I've been unable to connect to AnimeNfo.com since this morning. The DNS entry resolves to a server at IP 204.15.225.46 that is up and running, but http seems to be down. Anybody know what's going on?

UPDATE: Looks like it's back up again.  

Something about this poll on the AnimeNfo.com forum struck me. Well, it isn't any surprise that 85% of the 65 members that answered the polls identified themselves as between the ages of 15 to 24. And the poll results also helps to support the hypothesis a friend had that most anime fans "grow out of" anime by the age of 25 for various reasons.

A new blog has cropped up by the name of Japanese words of anime fans, by anime fans, for anime fans has gained my attention fairly recently. The title of the blog pretty much describes what the blog is about, but I'm quite pleased with how much detail that bangin, the owner of the blog, goes into describing the word-of-the-post, and how he relates it to other Japapanese words, provides screenshots if necessary, and even goes a bit into the etymology of the word. It's very informative reading, especially for a non-Japanese speaker like me. It's been the first new blogroll addition to this site in a long while.

Thanks to a tip from Iwa ni Hana.

I shouldn't be so surprised that someone actually animated this:

Though it's no surprise that I enjoyed this... 

I think it took me 2 years to trudge through the book, a bit at a time...

As I promised earlier, I will post about how to convert an MKV container file with an H.264 encoded video and AC-3 encoded audio to an AVI container file with an XviD encoded video and, optionally, 2-channel MP3 encoded audio.

The MKV format makes a very good distibuting format, with the ability to have multiple audio streams and multiple subtitling streams, combined with the H.264 codec for high quality video. Unfortuntely, if you're like me, you have a DVD player that isn't able to play such files but can play XviD or DivX encoded video in AVI files (like my OPPO OPDV971H Player ) hooked up to a big-screen and an home theater audio system, but would wish to watch (or invite others to watch) that greatest and latest video that you've found on the internet, that's only available as an MKV file!

(I may have some errors in here. Feel free to comment to help with details or ask questions)