After assembling my first Gundam model kit (and the first full-blown model kit I’d put together in quite a few years) I bought another “Entry Grade” Mobile Suit from the same hobby store and built it as well. I was a little inclined to ponder how both of these kits “left out accessories” from how their Gundams deployed in their anime, the better to motivate you to move up a grade, perhaps. With that in mind, when I saw a third Entry Grade kit that happened to be the very first Gundam and was labelled on the box (this time in Japanese and English) as including a “Full Weapon Set” extending to more fanciful armaments left out of the compilation movies, I was motivated to buy it.
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Poking away at the Snow emulator to explore a few corners of the antique Macintosh experience has stayed interesting enough to get me wondering about making another post on the subject. The whole matter of “old computers,” though, can leave me thinking “it interests me, but anyone likely to see this here would, at best, just sort of shrug and think ‘too much detail.’” The best I can do is keep this introduction short and put everything else a click away.
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After another week’s break to head home for the long weekend I returned to my Twilight Zone Blu-Ray set. As an isolated title, “The Four of Us Are Dying” had got my attention while remaining something to guess about. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview naming four actors also got my attention; it seemed a more extravagant number of potentially significant characters than I’d quite associated with the show up to now. As I loaded up the Blu-Ray I was also amused to see the option of a commentary track from Beverly Garland. She seems the person who’s appeared in more than one of the movies featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 who the fans of that show are most impressed with.
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