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Hello KItty In Space

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cross posted form my hello kitty Blog.
By now only a few on this earth has not heard of how a 7th grader, Lauren Rojas, has sent Hello Kitty Plush 93,000 feet up in the stratosphere as part of a science project.

Having looked at the video, she did an excellent job of presetting her experiment during the flight, the pictures are spectacular and hello kitty in her rocket is just so cute. The rocket parachuted back to earth 47 miles from the launch point, in a tree; a likely place for a kitty. Hello Kitty is safe and sound back on Earth. The video went viral and new report has been seen all over the world and on National TV.

Not to detract from Ms. Rojas feat, some in the media is reporting this is Hello Kitty’s first trip into (or near space). That honor really should go to Melissa whose Hello Kitty has flown with The Expedition 9 Crew in 2004. I quote from part of that post.

“This is to certify that Hello Kitty accompanied the Expedition 9 Crew in their long duration space mission aboard the International Space Station. This item was flown for the wonderful Melissa (last name omitted for obvious reasons).

The Expedition 9 Crew was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan on April 19, 2004, at 9:19 a.m., aboard the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft TMA-4, and return to Kazakhstan on October 24, 2004, at 6:35 a.m. aboard the Soyuz Spacecraft TMA-4.”

 

I also thought Hello Kitty as Soyuz crew mascot aka Micro Gravity Indicator some time ago.

Still way to go Lauren for Hello Kitty first altitude Balloon mission.

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NewCon PDX Convention Report

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The CON : NewCon PDX

The Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel, Portland Oregon

Newcon PDX is a new a multi-genre convention (Anime, Fantasy and Science Fiction). Both my big Hello Kitties was my accompanying plushies.

Saturday:  I when out for breakfast and headed out to the convention site, the line registration was not very large.  I attended Bizarre War Machines of the Steam Punk Era; a panel examining real life war machines that look like out of a steampunk novel. Other than that I hung around taking pictures and stepped in and out of the Video Room for a triple header of savaging and lampooning movies I detest.  Rifftrax is founded by three alumni of Mystery Science Fiction Theater 3000, their product is a separate mp3 commentary track that is synced to the DVD.  I watched Rifftrax lampoon The Hunger Games and Avatar; two movies I detested and cannot stand and would not watch another way. I lost track of time and, went out to a late dinner before check out the con and going back home.

Sunday: went back to the convention after church. I exchange my 28in Hello Kitty Plush for the 32 In Hello Kitty plush. I attended the Lost in translation Lisle Wilkerson, a voice actress ran the panel. The issue was the problems translation from Japanese to English and vice versa. She answered one of my suspicions about how some of the story is lost during subbing anime. The loss of the story is why I watch anime twice, once dubbed and the second time subbed. The rest of the day I pop in an out of the panel room, video room and took more pictures. I went out for a early dinner at a Chinese Restaurant down town. Then I went back to squeeze out every last second out of Newcon.  By  that time things were winding down too fast, and were falling into disarray. The AMC and Evangelion panels were no-shows, but the dance was well attended. Guy kept the video room going until it was time to break things down and I stayed in the panel room playing word games until 12:00am before calling it a con.

The: Good:  Just having a end of a year con replacing  Mewcon. Second Guy keeping things going in the video room.

The Bad: lack of communication before the convention, I was not sure there were going to be a convention and the same issue how things seem to falling apart Sunday Evening. I been told these issue will be addressed.

The Ugly: Nothing

I as one missed MewCon and congratulate the staff for their success and thank them for their hard work.  I look forward for Newcon 2013/2014.

As always click on the picture below for a larger version. If this is you you can ask for an unmarked version.

When Bronies Disappoint

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Sometimes I am embarrassed by the Brony fandom.

This post was supposed to be my Musings of a New Brony as I open declared myself at rainfurrest  2012 I am a Brony  but a recent post on Equestria daily has almost made me to rethink if I really want to associate with the fandom.  My issue was the response to a post on Hasbro’s earnings conference call. A storm arose on Equestria daily over comment on what Hub is going to a 13 episode:

Q: Felicia R. Hendrix – Barclays Capital, Research Division

Right. But you’ve also been reducing your program production cash spend.

A: Brian D. Goldner – Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Executive Committee

Okay, yes, and the cash spend really has to do with when you have successful TV series. In fact, Hasbro Studios TV shows outperformed other TV shows on The Hub by 74% in ratings. We’re 4 of the top 10 shows on the network right now. So as you look at great performance of TV shows, you’re able to produce fewer episodes and subsequent series than you needed to produce in the earlier series. If you’re — you know kids love watching the episodes over and over again, but you have to add an element of newness. But you don’t need to spend to produce the entire new series again. You can add 13 episodes or 26 episodes to a pool of 52 already produced episodes. So therefore, you’re able to, with successful TV series, produce fewer in out-years.

Q: Felicia R. Hendrix – Barclays Capital, Research Division

Okay. You’re obviously not thinking about the parents who have to watch with the kids.

A: Brian D. Goldner – Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Member of Executive Committee

Well, but I think it’s also important to note so that there’s no concern. Overall, the Hasbro Studios has greenlit over 800 half hours of programming, and we still have several hundred half hours of programming that we’re currently producing for the network for new shows. So it’s not that we’re not producing, we’re just both producing more efficiently and also looking at where there are successful TV series, we obviously then spend less per new series because we’re able to produce fewer shows.

 

This interchange, taken  on a storm in the comment section with plenty  of F-bomb spiked post as if we bronies are entitled  to 26 episode season three.  It is this type of fan boy behavior is why I often have many problems with fandom.  Already Bronies are on thin ice with me.  The biggest problem is not My Little Pony as much as Millennial Generation. They spend a large amount online isolating themselves to their own little peer group particularly though social networking; as such the millennial generation lack  many mature social skills including dealing with anybody  outside their peer  group. They have very bad narcissistic attitude couple with an obnoxious sense of entitlement.  I seen them having a temper tantrum like if a parent told them they have to bring their younger sibling with them. I had put on my “I am the adult hat” and chide anime fans, and furries for the same bad attitude.  My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is a show for young girls between five and ten years old, we Bronies older and are the unexpected guest.

Now lets counter the narcissism in the in the brony by say Hasbro is under no obligation to serve the Brony fandom. It clear by the conference call Hasbro has no issue with the Brony fandom, but it is not the market they choose to be in. It is simply a business decision. I can surmise Hasbro only wants in the toy business not the collectable business. There is a good reason, fan or craze generate collectable markets are very volatile and very short term; ask Tops (sport cards) and Ty (beanie babies) both nearly went bankrupt when the craze crashed. Second the just do not have the resources.

More of a concern is our love for My Little Pony is harming the show.  Let go back Hasbro create a show and Hub distributes My Little Pony to sell advertizing and   for Hasbro to market its full girl’s toy line, not just selling My Little Pony but marketing other toys during ad breaks. Now if the obnoxious Brony fan drives away the primary demographic: no market equal no ads, no ads no sales and eventually no show. We should have a vested interest to first be on our best behavior and encourage the younger fans less Hasbro decides the show ran its course and end production.

It time we start  acting like adults stop this silliness of flying  off the handle every them the Hub makes a change of a  charter  name a la Derpy  or Hasbro  ignore  your whiny entitlement  tirades. You’re not the center of the world. Just enjoy the My Little Pony Friendship as the great show. If you want a company that markets to little girls and young women   but would love to have a foothold in the men’s market, my suggest become a fans and have in interest in Hello Kitty and other Sanrio characters.  I do no say this flippantly but as a male fan of Hello Kitty.

Rose City Comic Con Report

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Sorry for the delay

The Con:  Rose City Comic Con

The Place:  Double Tree Inn Portland Oregon.

The Dates:  8th – 9th September 2011

Rose City Comic Con is a first year comic an pop culture convention in attempt to bring a San Diego type comiccon to Portland Oregon. My big Hello Kitty plush was the accompanying plush.

Saturday :

The day stared with a hitch; I failed to pre-register ant thought it was going to be a small convention, when I got there around 12:30pm I was instructed to line up, informing us the convention hall had exceeded the maximum of capacity 2500. They eventually allowed allow people to enter 25 at a time and I final go in.

 

There was not much in panels to do. I attended Richard Hatch panel an presentation. Richard Hatch played Apollo on the old  Battlestar Galactica Tom Zarek  in the Rebooted new series. He was enjoyable and very approachable. I even got a picture with holding my big Hello Kitty plush.   Next I ran around and watched the last half of a interesting moving about live action role players to in a style of a fantasy saga.  I regretted missing the first half.  I went out to dinner that to the after party, which was part panel, part trivia contest and part costume contest.

Sunday :

I went back to the con after church, not much panels of interest but found plenty of costumes to use up last of 35mm film.  I wrapped this up around 4:00pm

The Good: I like the geek after party notable the Nerd folk group the Double Clicks.  The Star Wars and the 501st Legion group really outdid themselves in costuming.

The bad; I wish Rose City   had more panels and con space. Orycon had 800 to 1300 attendees but 75% more con space that Rose city Comic con.

The ugly: I been to the Lloyd Center Double Tree during Labor Day for Kumoricon and never had any problem going though expositor’s hall but this year  the room was stifling hot and stuffy, somebody need to work on the air-conditioning  and circulation .

Northern California Volleyball Association has to share Boohoo

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Northern California Volleyball Association can get any respect. This time around they have to share space with HempCon 2012, San Jose’s medical marijuana. Now I can understand not wanting break bread with a bunch of pot heads. (That my feeling about medical marijuana outside established clinical uses think medical clinic and hospital under strict control). What caught my attention is their distain and ignorance of furry fandom “

“This weekend stirred up uncomfortable memories for Skov of the most recent Northern California Volleyball Association tournament at the convention center in January. The place was overrun with “furries” — people who dress in animal costumes — at FurCon. “First we had the fuzzy people, now we have HempCon,” Skov said. “Come on, San Jose! What’s happening?””

 

“The same thing happened in January when the NCVA learned it would share the convention center with FurCon. “Some of the other parents told me they had checked into it and found things that made it out to be basically a porn fetish convention,” said D’Aquino, who conceded his knowledge of furries is based on an episode of television’s “CSI.””

 

There two problems I have, unwillingness for the Volleyball group to share and a hideous mischaracterization of furries.  Frankly if Volleyball group doesn’t like it they can go elsewhere.  The so call adults in the group can find a few university campuses  play in.  Unlike  pot con Having a furry con next-door   is no difference in sexuality as would be an  Anime convention instead and illegal drug uses is not tolerated at both furry and anime convention   Now aside for Mr.  D’Aquino’ s demonstration his inability to tell reality for TV,  there another kicker.  Middle and High school students   are growing demographic in the furry fandom.  I been seeing more 13 to 17 year olds students are joining Furtopia, an all ages G rated furry community.  Therefore it conceivable some of your players and siblings are furies.

.  Giving the choice HempCon or Further Confusion, I say you daughter Mr.  D’Aquino is safer at a fur con. In addition I think Confusion my want to give San Jose the heave ho and find more fur friendly waters just like Athocon and Pittsburg.

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